Quite frankly I drove down to Walker St. ATL looking for a crowd....a very large crowd at that. Instead, I found a large space, minimal attendants, but a first floor at the Studio Clout Fine Art gallery that was content with very strategically placed figurative sculptures of
Brent Harris. In my personal opinion, the room was very well attended. I was very impressed with the bronze figures, and they took a strong favor to the works of Alberto Giacometti; both having very exaggerated features, especially in the arms and legs and facial features. He had that whole, "signs of the artist hand" thing that I really like going on....
Now, going upstairs to the gallery of Meshu Mokitimi, I had the privilege of seeing has drawings and paintings, mainly oil, charcoal, pencil, and COLOR PENCIL (something I haven't seen in a while). Lets cut to the chase, some good, some not so favored, but experienced in his craft nonetheless. Mokitimi is from Lesotho, Africa and is a very prominant historical figure of his native country. He is a visual artist of course but also a political activist in South Africa. Thats all fine and dandy, but I felt like some of his works could have shown a little more expression and it would have sealed the deal for me. The African vibe was captured excellently, and many of the works, hell ALL of the works were handled very delicately and skillfully, but there was still some information that I per se was not getting. All in all, it doesn't matter what I say, DENZEL and BILL CLINTON got enough information from the work to buy it..enough said!
