The Third Floor Gallery at the Lamar Dodd School of Art might need to fashion a sign on the door to it’s summer exhibition:

Warning: Viewers be advised -  these images contain melancholia, humor, and philosophical questions.

Scott Belville’s recent works engage us directly into his unique process and singular vision. “Renovations” are actually animations – drawings that extrapolate – pictures in the making – on the move.

One series of landscapes titled “Flood/Draught” is suite of 6 variations, each subtle and poetic in its quiet metamorphosis.  Figures and trees emerge, then disappear. … apparitions with the land/island the sole constant.

The central gallery wall is covered with fourteen large drawings, allowing the viewer to follow the renovations of each image.  They all begin with the same initial drawing – a landscape event titled “Drive –by” completed in 2004.  The new drawings (all created in 2009) evolve and morph, one into the other.  They have been scanned, printed, reversed, re-drawn and recreated.  These morphing narratives put the viewer into the game of witnessing the strange events as they unfold.

Many questions arise from these compelling pictures: How did it come to this?
Is it an economic and moral meltdown?  Or a cookout?
What does Jesus Save? Why did the chicken cross the road?
No more crap!? 
The viewer is left to his/her devices to decide . . .

The exhibition is titled RENOVATIONS – In Progress and features recent drawings, paintings and collages by UGA Professor Scott Belville. It is the rare opportunity to see inside the artist’s studio and process.