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November 8, 2019 – July 17, 2020 @ –

Atlanta based emerging artist Y. Malik Jalal will mount his first solo exhibition this fall at Alabama Contemporary, curated by elizabet elliott. Jalal was born in Savannah, GA, and raised in the Atlanta suburbs. He paints and makes images and objects. His work is equally personal and fictitious, rooted in both the artist’s own identity and his relationship to the collective cultural identity and history of the African diaspora in the American South. 

July 10, 2020 – August 29, 2020 @ –

Monstrous Feast delves into the connections between art, humor, and social dialogue. In this exhibition, interdisciplinary artist Colleen Terrell Comer (she/her) highjacks antiquity, and drives it headlong into the carnivalesque landscape of modern-day motherhood.Comer utilizes sculpture, painting, and performance to unpack assumptions about gender, productivity, and privilege within the context of both art-making, and private life.

July 10, 2020 – December 12, 2020 @ –

Cheer Me Up, Cheer Me On is exhibition of new and existing work from multimedia artist Valerie George. The artist uses her art practice to document the transformation of her body and spirit through multimedia video installations that interweave the aesthetics of celebration and punk culture to articulate a deeply personal narrative.

July 10, 2020 – December 12, 2020 @ –

Hair City Fair by House Pencil Green, Joseph Herring and Amy Ruddick’s design/art studio, is a multimedia installation that explores the carnival as a site of artistic production, communal ritual, and aesthetic consumption.