a suspended installation by Whitney and Micah Stansell transforming Midtown Atlanta’s Commercial Row Commons into a dynamic environment where color and form shift with the passing hours.

Suspended Spectrum captures the changing nature of light, time, and the spaces we move through with hundreds of colorful translucent acrylic rectangles suspended from the existing catenary system. The work acts as both a threshold and a canvas — refracting light and casting delicate patterns that trace the quiet movement of time across the surfaces below.

As sunlight filters through Suspended Spectrum, the installation transforms. Walking beneath the work becomes an experience of immersion and reflection. The shifting light invites viewers to slow down and notice the subtleties of their surroundings — to witness the way light marks the passage of time, the way a gentle breeze sets the refracted light a-dance, and the way colors overlap, combine and paint. Through this piece, viewers can become present, attuned to the rhythms of the seen and unseen, and the ephemeral beauty that unfolds above them.

Frequent collaborators, Micah and Whitney Stansell’s body of work ranges from fibers, sculpture, painting and drawing, to single and multi-channel film and video works, and installations. The work often explores ideas of family history, narrative traditions, and binary relationships that pull from contemporary issues that are influenced and informed by environment and location.

The Stansells’ work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Art in America, Moviemaker Magazine, FiberARTS Magazine, and the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Exhibiting in galleries, museums, contemporary art centers, and film festivals, the Stansell’s work has been experienced in cities around the world including Beijing, Vienna, New York, and Atlanta.

Recent honors include a Forward Arts Prize, Special Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival, Artadia Award, MOCA Working Artist Award, and the Herradura Art Prize. Their work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Cornell University, and SCAD-Atlanta, Lacoste France, and JP Morgan Chase.

Midtown Alliance is a non-profit organization and a coalition of business and community leaders united in our commitment to Midtown as a premiere destination for commerce, culture, education and living. Guided by a visionary master plan, Blueprint Midtown, and in partnership with the Midtown Improvement District, Midtown has become a national model for urban excellence.

Suspended Spectrum’s transformation of Commercial Row Commons continues the legacy of Midtown Alliance’s “Heart of the Arts”– an initiative inviting people to discover and experience more than 80 compelling public artworks while they’re in the Midtown district.