Events › Art Between the Stacks - Buckhead Edition: Pop and Plane

Come out and see the abstract works of Ms. Donna Horn & Ms. Sara Schindel!

An art exhibit exploring the tension between flat surface and visual depth, blending pop culture references with abstract forms to challenge how we see space and meaning. From bold color fields to layered compositions, the collection highlights how artists challenge the line between two-dimensional representation and spatial illusion--all within the context of a library, ideas unfold across both page and plane. 

Exhibit is available for viewing during regular business hours: Monday & Tuesday 10 AM - 8 PM and Wednesday - Saturday 10 AM - 6 PM.

For inquiries about their work, please contact the staff listed on this page. 

About the Artist: 

Donna Horn

EDUCATION:
Fine Arts Workshop Atelier. Mentorship program with NY artist Michael David (2011-13)
BFA Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA,
AB Fine Art Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Georgia Committee for National Museum of Women in the Arts.
WCAGA: Women's Caucus for Art; Georgia Chapter; Executive committee, Treasurer.

HONORS & AWARDS:

2024: Honorable Mention; “Show Some Red” Invitational exhibit. Tannery Row Artist Colony; Buford GA.

2023: First Prize; “Sunshine Days” Arts Alliance Inc. Buckhead Library, Atlanta, GA.
2022: Wildacres Retreat Center, NC. Week long residency.
2013: The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts; Rabun, GA. 2 - week residency

"I am continually exploring my personal relationship to painting as it evolved from landscape-inspired images into abstraction. Working without an image facilitates a freedom of artistic expression that has taken me many years to achieve. I reduced my paintings to shapes, line, marks, and gestures, removing notions of “landscape.”

In some of the work, these elements coalesced into a central figure on the canvas which resides on a background or field. At times, the figures or forms may seem to suggest characteristics of personality: serious, playful, undisciplined. Exploiting this figure/ground relationship, I play with creating tensions between them, at times making one or the other more dominant. As a part of this exploration, I frequently engage the edges of the canvas.

I work intuitively with oil, cold wax, and pigment stick, building layers, often scraping or sanding them back. The physicality of oil paint lends itself to making textures. I am drawn to a varied surface: from thick to thin, smooth to rough, simple to complex. In my drawing practice, I use a variety of materials ranging from ink, crayon, gesso and collage. Here I experiment with composition and mark making. Some of these drawings have morphed into three-dimensional scrolled constructions.

My processes create a history in the paintings that conceals and reveals what is underneath, much in the way we hide and expose parts of ourselves to the outside world."

About the Artist: 

Sara Schindel

Born: Atlanta, Georgia

Education: BFA Herron School of Art, Indiana University

Lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia

Studio: TULA building 75 Bennett Street C-1

Awards

Twice nominated for the Forward Arts Award

Fellow at Hambidge Center for the Arts

Fellow at Vermont Studio Center

"My work is about current issues: health, human social condition, ecology, political strife, and the intersectionality between these issues.

Utilizing the power of common objects, I try to tell stories that connect these current issues to a more personal narrative.

I translate my responses: thoughts, emotions, sensations, and memories into the workspace and affix themselves around the concepts. My work is about empathy.

By using materials such as discarded toys, dolls, fake plants, and other found objects, I intertwine experiential concepts with formal concepts that make the pieces uniquely themselves.

Line, spatial relationships, design, and the physicality of materials endlessly captivate me. The work creates both a narrative and a space to pause and observe.

Through these accumulations of discrete ideas, I endeavor to create something larger, more ambiguous, and more paradoxical than their constituent parts."