Artist: Savonna Nicole Atkins | Location: Roswell, GA
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Artist: Savonna Nicole Atkins | Location: Roswell, GA
Roswell, GA
Savonna Nicole Atkins is an Atlanta-based painter and mixed-media artist. Through abstract paintings and embroidered textile work, Atkins explores self-concept, competition for social validation, and the absurdity of ideals. Her forceful marks, clunky knits, sheer silks, and delicate embellishments intertwine and collect with persistent intensity. Competitive struggles and absurdities of society fuel her obsessively layered process and complex forms.
Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Atkins grew up attending Young People’s Studio classes at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Atkins later moved to North Carolina to attend the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where in 2011 she received a B.A. in Recreation Therapy with minors in Studio Art and Psychology. Atkins continued her art education in Atlanta, Georgia, where she received an MFA in painting from the SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) Atlanta in 2015. Her work is in the SCAD Savannah and SCAD Hong Kong permanent collections as well as in other private collections throughout the Southeast.