UPDATE to March 19 Westside 3rd Saturday Art Walk

ASTOLFI ART 
*New Exhibition*
1170 Howell Mill Rd., Ste. P-16. (404) 307-0215.
www.astolfiart.com Open 11am – 4pm.
Astolfi Art presents ELEVEN,a group of diverse photographers will be exhibiting their work at Astolfi Art. The culmination of refined bodies of photo-based media ranges from work that challenges the traditional photograph to work that embraces a photograph's classical sensibilities. These artists represent fresh perspectives that add to the conversation of what is a photograph. Astolfi Art has followed the progress of Meredith Ochoa, one of the elven, and has an affinity for her aesthetic sensibility and progress. WWW.ELEVENEXHIBITON.COM

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
*Event 11 am - 12 pm*
535 Means Street NW. (404) 688-1970.
www.thecontemporary.org Open 11 am – 5 pm.
Members, Free; General admission, $5; Students/Seniors, $3; Kids under 12, Free
*Event: Listening Party & Launch: Dust-to-Digital. Lance and April Ledbetter present and discuss their recent publication of vintage music-related photographs and 78s from the collection of artist and composer Steve Roden.
On View: Dana Schutz: Drawings & Prints, and Embodying. Schutz is a New York-based painter known for combining fantastic narratives, exuberant handling of materials, and pictorial inventiveness; and Embodying is a group show with Joe Biel, James Gobel, Stephen Schofield, Allison Smith, and Richard T. Walker, whose works investigate physical and psychological aspects of the human body, drawing inspiration from classic literature, nature, and urban life. Embodying is supported through Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue.

JENNIFER SCHWARTZ GALLERY
*New Member Gallery*
1000 Marietta St. NW Ste 118. (404) 351-1050.
 www.jenniferschwartzgallery.com Open 11am - 5pm. 
Exhibition: Taken by the Fog by Lisette de Boisblanc. Taken by the Fog is a collection of photographs inspired by de Boisblanc's grandmother's ruined doll collection after Hurricane Katrina. Lisette began to x-ray the dolls as a way to document their ruined structure, but the process created a curiosity for what was hidden inside the dolls. To her shock, she discovered nails, pins and paper clips that were just beneath the surface. The dolls had taken on an internal spirit, some of strength and others of broken hearts. The x-rays became more than physical documentation – for each, a story emerged making some sense out of the loss experienced after the hurricane.

GET THIS! GALLERY
*New Exhibition / Artist Present* 
662 11th St. NW. (678) 596-4451. 
www.getthisgallery.com Open Noon - 5pm.
Jill Storthz: Woodcuts
On view is San Francisco based artist Jill Storthz's third solo exhibition with Get This! The exhibit focuses exclusively on Storthz's reductive woodblock prints. Storthz will be at the gallery during the W.A.D. walk from 12-5pm, please stop by to meet the artist.

SALTWORKS
*Final Day of Exhibition*
664 11th St. NW. (404) 881-0411.
www.saltworksgallery.com Open Noon – 5pm.
Last chance to view the exhibition, Family Values. Michael Scoggins continues his exploration of American society through the physicality of language and its mediums invoking thoughts of humanity, democracy and individual expression. Scoggins' pushes the medium of paper to reveal its sculptural potential and visceral qualities evoked by its familiarity and makeshift plasticity.

SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY
*Artist Talk @ 1 pm*
1009-A Marietta Street NW, Suite 208. (404) 817-3300.
www.sandlerhudson.com Open 11am to 5pm.
Corrine Colarusso - Shaggy Land
The artist Corrine Colarusso will give a talk on her exhibition, Shaggy Land. Colarusso paints the landscape and visions of the natural world, real and imagined, because it offers the moving experience of positioning one’s place in the world. Embodying a long history in art and culture, landscape offers recognition, familiarity, and sometimes strangeness; a place apart.

EMILY AMY GALLERY
*Artist Talk @ 2 pm*
1000 Marietta St. NW, Suite 208. (404) 877-5626.
www.emilyamygallery.com Open 11am – 5pm.
Exhibition: Meta Gary: Animal Instinct. Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present new works by emerging Atlanta-based artist, Meta Gary. Painting on untreated, exposed wood, Gary incorporates a contact paper/stencil technique to create a strong visual contrast and to accentuate her whimsical and seemingly simple imagery. Gary’s dreams about animals inform her work. Human and animal interaction, specifically the intimacy between the two, serves as the catalyst for the imagined scenarios that occupy her exposed wood panels. The distinct parallels that can be drawn between animals and humans serves as a significant theme the can be found throughout Gary’s work.

KIANG GALLERY
*Artist Talk @ 3 pm*
1011-A Marietta Street. (404) 892-5477.
www.kiang-gallery.com Open Noon - 5pm.
ARTIST TALK: Pandra Williams and Joseph Goodman (Georgia Tech's Center for Biologically Inspired Design)
Find out how local artists and Georgia Tech are collaborating to explore the ecosystem benefits of green infrastructure including vegetated roofs, solar panels, and composting. This programming is part of the ". . .After the Suburbs" exhibition, open through April 2, 2011.

{ Poem88 } at TANNER-HILL GALLERY 
*Discussion @ 3 pm*
1170 Howell Mill Rd., Ste. 111. (404) 580-4299 .
www.poem88.net Open 11am - 5pm. 
{Poem88} at Tanner-Hill will host a dialogue between current exhibition artist Sharon Shapiro and Dinah McClintock, art historian and critic. Their discussion will address feminist perspectives on erotic art versus pornography and the power of female sexuality. Within these parameters, each will discuss authorship, objectification and censorship.

ADDITIONAL GALLERIES OPEN FOR VIEWING

OCTANE COFFEE BAR  
1000 Marietta St. NW. (404) 815-9886. 
www.octanecoffee.com Open 10am to 10pm.
New works by photographer Hazel Berger. Berger's photography centers around nature, in particular flowers are the artist's favorite subject. Her new works are photographs of all of Georgia's State Parks. www.hazelberger.com

TWIN KITTENS
1016 Howell Mill Rd. NW. Unit #3208 (Entrance is on 10th St.). (404) 803-4316.
www.twinkittens.com Open 11am – 5pm.
TWIN KITTENS is pleased to present PATRIARCHS | MATRIARCHS, Dale Inglett’s first solo show in Atlanta, on view through April 9. The show will consist of videos, paintings and prints - all of which are abstractions of photographs from the turn of the previous century. Inglett shares, "This body of work stems from an investigation of photographs of my ancestors. Using these as source images for paintings, video and prints, I attempt to challenge the fixed quality that photos seem to attach to identity, and to get at something more ineffable than likenesses. The works present, instead, the ever-shifting nature of identity. We change with every breath. I’m replacing the “proof” presented in photos with a re-imagining, a fiction, the unknown."

ABOUT THE WESTSIDE ART WALK 
The Westside Art Walk is a presentation of the Westside Arts District and occurs on the third Saturday of every month from 11am to 5pm, unless otherwise noted. This art-centric event is intended to encourage public interaction and education of visual art in the emerging art district in Atlanta’s Westside neighborhood. There is plenty of free parking at each venue. Information can be found on the group's website http://wadatlanta.org/. Sign up for our email newsletter here. View or download our neighborhood gallery map at http://wadatlanta.org/wad-map/.