Join us on the 3rd Floor of the Lamar Dodd School of Art as we celebrate the opening of three new exhibitions in the Lupin Foundation Gallery, the Bridge Gallery, and the Suite Gallery. Free snack and drinks (while they last!). 

Bridge Gallery

Pretty in Pink

October 20 - November 17, 2022

Pretty in Pink is a collaborative exhibition featuring the work of Dodd undergraduates, Catie Cook and Sarah Landmesser, that explores notions and contradiction of femininity and feminism within their individual work. Through their use of glitter, bright pink colors, wovens, or disco balls, the artists playfully poke-fun and revel in the hyper-feminine, both posing and critiquing. As a textile artist, Landmesser’s work inherently explores long held traditions of “women’s work”, aligning textiles with craft. In her paintings, Cook finds herself irresistibly drawn to 1960s Hollywood cinema and the French New Wave. Despite the sometimes darker cultural context surrounding this period, the movies of this era were filled with glamour and opulence. Depicting gorgeous, but often helpless objectified women, part of her fascination with these films is the conflicting nature of her adoration of these movies and her feminist ideals. Together, Cook and Landmesser create work that creates a large dialogue on the ways in which we read and perform femininity in our current period. 

Suite Gallery

October 20 - November 17, 2022

Soft Architecture

Soft Architecture is a group exhibition that brings together artists Ashley Freeby, Jacob Goble & Hope Wang in an investigation of the relationship between architectural spaces and grief. All three artists move fluidly between mediums, working in soft materials such as quilting, weaving and fibers, as well as more rigid materials such as sculpture and artist’s books.

Lupin Foundation Gallery

October 20 - November 17, 2022

Twin Realms

Twin Realms is a collaboration between Dodd MFA candidates Katie Ford and Lindsey Kennedy. The artists come together to create a new, shared body of work that investigates dimensional illegibility and impermanence as ways of prompting an experience of instability. The works question what emerges in the gap between perception and understanding.