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FOOTPRINT IN THE SAND
The Wonderful Lightness of Being: The first show of the year
at the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art is 'Transience:
The Paradox of Being" which investigates the constant state of
change, and the temporary nature of life. Curators Katy Logue
Thompson and Christopher MacKay have chosen artists from
around the nation to contribute to this exhibit, using Young Kim's
ephemeral portraits on beds of sand and clay as the centerpiece.
During the opening reception on Jan. 20, the temporary nature of
Kim's installation was accentuated by the impromptu footprint of a
visitor imprinted on the sand. Rebecca Murtaugh, from Syracuse,
NY, has created an installation titled ‘’Breath" by placing bundles
of thermoplastic-covered matches sporadically about the wall. The
fresh randomness of "Breath" feels like ripe fruit waiting to be
plucked.
► Rebecca Brantley, an Athens-based artist, uses plant-de
rived pigment in her six untitled paintings on display. Brantley's
subject matter references biological organs and botanical designs
with an abstracted simplicity. Ron
Lambert, from Seattle, WA, is dis
playing a series of videos in vinyl
boxes of a single bird struggling to
fly, as if fighting against the wind,
dedicated and strong yet unable to
succeed.
Katie Sehr, of Buffalo, NY, offers
an intricate yet simple meditation
in ink. Eric Lunde, Billie Lynn,
Laura Maikinen, Howard Oransky,
Adrienne Raxter, Karen Simpson,
Harrison Storms, Jessica Witte and
Angel Di Zhang have all contributed
strong work. Zamila Karimi will
present an ice sculpture addressing
the philosophy of Islam on Mar. 3.
The show runs through Mar. 4. Check
Out There! for upcoming associated
events. ATHICA is located in the
Chase Street Warehouses at 160 Tracy
St. Unit 4. For more info, visit www.
athica.org or call 706-208-1613.
Printmaking at Broad Street Gallery:
"Multiple Impressions: Voices in
Contemporary Printmaking" will be
on view at the Lamar Dodd School
of Art Broad Street Gallery through
Feb. 23. The exhibit includes four
UGA Printmaking Professors: Shelly
DiCello, Margot Ecke, Melissa
Harshman and Rick Johnson. The
printmaking faculty members have in
vited Lisa Bulawsky. Holly Morrison,
Heather O'Hara and John Risseeuw
to participate in the exhibit.
Harshman uses the computer to create an image, and then
brings it "out of the box* with traditional printmaking. Her im
age of a ring of green Jell-0, proudly held in the dainty hand df
a glamorously dressed woman, strikingly illustrates the extent of
change in both fashion and food o/er the past 50 years. Look for
Harshman's work this month in the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center
show "Ladylike? Women Artists Working in the South."
Johnson has selected to display two books: "Un Suona al di
la" uses etchings to illustiate poems by Mike Nicholson. "Una
Giornata" views a day in the life of a fanciful photographer in
Cortona, Italy. New faculty in the UGA printmaking department,
Ecke and DiCello, demonstrate a strong base in traditional print
making techniques and a contemporary exploratory nature. Ecke
uses Coptic stitch with decorative spine strips to create a book
that crawls like a caterpillar along the wall. This sculptural book ,s
part of her "Story Structure Series," in which the pages have been
left blank with only the structure indicating the book's intended
meaning. DiCello is displaying a traditional intaglio print and an
installation which cascades from the wall onto the floor like a
camellia bush losing its blossoms. She has used blue and white ink
on the wall to draw lace-like lines.
O'Hara, from Plunger Press (www.plungerpress.com), is dis
playing two v*oodcuts depicting decapitated political figures, as
part of her "Home Preservation Series." Bulawsky s "Flashbulb
Memories" are personal/ cultural constructs of history. She shows
"memories of the circumstances in which one first learned of a
very surprising and consequential event." "Flashbulb Memory 1973,
Vietnam War" is a mixed-media monotype using lithography, wood-
cut digital collage and watercolor. The scene is a station wagon
on the grass with two soldiers on the ground where one would
expect to see a picnic, with splattered red symbolizing blood
and two faint neads floating in the sky. Risseeuw has a distinct
message concerning landmines, landmine victims and communi
ties affected by landmines. "Total Fucking Idiots" is a book of 13
portraits of politicians with their faces blacked-out. Morrison's
contribution reinforces the exhibit's abundance of book art. Broad
Street Gallery is located at 257 W. Broad St. If printmaking is
your thing, check out the UGA Annual Juried Printmaking Show
up through Feb. 14 at the Lamar Dodd School of Art on Jackson
Street. See www.art.uga.edu for more info.
Nina Bovasso at Lamar Dodd: Nina Bovasso has work up in the
Lamar Dodd School of Art Main Gallery, in the Visual Arts
Building on Jackson Street, until Mar. 9. Bovasso's exhibit is
titled "The Cartographer's Podiatrist's Underestimation of a
Melancholic Toe (Contemporaneous Mappings of the Spirit
Body and Mind)." With six large-scale paintings on paper, Bovasso
provides cohesive insight into her world, where rainbows and flow
ers glitter amongst bubbles and balls. Using acrylic paint, water-
color, and ink, Bovasso creates washes of circles, evoking thoughts
of moons or knobby rubber balls. Fluid areas of brilliant color com
bine with accents of tiny meticulous detail to provide push and
pull, mapping a journey across the painting.
"Pink Bubbles with Green Purge" provides the most spatial
depth, with amorphous shapes melting and bubbling through
out the painting. "Dream Lovers (AKA Psychedelic Bison)" is the
most densely packed of all the images, with dots, flowers, flames,
clouds, rainbows and trees (with little green puffs represent
ing leaves at the top). The imagery she uses is like doodles on
a middle-school notebook. The only thing missing is the "I love
Johnny" scrawled on a manila background. These are fun to view,
particularly because they look tike fun to create. Bovasso is based
in New York, and is visiting Athens as the Lamar Dodd Chair for the
academic year. In addition to her current exhibit at Broad Street
Gallery, she will have work up at the Atlanta Contemporary Art
Center from Mar. 22 to May 12. Ser www.art.uga.edu for more info.
Mental Health Benefit Auction: It's time once again for the an
nual Mental Health Benefit, which includes an art show, live
art auction and more to raise awareness in the community about
mental health issues. The exhibit of donated artworks continues at
Frameworks/ Clayton St Gallery through Feb. 9. The art auction
takes place on the Mezzanine at the Michaels Brothers Building
(320 Clayton St.) on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 6 p.m. For more info, see
www. fightthestigma. com.
Beth Sale
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