Indoor Art Exhibits | Blue Heron Nature Preserve

INDOOR ART EXHIBITS

Located in our gallery at 4055 Roswell Road NE

Artist: Caleb Jamel Brown
Title: Nocturne: Chirping at the Ground

Nocturne: Chirping at the Ground is a presentation of a site-specific sculpture/bat house and accompanying exhibition of preliminary drawing, leather works, paintings, and small-scale sculptures.

The sculptures and functioning bat house take inspiration from Muskogee (Creek) and East Cherokee indigenous people’s folklore and symbolism associated with animals found in the four distinct habitats found on the Preserve: big brown bat / woodlands, eastern box turtle / wetlands, river otters / riparian creek areas, and great blue heron / meadows.

The exhibit can be enjoyed through April 13th in the Blue Heron Nature Preserve Indoor Gallery. The functioning bat house is a permanent installation located in the wetlands off Emma Lane.

Caleb Jamel Brown (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist and plumber from Atlanta. Brown uses a myriad of media, from photography and installation to painting and sculpture, to investigate the intersections of Black American material culture, representation through abstraction, and familial memory. The Utilisation of abstraction and vernacular as the foundation for larger cultural narratives is at the core of his practice.

Caleb is a 2022 Working Artist Project recipient and a 2020 Mint Leap Year Fellow. Caleb holds a BFA from Valdosta State University and has participated in residencies throughout the United States and abroad including Shandaken: StormKing, New Windsor, NY; Mass MOCA; PATA, Lodz, Poland; Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Coleman Arts Center, York, AI; Aviario, Portugal.

Thank you to Morgan Stanley for their support of Blue Heron Nature Preserve art programs.

Previous Exhibitions

Artist: Amanda Banks
Title: Garden Party

This exhibition is the first look at a developing installation project created as a physical space to rest, relax, and observe human relationships with the Earth and with each other. It is a soft simulated garden made using an array of thrifted, foraged, found, donated, and trash materials from the areas have and I will be working in.

This garden is an in-between-place, a place of reclamation and new growth evidenced by natural forms in various stages of birth and decay. Reminding us that life will always find a way and that while we are
still here, there is time to enjoy it.

Artist: Krista Grecco
Title: Meandering
September 2023

Artist: Makenzie Heinemann
Title: Visions in the Trees
November – December 2022

Vision in the Trees exhibition showcases large-scale canvas pieces and intimate watercolors from Dallas, Texas-based artist Makenzie Heinemann.

The artist notes, “I make work that references the natural world, but delays recognition. My work follows the tradition of the Sublime through expansive landscapes, but it does not seek to overwhelm. Instead, it exists in spaces like a low hum, requiring a sensitivity for viewing.”

Artists: Katie Hargrove and Meredith Laura Lynn
Title: Mirror Muir: The Cumberland Mountains
August – October 2022

This interactive exhibition was inspired by celebrated botanist John Muir with his walk from Kentucky to Florida. Visitors will appreciate how these artists unpack the complex legacy of Muir through the lens of John Muir Trail, a cobbled together series of paths through central Tennessee.

Tallahassee-based artist Meredith Laura Lynn and Chattanooga-based artist Katie Hargrave unpack the complex legacy of botanist and conservationist John Muir.

Artist: Dennis Famble
Title: Luminous Nature
July 2022

This exhibition celebrates the dynamism of nature and nocturnal experiences of wildlife. Through the creative use of paints, the pop art in this collection can be viewed in regular light, black light, and lights out as they glow in the dark.

Artist: Steven Anderson
Title: Shared History
Dec 2021

This collection shows an expansion of the artist’s Tree Rings body of work, using new materials and forms in painting and drawing to speak to growth, cosmic time, preservation, and destruction. The Tree Rings are a way of growing a drawing: the artist draws circles that closely follow the circle before it, expanding as the rings build and bring the form into existence. Named after the number of rings/years, these meditations on growth and time provide a larger context for our lives.

Artist: Wanda S. Hopkins
Title: The Art of Nature – Trees
Fall 2021

“Shuffling through burnt orange yellow and red leaves, one recalls days of childhood laughter, playful smiles as leaves go up and come down to fall back into the pile and be thrown yet again.”

Artist: Erica Angelica
Title: Euphoria of Nature
Summer 2021

“The Euphoria of Nature is based upon my spiritual, euphoric, and healing occurrences with nature and is inspired by my love of pop art and surrealism.”

Artist: Laura Davis Shainker
Title: Land, Water, Sky
Spring 2021

“I explore the arrangement of darks and lights and the mood of the subject. I’m inspired by the outdoors, so I gravitate toward landscapes, especially the Low Country.”

Artist: In Kyoung Chun
Title: [ Cloud & Table ]
Winter 2021

“[ Cloud & Table]: These two words are the keywords which convey my life during a pandemic period. Table signifies eating, talking and working. One important object in my place/studio has been a table. And the cloud symbolizes outdoor life and living nature. I have gotten closer to nature over the socially distant moments.”