The result is a career of vibrant and energetic paintings that lean toward abstract expressionism. With no formal art education, Madrid-based artist Taher Jaoui draws from African primitive art, graffiti, glitch art and CoBrA, an international art movement of pioneering artists who caused a revolution in modern art following World War II. Short’s detailed, large-scale oil paintings are heavily inspired by the album Gumbo’! by rapper/producer Pink Siifu, especially the song titled “Gumbo’! 4 tha Folks, Hold On.” According to the artist, “this body of work is an affirmation of my deep reverence for and accountability to Blackness.” Through September 17. MINT Gallery is featuring Georgia native Tim Short in a solo exhibition titled For Da Folks. The person with the best freestyle of the night earns a $100 prize. The Cypher showcases the positive aspects of rap with freestyle emcees who test their lyrical dexterity with improvised raps based on random words. Soul Food Cypher, celebrating its 10th year, hosts its monthly One Hundred freestyle rap session on Sunday at CreateATL at 900 Murphy Avenue SE in Atlanta. The band comes to Eddie’s Attic Saturday for two special “unplugged” shows at 7 p.m. The group’s latest album is 2020’s The Interplanetary Yard Dog, and celebrates the band’s unique mesh of Southern rock, bluegrass, funk and Appalachian folk. The Macon-based band Jupiter Coyote released its debut album, Cemeteries and Junkyards, in 1991 and has since become a fixture on the jam-band scene. She gained stardom in 2000 with her debut album, The Teaches of Peaches, an album that Rolling Stone said was “surreally funny nasty.” The eclectic Peaches has performed opera in Berlin and collaborated with Yoko Ono. The iconic feminist musician and performance artist Peaches performs Friday at the Variety Playhouse in her first tour since the pandemic.
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