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

AMERICA ON EDGE: Violence, Media, Identity

This August, Film Club turns outward—toward a country under pressure. Across these films, violence, media, and identity collide as individuals push against systems and systems push back. America becomes a place where spectacle replaces certainty, authority is questioned, and personal collapse unfolds in public view.

These are not quiet films. They move fast, speak loudly, and refuse easy resolution.

From media frenzy and social unrest to obsession and psychological breakdown, each week reveals another fault line beneath the American experience.

This is America at its most visible—and its most unstable.