BEWARENESS :: William Downs + George Long

2.21.15

Main Gallery

William Downs and George Long met at the Atlanta College of Art in the early 1990s. Downs majored in printmaking and painting while Long majored in sculpture but spent an appreciable amount of time in printmaking. Both artists were active members of an Atlanta artists collective known as Baker’s Dozen, which inspired a natural collaboration, with many nights of drawing on napkins at bars, while brainstorming and sharing ideas on projects and exhibitions.

Bewareness, a project created by Downs and Long for Tempus Projects, rehashes those moments from the 90s of automatic and shared drawings. The artists currently meet regularly at The Local, an Atlanta Bar. There, they work on small drawings made with a multitude of drawing utensils and media, sometimes inviting fellow artists to draw with them, further extending their collaboration. The work is installed as a cloud of scattered drawings, mounted on small panels.