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With new leadership and refocused curatorial vision, the
Galiery(S>Hotel Indigo-Athens presents two exhibitions:
"DRAWN: from Athens" and "Looking for Light." Local artist
designer and arts educator Didi Dunphy is the new director
and curator for the Hotel Indigo galleries, building on the mis
sion of the hotel to highlight local and regional artists. Now
at the helm, she is re-branding the gallery and developing an
exhibition program to bring together smart professional, local
arts to the public in the form of quarterly exhibitions in the
GaUery@Hotel Indigo-Athens as well as artwork in the Glass
Cube at the opposite end of the hotel.
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In an interview, Dunphy explained that she "loosely com
missioned" Michael Oliver! to create a sculpture that would
make the most of the Glass Cube, a small, enclosed square that
she hopes to reinvent as a "project space" for more experimen
tal works, "Looking for Light" is a chandelier of sorts, made
up of carved, wooden butterflies that float in the space. In *
the Gallery at the opposite end of the hotel, Dunphy curated
"DRAWN: from Athens," an exhibition of drawings by 11 art
ists based in Athens or within the region. Bringing together a
variety of styles and artists at different stages of their careers,
the show illustrates a breadth of approaches to drawing. Two
works, a series by Kathryn Refi and two drawings by Art
Rosenbaum, were made specifically for this exhibition.
Dunphy says that the inspiration for the exhibition came
from a desire to focus on drawing as "the essential act.
(Drawing) leads to anything and everything." The artists
here have each approached this key practice in different
ways. Leslie 5nipes' tightly controlled and minimalist geo
metric drawings on graph paper are reminiscent of some of
Sol LeWitfs work. Close examination of the marks she makes
reveals the pressure points of starting and stopping: the pulse
beneath the mathematical precision of her drawing, illustrating
a system is also part of Refi's "Searching for Kathryn Refi," in
which she typed in first one letter of her name, then two, then
three, and so on into a Google Image search. She then cre
ated realistic drawings in pastel of the image produced by the
search to create a series that begins with simply one letter and
ends with an image of the artist herself.
Art Rosenbaum's two drawings, "Gone to Hilo" and "Poor
Ryan's Lost at Sea," are also self-portraits (at least in part),
which incorporate images of a ship at sea, paints and brushes,
and a couple in an embrace. The energy of these forces of
nature is drawn with an expressive line full of movement and
vigjr for which the artist is well known. Learning that these
drawings are, indeed, quite new only adds to this feeling of
immediacy. Also out at sea is Michael
Oliveri, whose drawings with light appear
to be nighttime flashlight squiggles cap
tured on film. In fact, they are records of
wave patterns, as he attached a camera to
a boat with its lens trained on the planet
Jupiter. Also drawing with a fluid and lyri
cal line is Jim Bareness. His large work,
'The River, the Woods, the Falls" depicts
figures in a collage with hybrid creatures
cavorting across a field of newspaper
dippings, cartoons, notes and musical
compositions.
Jessica Wohl explores themes of
memory, domestidty and subjectivity in
her deceptively perfect drawing oftwo
McMansions, "Two Blue Houses." The nearly
identical houses float on a white field,
each brick and manicured shrubbery leaf
accounted for, but with no sign of life
within the homes, Wohl's three drawings,
"Inside," "Twist" and "Billow," each made
in one day, are more organic with the
spontaneity of the exercise reflected in
the abstract, wispy lines. Clay McLaurin, a
professor of fabric design at UGA, presents
drawings created with a sewing machine.
In his "Loops" series, he uses this domes
tic device to draw in thread what looks like
paramedum with waving cilia, each wind
ing around in columns in what McLaurin
describes as a "performative" style of
drawing. Susan Hable, also a textile
designer, presents five drawings in black
ink, distilling a leaf, feather or geometric
pattern into a bold, simplified mark.
Re-envisioning the natural world is also
a part of Lauren Gatlaspy's drawings in ink
and watercolor. It appears that a splash of
watercolor starts the painting with lines
emerging and growing to creating images
from this act of chance. The four works
here are each beautiful on their own, but
speak to each other in the mirroring place
ment of the faceted, molecular shapes in "Teratoma" and "The
Seat" and the biomorphic forms in "Sweet Potato Nothings"
and 'Gee's Bend Tree."
Two drawings by former-Athenian Jeff Owens bring his
singular style back home. Owens' black contours are electri
fied against a mustard-yellow ground in "Mices," a multi-eyed
and twisted monster version of Mickey or Mighty Mouse. Jaime
Bull, a current MFA candidate at the Lamar Dodd School of Art,
also presents animals made from a surreal concoction of metal
lic shimmer and florescent ink in "Poodle Pile."
Fostering relationships between the artworks in the exhibi
tion is a particular talent of Dunphy's. She said she imagined
the show as an exercise in "putting together a fantastic dinner
party" where she "set up conversations between the pieces."
As a designer, she is attuned to the placement and play of
ideas and styles, which makes viewing the exhibition all the
more fun as you begin to draw correlations between artworks.
Next up for the Gallery will be an exhibition perfectly timed
for our gorgeous Athenian spring, "Bloom," which will open in
April. Dunphy chose six artists to present their work in a vari
ety of media for a colorful and vibrant exhibition focused on
botanical themes.
Carolina 8arratt arts41iagpoie.com
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