University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art
Explore the Artists in Unlisted at unlisted.studio
Atlanta Art Week Event:
Opening Reception for Unlisted featuring MFA 3rd Year Students | Downtown
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Works, 1295 Chattahoochee Ave NW #126, Atlanta, GA 30318
***This is a pop-up exhibition; please visit during the AAW hours listed at the bottom of this page.
Curator Tour of Paul Pfeiffer: Red Green Blue | The Athenaeum
Sunday 8th October | 4:00pm
About:
Unlisted considers the unexpected encounters of nine third-year MFA candidates from the Lamar Dodd School of Art. The exhibition playfully references the mundane strangeness of Craigslist postings, a site notorious for its niches, where serendipitous meetings and missed connections are equally valid. With a range of interdisciplinary work–from objects and garments to text, images, and prints–the curation plays happenstance against intention. Accumulation and proximity reveal alignments, as the artists engage with the looming urgencies of planetary crises, the complexities of connection in the digital age, and the wonder of ecological systems. The pop up exhibition’s provisional space echoes the time of passage that the artists currently share, while its informality channels the impromptu mundanity of the listings forum. Viewers are invited into an installation in which craft, absurdity, mystery, disaster, and nostalgia swirl around one another. Rather than an advertisement, Unlisted proposes an open-ended space of possibility predicated on looking for the unlikely.
Explore the Artists in Unlisted at unlisted.studio
About Tour of Paul Pfeiffer: Red Green Blue: Join us for a tour led by Dr. Katie Geha, the director of the Athenaeum and the curator of Paul Pfeiffer: Red Green Blue. After viewing the 30 minute video, Geha will lead a conversation about the exhibition, discussing the development of the show, Pfeiffer's continued engagement with UGA, and examining major themes presented.
The talk will be followed by light snacks and refreshments.
About The Lamar Dodd School of Art: One of the largest, highly ranked university art programs in the nation. Housed within a tier-one research university located approximately 70 miles east of Atlanta, the Lamar Dodd School of Art is a nationally ranked art school offering degrees in the fields of Art, Art Education, Art History, and Design. With over 1,000 art students, the faculty and staff are dedicated to providing the highest level of instruction in studio art, design, art education, and art history. The School attracts highly qualified and talented students who are seeking to study art at a major comprehensive university. In addition to curricular breadth at the undergraduate level, the School offers graduate degrees in ten disciplines. Each year, ten exceptional MFA students join our vibrant community of artists and scholars. While here, they take studio and seminar classes, supplementing their studies in studio, art history, and art criticism with courses in other disciplines in the humanities and sciences that are relevant to their creative practice. Their interests will be diverse, but they will be united by their ambition to make art that matters, as well as their conviction that art is a form of inquiry in its own right, essential to the academic mission of the university and the production of knowledge as such.
Students in the MFA program benefit from a flexible, forward-thinking curriculum that allows them to dig deep in one area or cross-pollinate and experiment. And, while their practice is advantaged by access to leading research in a variety of extra-aesthetic fields, our students also benefit from the intimacy of the art school and the micro communities of which it is comprised. Dedicated craftsman, designers, scholars, and artists, our faculty have expertise in a wide range of media, both old and new, and their research is engaged with a diverse array of themes and theoretical frameworks, including ecology, the inhuman, alterity, gender politics, postcolonial studies, mortality, and adornment. In this context and with the advantage of these resources, our MFA students are making objects and ephemera, performances and paintings, photographs and installations, lens-based work and jewelry, textiles and interiors, soundscapes and relational situations.
Hours of Operation:
AAW HOURS ONLY:
Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Friday: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Saturday: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM