Effy Wang: The Sweetest Meat in This Abattoir

Effy Wang: The Sweetest Meat in This Abattoir
August 28 – September 26, 2025

Opening: Thursday, October 9, 2025, 5 – 7 pm along with MFA Open Studios in the Main Building and Ceramics Building

The Dodd Galleries present a solo exhibition by MFA candidate Effy Wang titled The Sweetest Meat in This Abattoir in our Bridge Gallery.  Wang’s exhibition investigates the entanglements between language, identity, and the body, featuring large-scale abstract paintings and hybrid sculptural forms. The vertical canvases resemble bodies hung, organs unraveled, or portals stretching through lived time. Suspended sculptures made of fishhooks, yarn, and handmade paper suggest fragile yet persistent modes of survival.

The exhibition draws from Wang’s experience as an immigrant, a bilingual speaker, and a woman navigating systemic control. It explores how structures of society—such as politics, language, and gender—shape how we live in our bodies. Her work embodies pressure from these systems and reflects on strategies to survive, resist, or transform within them. At its heart, the show is about transformation. Language turns into matter. Pain becomes syntax. Systems leave scars. Wang’s visual language hovers between clarity and rupture. Her paintings become open wounds, encrypted messages, and quiet forms of protest.

About the Artist

Effy Wang (b. 2000, China) is a visual artist working in painting and sculpture and current MFA candidate (’27). Her work explores identity, memory and the body through layered materials such as silicone, yarn, handmade paper, and wire. Growing up between languages and cultures, she reflects on themes of translation, displacement and survival. Wang combines organic and synthetic materials to create fragmented bodily forms that speak to vulnerability, control and transformation. She holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has been exhibited in Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Baltimore.

For more information, contact Rachel Waldrop, Director and Curator, Dodd Galleries and Atheneum: rachel.waldrop@uga.edu. The Dodd Galleries are open M-Fri in the main Lamar Dodd School of Art building, from 9am-4:30pm. The Lamar Dodd School of Art is closed on weekends, University holidays, and home game days.

Effy Wang’s The Sweetest Meat in This Abbatoir is supported by UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and The Lamar Dodd School of Art. For support opportunities, contact Grace Mercer, Development Associate: grace.mercer@uga.edu