Back with the Pollen

The posts are back after a month-long, spring-transitional break. So to catch up... mid-March brought us the "Redress" exhibition held at the Thomas Street Gallery. This show displayed student fabric artists' reworkings of found dresses, new and old. Opening night featured the artists standing throughout the gallery wearing their own works. Dresses were covered in varying textures from twizzlers, quilt patches, and ornamental umbrellas. Above, a vintage, polka dotted skirt is restructered using steel rods and red thread. The most dramatic dress transformation was the white mass seen upon entry to the gallery, below. This work, by student Ophelia Culpepper, dressed a plaster cast of her sleeping self in gauzey layers of reclaimed philosophy notes. The white dress and body were lit only by tea candles which rested upon the work.



Also of note, artist Paul Pfeiffer visits the Lamar Dodd School of Art this week. I caught a discussion with him this morning in the Digital Media department. He spoke of his transition from printmaking to digital works, his loose theories of success, and his recent trip to the Phillipines. He will lead an ArtTalk at Lamar today at 5:30 pm and an artist lecture tomorrow at 5:30 in the UGA Student Learning Center. Check out http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/pfeiffer/index.html for more on Mr. Pfeiffer.

Upcoming Exhibits Around Town:
*"Forty Nine Hundred," work by UGA art grads and undergrads, The Clayton Street Gallery, April 6- , Opening reception April 6, 6-8 pm
* "We Built This City," photography senior exit exhibition, The Lamar Dodd School of Art, Opening reception April 14, 7-9 pm
* Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, featuring works by over 20 Lamar Dodd graduates, The Georgia Museum of Art, Opening reception April 13, 7-9 pm
* "Modern Threads," work by fiber and fashion artist Mariska Karatsz, The Georgia Museum of Art, through April
* "Rubarbs and Other Spaces in Between: Land Use and Environmentalism," ATHICA, through May 27