MFA candidate Victoria Dugger will have a solo exhibition at Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens. Mind the Body: works by Victoria Dugger will open on January 22 and run through April 3. The Lounge Gallery at the Lyndon House Arts Center features quarterly solo exhibitions by emerging artists. Artists in the beginning stages of their careers exhibit wall-bound works in mediums alternating from drawing to painting to photography to printmaking. Dugger’s work is created through an ecofeminist lens that centers around her personal experiences with disability, race, and gender.

Of the exhibition, the curator Lilly McEachern said,

“I wanted to make something that was a meditation on our ego versus how we present ourselves externally, and I thought that Victoria was a great artist and her work really aligned with that sort of theme. It is so much about the physical body and thinking about it more in a cerebral way and not the conventional terms.”

Victoria Dugger (b. 1991) earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Columbus State University in 2016 with a focus in painting and sculpture. She is currently an MFA Candidate at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. Since graduating Dugger has exhibited in Georgia, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Virginia and New York. She was recently featured in New American Paintings South Edition 142 and in 2016 was chosen as the First Prize winner in the VSA Emerging Young Artists Award and the work is currently on national tour with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Read more about Dugger’s work and the exhibition on the Red & Black feature and find the exhibition at the Lyndon House Arts Center.