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Creative Loafing has been presenting Atlanta’s Best People, Places and Events since 1972. These are some of the past winners for this category:

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Whitespace Gallery (Featured)

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Whitespace Gallery (Featured)

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2018
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2018 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

The Mammal Gallery (Permanently Closed)

With rapid gentrification eating up Atlanta many of Atlanta’s mainstays, Mammal Gallery could’ve easily died after they lost their space in March. However, if we know anything about the city’s creative scene, it’s that life finds a way even in the darkest hour. Since relocating to their temporary location on Mitchell Street, the Mammal crew have kept the dream alive with innovative and thought-provoking exhibitions that highlight the idiosyncrasy that lives under the Gold Dome. less...

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2018
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2018 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

Notch 8 Gallery

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2018
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2018 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2017
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2017 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

Whitespace Gallery (Featured)

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2017
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2017 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

KAI LIN ART (Featured)

Attend an opening at KAI LIN ART and you’ll be struck by the diversity of the folks in attendance: a congregation of all races, ages and levels of artistic expertise. That audience diversity is undoubtedly due to the divergent range of art that hangs on the gallery’s walls — which this past year displayed the surreal paintings of Thomas Turner, the pop art of Chris Hobé, the patterned portraits of Lela Brunet and many more. Founded in 2008 by owner/director Yu-Kai Lin, Kai Lin Art’s mission to promote “emerging and established artists in the Southeast and beyond” is one that adds to the richness of Atlanta, on a cultural and a social level. 999 Brady Ave. N.W., Suite 7. 404-408-4248. www.kailinart.com.

(art by Tim Kent)

photo by: Joeff Davis

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Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2016
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

Arnika Dawkins Photographic Fine Art Gallery

www.adawkinsgallery.com

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2016
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

Notch 8 Gallery

In the last year NOTCH 8 has quietly emerged as one of the guaranteed spots to find the artists defining ATL’s otherground arts scene. From Paper Frank and Corey Davis to Artemus Jenkins and Dubelyoo, the artists embody an innovative, left-leaning aesthetic and Notch 8’s shows draw crowds well into the hundreds on opening nights. Co-founded by City of Ink’s Miya Bailey and Sharon Dennehy, Notch 8 is a place not only to view dope art, but to buy it. At least that’s the goal for Bailey, who has said his focus includes making collectors out of casual appreciators. At his March show, Before I’m Gone Vol. 1: The Art of Miya Bailey, works started at $100. With its vision and the cool to back it up, Notch 8 has surpassed gallery status to become ground zero for many of the city’s creatives. less...

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2015
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2015 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

The Mammal Gallery (Permanently Closed)

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2014
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2014 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

Gallery 72

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2013
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2013 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

””“”{Poem 88}”“”” (Temporarily Closed)

Tucked behind a burger chain in a high-end shopping center, Poem 88 is easy to miss. The gallery doesn’t exhibit the biggest names in Atlanta or have the highest profile, but it has cultivated a core audience that keeps returning. And for good reasons that go beyond the typical exhibition: There is heady experimental music by groups such as Chamber Cartel, soulful folk performances, small-press books in the shop, and film screenings of art house favorites. When the programming coincides - as it did with the exhibition Blow-Up and a Michelangelo Antonioni film series - it creates an opportunity for the audience to look at the work on the walls in a new light, to see the connections between inspiration and action. less...

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2013
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2013 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

Alan Avery Art Company AND Whitespace Gallery

Alan Avery Art Company

315 E. Paces Ferry Road. 404-237-0370. www.alanaveryartcompany.com

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Whitespace Gallery

814 Edgewood Ave. 404-688-1892. www.whitespace814.com

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2012
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2012 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

Alan Avery Art Company (Featured)

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2012
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2012 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

Beep Beep Gallery (Permanently Closed)

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2011
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2011 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

Get This! Gallery (Permanently Closed)

There’s something wonderfully raw and unpretentious about self-taught artist Lloyd Benjamin’s Westside art space Get This! Gallery. Benjamin tools casually around the gallery in jeans and a T-shirt, the band-aids on his fingers alluding to the manual labor taking place in the frame shop he runs out of the back of the building. In the same way that Benjamin creates a laid-back feel in his immaculate space, he lends a sense of polish to emerging local artists, such as street art duo Paper Twins, when their works find a place on his walls. Jill Storthz’s time-trippy Woodcuts and the Jiha Moon-curated printmaking survey Life Iconic rounded out a year of compelling exhibits. 662 11th St. 678-596-4451. getthisgallery.com. less...

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2011
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2011 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

Young Blood Boutique (Temporarily Closed)

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2011
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2011 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

Young Blood Boutique (Temporarily Closed)

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2010
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2010 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

Whitespace Gallery (Featured)

With its exposed brick walls and airy, modern layout, Susan Bridges’ Inman Park carriage-house-turned-gallery WHITESPACE is at once nostalgic and modern. The same can be said for the art Bridges welcomes into the space: Standout shows of the past year include local husband-and-wife team Whitney and Micah Stansell’s multimedia collaboration Past. Perfect. Continuous., and the Caroline Lathan-Stiefel-curated adventure in color and texture Seepages. 814 Edgewood Ave. 404-688-1892. www.whitespace814.com. less...

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2010
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2010 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

Young Blood Boutique (Temporarily Closed)

Runner-up: Beep Beep Gallery

696 Charles Allen Drive, 404-429-3320, www.beepbeepgallery.com

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2010
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2010 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

Beep Beep Gallery (Permanently Closed)

Runner-up: Young Blood Gallery & Boutique

636 N. Highland Ave. N.E., 404-254-4127, youngbloodgallery.com

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2010
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2010 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

Beep Beep Gallery

Throughout its nearly five-year existence, Poncey-Highland hole-in-the-wall BEEP BEEP GALLERY has been a major factor in transforming Atlanta’s underground and emerging art scenes, from shows featuring local talent such as the Plastic Aztecs’ Matt Relkin to founding the subterranean arts fest ARTlantismore...

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

Beep Beep Gallery (Permanently Closed)

Runner-up The Alcove 2852 E. College Ave., Decatur, 404-663-0159, www.alcovearts.com

Best Gallery BOA Award Winner

Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

Spruill Gallery & Gift Shop

Now that the price of gas has come down, there&#146;s no excuse for ITP-centric Atlantans not to make the trek out to Dunwoody&#146;s SPRUILL GALLERY....