FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Shawn Vinson, shawn@thewaddi.com, 404-939-2787
The WADDI presents "Old and New Dreams", a one-woman show of paintings and drawings by British-born, Atlanta-based artist RUTH FRANKLIN, April 22 - May 14 + June 2 - July 2, 2022
April 2, 2022 (Atlanta, Georgia) -- The WADDI, 26 Waddell St. NE ATL 30307, presents RUTH FRANKLIN: Old and New Dreams, a one-woman show of paintings and drawings by British-born, Atlanta-based artist Ruth Franklin. A 3-day opening will take place April 22, 23 & 24 during the Inman Park Festival, with an artist talk planned for May 14. The exhibition will be reinstalled on June 2, following the SCAD MFA Student exhibition at the WADDI from May 23-29.
Featuring over sixty original paintings and drawings spanning more than a decade, this is Ruth Franklin's most comprehensive solo exhibition to date. She emigrated to the US in 1994, having earned an art degree at Brighton Art School in the 80s. It was the time of conceptual art and the Young British Artists, neither of which interested Ruth, who many consider to be the epitome of a painter's painter. She did come into contact with many established working artists at Brighton and one of her classmates, YBA Rachel Whiteread, became the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993. Since settling in Georgia, Ruth has continued to work in her studio seven days a week, normally arriving before dawn, and exhibiting in galleries from New York to the Netherlands. Readers of Creative Loafing have twice voted her 'best established visual artist' in Atlanta.
WHO/WHAT: RUTH FRANKLIN, Old and New Dreams, a one-woman show of paintings and drawings
WHERE: The WADDI art gallery, 26 Waddell St NE Atlanta GA 30307
WHEN: April 22 - July 2 (closed May 15 - June 1)
