ELIZABETH D’ANGELO may be the only artist in Georgia who has work represented in five shows or exhibits going on at the same time this month: There’s her one-person exhibition at Callanwolde continuing through March 27; she is well represented in The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia “MOCA GA Salutes the Rising Movers & Shakers of the Georgia Art Scene” that goes through the 21st; she has a piece in the Swan Coach House show, “Scratching the Surface,” that opened on the 5th, the curator of which is Marianne Lambert, one of the most knowledgeable and well-connected players in the Atlanta art scene; her work is currently featured at the Pavilion, a retail space in the Studioplex lofts at 659 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta’s historic old Fourth Ward; and this show in the Brown’s Guide Gallery.

In addition, on March 2, Art Papers Editor-at-Large Jerry Cullum wrote a complimentary post about her in his blog, Counterforces and Other Little Jokes, saying that her use of the phrase “Artichoke Heart” in two of the titles of her paintings that are included at Callanwolde and in the Gallery here was a fitting symbol for her “artichoke-layered imagination.” (more…)