The Working Artist Project is an award program funded by the Charles Loridans Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Each year, three standout artists are selected.
This year SCAD Atlanta’s Adjacent Sculpture professor, Gregor Turk, was declared a winner.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) collects contemporary art from the Metro Atlanta area to showcase.
Turk is an Atlanta native known for his public installations, ceramic sculptures, photography and mixed media constructions. He graduated in Atlanta at The Lovett School. He went on to receive his BA from Rhodes College and an MFA from Boston University.
Since childhood, Turk has been enthralled with maps and what they tell us about ourselves as individuals and as a collective culture.
MOCA GA Director Annette Cone-Skelton said, “Gregor Turk’s exhibition combines his love of maps and his lifelong observance of Atlanta to focus in a new way on geographical elements that we encounter without thinking every day in our city.”
Turk said, “Through this new work, I continue my exploration of mapping and marking place, addressing the shifting, contradicting, and sometime absurd sentiment of centeredness.”
“Obelisks and x-marks constructed of wood and wrapped with rubber serve as the primary forms in this exhibition with several works focusing on Atlanta’s own center points, its interstate interchanges,” continued Turk.
Gregor Turk is having his premier “Terminal Velocity” on May 5 at MOCA. Turk is hosting an open reception for the exhibit Friday, May 4, from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
On June 5, at 7:00 p.m., Turk will host a free, artist talk to the public with a reception beforehand starting at 6:30 p.m.