SPEAK, MEMORY

A solo exhibition by donna mintz

OPENING Reception: september 26, 5-7 pm

ATLANTA, GA – Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to present Speak, Memory, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Atlanta-based artist, Donna Mintz.

Taking its title from Vladimir Nabokov’s celebrated memoir of the same name, Speak, Memory, reflects Mintz’s abiding interest in memory and time, specifically the accrual of Time’s moments and their passing and what remains in their aftermath.

Centered around a collection of antique glass negatives (c. 1880-1920) collected over a decade by the artist, the exhibition includes photography, painting and installation guided by her consideration of Nabokov’s “radiant and mobile medium,” that which he named the human experience of time and one’s own temporality within it.

Donna Mintz is a visual artist who writes about art and literature. Her painting and installation, often meditations on memory, time, and place, is collected internationally and found regionally in the permanent collections of such institutions as the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the Mobile Museum of Art. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Sewanee Review, Sculpture magazine, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Swing, and the arts journals Burnaway.org and ArtsATL.org.

She holds an MFA from Sewanee’s School of Letters at the University of the South and recently published Stars at Noon, a memoir inspired by the writer James Agee (Mercer University Press, 2026).