Join us on Wednesday, October 4 for an Artist Talk and Gallery Tour with Atlanta-based artist Spencer Sloan. Spencer is a mixed-media artist and former pop-culture blogger. His vibrant and erratic conceptual glitch-art explores the obsession with celebrity culture, the invasion of privacy and the complex issues of ownership of image, appropriation and copyright. Spencer does this by digitally manipulating high- resolution paparazzi photographs into pure abstraction with a series of image-corrupting applications—using a ubiquitous modern device, an iPhone. Sloan’s work turns the voyeuristic into the inviolable & creates a post-modern commentary on societal values in relation to contemporary pop culture.

Spalding Nix Fine Art presents ENTANGLEMENTS featuring new work by Carlyle Wolfe Lee, Thad Lee, Spencer Sloan and Virginie Drujon-Kippelen - on view September 15 - November 10. 
To become entangled with another is to become intertwined, twisted or bound - physically, emotionally or psychologically. The theory of quantum entanglements states that when two particles become entangled, they remain connected even when separated by vast distances. Working collaboratively, Carlyle Wolfe Lee and Thad Lee’s “Repeat the Sounding Joy,” is a body of work made in tandem, through painting and photography, that explores their mutual delight in the natural world and within their own marriage. Spencer Sloan’s ongoing practice of manipulating paparazzi photographs into digital abstractions intertwines the concepts of celebrity obsessions, invasion of privacy and the complex issues of ownership of an image. Virginie Drujon-Kippelen’s photo series, “Aliens, Invasives and Other Entanglements,” explores the complicated connections that exist in our disturbed urban landscapes, where native and alien species compete–a possible metaphor for our own issues of national identity and nativism. This exhibition is free and open to the public.