TCP's 2020-22 Artist -In_Studio residents Mason Webb, Rose Barron, Crystal Jin Kim, Sachi Rome, Walker Keith Jernigan, Chloe Alexander, Eugene Byrd, and Carly Rickles make their first outreach site visit in English Ave. (Artemus Jenkins not pictured)
The CCHP Artist-in-Studio provides visual artists with free long term studio spaces, exhibition opportunities, and professional development. In exchange, each of the selected artists completes youth outreach through TCP's Community Arts Program (CAP) whose 2020 beneficiaries include Future Foundation and Columbia Residential. The studios are located at The Goat Farm Arts Center and M Street Lofts in Atlanta, Georgia. Two alternates receive promotional and career support while more accommodations are procured during each residency term.
My work is focused on creating visual narratives by layering various printmaking techniques to create one-of-a-kind mixed media drawings. Often driven by exploration and process, I often rely on the materials I use to inform the imagery and compositions I create. True to the history of printmaking, I aspire to communicate complex ideas using visual language, which often transcends the linear and ephemeral nature of spoken words.
Adonis, screenprint, monotype, and charcoal
Aiden, screenprint, monotype, and charcoal
Chloe Alexander is a printmaker who was born, raised, and resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Her most recent work focuses on creating visual narratives by layering various printmaking techniques to create one-of-a-kind, mixed media drawings. Chloe obtained her BFA in Printmaking from Georgia State University in 2010. In addition to her personal art practice, she works as a high school Drawing and Fashion Illustration & Design instructor. Chloe has exhibited work in various locations in the Atlanta area, including Georgia State University, Kai Lin Art Gallery, and the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History; and regionally at the Contemporary Arts Exchange in Washington, NC, the Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery in Springfield, MA, and PRIZM Art Fair in Miami, FL.
My studio practice is an exploration of identity and how that identity fits into — yet also disrupts — larger community and Earth, fostering a deeper sense of identity. I examine identities and relationships of the here and now as well as the places where our ancestors resided. My work strives to connect with community engagement, identity, and environmental concerns.
“The Call of Water”
Barron works and resides in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America. Rose earned her MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Photography, her MA from Georgia State University and her BFA in Graphic Design from t e University of Georgia. Her photography/video, and multimedia art work has been exhibited in several solo exhibitions across the southeast including Atlanta and Huntsville, as well as internationally at the Espacio Común in Panama City, Panama. Collections of her work include the Four Seasons in Morocco, the Fulton County Arts and Culture fine arts acquisition Program, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Marriott Courtyard in Nashville, the March of Dimes Corporate Office Collection, the APG Collectors Portfolio.Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions including the Athens Center for Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Art on The Beltline, Whitespace Gallery, the Art Center in Xi’an, China, Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh, and Umbrella Gallery in New York City. Rose works at the Art Institute of Atlanta as a part-time adjunct professor in the Foundations and Photography Department.
I’m an artist who draws inspiration from life experiences and people around me. Influenced by the mannerism art movement, combined with bold colors, patterns, typography, printmaking, graphite, paint, collage, among other mediums. I enjoy exploring and pushing the boundaries to maintain fluidity within my style. I aim to create something new, yet familiar, that generates curiosity for viewers of all demographics. I believe great art and culture inspires us, brings us together and teaches us about ourselves and the world around us. In short, it makes life better.
“They never taught us how to love, so we use our pain to comfort us” 60”x48”. Acrylic, Ink on canvas.
EuGene Vidal Byrd III was born in Wichita, KS the last of three children of Ella Mae and Eugene from dirt county roads of Tulsa, OK. EuGene was early influenced by 70’s album covers; comic books and he could always be found drawing. His mother being an interior decorator /artist herself always encouraged EuGene to pursue his art. Growing up in the 80’s during the gangbang creak era, from a low-income environment it took awhile for EuGene to fully embrace his artistic calling. EuGene received his BFA from SCAD in 2002. Worked as a graphic designer and creative director for 15 years for fortune 500 companies such as Timberland, Meineke Car Care, Sonny Pictures, Walt Disney, Worldpay, Miami and Dubai International Airport. After the loss of his sister and mother a successful design career just wasn’t fulfilling enough. In 2016 he left his job and stepped out on faith to fully pursue his art career. EuGene founded Future Dead Artists, and operated FUTURE GALLERY from 2018-2020 in which he mentored artists/curators, curated 20 exhibitions and over 200 artists.
To tell an accurate story about black life, is to tell a layered, multi-dimensional tale dripping in vitality and authenticity. I use
the documentary format to capture the raw and beautiful aspects of lives that know no struggle too difficult to overcome. My stories focus on how artists from marginalized communities use creativity to create a better reality for themselves and everyone they touch. Learning about my community through the diverse canon of Hip Hop imagery let me know I can choose to tell our own stories of triumph and victory in contrast to the well documented pain of the diaspora that is presented to the world daily. As a fully self taught artist, I believe the medium of documentary is important as a vocation and can be used to create educational opportunities that foster the creation of new and
progressive styles.
Artemus Jenkins was born in West Baltimore to parents who met in South Carolina during the 80s. He uses the documentary format to capture the raw and beautiful aspects of lives that know no struggle too difficult to overcome. Artemus Jenkins has lived in Atlanta for over 13 years as a participant observer, documenting how artists from marginalized communities use creativity to craft a better reality for everyone. Artemus believes that “because our pain and despair is so well documented, we must also tell our own stories of triumph and joy. We are all connected in ways that have been hidden from us. Every image’s intent is to unify the thoughts, feelings and actions of our communities one story at a time.” Artemus also thinks children are the future and need more Wu-Tang albums.
My practice combines painting, sculpture and installative devices to explore spacial and human tensions which present as multifaceted experiences. Projects’ structures vary according to my relationship with the subject, employing a fluid understanding of the role of a contemporary artist. In some instances ethnological research constitutes the work in and of itself, in other instances social findings inform my studio practice which is driven by reactions to materials in a continual rethinking of the art object. The temporal dimension of the work is expressed in a processual approach which is then articulated in a complex stratification of signs. The art production process is the subject and means of analysis.
Installation view “Repurposed Aggression”
I believe in telling stories that point to our experience as full humans and in creating works from all backgrounds and perspectives. With every project, I seek to tell honest stories that connect with people - to find and grapple with the core of each character, bringing to light their deepest fear and their deepest longing and, ultimately, our shared human experience.
Crystal Jin Kim is an emerging Korean American writer, director, and multidisciplinary artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Northwestern University in June 2014 with two Bachelor of Arts degrees, one in Radio/Television/Film and the other in Art Theory and Practice. Her short films have screened at numerous film festivals in the U.S. and abroad. Four of her films have screened at the Atlanta Film Festival in the past four years. She has traveled to Phnom Penh and Tokyo to work on films for months at a time. Crystal participated in the FILMER program of AIR Serenbe in 2018. Her short film, “Dated,” won the Audience Choice Award of the 100 Feet of Film Project hosted by Kodak and the Atlanta Film Society in 2019. Two of her short films have been distributed by Gravitas Ventures with xfinity’s Streampix platform. Crystal has assisted multiple artists (painters, photographers, multidisciplinary artists) over the past five years.
My work is focused in its effort to better understand relationships between everyday life and the public space. In particular, I consider the sociological, ecological, and non-physical (the felt) features of public space and how they respond to changes in the built environment. I apply a multi-pronged approach to urban studies with the slow gaze of an artist. My interdisciplinary art practice asks critical questions at the forefront of urban studies with the visual and interactive accessibility
of the arts.
Documentation from Alternative Public Space Study field work.
Carley Rickles is an Atlanta-based multi-disciplinary artist. Her practice is informed by academic studies in landscape architecture and urban design. While her work has been accepted as art, architecture, scholarship, and civic engagement, she is focused in her effort to better understand the relationships between everyday life and public space. In particular, she considers the sociological, ecological, and non-physical (the felt) features of public space and how they respond to changes in the built environment. She applies a multi-pronged approach to urban studies with the slow gaze of an artist.
Her work includes: functional and sculptural ceramics, written reports, printed publications, site-specific installation and activation, and the planning, design, and logistics of public space. Her interdisciplinary art practice asks critical questions at the forefront of urban studies with the visual and interactive accessibility of the arts.
Sachi Rome is a painter and mixed media artist who is from Atlanta Ga. She briefly studied under the critically acclaimed African American artist Louis Delsarte. His influence is reflected in her focus on color and impressionistic texture. Sachi’s works seek to change the social history behind who is captured and immortalized through portraiture .The current direction of her work looks at the connection between history, time, memory and past lives. The imagery presents dignity and grace while seeking to give voice to the unheard. Voices of the silent black woman, disconnected sister, lost brother or friend. She is regifting them with life and audience . Her current work is an abstract series is called “Anything but Brushes” and rely on expressive energetic mark making and a very experimental use of tools. Kitchen spatulas of various sizes, combs and torn cardboard are used by the artist to channel the imagery of what she believes to be lost.
As a multidisciplinary artist, my main goal has always been to construct progress into physical form. Tactile environments inspire me to explore the modalities of material, and how structures & spaces can serve as domains of communications. Working and exploring through sculptural representation of landscapes experienced within my past and current realities. Growing up around construction sites and euphoric deserts inspire my mediums, Stucco, Glass, Steel, and Leather. Exploring limitless opportunity to to push-boundaries and serve a specific purpose, one that derives from individual expression and can harness the power of shared ideas & beliefs.
Mason Webb was born in Atlanta, Georgia until moving to Carefree, Arizona during his adolescent. He was Head Pattern Designer with Spectrum USA in 2015 and later was hired by Arena Music Distribution to look over Artist Relations, in 2016. He moved to Atlanta in 2017 officially to design luggage for PURSEN. He is currently focused on Contemporary Textile Installations and Performances.