Opening Reception with Artist Matthew Doll + Live Music by Okcello

Join us July 13 for the opening reception of Night, Desert, Garden, a solo exhibition featuring paintings by Matthew Doll of Orvieto, Italy with live music by Atlanta’s own Okcello! Meet the artists and join us for Italian desserts and beverages by Refuge Coffee Company.

More about the artists:

Matthew Doll is an American painter and graphic designer based in Orvieto, Italy. His solo exhibition is an exploration of charged spaces: Night, Desert, Garden. They are landscapes of possibility, places of refuge or exile, distances to be crossed out of necessity or desire. They are places of beauty and hostility, zones of accessibility and fragility. Doll's paintings were made in a wide context between Jerusalem and Rome, cities celebrated and burdened by their own identities. They include passages that speak peace against the abuse of power, and scenes of impossible areas of trespass. Using loaded place-names and figures, Doll invites dialogue with the places we live and how we share our relationship to it.

Okorie "Okcello" Johnson is an American cellist-songwriter and pioneer of electronic and experimental string music in the United States. His sophomore album marks his evolution as a communicator and a storyteller who reveals personal truths: of time travel, of the African Diaspora, of a deep love for women and of unspoken prayers. Okorie is based in Atlanta, Georgia.