Art Over Dinner with Khalilah Birdsong

From the venue:

Sponsored by Lexus, Art Over Dinner is a series of intimate gatherings with artists and the organizations that support their work. We collaborate with the chefs at HomespunATL and local farmers to bring a seasonal meal that showcases winemakers and brewers, and invite our guest artists to spark the conversation at one long farm table on the outdoor deck of The Art Farm at Serenbe. 

This dinner will feature Khalilah Birdsong, a painter with a studio practice based in Atlanta. The scale and evidence of physicality of her paintings echoes Alfred Leslie, Joan Mitchell, Jean Riopelle and the late abstract paintings of Gerhard Richter. Birdsong differs from many of these early abstract painters in that while they were tied to references to nature and alooser, freer gesture, she combines physicality with a precision and a finely-calibrated balance in her work. During dinner, Khalilah will discuss her journey of becoming a painter at 33 without ever previously picking up a brush. From an en