Dunwoody’s Spruill Gallery opened its exhibition season on Feb. 15 with “Through Lines” featuring the work of Atlanta artists Amanda Banks, Gavin Bernard, and Amberly Hui Hood.
Spruill Gallery Director Shannon Morris said she was inspired by works using thread as she assembled the show, which runs through March 29.
“Through Lines” brings together three artists, whose abstract works explore cultural lines, intersections, and the construction practice of stitching and the formal element of line, according to Morris.
“While similar in concept and design practice, the artists employ different materials and colorways to create their works,” she said.
Self-taught mixed media fiber artist Amanda Banks, who resides in North Georgia, uses her surroundings as a source of materials- trash from the street, second-hand yarn and fabric, boxes of forgotten things, or treasures foraged in the woods.
“I like to find scrap material and make a new purpose for it,” Banks said. “I work on a piece until it brings me joy.”
Banks, who describes her art as “childlike,” said she works organically, sometimes pinning up a found material on a wall, then building on it until it is pleasing.
Banks most recently exhibited at Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta Contemporary Museum, East Tennessee State University, Slocumb Gallery, and in Rome, Ga., where she curated and exhibited in “Protest & Power “(February 2023) and “We Been Her” (February 2022) in celebration of Black artists from the region.
British-born artist and designer Gavin Bernard’s work “explores the power of subtlety through meditative and durational practice, creating multi-layered geometric installations through weaving and sewing,” according to a Spruill Gallery release about the artists.
His quilts on display for the “Through Lines” exhibit represent a new medium for Bernard, who became…
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