Atlanta’s Underground Art Show was well-named: it was SO underground that three Lyft drivers could not find it, and one Lyft left!
The venue, the Georgia Freight Depot, is adjacent to Underground Atlanta but is not actually under the viaducts that carry traffic overhead. The young artists displaying their works also seemed adjacent to “The City Too Busy To Hate” as white Atlantans dubbed their hometown during the 1960s even as they kept busy dragging their feet before joining the march for Civil Rights; artists whose works seemed adjacent to but not covered by the protective viaducts of art schools and Atlanta galleries, mainstream money and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Not the High Museum, certainly; more like the low museum, where money is scarce and the struggle is real… but so is the art.
The Old Lady took only the photo seen above. She felt it disrespectful to photograph art that is for sale but has not been bought, a theft of intellectual property.
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Art is so many different things to different people and that is what is amazing about art. You don’t have to be classically trained to paint a picture or does it have to be perfect as long as you paint from your heart. I started to paint abstract for a short while a few years back because I was never satisfied with trying to paint lovely pictures of landscapes or buildings, my perspective was always wrong and it irritated me. I only did it for a short while and one day I may return to it. I did however display my work in 2 local small exhibitions sadly no buyers for my work but what I gained was that each person saw a different aspect to my painting and I found that fascinating. Love the underground art display and like that you respected the artists enough not to randomly publish their work.
Hey there,
Met you at Searchlight yoga in Gainesville not long ago. Kept your card, and now thoroughly enjoying your tales and photos of your travels. I was taken to the underground Art-lanta many moons ago, maybe 25 years or more. It looks like it has blossomed. Your photo brought back that memory. Thank you!