On Saturday, June 21, locals migrated to Downtown Atlanta (right across from The Varsity, to be exact) to check out the opening reception of Nexus, Sexus, Plexus in the latest semi-permanent spaces being taken over by Dashboard Co-Op. The exhibitions, spanning three rooms, feature various drawings, paintings and installations loosely based on Henry Miller’s The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy with themes of craft, transition and connectivity. Vignettes included suspended clusters of chair frames doused in glow-in-the-dark paint, a giant set of lungs crafted out of plastic bag-type material, a full-size bed with an electric toy train glowing beneath the sheets, hundreds of small drawings scrawled onto manila file dividers—and so much more. The Plexus works (the installations in the black light) are by Jason Peters; the Plastic Aztecs are responsible for Sexus (the human body-inspired works bathed in pink and red light); while Nexus (the room with several small drawings affixed to the walls) is the work of Susan Loftin, John Salvest and Williams Downs. You can check it all out for yourself between now and August 1.
Photos by Caroline Cox
