
2019 Atlanta Biennial
The American Music Show was a weekly public-access television show produced in Atlanta from 1981 to 2005. Its inclusion in the city’s biennial is characteristic of the loose, improvisational, and ambitious exhibition of twenty-one artists from the Southeast. Curators Daniel Fuller and Phillip March Jones seem to be riffing on certain themes, as if they, too, were creating a late-night broadcast for an audience of ten. Their approach to the show as a bricolage reflects the techniques of some of the artists, such as Carol John, whose Smoke, 2018, a painting of patterned squiggles surrounded by