Arron Foster (MFA 2017) and Melissa Harshman, Professor of Art and Printmaking and Book Arts Chair at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, have work in the exhibition Delusions of Grandeur: Big Works From Below the 39th Parallel on view August 10-31 at the Goodyear Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Curated by Erik Waterkotte, Delusions of Grandeur: Big Works From Below the 39th Parallel is an exhibition of recent, large-scale, and monumental artworks by 12 contemporary artists who hail from the southern United States. That is, artists who live below the Mason Dixon Line (the 39th parallel) and east of the Mississippi river. The works in this exhibition amusingly explore scale and dimension, citing a variety of Art Historical influences from Surreal, Pop, and Conceptual Art.

Opening reception: Friday August 10, 6-9 pm

Closing reception: Friday, August 31, 6-9 pm

Foster received his BFA in Printmaking and Art Education from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina and his MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Foster currently resides in Kent, Ohio where he is a Visiting Assistant Professor In Print Media at Kent State University.

Harshman has taught in the Printmaking and Book Arts Area at the Dodd since 1993. She has shown nationally and internationally, including the Scuole Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy; Aberystwyth University in Wales; and Galleria Il Bisonte in Florence, Italy. Recent residencies include the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice and Penland School of Crafts. She was awarded a Willson Center Research Fellowship in 2018.