A MEASURE WITHOUT
A GROUP EXHIBITION FEATURING
IN KYOUNG CHUN, KRISTA CLARK, AND AMY PLEASANT
Exhibition Dates: AUGUST 20 - SEPTEMBER 19, 2026
OPENING Reception: AUGUST 20, 6-9pm
ATLANTA, GA – Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to present A Measure Without, a group exhibition featuring works by In Kyoung Chun, Krista Clark, and Amy Pleasant, courtesy of Whitespace Gallery.
Through the creative approaches and mediums employed by each artist, the exhibition centers around the nuanced use of negative space. Along with the artist’s work, several makeshift walls are incorporated into the layout to accentuate and restructure the viewer's experience. The exhibition positions negative space as a wellspring of possibility, an uncharted territory to be explored and considered. With a spectrum of works from representational figuration to nonrepresentational abstraction, A Measure Without invokes negative space to define, dissolve, and reimagine the boundaries between figure and ground.
In Kyoung Chun suspends figures in amorphous expanses of space that evoke both weightlessness and tension; Amy Pleasant renders her figures into flattened silhouettes, using a restrained palette and scrupulous attention to composition as figure and ground wrestle afloat; and Krista Clark abandons figuration altogether, orchestrating layered, cut, and assembled works that engage architectural language and material complexity. While each artist approaches negative space differently, their works together invite viewers to navigate shifting relationships between presence and absence, representation and abstraction, transforming the spaces between forms into sites of discovery.
A Measure Without proposes negative space not as a void, but as a generative presence—one that shapes how we perceive images and our relation to them.
About the Artists:
Born in Seoul, South Korea, In Kyoung Chun is a painter living in Atlanta, Georgia. Chun had solo exhibitions at The New Gallery in Tennessee, Whitespace of Atlanta, Sumter County Gallery in South Carolina; HiLo Press of Atlanta, Poem88 of Atlanta and Ernest G. Welch Gallery of Georgia State University.
Her work is included in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, Goat Farm Art Center, the City of Atlanta Mayors Office of Cultural Affairs, Fulton County Public Library of Atlanta, Ernest Welch School of Art &; Design at Georgia State University and numerous private collections, including the late master Larry Walker’s.
Chun was a finalist for the 2025 Atlanta Artadia Award and the 2023 Edge Award at Swan Coach House Gallery.
In 2025, Chun participated in Celestial Bodies at Stoveworks in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 2026, she had a two-person show at Swan Coach House Gallery in Atlanta. She currently shows a solo exhibition Make Room at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, South Carolina and participates in Where Being Takes Root at the Ernest G. Welch Gallery at Georgia State University. Upcoming plans include an exhibition at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport curated by MimoMimo, and a solo exhibition at Institute 193 in Lexington, Kentucky.
Krista Clark was born in Burlington, VT and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She holds an MFA from Georgia State University (2016). She has exhibited work at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, The Studio Museum in Harlem New York and the New Museum in New York. She was the recipient of the Artadia Award and the Working Artist Project Award with MOCA GA in 2018 and was a Hudgens Prize Finalist in 2024. Clark is an Assistant Professor at Emory University.
Amy Pleasant (b. 1972, Birmingham, Alabama) received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1994) and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University (1999).
Pleasant has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, the South Arts Prize for the State of Alabama, the Mary Hambidge Distinguished Artist Award, and individual artist grants from the Cultural Alliance of Birmingham and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
She has held solo exhibitions at venues, such as, Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA), Sheet Cake Gallery (Memphis, TN), whitespace gallery (Atlanta, GA), Laney Contemporary (Savannah, GA), Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL), Tops Gallery (Memphis, TN), Hunter Museum of American Art (Chattanooga, TN), Brackett Creek Exhibitions (NYC), Geary Contemporary (NYC/Millerton, NY), Institute 193 (Lexington, KY), Jeff Bailey Gallery (NYC/Hudson, NY), Augusta University (Augusta, GA), Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (Indianapolis, IN), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), Auburn University’s School of Liberal Arts (Auburn, AL), Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), Candyland (Stockholm, Sweden), and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL) among others.
Group exhibitions include Kristen Lorello, (NYC), RUTHANN Gallery (Catskill, NY), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE), KDR (Miami, FL), Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta, GA), Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (Birmingham, AL), Pamela Salisbury Gallery, (Hudson, NY), Brackett Creek Exhibitions (Bozeman, MT), Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, GA), Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN), Hesse Flatow (NYC), SEPTEMBER (Hudson, NY), Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami, FL), Tif Sigfrids (Athens, GA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington, D.C.), Adams and Ollman (Portland, OR), Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (AL), Cuevas Tilleard Projects (NYC), The Dodd Galleries, Lamar Dodd School of Art (Athens, GA), Weatherspoon Museum of Art (Greensboro, NC), Hunter Museum of American Art (Chattanooga, TN), Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, GA), National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.), The Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, AL), and the U.S. Embassy, Prague, Czech Republic.
Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Papers, World Sculpture News, Sculpture, Bad at Sports and BURNAWAY. Interviews have been featured on Sound & Vision with Brian Alfred and The Modern Art Notes Podcast with Tyler Green.
Her first monograph, The Messenger’s Mouth Was Heavy, was released in 2019, co-published by Institute 193 and Frank.
Pleasant also co-founded the curatorial initiative The Fuel And Lumber Company with artist Pete Schulte in 2013.