Past Exhibitions
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On View: Can You Hear Us Now?
Can You Hear Us Now?: Revolutionary Art of the Next Generation opens this Wednesday, March 30. The Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College presents Can You Hear Us Now?, a student-designed exhibition displaying activist art made by young adults in the Atlanta Area. Can You Hear Us Now? aims to oppose historical and colonial institutional practices and the notion of the “neutral museum” by creating space for communities and conversations excluded from art institutions and to exhibit these conversations without expectations of neutrality. Alongside the exhibition, The Dalton Gallery will host conversations with local activist organizations and artists to allow opportunities for the community to engage with activists in Atlanta. …
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&yet again
The Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College presents a juried exhibition of work by young emerging artists from the Atlanta area- &yet again. In January 2020 the Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College presented a juried exhibition of work by young emerging artists from the Atlanta area in collaboration with community partners. &yet sought to connect and foster conversations among young artists from communities around Atlanta. Thanks to our partnerships we were able to waive application fees in an effort to create an accessible opportunity for young artists as well as award cash prizes to artists selected by Agnes Scott faculty and our jurors. We are excited to announce that &yet will be returning…
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Strata
The Dalton Gallery and the Department of Art & Art History are excited to announce our fall 2021 exhibition on view; Strata. Strata is composed of site-specific projection artwork by Shannon Collis. You can book your visit today and read our current Covid-19 safety policy here. Strata, a project by interdisciplinary artist Shannon Collis, is an immersive exhibition offering a means of experiencing subtle interactions between sights and sounds to understand the sonic and spatial complexities of the remote regions of the Athabasca Oil Sands. For Strata, Collis collected audio and visual material in areas of the western Canadian province of Alberta to create an exhibition centered on regional oil…
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Press Here Virtual Event
Join us Wednesday, March 31 on Zoom for a virtual studio visit and discussion by Press Here artists Tracey Murrell and Cassidy Russell. RSVP here for the zoom.
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Press Here: Atlanta Printmakers Process 2020
The Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College partnered with the Atlanta Printmakers Studio to bring together 15 artists for an exhibition on view in Spring 2021. It is undeniable that 2020 was an unprecedented year, the effects of which we cannot yet understand. The pandemic and the resulting economic chaos have been stressful, devastating, unnerving, and exhausting. As the number of cases in the US briefly appeared to go down, focus shifted to police brutality and oppression of Black bodies with the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police coming so quickly after the murders of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. This centuries-old persecution brought millions of people out into…
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Searching for Home Video Exhibition Exploration
http://daltongallery.agnesscott.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Searching-for-Home-Final.-SD-540p.mp4 This year, more than ever, the search for home feels especially relevant. Is home now a place for business, schooling our children and family time? Is our current home ideal or just temporary? Searching for home explores the many ways people are contemplating home in 2020. The search for home is a journey that we all find ourselves on in life. In this video tour of our fall exhibition hear four artists from the exhibition, the College’s Director of Sustainability and three Agnes Scott College professors of anthropology, sociology, and culture discuss the ideas of home.
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Searching for Home Online Catalog
This is the virtual catalog for Searching for Home. Print versions are currently available at the gallery. See expanded images below or download the catalog pdf below.
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Searching for Home
Agnes Scott in person exhibition (covid safe!) noticed in Decaturish: News and information about Decatur and its neighbors throughout the Atlanta Metro area–Decaturish
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Searching for Home
A PROJECT OF THE MARGARET VIRGINIA PHILIP ENDOWMENT Gallery Hours:The gallery is currently open for in person visits by appointment only Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12-5pm. Reserve your ticket here. We have all searched for home. Some have found it, while for others it is a lifelong quest. In this century the entire interwoven globe has reeled from constant motion to arrested stop – and soon, back again — reacting to displacement – war – pandemic – violence – poverty – danger – climate – upheaval – politics – chaos – nature’s whims – disease. As the pendulum swings, some search for an ideal PLACE; others yearn for psychic or spiritual…
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Searching for Home
A Project of the Margaret Virginia Philip Endowment Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott CollegeSeptember 3–December 12, 2020 Online and by appointment Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 12-5pm. Reserve your ticket for an in person visit here. Stay tuned for details on our virtual tour of the exhibition. We have all searched for home. Some have found it, while for others it is a lifelong quest. In this century the entire interwoven globe has reeled from constant motion to arrested stop – and soon, back again — reacting to displacement – war – pandemic – violence – poverty – danger – climate – upheaval – politics – chaos – nature’s whims – disease.…
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Virtual Spring Student Showcase Exhibition
Welcome to the 2020 Virtual Spring Senior and Student Showcase Exhibition. You can find work in this exhibition here, on our instagram, and in our virtual gallery space. Join us for our opening reception Thursday, May 7, at 4pm on Zoom. You can RSVP here. Work by Class: Studio Art Senior Majors with Anne Beidler and Nell Ruby Digital Thinking – Art 144 with Nell Ruby Digital Thinking – Art 144 with Maria Korol Visual Thinking – Art 160 with Sarah Emerson Drawing and Composition – Art 240/340 with Sarah Emerson Drawing and Composition – Art 240/340 with Anne Beidler Painting Processes Art 241/341 with Sarah Emerson Printmaking – Art…
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&yet catalog
This is the catalog of works in &yet. As a part of our sustainability initiatives, a printed catalog will not be produced for the exhibition. You can click on the links by the listed works below or scan the corresponding QR code on the labels in the gallery to learn more about the works in &yet. & Curatorial Statement and Thanks & & Allison Aguilera, Passion Fruit, Porcelain and Watercolor, 2018 & & Roxanne Anderson, So Will Me & So Will You, Mixed Media on bristol mounted on fabric, 2019 & & Clarisa Berrios, Midnight, Watercolor and Gesso, 2019 & Sunday Morning, India Ink, 2019 & Hannah Brooks, Pacific…
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&yet
&yet, an exhibition of young emerging talent in Atlanta was on view 2.13.20 through 3.6.20. The Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College presented a juried exhibition of work by young emerging artists from the Atlanta area in partnership with the Decatur Arts Alliance. &yet sought to connect and foster conversations among young artists from communities around Atlanta. Thanks to our partnership with the Decatur Arts Alliance we were able to offer a free application in an effort to create an accessible opportunity for young emerging artists from the area to experience the valuable processes of a working artist. Thanks to the James T and Ella Rather Kirk Fund we were able to award…
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&yet – an exhibition of young emerging talent in Atlanta
The Dalton Gallery presents a juried exhibition of work by young emerging artists from the Atlanta area in partnership with the Decatur Arts Alliance. This exhibition is made possible by the James T and Ella Rather Kirk Fund. &yet seeks to connect and foster conversations among young artists from communities around Atlanta. In the spirit of the past exhibition series- Collage– this exhibition provides an accessible opportunity for young emerging artists from the area to experience the valuable processes of a working artist—from the the digital application on cafe.org, to the jurying process, and to seeing their work hung in an established gallery space among their peers. By partnering with community arts…
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Side by Side
Side by Side: Selections from the Permanent Collection on view September 19, 2019 – January 12, 2020 curated by Veronica Kessenich. Side by Side: Selections from the Permanent Collection examines the nature of acquiring a collection, learning about art and exploring how artists’ taste and content evolve over time. Curated by Veronica Kessenich, executive director of Atlanta Contemporary and visiting instructor in art history in the Agnes Scott College Department of Art and Art History, the exhibition centers around never-before-seen pieces requiring framing, restoration and current cataloguing. Side by Side aspires to illustrate the unity of the collection, which has at times seemed fractured, thereby deepening the mission and values…
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The Possibility of Framing Infinity
The Possibility of Framing Infinity on view spring 2008 curated by Lisa Alembik. “Painting as a noun takes on limitless form and attitude. It can arouse visual pleasure, support a manifesto, tell a story and speak of ideas. It is carved out of history. As a verb, painting is a suggestive practice that unfolds and is often self-reflexive. It is about color and shape and the senses extraordinaire. A rich process of exploration can take place through the goop of the medium, the blending of pigments and energetic eye movement. In action, the painter’s scope of vision will enclose the picture plane like a web—or like the hot pinball machine…
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looking/longing
looking/longing on view Fall 2007 “looking/longing is simple in its premise, offering a phenomenal experience of looking and a visual meditation on the potent power of the medium of photography. We absorb our surroundings by reading clues of light bouncing off objects, our subconscious quietly processing the scope of our vision. When a person, landscape or object is immortalized through a photographic process, we may be enticed to look. We could be attracted just to know why the subject is significant to the photographer. If we are stirred, our attention held, a certain sensuousness of the medium and subject could continue to embrace our gaze to entice a deeper study.…
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Velocity of a Single Gesture, or How to Build an Empire
Velocity of a Single Gesture, or How to Build an Empire on view spring of 2007. “In an interview by journalist Ron Suskind, a senior White House adviser is quoted as saying “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.” In the exhibition “The Velocity of Gesture, or How to Build an Empire,” artists are recognized as rulers of their picture planes, creating their “own reality” through personal sensibility and gesture. Conducting with a baton, making the sign of the cross, waving a magic wand or saluting a crowd—all are acts in which the drama and tempo of a hand movement have significance. Power lies…
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Blackbird on My Shoulder
Blackbird on My Shoulder on view fall 2006 organized with support from The Margaret Virginia Philip Art Endowment Fund. Blackbird on my Shoulder featured visual artists, writers and performers who were unshakably attached to the southeastern United States and were inspired by auto(biography) and storytelling. Stories, song and poetry were installed among photographs, drawings and sculptural installation. From the marrow of the South tales grow like beanstalks, reaching towards the patient sky. Blackbird on my Shoulder was organized with support from The Margaret Virginia Philip Art Endowment Fund.
