We are honored that our three jurors have agreed to join us in this exhibit experience. They represent three different aspects of the arts and bring to our project a high level of accomplishment and experience.     

Lisa Alembik

Lisa Alembik is an artist, educator and curator. She is the director of the Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College, where she has curated exhibitions such as “Groundstory: tales from the shade of the South,” “My sweet, sweet…” and “limbs, heart, tongue & teeth.” She is invited to speak and mentor on curatorial and professional practices. Her drawings, paintings and installations focus on the buried and insidious consequences of diaspora and loss, and how life weighs on the fleshy body. Most recently she was included in “Sex Drive” at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and “Pap Art,” which traveled from Truman State University in Missouri to San Francisco’s City College Art Gallery. Alembik is currently visiting faculty at Oxford College at Emory University and Oglethorpe University. She has a BA from George Washington University and an MFA from Georgia State University.

 Lynn Marshall- Linnemeier

Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier is a visual mythologist, a memory keeper. She is guided by the idea of the journey, unmapped spaces and the magic that occurs when one goes looking for history and ancestors. Her visual repertoire mythologizes and re-imagines historical incidences (especially those that are informed by race, gender, and stereotypes) using photography, painting, oral histories and primary source documents. She uses these sources to tell the stories of the people in communities that she encounters. Through the Journey Projects she focuses on toural communities (rural agricultural communities that rely on and/or are developing tourism), urban enclaves, and indigenous homelands. In many instances, culturally significant connections are revealed and spiritual connections are made.

An honors graduate of the Atlanta College of Art (Presidential Scholar), Marshall-Linnemeier received an MA Degree in Southern Studies in 2005 from the University of Mississippi. She has received numerous awards throughout her long career and her work is held in numerous collections including the First Congregational Church, Atlanta, Georgia; the High Museum of Art; Atlanta University; Grace United Methodist Church, Covington, GA; Morgan County African American Museum, Madison, Georgia; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has taught and lectured at many universities including Emory University, Spelman College, Agnes Scott College, the University of Georgia, Brandeis University, and the University of South Australia. She has also served as a consultant to many community arts organizations.

Marcia Wood

Representing emerging, mid-career and established artists who are based locally, nationally and abroad, Marcia Wood is dedicated to the exhibition, promotion and support of contemporary art. The mission of the gallery is to assist exceptional young artists in the onset of their careers as well as represent all of its artists with a commitment to a long-term vision and a specific focus on each artist’s work. The gallery also considers it important to bring significant exhibitions by national and international artists to the Atlanta audience. 

Marcia Wood has been active in the arts in Atlanta since 1983. In 1993 she founded Marcia Wood Gallery in the Virginia Highland neighborhood of Atlanta. The gallery re-located to Peachtree Street in Buckhead in 1998, and has been located in the historic downtown loft district of Castleberry Hill since 2004.

Wood currently sits on the board of Flux Projects and the advisory board of the Atlanta Printmaker’s Studio, and is a member of ArtTable, a national organization of professional women in the visual arts. She has also been on the Board of Art Papers, Vice President of the Atlanta Gallery Association, and received a Georgia Women in the Arts Award in 1998.

Marcia Wood Gallery has participated in internationally noted art fairs such as PULSE, Miami, PULSE NY, AAF, NY, Palm Beach 3, Chicago Art Fair, FLOW, Miami, Year07, London, Art212, NY and Affair at the Jupiter, Portland, OR. In2012 the gallery will exhibit at Art Miami/CONTEXT.

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Check these links for more info about our jurors

Lisa Alembik  * Dalton Gallery Exhibits  *  Limbs, Heart, Tongue & Teeth essay  *  burnaway.org interview

Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier  *  website/ blog/ social media links  *  burnaway.org interview  *  MOCA GA

Marcia Wood  *  Marcia Wood Gallery website * ArtsAtl Critics Pick * CONTEXT Art Miami * Art In America review