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.

Ry Rocklen’s Sentimentality

Video 101 is a series featuring new video & film works in Gallery 101 by emerging and established artists. Barry Stone’s Hum is a multimedia project that places images from 80’s metal magazines, cloud pyramids, and broken Camaros alongside a 16-minute suite of music composed of the sounds of sampled roto-tom double-bass drums ripped asunder like a sinking galleon giving way to hazy balladry and carpeted walls of guitar.