CHAD AWALT AND SUZY SCARBOROUGH Currently showing at Gallery One, Atlantan Awalt and Columbia, S.C., painter Scarborough approach the human portrait from strikingly different vantage points. Awalt combines his studies in anatomy and physiology with woodcarving, a medium he was first drawn to by watching his artist grandfather. The result is exquisitely carved forms that go beyond simply observing the body as an object, as Awalt seeks to convey some emotional or narrative quality as well, often drawing on classical subject matter. In “Felicitas,” a female torso carved out of white oak winds upward in a spiral form, the sculptor’s use of negative three-dimensional space suggesting a lightness and buoyancy that’s fitting for a work inspired by the Roman goddess of success. Suzy Scarborough’s more meditative mixed-media paintings also seek to communicate inner states, though in her case she fixates on the nature of time as it relates to an individual’s own experience. Thus, in her untitled works, women gaze out contemplatively as birds look on and grids of geometric patterns suggest the tension between the physical, temporal world and the subjectivity of human consciousness. Even so, her subjects have an earthy quality, affirming the idea that we remain rooted in some fundamental way, no matter how lost in the clouds we may feel. The two artists show their work at Gallery One, 5133 Harding Pike, through Feb. 12. For more info, visit www.galleryone.biz. —JONATHAN MARX