CURRENT
A&E Atlanta Downtown Digital Art Program
From May 2025 through January 2025, located at Reverb Hotel, 89 Centennial Olympic Drive
Displaying curated artwork throughout Downtown Atlanta, the program seamlessly integrates creativity into the urban landscape. Between regular advertisements, passersby can experience striking visual art pieces from local and national artists during their visit or daily routines. This ongoing initiative leverages revenue from commercial advertising to support the creative economy and places fresh contemporary artwork in one of the city’s most visited districts.
Current artists, Natrice Miller and Preetika Rajgariah > Click images to learn more.
PAST
Guest Curator for the Inaugural Atlanta Art Fair, Oct 3-6 2024
Art Market Productions (AMP), a division of a21, is pleased to announce guest curators and cultural partners for the inaugural edition of Atlanta Art Fair, the first global art fair for one of the fastest-growing art hubs in the United States. To further forefront local voices in its programming, Atlanta Art Fair’s Artistic Director, Nato Thompson, will be joined by Atlanta-based guest curators Lauren Jackson Harris and Karen Comer Lowe. Both women are firmly embedded within the Atlanta art scene and have long histories of championing underrepresented voices in the arts. “It was pivotal to us to collaborate with Atlanta-based curators who are deeply embedded within the city’s art scene and who can respond to the pressing needs of the arts community. Lauren and Karen have been instrumental in guiding our curatorial approach to the fair and strengthening ties with local stakeholders.
“Being on the Curatorial Team of the inaugural Atlanta Art Fair means I can continue amplifying this city's diverse talent and dynamic creative voices. The antiquated term “genteel” presented itself to me in my curatorial process, and each artist embodies a refined sense of pride in their materials and narratives. In my selection of works from these five Georgia-based artists, the audience will be charged to find a common thread within their visual identities and modalities.” - Lauren Jackson Harris
STILL LIFE, Aug. 3 - Sept. 7, 2023
An exhibition of narrative-based, gouache, and oil paintings by Atlanta-based artist Jurell Cayetano. Curated by Lauren Jackson Harris. The capturing of inanimate objects through an intuitive and intimate lens of everyday situational life. In this exhibition, Jurell Cayetano presents paintings that portray his own movements through life with friends and loved ones, seen ornamentally placed within the scapes of the works. His version of storytelling, Cayetano's expressive color palette, brings liveliness to moments that may have otherwise gone unnoticed. These stories focus on the lives of his peers and other people of color, creating images that convey a sense of familiarity and comfort. Testifying visuals showing there is still life being, still.
Atlanta Contemporary, Winter Exhibition Project Spaces, January - May 2022
“Coinciding with the exhibitions for Winter 2022: Genevieve Gaignard, This Is America: The Unsettling Contradictions in American Identity curated by Karen Comer Lowe (Gallery 3); and Craig Drennen, First Acts, curated by Brigitte Mulholland (Gallery 4), Atlanta Contemporary is pleased to announce Lauren Jackson Harris as the Winter 2022 curator for the Project Spaces. The Project Spaces are: Chute Space, Lecture Hall, Sliver Space, and the newest iteration, the Secret Garden, which allows for site-specific installations, better supports local artists and artist-run spaces, and enables nimble and experimental works that immediately respond to the needs of our community. Each installment opens Atlanta Contemporary up to new perspectives that reflect the world we live in.”
Tayler Dratto, Chute Space; Grace Kisa, Sliver Space, Round Two; Ebony Marshman, Sliver Space, Round One; Natrice Miller, Lecture Hall; James William III, Secret Garden
Curatorial statement: Spaces and access are connected to an artist's ability to expound on their artistic practice. Each of the artists selected for Atlanta Contemporary has been charged to depart from their ‘comfort zones’ and current approaches and utilize their assigned project spaces as a creative opportunity to genuinely explore their medium. Whether the audience is familiar or new to the artists' work, we will all be introduced to a neoteric perspective and amassed mindset of each artist.
Grounded in Grain, Washed in the Water, group exhibition, The Halsey Institute/Avery Research Center, Fall 2026
The Larry M. and Gwendolyn E. Walker Collection, GSU Welch School Galleries, May 2026 - October 2026
Contemporary Digital Art Program, A & E Atlanta Downtown, May 2025 - January 2026
genteel/gentle, group exhibition, Atlanta Art Fair, October 2024
Still Life, a solo exhibition with Jurell Cayetano, Swan Coach House Gallery, July - September 2023
Of the Fantastic: Extraordinary ATL, group exhibition, A&E Atlanta, Orange Barrel Media, June 1 -July 31, 2022
Atlanta Contemporary Winter Exhibition Project Spaces (4 spaces/5 artists), January - May 2022
Sweet Discord, group exhibition, Mint Gallery, July - September 2021
Hope|Revolution, a group exhibition, Stay Home Gallery, October 2020
Collision, Wiláy Méndez Páez, solo exhibition, Day & Night Projects, August - September 2020
Fulton County Central Library, acquisitions and curatorial project, March - August 2020
The Artful Journey, group exhibition, The ArtFul Journey Project, Nov 2019
If I Told You..., a group exhibition and program, The Beacon Art Gallery. January - March 2019
Peachtree Street Re-imaged: Peachtree St. Through the Eyes of Urban Designers, Artists, and Photographers, Atlanta City Studio, a group exhibition, Jan - April 2019
ZuCot Gallery, Atlanta GA, all exhibitions from 2017-2019