Current show At Spalding nix
- Sachi Rome
- Apr 10
- 1 min read
Technical prowess is on show in Atlanta. Across three recently opened exhibitions, artists are showcasing their ability to manipulate materials with finesse and mastery.
At Spalding Nix Fine Art, Echoes (through May 9) is a collection of solo exhibitions presenting Caroline Bullock, Sachi Rome, Blair Hobbs and Lizzy Storm, with each artist, according to the exhibition text, presenting artworks relating to the idea of an echo.
Rome’s artwork In Starlight Rest (2024) embodies this theme most powerfully. A human head, devoid of any facial features or hair, bobs on an ocean of deepest blue. Above the horizon line, which rests on the lower third of the composition, a night sky of charcoal gray broods, barren save for scumbling, which creates soft changes in color.
The head’s innards are filled with transparent swirls of powder blue, ochre and black, applied in gestural strokes. The raucous markmaking animates the empty visage. This is a portrait, but it is of no one recognizable. Much like how an echo loses power and definition with each reverberation, fading ultimately into nothingness, so too does this portrait. Which begs the question: Is this a portrait of an echo?
Visit Spalding Nix in person or Virtually for a tour of the show,
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