Echo Contemporary Art

Echo Contemporary Art A contemporary art gallery featuring Southeastern emerging and mid-career artists. WED-SAT 12noon-5pm
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Incredible photography exhibition by and performance tonight. The Gallery is open tomorrow from 12 to 5. Come see the e...
05/23/2026

Incredible photography exhibition by and performance tonight. The Gallery is open tomorrow from 12 to 5. Come see the exhibit before it goes away.

Please join us on Saturday, June 6th for the opening reception of Sid Henderson’s solo exhibition “The Devil in the Deta...
05/17/2026

Please join us on Saturday, June 6th for the opening reception of Sid Henderson’s solo exhibition “The Devil in the Details”. Sid Henderson’s ceramic vessels question and challenge harmful taboos surrounding nudity, sexuality, and irreverence. Drawing from the forms of ancient Greek vessels, where sexuality, nudity, and irreverence were openly depicted, and from the surface decoration and imagery of Renaissance Italian majolica, Henderson reinserts homosexuality into a history from which Christianity erased it, while also lending legitimacy to their imagery. Henderson’s work brings the past into the present, and through the enduring nature of ceramics, these pieces may also become artifacts for future generations. “Although my work speaks from my experience as a gay man, I do not allow my sexuality to fully define me. Instead, I ask why American society often responds with greater discomfort to affection between two or more men than to images of violence and murder.”

Sid Henderson obtained his BA at the University of California at Davis, specializing in figurative ceramics and intaglio printmaking. His experience in figurative art earned him two public bronze commissions for cities outside of Houston and Dallas, Texas. This experience qualified him to teach ceramic sculpture in Tucson for eight years while he continued to develop relationships with both local and international galleries and improve his technical experience through studio technician work and management. Currently a candidate for a Masters of Fine Art in ceramics at Georgia State University while further expanding his repertoire through exhibitions. He was awarded 2nd place amongst graduates in NCECA’s national ceramics exhibition in Detroit Michigan, and is preparing for his thesis in 2027.

Please join us Saturday, June 6th for the opening reception of Michelle Laxalt’s solo exhibition “Light Eaters”. Radial...
05/17/2026

Please join us Saturday, June 6th for the opening reception of Michelle Laxalt’s solo exhibition “Light Eaters”. Radially balanced, intimately-scaled, and simultaneously botanical and visceral, the biomorphic forms reference and explore the life-death-life cycle, metamorphosis, regeneration, and how flowers and plants provide wisdom and guidance for navigating what we too narrowly refer to as ‘human’ circumstances, specifically grief. Inspired by the artist’s life, her previous series of wood-fired grief vessels, and Zoë Schlanger’s eponymous 2024 book, the earthy, pod-like, and floral forms in Light Eaters lean toward potentiality, perseverance, and the luminous.

Michelle Laxalt is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the fluid and transitional nature of human, animal, and botanical bodies. Rooted in an awareness of mortality, her work reflects the beauty, burden, and fragility of shared corporeality in our entangled world where nothing lasts and everything transforms.

Laxalt has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has attended artist residencies and workshops at the Hambidge Center, Vermont Studio Center, and Penland School of Craft. Her work is held in the collections of the Richardson Family Art Museum (Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC); the Oats Park Art Center (Churchill Arts Council, Fallon, NV); the National Center for Contemporary Arts (Minsk, Belarus); the Welch Fellowship Alumni Collection (Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA); and in numerous personal collections throughout the United States.

Laxalt holds an MFA in Ceramics from Georgia State University, where she was a distinguished Welch Fellow, and a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Nevada, Reno. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Laxalt is a dedicated arts educator and has worked with a range of arts institutions and students throughout the region. She currently serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Visual Arts at Morehouse College. .atl

!!Calling all Ceramic Artists!! Please apply to Echo’s 2nd Annual “Summer Ceramic Show”. This exhibition will feature fu...
05/17/2026

!!Calling all Ceramic Artists!!

Please apply to Echo’s 2nd Annual “Summer Ceramic Show”. This exhibition will feature functional and sculptural ceramic work The deadline to submit work for this Open Call group exhibition is May 18th at 11:59pm. The exhibition opens on Saturday, June 6 and closes Saturday, July 19th. The opening reception will be Friday, June 6th from 7pm to 10pm. There may be an additional closing event.

Echo will be exhibiting between 20 - 25 artists. Please only submit work that is available for sale. The artist / gallery percentage split of the retail price is 60% to the artist and 40% to the gallery. Please submit only work that is available for sale. You may submit up to 10 pieces for consideration.

Deadlines for Exhibition
May 18th at 11:59pm. — Deadline to submit work
May 20th— Artists notified
May 21st— Press release distributed
May 28th - May 30th- Drop off work at Echo Contemporary Art between 12-5pm
Friday, May 30th by
Email [email protected] with questions

LINK TO APPLICATION IS IN BIO

Echo Contemporary Art is proud to present two exhibitions:“CLAYLIST” featuring the GSU Ceramic Department and “Small Thi...
05/06/2026

Echo Contemporary Art is proud to present
two exhibitions:

“CLAYLIST” featuring the GSU Ceramic Department and “Small Thing to a Giant”
featuring Flex Aloysius and Daniel James Gilstrap.

Show Dates: May 9, 2026 - May 16, 2026
Opening Reception:May 9th 7pm to 10pm

The Georgia State University Ceramics Department presents CLAYLIST, a ceramic show inspired by music. All works presented are inspired by the feeling or vibe a piece of music, album, or record itself evokes. All work presented is majority ceramic materials, both working in the sculptural and functional realm.

Echo Contemporary Art is proud to present two exhibitions:“Small Thing to a Giant”featuring Flex Aloysius and Daniel Jam...
05/04/2026

Echo Contemporary Art is proud to present
two exhibitions:

“Small Thing to a Giant”
featuring Flex Aloysius and Daniel James Gilstrap and “CLAYLIST” featuring the GSU Ceramic Department.

Show Dates: May 9, 2026 - May 16, 2026
Opening Reception:May 9th 7pm to 10pm
Facing the grandness of the world around us and responding to it accordingly.

“Small Thing To A Giant”, featuring Flex Aloysius and Daniel Gilstrap, considers the possibilities and expectations of greatness and grandeur not as a personal or an exclusive right for certain individuals but as an accessible yet effortful moment possible for anyone’s life.
Both artists are working through their own informed expectations of being perceived as individuals with a community role where one is elevated, to being considered a worldly exception instead of regarded as peers and working mutuals. Neither artist feels they make work which alienates the viewer by creating a practice for artists by artists or works following the whims and politics of collectors; however both artists are exploring their own interests, histories, and talents. Together they find a hidden commonality in similar histories with mutual working experiences, mentors and peers, and personal details that inform their mutual respect, taste, and kinship though this has birthed vastly different practices.
“Small Thing To A Giant” brings together artists Flex Aloysius and Daniel Gilstrap presenting highlights from both artists’ bodies of works alongside work from their peers for a grand show for everyone!

!!Calling all Atlanta Ceramic Artists!! Please apply to Echo’s 2nd Annual “Summer Ceramic Show”. This exhibition will fe...
04/17/2026

!!Calling all Atlanta Ceramic Artists!!

Please apply to Echo’s 2nd Annual “Summer Ceramic Show”. This exhibition will feature functional and sculptural ceramic work The deadline to submit work for this Open Call group exhibition is May 15th at 11:59pm.
Sid Henderson .henderson.art and Michelle Laxalt will both have solo exhibitions in conjunction with this exhibition. All 3 shows open on Saturday, June 6 and closes Saturday, July 19th. The opening reception will be Friday, June 6th from 7pm to 10pm.
Link to the application is in the bio. Deadline to apply is May 15th

Please join us on Saturday, April 18th from 5-7pm for an Artists’ Talk and Potluck dinner. Emma Chammah and Fiber Artist...
04/08/2026

Please join us on Saturday, April 18th from 5-7pm for an Artists’ Talk and Potluck dinner. Emma Chammah and Fiber Artists from the “Getting It Together” exhibition will sit down to a potluck dinner and talk about their work and creative process. Come enjoy this creative crew’s discussion and some good food.

Hey Art, lovers, enjoy this beautiful weekend. The closing of our fiber shows is Saturday the 18th. There will be an art...
04/04/2026

Hey Art, lovers, enjoy this beautiful weekend. The closing of our fiber shows is Saturday the 18th. There will be an artist talking and closing reception from 5 to 7 PM.

There’s soooooo much great work in these two fiber-based exhibitions. Please join us this Saturday from 5-9 for the open...
02/27/2026

There’s soooooo much great work in these two fiber-based exhibitions. Please join us this Saturday from 5-9 for the opening reception. two fiber based exhibitions:

Emmanuelle Chammah’s solo exhibition “carescapes” & “Getting It Together”, a fiber based exhibitions.
Echo Contemporary Art is thrilled to present 15 fiber based artists in the group exhibition “Getting It Together”. The work is functional, interactive, installation, wearable and hangs on the wall. The artist featured are Anna Lee Burnstein, Camisha Butler, Carla Contreras, Erica Jean Wise, Eve Brown, Julia Nieves, Julie Fordham, Kenya Freeman, Kieta Rose, Melanie Shaw, Meredith Anne White, Rachel Myrick, Rebecca Coll, Sloane Frederick, Tree Lyiness and Veronique Vanblaere.

Join us this Saturday night from 5-9pm for the opening reception of “Getting It Together” a fiber based group exhibition...
02/24/2026

Join us this Saturday night from 5-9pm for the opening reception of “Getting It Together” a fiber based group exhibition

Echo Contemporary Art is thrilled to present 15 fiber based artists. The work is functional, interactive, installation, wearable and hangs on the wall. The artist featured are Anna Lee Burnstein, Camisha Butler, Carla Contreras, Erica Jean Wise, Eve Brown, Julia Nieves, Julie Fordham, Kenya Freeman, Kieta Rose, Melanie Shaw, Meredith Anne White, Rachel Myrick, Rebecca Coll, Sloane Frederick, Tree Lyiness and Veronique Vanblaere.

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785 Echo Street NW
Atlanta, GA
30318

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Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm

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