Modern Atlanta

Reception, Exhibition, and Sale by Painter Wm. Coleman Mills at The Mansion

Please join Harrison Design Associates and The Mansion On Peachtree for a special evening celebrating the marriage of modern art & architecture. The magnificent 3700 square foot flat on the 46th floor of the Mansion on Peachtree, designed by Robert Tretsch of Harrison Design Associates, will serve as a modern one-week gallery for the paintings of Wm. Coleman Mills. The show, entitled “Patterns: Landscapes of the Sublime, Ridiculous and Contrived” represents paintings that catalog natural and artificial landscape patterns (perhaps overly) imbued with meaning, importance and significance. This event is open exclusively to MA09 attendees and special guests.

Courtesy Wm. Coleman MillsPreferring the title “painter” over that of “artist”, Wm. Coleman Mills’ work is an exploration of mnemonics. In his own words, Mills is far more interested in “the memory of a place, with its’ inherent inaccuracies and overlays of emotions, than a photographic recollection”. An avid outdoorsman, Mills draws inspiration from hours spent in the broomsedge fields, pinoak forests, salt marshes and grass flats of the American South. He combines the saturated colors and organic forms of this natural world with the regulating lines of his architectural education to create richly textured compositions deeply imbedded with memory and place.  A native of Fairhope, Alabama, Mills is educated as an architect. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from Auburn, Cornell and Harvard and has studied and trained under AIA Gold Medalists Samuel Mockbee and Michael Graves. He has lived, worked and studied on the East Coast, Europe and Mexico and returned home to Alabama seven years ago. He now lives and practices in Fairhope, where his atelier provides residential design, interiors, furniture design and exhibits his paintings. Mills’ work has been shown at the State Museum of Alabama, in solo and group shows and is held in private and corporate collections throughout the Southeast. More information about Mr. Mills can be found at wmcmstudio.com. 

Mr. Mills will be on hand to present a talk on his work and to answer questions that evening. All paintings are available for purchase, with a portion of art sales donated to CARE. Beverages and hors d’oeuvres will be served.  Valet parking available on Stratford Rd.

To attend this event, please RSVP to fine@harrisondesignassociates.com by May 8.

Harrison Design Associates is a proud top sponsor of MA09 Design Is Human.