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Working Artist Project 2008 - 2009 Pub Date: 2009 Color plates: 12 |
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| Working Artist Project winners Matt Haffner, Marcia R. Cohen, and Maria Artemis. Essays by Dr. Diana McClintock, Dr. Gary Alan Fine, and Dr. Jerry Cullum. | |||||
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Working Artist Project 2007 - 2008 Color plates: 12 |
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Working Artist Project winners Larry Walker, Don Cooper, and Danielle Roney. Essays by Kara Walker, Judy Barber, and Joey Orr. |
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LAMAR DODD Pub Date: 2008 Color plates: 12 Price: $10
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Curated by Gudmund Vigtel, Director Emeritus of The High Museum of Art, this exhibition surveys the many varied periods explored by the artist Lamar Dodd. Dodd was a major influential figure in the visual art scene of Georgia, with a body of work that spanned over seventy years. One of the most recognized artists of his generation, Dodd was also a passionate advocate for the arts and was instrumental in founding the art department at the University of Georgia. Despite the heavy demands of his position at the University, Dodd produced a large body of work marked by exceptional sensitivity to the world around him. Over a long and productive career, his styles encompassed naturalism and expressionism and extended to abstract art. This exhibition specifically highlights works from LaGrange College’s collection, The Georgia Museum of Art in Athens as well as works held in private collections. |
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Benny Andrews: A Georgia Artist Comes Home Pub Date: 2007 Color plates: 14 Pages: 21 Price: $10 |
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MOCA GA pays tribute to the significant contributions of one of Georgia’s leading African-American artists with this solo exhibition. Curated by Louisa McIntosh, this exhibition featured major works by Georgia artist Benny Andrews from public and private collections around Atlanta. In celebration of this important artist, MOCA GA curated two shows of his work, one in Atlanta, and one at the Madison Morgan Cultural Center, located in Andrews’ hometown of Madison, GA. Nationally recognized as an artist, teacher, author, activist, and advocate of the arts, Andrews passed away in December of 2006, as this exhibition was in development. The artist was a vivid storyteller, using memories of his childhood in the segregated South to create narrative-based works that addressed human suffering and injustice. He explored American life in his collages, prints, paintings, and drawings by fusing memory and imagination. The guest curator, Louisa McIntosh, was the owner and Director of the McIntosh Gallery in Atlanta for 20 years, and represented Andrews for many years. She is recognized for her early support of diverse and under-represented artists, both locally and nationally.
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Genevieve: A Genevieve Arnold Retrospective |
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Curated by Rebecca Dimling Cochran, this exhibition features the work of Georgia artist Genevieve Arnold, a major figure in Georgia’s arts community, not only as an artist, but as a curator, arts administrator, a dedicated supporter of contemporary arts, and a champion of the artists that reside throughout the state. In its first foray into a major retrospective, MOCA GA seeks to pay tribute to the significant contribution of the life and work of this Georgia artist by mounting a major retrospective of her 55-year career. Through these decades her work and her conversations about art explored the most current in contemporary art issues. Art was Genevieve Arnold’s life. Her paintings and drawings were very personal responses to her many travels, her life long experiences, and her keen intellect. |
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Rocío Rodríguez: Parallels
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This one-person exhibition will consist of large scale paintings and works on paper by Atlanta based artist Rocío Rodríguez. The work that will be featured in the exhibition explores imagery that fluctuates between abstraction and representation, the concrete and the abstract, the ambiguous and the suggestive. Rodríguez says of this work, "I am attempting to create a world in painting that very much parallels our experience in everyday reality. That is, juxtaposing conflicting yet connected systems. Our lives are a confluence of chaotic and ordered experiences that we perceive on various planes---- intellectually, emotionally, or perceptually. I feel that painting, on some level, can parallel the complexity of this dynamic". |
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Forward Arts
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There have been six winners of The Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award since the program began in 1999. Because this is one of the few remaining awards given to individual Georgia artists, MOCA GA is delighted to honor both the organization and the winners with an exhibition which will feature earlier and recent works by the six winners listed here in chronological order: Carl Joe Williams (mixed media), D.E. Johnson (mixed media), David Isenhour (sculpture), Ruth Dusseault (photography), Matt Haffner (photography/mixed media) and Grady Haugerud (drawings). Also on view will be a “teaser” piece by the upcoming winner for 2005-2006, Ann-Marie Manker (drawings). |
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Selected Works: State of Georgia Art Collection |
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Spanning more than five decades from 1938 to 1990, the state of Georgia’s art collection is a treasure and a major archive of the state’s heritage. Found in the collection are works of art that address the major art historical movements and creative concerns of artists around the world. All are represented, including abstract/figurative expressionism, social/political commentary, geometrical/hard edge, and minimalism. Media included in the collection are painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, photography, weaving, metalworking, woodworking, glass and ceramics. |
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Cheryl Goldsleger: Utopia |
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The mixed-media paintings in this exhibition are based on blueprints and renderings of female architects of varying degrees of renown, beginning with the first published drawing (1878) by a female architect, Margaret Hicks, and concluding with the late 20th-century designs of Gae Aulenti and Margreet Duinker. Derived from the Greek word for “no place,” the exhibition’s title refers to architectural proposals that have developed out of the desire to create ideal spaces for people to inhabit. Included here are plans for private dwellings with a shared kitchen and laundry building, a solar home, a worker’s housing development and communal housing that is spacious and flexible. |
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Color, Culture, Complexity
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Primarily of African and European descent, the artists in this exhibit work in a variety of mediums and styles to grapple with the charged issues that have shaped racial discourse in this country, especially in the last half of the 20th century. The exhibition is intentionally eclectic, drawing its strength not from a single curatorial premise that is illustrated and reiterated by a number of artists, but by a broad cultural question that is answered by a sampling of artists through a wide range of responses. |
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Transitions
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Transitions features the work of six artists represented in the MOCA GA permanent collection. The exhibition includes the artists' work from the collection, alongside new work, demonstrating their transitions. Artists included are Amalia Amaki, Benny Andrews, Linda Armstrong, Philip Carpenter, E.K. Huckaby and Jim Waters. One can observe their development of ideas, the interests that remain constant for each of them, their experimentation with materials and the evolution of their personal images |
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Artists of the Heath Gallery 1965-1998 John Howett and Laura C. Lieberman
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Written by John Howett, Professor Emeritus, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Laura Lieberman, Founding Editor, Art Papers Magazine, Atlanta, Georgia; and Gudmund Vigtel, Director Emeritus, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; this catalog details the first of MOCA GA's historical exhibitions. Applauding the peak decades of David Heath's art collecting career, this show is a tribute to regional and national contemporary artists and Heath's ability to bring their work to an Atlanta audience. Some included artists are Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Beuys, Ida Kohlmeyer, Carl Andre, Genevieve Arnold, Herbert Creecy and James Van der Zee. |
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Martin Emanuel: Sculpture and John Howett
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Sculpture was MOCA GA's inaugural exhibition. It allowed Martin Emanuel the opportunity to show some of his most creative and original three-dimensional works. All built on the museum's premises, the sculptures in this exhibition show Emanuel's interest in anthropology and in turning intellectual notions into physical creations. The works here are inspired by the story of a young Pakistani boy, Iqbal Masih, who was singled out and murdered by officials who wanted to end labor protesting in Iaqbal's area. |
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