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

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.

CLOSING RECEPTION Sunday, September 13 — 5-10 pm

On display at Atlanta Utility Works

July 12 – September 13th, 2026

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FILM CLUB - DIRECTOR SERIES

JOHN CARPENTER: Fear, Isolation, Resistance

This September, Film Club enters the world of John Carpenter—where institutions fail, authority cannot be trusted, and ordinary people are left to face forces far larger than themselves. Across these films, horror, science fiction, action, and paranoia collide in a distinctly American landscape of outsiders, survivors, and systems breaking down.

From isolated communities and urban battlefields to alien threats and realities coming apart at the seams, Carpenter turns genre filmmaking into something sharper: a study of power, fear, distrust, and resistance.

The world is hostile. The system is compromised. Survive anyway.