Photo Topos is an invitation to contemplate how the physical environment takes on a new existence in the pictorial spaces that photographers create. The current display features three artists who live in Athens, Georgia. Their work involves the sense of place considered in three distinctly different ways. The first involves views of unpopulated rooms, while the second is an elaborate self-portrait that includes photographs of several cameras used by the artist. Finally, the third is comprised of gestural figure studies in exterior spaces.

Slagfields features work by Dodd Printmaking and Book Arts MFA candidate Ry McCullough and Findlay, Ohio-based artist Ian Breidenbach. For the past several years they have separately developed studio practices driven by narrative structures and inspired by the tradition of the American landscape. This exhibition is a dumping ground where each artist’s individual stories overlap and fuse to create a hyper-narrative. Culling themes and inspiration from geological phenomenon, Situationist International texts, and oral folk traditions, these two artists create a world of associative potential.

In Menagerie, MFA candidate in Textiles Zipporah Thompson responds to the sensual properties of the material world through her exploration of the exotic by means of surrealist and folklore traditions.

Zipporah Thompson was born and raised in North Carolina where she attended college and received her BFA in Fibers. She is in her final year of her MFA in Textiles and will be exhibiting work in the MFA Exit Exhibition this spring at the Georgia Museum of Art. 

A 12-headed creature who runs a gallery in Queens, an endless conversation, something that really shouldn't work but does, grad school reunion meet-up gallery, formal hang, participation in the art world, refraction, mayhem with purpose, a sharpening tool, a channel through which.

Video artist Dani Levenathal’s 54 Days this Winter 36 Days this Spring for 18 Minutes condenses 9 minutes of each day into a 16 minute video montage of impressions which allow the viewer to create a variety of connections. Or as Levanthal explains, “I complicate and make meaning in editing. I cut two shots together that will provide a third meaning or I lay things side by side according to sound, form, or color.” The film documents the quotidian, on-camera monologues, and performative and expressive vignettes. 

Dodd Galleries Artist-in-Residence, Mequitta Ahuja, presents "Automythography," an exhibition of recent paintings.  The title is a term Auja uses to describe her practice and derives from Audre Lorde’s 1982 book Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, in which Lorde introduces the term ‘biomythography’ to describe the woven nature of myth, cultural history, and the notion of telling one’s story. ‘Automythography’ encourages a new way of being in the world, “a strategy I use to counter limiting frameworks,” the artist explains.