Atlanta Art Fair 2026

Sheet Cake Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery’s return to the third edition of the Atlanta Art Fair at the Pullman Yards, October 1 - 4, 2026, featuring Coulter Fussell (Water Valley, MS), Ahmad George (Chicago, IL/Memphis, TN), and Jarrett Key (Brooklyn, NY). 

Across quilting, painting, fiber, and fresco, the gallery’s presentation brings together three artists whose materially rich practices draw from Southern folklore, personal and collective histories, and the layered meanings of place. Their works treat familiar terrains - rural landscapes, domestic materials, inherited stories, and everyday images - as sites of memory, imagination, and transformation.

Coulter Fussell creates dreamlike objects that blur ideas of love, conflict, and place in the rural South. Working primarily with donated and discarded materials, Fussell departs from conventional quilting techniques and patterns to foreground the histories embedded in fabric. Her recent chiffon works incorporate stills from crowdsourced Snapchat videos and cell-phone photographs taken by the artist and her teenage sons in Yalobusha County, Mississippi. Printing images on translucent chiffon, layered over salvaged materials and mixed with upholstery techniques, the works both suspend and fragment a moment in time or space, preserving and obfuscating in tandem. 

Ahmad George uses paint, fiber, and drawing to create autobiographical scenes of everyday life infused with fantasy. Drawing on Southern folktales, Anansi fables, Western art history, late-1930s animation, and personal experience, George builds vivid allegorical vignettes that consider community, family, wealth, consequence, and mortality. Raised in the Mississippi Delta, George often spent time on family farms - an experience that continues to inform the work’s imagery and materials. Paintings on tarps and cotton substrates evoke the practical use of those materials in rural environments: to protect, cover, and shelter. Pastoral settings become timeless spaces where figures may inhabit, escape, or be remade.

Jarrett Key is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, and performance. Key’s cement frescoes extend the artist’s ongoing investigation of Black folktales from the American South. Referencing the long history of fresco painting - from classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance to twentieth-century Mexico - Key combines pigment with construction materials to create works that both preserve and reimagine cultural narratives. Their figures appear in flight, drawing on folktales of Black people flying while placing Raphael-inspired cherubs alongside figures from James Van Der Zee’s celebrated Harlem Renaissance photographs. Through these celestial scenes, Key proposes an expansive view of American history and identity.