The Artifice is a contemporary art gallery in Atlanta, GA.

Exhibitions, film, and artist-led programming.

A space between the human and the constructed—where systems, signals, and form collide.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

A Group Exhibition

Prima Materia

The sacred beginning of the creative act. Artists reveal the origin of transformation—where material, gesture, and intention first become one.

Prima Materia explores the alchemical idea of "first matter," the primordial substance from which transformation begins. Through painting, sculpture, and mixed-media practices, artists examine process, potential, and becoming.

Each installation consists of three interconnected works: a cast hand, a working palette, and a finished painted palette. Together they reveal instrument, process, and resolution as a single continuous work.

By placing the artist's own hand alongside the tools and outcome of creation, Prima Materia celebrates the maker as an essential part of the artwork itself—where the creative act begins long before the first mark is made.

OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, July 11 — 5-9 pm

On display at Empire Arts Gellery

July 11 – August 8, 2026

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A Group Exhibition

Soft Machines

Where flesh meets mechanism. Artists explore the shifting boundary between the organic and the artificial through painting, sculpture, collage, photography, and installation.

Soft Machines examines bodies, systems, technologies, and identities caught between human experience and machine logic. Rather than imagining distant futures, the exhibition reflects on the subtle ways technology already shapes perception, memory, labor, and daily life.

Across a wide range of materials and approaches, participating artists investigate adaptation, augmentation, vulnerability, and transformation. The result is a collection of works that question where the human ends, where the machine begins, and whether that distinction still exists.

OPENING RECEPTION Sunday, July 12 — 5-9 pm

On display at Atlanta Utility Works

July 12 – August 28, 2026

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FILM CLUB

CONTROL: Systems, Order, Breakdown

This July, Film Club expands outward. Following June’s focus on individual control and obsession, these films examine the systems that shape behavior, perception, and reality itself. Surveillance, corporate structures, engineered environments, and hidden mechanisms define a world where control is no longer personal—it is embedded. These systems promise order. They deliver limitation.

Across four weeks, control is constructed, enforced, corrupted, and ultimately dismantled. What begins as structure becomes confinement. What appears stable reveals itself as fragile. The system does not fail all at once. It erodes from within.