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It’s a strange oversight in a retrospective that hinges on viewers registering shifts in style and content over his career."},{"_id":"OXKFGATLJJECREXED7WIT77RJM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":(),"_id":1625665643730},"type":"text","content":"The artist pivots again in early works like “King Shabazz” from 1991 in a busy, collaged style (my least favorite phase of Palmer’s many iterations) and then again with the bold color-blocked works of Black strength and resilience in the gorgeous diptych painting “Be a Warrior” (2020) of a contemporary Black man juxtaposed with a traditional African mask. That phase moves Palmer’s content from the real, lived world, into an iconic, spiritual dimension of Afrofuturism and imagined worlds where Palmer significantly depicts women with as much strength as men."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"caption":""Man Next" by Atlanta-based artist Charly Palmer. 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In many works, including a video in the rear gallery space, that humanistic approach is orchestrated to Atlantan Okorie “OKCello” Johnson’s musical compositions which accompany the video or can be activated with QR codes attached to key artworks."},{"_id":"4DIY5I2JXRHRJBGOOIUPOPTCC4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":(),"_id":1625665643734},"type":"text","content":"Those later works draw their seductive presence from a juxtaposition of powerful Black bodies with intense color-blocked backgrounds that recall Amy Sherald dan Fahamu Pecou."},{"_id":"P3VYC5DRQZHNPAETO2PAN6L7WY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":(),"_id":1625665643736},"type":"text","content":"“Departure” proves Palmer’s mettle as an undeniably expert storyteller and illustrator. His work as a visual artist distills his ideas just as concisely as his commercial work for Rolling Stone or for the cover of Time magazine “In Her Eyes” (on view in the Hammonds show) of a young women depicted amidst a miasma of political protest."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"caption":"Time magazine commissioned this painting by Charly Palmer in 2020 to illustrate racial justice protests happening that summer in the wake of George Floyd's murder.","source":{"system":"photo center","name":"AJC","edit_url":"https://ajc.arcpublishing.com/photo/BE5HQX4STRG3XESYNP34SAGJTM","source_type":"staff","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":()},"type":"image","distributor":{"mode":"reference","reference_id":"8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019"},"version":"0.10.3","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/BE5HQX4STRG3XESYNP34SAGJTM.jpeg","licensable":false,"credits":{"affiliation":({"name":"Charly Palmer","type":"author"}),"by":({"name":"Charly Palmer","type":"author","byline":"Charly Palmer"})},"subtitle":"Charly Palmer's "In Her Eyes"","width":2586,"creditIPTC":"Charly Palmer","_id":"BE5HQX4STRG3XESYNP34SAGJTM","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/H9yOCNb51VXSPuVYEd6kw9mkOMc=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/BE5HQX4STRG3XESYNP34SAGJTM.jpeg","owner":"rosalind.bentley@ajc.com","comments":(),"keywords":("","charly palmer"," visual art"," painting"," time magazine cover"," hammonds house museum"),"proxyUrl":"/resizer/H9yOCNb51VXSPuVYEd6kw9mkOMc=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/BE5HQX4STRG3XESYNP34SAGJTM.jpeg","takenOn":"2020-06-23T11:24:48Z","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/BE5HQX4STRG3XESYNP34SAGJTM.jpeg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/H9yOCNb51VXSPuVYEd6kw9mkOMc=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/BE5HQX4STRG3XESYNP34SAGJTM.jpeg","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/AbreACzZg9XvVW-x3OYPl01ZBTQ=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/BE5HQX4STRG3XESYNP34SAGJTM.jpeg","version":0,"originalName":"In Her Eyes by Charly Palmer.jpeg","mime_type":"image/jpeg","restricted":false,"template_id":594,"galleries":(),"_id":"NPXKPTKPWFEVXFX5NSVI4D34HY"},"created_date":"2021-07-03T16:03:27Z","last_updated_date":"2021-07-03T16:03:27Z","height":3467,"image_type":"photograph"},{"_id":"7BKSGJJZQVFGBPRZ6YFPIPPKOU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":(),"_id":1625665643738},"type":"text","content":"Despite his versatility, certain tropes continue throughout Palmer’s oeuvre, including the garlands of flowers as gestures of remembrance in his image of George Floyd, and in the floral crowns and sashes that adorn his Black figures. Those transcendent flowers ushering figures into the afterlife coexist with Palmer’s glittering swaths of twinkling night sky to hint at a cosmos beyond the degradations of existence on earth."},{"_id":"D4DRFZWEJZBYVGFGDCNCEYBRVU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":()},"type":"text","content":"Another constant in his paintings: American flags. In Palmer’s hands its stars and bars are muzzles, falling tears, blindfolds and bloody lashes. A blend of sorrow, rage and spirituality can make Palmer feel like a strange but compelling hybrid of Norman Rockwell sentimentality and the good troublemaking of an artist like Dread Scott. 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She had an eye for art but no ear for a name and didn’t know what to call it. “An Atlanta graphic designer named Pat Dibona knocked on my door and showed me her portfolio,” she recalls. “She had a little character, sort of her alter ego, named Matilda.”"},{"_id":"TVG3REQGFFH7LFFABJGSE5DB7U","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":(),"_id":1624310787965},"type":"text","content":"By the early aughts, Matilda’s was a successful folk art gallery when Potter decided to build a little stage on the back and create an intimate music venue, even though she had zero experience in the music business. In 2005, Matilda’s the music venue opened."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"copyright":"Jenni Girtman","address":{},"caption":"The intimate venue has a seating capacity of 250. 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M.J., her hair pulled back in a loose bun, sits smiling and nodding in a chair well off to the side, where she can take in the whole scene that she and Paul have created: the happy, mellow crowd; the tables covered in candles, wine glasses and food; the fairy lights strung overhead; the small stage."},{"_id":"M3KU7RUMRVF5NPCJ3DAVEJDKKY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":(),"_id":1624310787976},"type":"text","content":"Her plans for the future are not complicated in the least."},{"_id":"O4UXYVD47FENVJFEEHF5KD5UXM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":(),"_id":1624310787977},"type":"text","content":"“I hope it just goes on and on and on,” she says."},{"_id":"2O7PBV7UERBR5HHN4VWSUGNUFQ","additional_properties":{"comments":(),"_id":"LWTZ2UA25NBXZO4HBWSZDKH2CI"},"type":"divider"},{"_id":"DWBDVLIYPZDSPCQYXCPJPQ32DU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":(),"_id":1624310787979},"type":"text","content":"CONCERT PREVIEW"},{"_id":"ZMJN3DLSIBBHZATREPR3GT3E6A","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":(),"_id":1624310787980},"type":"text","content":"Matilda’s Under the Pines. 8 p.m. every Saturday through October. 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Spring St., Smyrna. smyrnaga.gov."},{"_id":"J3C7DT2IBNGOPKF2V2SJICCI2U","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":()},"type":"text","content":"Browse and buy goods from a variety of food vendors and artisans."},{"_id":"OLYWW7AL5VCYLKIHD4UE3MTPXQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":()},"type":"text","content":"Dad & Gas Car Show. 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, June 26. $25 for show cars, $10 for spectators, free for children 12 and under. 875 Gettysburg Trial NE, Kennesaw. facebook.com."},{"_id":"RKYR3NCHTVEVROVXRKOGNO4BMU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":()},"type":"text","content":"Enter your car, truck, bike or exotic or stop by to see vehicles and participate in raffles."},{"_id":"LCO5TXO33VAIHFAEV426DBTPLM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":()},"type":"text","content":"157th Anniversary of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 26 and Sunday, June 27. Free. virtual event that can be viewed on the park’s Facebook page and/or YouTube. nps.gov."},{"_id":"MQEXNQKVWZE2PBAFAULQVSPY5Y","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":()},"type":"text","content":"Watch videos posted hourly that cover every aspect of the fighting at Kennesaw Mountain as well as children’s programs and more. You can also visit the park and follow along on a driving tour."},{"_id":"NNYOVTQFZ5BARN6EIDGJCLV7O4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":()},"type":"text","content":"Hunt House Music Series. 6 p.m.-11:30 p.m. Friday, June 25. $25. 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Assembly Line Drive, Doraville. m.facebook.com."},{"_id":"WNGUFH6FVBBNRA7ZRJUHERSSG4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":()},"type":"text","content":"Check out classic cars on the grounds of the former General Motors plant. All makes are welcome, especially classic GM cars."},{"_id":"JEEKX2NAL5HRPKQGXH4B7KWOS4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":()},"type":"text","content":"Sunset Yoga in the Park. 7 p.m. Saturday, June 26. Free. Arabia Mountain, 4158 Klondike Road, Stonecrest. eventbrite.com."},{"_id":"6OE4J2YGQVEZZAXT6UTJ4OUM4Y","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":(),"comments":()},"type":"text","content":"Gather at the parking lot of AWARE Nature Center to hike up Arabia Mountain, where you’ll practice yoga. 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