The Wonder of the World: Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne, & the Meaning of Painting

Cezanne, Still life with compotier, 1879-82

Throughout his career, the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty maintained an intense interest in painting, and especially in the painting of Paul Cézanne. Merleau-Ponty saw Cézanne as a fellow explorer in the primordial land of perception, a pioneer in the archaeology of the visible world.

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S150, Lamar Dodd School of Art

Wall Works: Harrison D. Walker

Wall Works is a program at the Dodd Galleries where we invite an artist to create a semester long, site-specific wall installation in the Plaza Gallery. Harrison D. Walker’s Portals is a multi-component project exploring color, chemistry and psychological perception. Each Portal is made with the principle of the photogram, utilizing light and pressure, to create endless variations. Similar to a Rorschach Test, each print is a variation of a repeated circular form, which explores how the viewer perceives variations in texture, surface, color, image, and time.

Carol John: Legion Pool

Legion Pool, the University of Georgia's storied watering hole for the past 80 years, is the inspiration behind Athens-based artist Carol John’s new series of paintings. John, whose paintings generally display abstraction full of frenzied line and color, presents a new restrained sensibility in these works. Making loose references to the painted lines on the bottom of the pool, the meditative act of swimming laps, and the various blues that reflect throughout the atmosphere, the paintings atomizes the experience of a hot summer day at Legion Pool.

In Conversation: Melissa Brown & Jaime Bull

Installation view: Fountain

New York-based artist Melissa Brown and Athens-based artist Jaime Bull will discuss their exhibition "Fountain" on display in the Lupin Gallery. 

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Auditorium S150

Adam Sipe: Lunch Time Gallery Talk

Adam Sipe "Ring Wren & Turtle" Installation image, Suite Gallery, Dodd Galleries

Adam Sipe will give a Lunch Time Gallery Talk on his exhibition Wren Ring & Turtle on display in the Suite Gallery, August 30th, 12 noon. All gallery events are free and open to the public.

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Suite Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art

Faculty Research Lecture Series: Irena Petkovic

Untitled (from Mountain Black Heart), 2014-16

Untitled

Irina Rozovsky (born in Moscow, raised in the US), makes photographs of people and places, transforming external landscapes into interior states. She has published two monographs (One to Nothing 2011 and Island in my Mind 2015). Her work is exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, and Harpers. Irina lives and works in Athens, Georgia where she and her husband Mark Steinmetz run the photography project space The Humid.

 

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Lamar Dodd School of Art

Faculty Research Lecture Series: Katie Geha

Joan Semmel' "Intimacy / Autonomy"

Bed Island

Director of the School of Art Galleries Katie Geha presented an experimental essay on the history of Joan Semmel's 1974 painting "Intimacy / Autonomy".

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is a community of makers and scholars dedicated to pursuing advanced research in the fields of Art, Art History and Art Education. Several times each year, faculty share current research and work in progress with colleagues and students, affirming this shared sense of purpose. These lectures are open to the public.

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Lamar Dodd School of Art

Full Faculty Meeting

Meeting of the Full Faculty in N100 at 1:20pm

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N100
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