2008

Spring 2008 BFA Exhibition
May 1 - 8

Coordinated by Eric Lyons

The Spring 2008 Graduating BFA Exhibition features work by graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts student artists from the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University.  Each year, this celebratory exhibition represents for many of our graduates their first public exposure.

View images from the Spring 2008 BFA Exhibition HERE

FEATURED ARTISTS

Art Education:  Ben Mueller, Sarah Sevier

Ceramics:  Kaye Thomas, Justin Parker. 

Drawing, Painting, Printmaking:  Paige Adair, Gary Adamson, Lisandra Baez, Kathleen Flowers, Christopher Hood, Eric Lyons, Joshua Warlick

Graphic Design:  Erin Armstrong, Ben Bullock, Robert Burroughs, Tam Cao, Lamar Flowers, Elizabeth Gotham, Carrie Hawks, Andrew Jones, Edgar Lituma Soto, Diana Silva, Kris Chihi Wu, CandyZanabria.

Interior Design:  Diana Brooks, Sarah Carter, Kerry Angel Conkright, Jennifer Martin, Amanda Millner, Kati Morrell, Jennifer Rodriguez, Elma Sjekirica, Selma Sjekirica, Soleil Smith, Alison Taylor, Sidney Witt. 

Photography:  Katherine Crosby, Jeani Elbaum, Michael Young

Sculpture:  Leah Cunningham, Haru Jeong Park, LaReine Meinersmann, Chauncey Myshkin

Textiles:  Wendy Patton, Anna Reinberg, Julie Reinberg

Also Featured:
Jeremiah Kauffman
In Memoriam

April 21 – 25
Micah Cain
Ambient
MFA Solo Exhibition
Grand Salon

“Ambient explores the role of the viewer within an artistic situation.  By combining function with sculptural form I am presenting a situation designed for interpretation, whether it is visual, tactile, or purely conceptual.  Ambient is an opportunity for the viewer to access all aspects of the work I create.”

Erin Dixon
Parables
MFA Solo Exhibition
Petit Salon

Parables includes personal narrative works which reference a history of western painting.

April 21
Erin Dixon & Micah Cain
Opening Reception
5pm – 8pm

Marilu Knode Selects: 2008 Juried Student Exhibition
March 27 – April 17

Coordinated by Mia McBeth

This will be the first year that selections for the Juried Student Exhibition will be determined by a review of digital image submissions. Marilu Knode will be our first juror from outside Atlanta. She is currently Associate Director / Head of Research at Future Arts Research at Arizona State University. We are pleased to offer a new process of critical review for Welch School student work and consider this an excellent opportunity to meet and learn from a significant contemporary art curator.

March 17 – 21
Debra Elaine Johnson
Glory B 2 God
MFA Solo Exhibition
Grand Salon

Debra Elaine Johnson’s exhibition is a collection of collages and drawings that reference the aesthetics of the Pop art era with a contemporary edge. Within the context of womanism, themes of spirituality and liberation theology permeate the work.

Lindsay Chenault
Tailored
MFA Solo Exhibition
Petite Salon

Tailored is a graphic design exhibit which explores clothing as communication. It tells the story of my life through my body and the "designed" skirts I wear. Clothing is a visual representation of who we are and what we do. Tailored pushes the boundaries of how people read what I wear. These skirts spark conversation and speak visually. The exhibit displays the artifacts and documentation of wearing the skirts to recreate the performance for the gallery.

March 10 – 14
James Kennedy
Not Directly Evident
MFA Solo Exhibition
Grand Salon

Not Directly Evident is a show about seeing.  James Kennedy gives the viewer an insight into how he sees the world and into his art making process.  "See with your eyes and brain."

The Reconstruction Era is not just Civil War history. Atlanta has been reinventing itself every 10 years since the 1860s.

RE\CONSTRUCTING ATLANTA represents a synchronistic network of local development initiatives and contemporary art projects at the nexus of architecture and urban design. This continuum began in 2007 with presentations involving Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery, the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture, Frequent Small Meals, Atlanta Celebrates Photography and the Metropolitan Public Art Coalition. In 2008, the GSU Welch School Gallery and neighboring Hurt Park become sites where local artists and architects explore the city’s evolving Beltline transit initiative. At the Youth Art Connection Gallery, art students from three area high schools construct a community-centered exhibition to re-imagine Atlanta. The project takes a dimensional approach to contemporary socio-cultural challenges and the creative potential in our growing city.

Our dedicated website,www.reconstructingatlanta.com,offers opportunities to connect, learn and talk about Atlanta, and announces events and interventions that may not be introduced here.

Urban Intervention: The Beltline
Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery
Georgia State University
January 10-March 6, 2008
                                   
In this exhibition associated with re\constructing Atlanta, local artists and architects explore Atlanta’s evolving Beltline transportation initiative through city-specific video, website, photography and sound installations, a graphic novel, and a native garden in Hurt Park.

Interventionists:
Ed Akins, with David Green + Sustaining Place and Perspective
The Dirty Truth Campaign + Brian Hawkins and Lisa Tuttle
Ryan Gravel and Danielle Roney + Domain
Amy Landesberg and Ralph Nelson/LOOMS + Shelter
photosofthebeltline.com + Ruth Dusseault
Joan Tysinger + Wheelchair Diaries
Pandra Williams + Return of the Native Garden

Now, Here, This: Atlanta Youth Re-imagine the City
February 7-March 14
Youth Art Connection Gallery

Photographs, recorded interviews and sculptures, maquettes and video installations look at the Fourth Ward neighborhood, South Atlanta landfills, Fort McPherson and a proposed Beltline stop as sites of Atlanta’s creative potential.

Artists: Select students of Henry W. Grady High School, Tri-Cities High School and South Atlanta School of Engineering and Computer Sciences, with the involvement of the Museum of Design Atlanta and the City of Neighborhoods program.

2007

December 10 – December 14, 2007
Petit Salon

This exhibition features graduating Master of Fine Arts artist Xi Li and will display a seven-minute animation titled Feeding. It is a fictional animation about the manipulation of news and how facts are conveyed through mass media. The show offers viewers an opportunity to think on how we consume news and what kind of role we play in the game between news producers and news consumers.

December 6 – December 13, 2007
Grand Salon

Coordinated by Heather Kravagna

The Fall 2007 Graduating BFA Exhibition features work by 21 graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts student artists from the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University.  Each year, this celebratory exhibition represents for many of our graduates their first public exposure.

Featured Artists
Ceramics:  Joslyn Dyer, Scott LaFlex and Kimberly Shelton
Drawing and Painting:   Jennifer Bridger, Betsey Cheney, Amie Esslinger, Becky Furey, Lindsey Geis, Edi Gonzalez, Roberto Hernandez, Thomas Jones, Shandra Lamaute, Andrea Sanders, David Dean and Dorothy Stucki
Graphic Design: Lee Tesche
Sculpture:   Teresa Elrod
Textiles:   Ashley Nicole Fricton, Brandy R. Hayes, Marcella Howard and Margaret Ann Quiggle

December 3 – December 9
Petit Salon

SALT is a video installation designed to pose questions and provoke discussion about the lesbian and bisexual female community.  It features two video projections combined with a line of salt throughout the center of the gallery and connected by an audio track of an old world folk tale told by cross generational females. Tonia Indigo Hughes is a graduating Master of Fine Arts student artist in the School of Art & Design at Georgia State University.

September 6 - November 8, 2007

This two-part exhibition presented art by adults and teenagers in residential treatment. While their lives are enclosed, studio practice frees the artists to translate their unique experience into work that moves beyond confinement. This exhibition was a critical dialogue about mental health and the creative edge.

At the Edge featured art from The Living Museum, Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, Queens, New York & Skyland Trail, Atlanta, Georgia

Youth Art Connection Gallery, Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Atlanta presents art from The Bridge, Devereux, Hillside & Laurel Heights

Atlanta Artist Mentors: Benita Carr, Angus Galloway, Patty Gregory, Daniel Hoover, Lynn Marshall Linnemeier and Paul Rodecker

Amy Landesberg and Mark Cottle:
On the Surface
June 7 – August 30

Two artist architects present environmental installations for the second in our series of summer projects developed by Welch School faculty. Amy Landesberg, who teaches at the Welch School , presents “Veneers” in tandem with “Dressings” by Mark Cottle, faculty member in the architecture program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Eudora Welty Project : Eudora Welty: One Writer's Art
Welch School Faculty: Petrified Man

The Eudora Welty Project honors the late Southern author and observes the 10th anniversary of GSU's literary journal Five Points with two simultaneous exhibitions organized by Welch School faculty member Teresa Bramlette Reeves and gallery director Cathy Byrd. Petrified Man displays our Welch School faculty's artistic response to a Welty short story. One Writer's Art presents photography and writing by Welty.

Project collaborators include the Georgia State University Library Rare Book Collection, Five Points journal and the GSU English Department.

2006

M-U.T.E.D. [Meta-Universal Theater of Experimental Drawing]
June 1 – August 31, 2006

Two exhibitions directed, engineered and mentored by Welch School faculty artist Craig Dongoski: Shana Robin's Rainbow Machine and Drawing Voices with Elvira Breytenbach, Craig Dongoski, Amie Esslinger, Angus Galloway, Michael Hecht, Jeff Rahuba, Shana Robbins and Paul Rodecker.

Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship
January 10 – March 10
Welch School Gallery and Potentially Harmless at the Youth Art Connection Gallery

The exhibition Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship examined of the role of art—especially provocative art—in fostering and defining a distinct American culture. Through two exhibitions, presentations of spoken word and performance artists, artists' talks, panel discussions, a film screening and a series of legal seminars, this project reflects on the environment that nurtures contentious art and the role of fostering artistic controversy in shaping a free society.

Artists: Lynda Benglis, Critical Art Ensemble, Sue Coe, Benita Carr, Alex Donis, Karen Finley, Eric Fischl, Tom Forsythe, John Jota Leaños, Gayla Lemke, Alma Lopez, Robert Mapplethorpe, Carolee Scheemann, Dread Scott, Andres Serrano, Elizabeth Sisco, Louis Hock, David Avalos, John Sims, John Anthony Trobaugh, Pat Ward Williams, Nancy Worthington, Marilyn Zimmerman, and The File Room by Muntadas.

2005

Gas, Food & Lodging
Four Atlanta Art exhibitions examine contemporary travel
January - March

Four Atlanta venues present "Gas, Food and Lodging," an exhibition examining a range of issues and ideas surrounding contemporary travel.

Imagining Escape
Jan. 18 – Feb. 25 at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery at Georgia State University , explores notions of escape—from idyllic retreat to flight from danger and the mundane. With images and objects both fantastical and real, Welch School faculty artists escape the limits of the everyday.

Going South
Jan. 20 – March 18 at the Rialto Center for the Performing Arts, ponders the bittersweet character of Southern travel and tourism, offering views from the road and the front porch swing—some unique, most iconic, all steeped in hospitality.

Traveler
Jan. 27 – March 4 in the Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College , considers the experience of the voyager—the cultural tourist or pilgrim, the exiled and the homeless. Along the way, artists search for connections, try to maintain a sense of identity in the midst of strangers, carrying reminders of home—objects and ritual.

Shelter
Jan. 27 – March 5 at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery, looks at shelter as a nomadic concept. Artist architects construct a border town caught between permanence and flow, a village of those who have nothing in common but their temporary habitats, a village 'on the lam,' forced to flee, yet still capable of holding the human heart.

2004

Curated by School of Art & Design Gallery Director Cathy Byrd, this exhibition of video installations by artists Janet Biggs and Barbara Pollack examines the male adolescent in mainstream popular culture. Following its exhibition in Atlanta , PG-13 travels to Diverseworks in Houston , Texas .

Strange Planet
September 2 – November 5
Welch School Gallery and Saltworks Gallery

2003

Pulse Field
Welch School Gallery and l'Objet Sonore at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery
January 18 – February 28

Curated by GSU faculty Craig Dongoski and Robert Thompson, this international sound art exhibition features a sound art archive and a sound art garden. The project included an artist residency with Ouie Dire, a French sound art collective that produced a sound art postcard of Atlanta . This project was one of three Situations Françaises presented with funding from the Etant donnés Foundation and the French Cultural Services.

Journey: Printmaking from the Caversham Centre for Artists and Writiers
September 2 – November 7

The exhibition illustrates an ongoing relationship between the Fulton County Arts Council and the Caversham Centre in South Africa . On display in the company of work by other artists from the U.S. and Africa, are prints by three Fulton County artists: Kevin Sipp, Jill Larson and Lisa Tuttle. Their respective visual dialogues – as a result of their work with Malcolm Christian, Caversham Director – revolve around the theme Journey.

2002

A Breeze from the Gardens of Persia
Welch School Gallery and the Atlanta International Museum
September 3 – October 11

A contemporary exhibition of art from Iran , organized by the Meridian International Center in collaboration with the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.

An Enduring Vision: Photographs by Ernest Welch
October 13 – November 1

This exhibition celebrates Ernest Welch, whose sense of inquiry brought him to the GSU School of Art and Design in his late eighties to pursue his interest in photography (he is now 95, and remains an active student).

Girl
Welch School Gallery and Girl Perfect at the Youth Art Connection Gallery
November 4 – December 6

The Welch School Gallery presents girl , a group exhibition of photography and video works by 11 women artists. Sadie Benning, Elizabeth Fleming, Sarah Hobbs, Amanda Kingloff, Justine Kurland, Nikki S. Lee, Julie Moos, Nzingah Muhammad, Wendy Phillips and Angela West picture contemporary young women, exposing the subtle complexities of beauty, culture and gender implicit in the notion of girl.

LINKS:

Fulton County Arts Council
Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs
Consulate-General of the Netherlands in Miami and New York
Saltworks Gallery
Kiang Gallery
Atlanta Celebrates Photography
Decatur Yellow Bikes, Inc.
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta Bicycle Campaign
Sotto Sotto