Deanna Sirlin

In the studio yesterday .... As If, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches

@725 Ponce
EVERYTHING IS PERFECT AND NOTHING IS PERFECT

Contemporary Film + Video about Nature


Off the Wall @ 725 Ponce
September 13 + 14, 8pm, FREE
725 Ponce de Leon Ave NE
on the Atlanta Beltline, Atlanta, Georgia 30306

This program takes its name from novelist, activist, and Georgia native Alice Walker’s quote, “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”

This program takes these words to heart, contorting and bending to explore stunning visions of nature by contemporary women artists. Addressing the human impact on our world and exploring environmental beauty in equal measure, these films take viewers from psychedelic South American landscapes to cosmos-spanning ecocriticism, and from the earliest photographic techniques to meditations on today’s AI and digital technologies. Themes of care, dissent, critique, awe, and self-preservation all dovetail in this kaleidoscopic collection of cinematic perspectives questioning what it means to see and hear the “natural” world today.

Image: Deanna Sirlin, Screenshot from "Wandering In", on Off The Wall 725 Ponce

Artists
Kate Balsley
Cecelia Condit
Ufuoma EssiJodie Mack
Rachel Parish
Sabrina Ratté
Deanna Sirlin
Cauleen Smith
Deborah Stratman
Malena Szlam
Masha Vlasova
Jennifer West

A memory of my work, "Borders of Light and Water" in Venice, Italy in 2022. I have no idea where this jpg came from but indeed I appreciate it and wonder who is this viewer. Anyone send me this image?

Reading, 2024, Acrylic on Vellum, 11 x 8.5 inches

Summer's End, 2024, Acrylic on Vellum, 11 x 8.5 inches

New work in the studio, "Ahhh", 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches

Working a series of small paintings on vellum--- Heat, 2024, 11 x 8.5 inches

Short interview on VoyageATL

Check Out Deanna Sirlin’s Story - Voyage ATL Magazine | ATL City Guide Today we’d like to introduce you to Deanna Sirlin. Deanna Sirlin Hi, Deanna; thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself. I started being an artist as a young child. I remember my first museum visit; I must have been about six years old, and my mother took me ...

This work on paper is titled "Ocean", 2024, acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches -- I think I was thinking about Erica Hughes poem "We Have Made a Bed of This Landscape—" about a different painting of mine but her last line of this poem spoke to me. —
If we call every sound
we make in this bed ocean?

I am looking forward to E's first book "Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water" published with Haymarket Books (Fall 2024).

My time for painting and swimming:
Sirlin, Now, 2024, Acrylic on paper, 13 x 12 inches

A corner view....

My studio assistant took photos of the sides of my paintings -- interesting how they revealed my process. Summer Studio 2024

Often these collages inform me about my color and process --
Deanna Sirlin, Fountain, 2024, mixed media collage, 11 x 8.5 inches

My studio assistant took this photo of my painting, "One's Own", 2024, 24 x 24 inches, on my studio floor --- what a great composition with my drop cloth, card board and hightops. Thank you Emma!

Deanna Sirlin, Water Moves, 2024, acrylic on panel, 7 x 48 inches

New series of acrylic on paper, 11 x 8.5 inches in the studio, it is interesting to me that this work reads as very large. :)

New painting, Sentence Structure, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 7 x 48 inches

Small painting on vellum, Water Rising, 2024, 11 x 8.5 inches --

June 2024
The Art Section is Launched!
https://www.theartsection.com/

Introduction to the June Issue by Deanna Sirlin
https://www.theartsection.com/intro-june-2024

Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere
by Sara Buoso
https://www.theartsection.com/foreigners-everywhere

Resonances: 60th La Biennale di Venezia 2024 British and German Pavilions by Floriana Piqué https://www.theartsection.com/la-biennale-di-venezia-2024-resonances

Sean Scully: There and Here Then and Now
by Peter Frank https://www.theartsection.com/scully

image: Ann Hamilton, myein, 1999, The United States Pavilion,
48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, photo: Thibault Jeanson, M. Gregolio, F. Beranez

I was google mapping at Kirkwood and as I moved around the neighborhood I saw Fire Station #18 with my mosaic, "Falling Waters" on the exterior .... this work was commissioned by the City of Atlanta and installed in 2009.

Sometimes small works are really large, Deanna Sirlin, "Ready", 2024, 11 x 8.5 inches, acrylic on vellum.

My new assistant photographed all 25 of my paintings on paper yesterday -- all 30 x 22 inches on Rives BFK made in 2024. This one is "Red Sky at Night".

The last of a suite of 25 paintings on Rives BFK paper each 30 x 22 inches -- finished on Friday and photographed by my new artist intern. Deanna Sirlin, "Time", 2024, Acrylic on Rives BFK, 30 x 22 inches

Sunday March 10 from 12:30 to 3