The End: First Five Years

Curated by Craig Drennen

June 6-August 2, 2025

Craig Drennen curates an exhibition featuring 30 artists who have exhibited at THE END gallery in Atlanta during its first five years. This survey of multimedia works highlights how a DIY space can energize and empower a local art community. 

Join us on First Friday, June 6 for a talk from the curator at 5 PM followed by an opening reception with music by DJ Coco from 6-8 PM.

MICRO Gallery

The Living Room

Works by Kenz Cannon curated by Maya Rubio

June 6-28

Home buzzes with associations. Especially when you leave for a while and come back. Everything holds heavy memory — the creaks in the floors, the shower pressure, bruises on the wall. This house is a body. You fill it with stuff, more stuff as you continue living, decaying. Here are my dishes, my father’s socks, familiar textures, dusty and sticky. This house is teeming. In The Living Room, sculptures and objects by Kenz Cannon conjure that raw, evolving power. Uncanny presentations of domestic debris. Portals in the corners. Cannon invites us into a room’s anatomical being, to dissect the organism. 

On Saturday, June 7, curator Maya Rubio will lead a Body Wash workshop from 12-1:30pm in the gallery. Through meditation and movement, we will reflect on the ways spirit lodges into the body and home.

Beyond the Panel: Connecting Comics & Culture

Curated by Theron Cartwright

July 11- August 2

An immersive experience delving into the intersection of comic art with other media forms, such as animation, film, and social media. View animated films from various eras and cultures that have been impactful in the journey of animated motion pictures.

the Artist

Artist Bio

Craig Drennen is a painter based in Atlanta, GA and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.  He is represented by Brigitte Mulholland Gallery in Paris. He has had recent solo exhibitions at The Suburban in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Freight+Volume Gallery in New York City, and the Atlanta Contemporary in Atlanta, Georgia.  His work has been included in group exhibitions at Anton Kern Gallery in New York City and the Kunstverein Langenhagen in Langenhagen, Germany.  He has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, MacDowell, and Skowhegan. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum, and The New York Times. Drennen served as dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Skowhegan, teaches at Georgia State University, and manages THE END Project Space. Since 2008 he has organized his studio practice around Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens.  

Artists

1. Joe Hadden

2. Courtney McClellan

3. Trey Rozell

4. Kojo Griffin

5. Marissa Graziano

6. Marshall University students

7. Sergio Suarez

8. Emily Tomlinson

9. Avantika Bawa

10. V. Cayse Cheatham

11. Evie Saleh

12. Jennifer Dudley

13. Leia Genis

14. Kevin Peart

15. Todd Schroeder

16. Gonzalo Hernandez

17. Namwon Choi

18. Ian Herring

19. Shawn Campbell

20. Blair LeBlanc

21. Antonio Darden

22. Marc Brotherton

23. Heidi Schwegler

24. Kathryn Refi

25. Xenia Aims

26. CC Calloway

27. Bradley Marshall

28. Coorain Devin

29. Elsy Garcia

30. Masha Kouznetsova