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    Oconee Campus Art Exhibitions

    The Oconee Campus Gallery is located on the Oconee Campus in the lobby area of the Faculty Center/700 Building, near the bookstore. The art gallery displays approximately six exhibits yearly.

    • Upcoming and Current Exhibitions

      Spring Semester 2023

      Christopher Hocking: Eye Doubt

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      January 18 – March 10

      Reception: Artist Talk Wednesday, February 22, 2023 (11:00 a.m. - noon)

      Christopher Hocking is an Athens-based artist who teaches painting and drawing at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. Eye Doubt is an exhibition of paintings that model aspects of absence and presence, reflection, opacity, and transparency, with surfaces that invite both projection and reflection


      North Georgia Landscapes: Selections from the Mathis Collection

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      March 20 – August 18

      This exhibition is the first public display of the Mathis Collection, artwork donated to the Department of Visual Arts by James and Francis Mathis. The focus of their collection is North Georgia artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries with paintings, drawings and crafts celebrating our visually rich landscape.


       

      Fall Semester 2022

      Transfers: Jen Graff and Alex Kraft

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      September 12 - October 14

      Join us for an artist talk and pizza party on October 5, noon - 1:30 p.m.

      Transfers is an annual exhibition bringing the work of DoVA professors to the Oconee gallery. This exhibition celebrates the ceramics program here at UNG by presenting the work of professors Jen Graff from the Gainesville campus and Alex Kraft from the Dahlonega campus. Their work explores the potential of both functional and sculptural clay through the manipulation of materials and surface decoration.


      Lisa Freeman (OCAF Reciprocal Best In Show Winner)

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      October 24 – December 9

      Lisa Freeman is an Athens artist and the 2021 Best in Show award winner of the Reciprocal Biennial which celebrates the collaborative relationship between UNG’s visual arts department and the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation. Freeman creates multi-layered constructions incorporating found objects, paintings and drawings which address challenging societal issues.

    • Previous Exhibitions

      Spring Semester 2022

      Department of Visual Arts Faculty Biennial

      January 24 – March 11

      This Biennial allows the Department of Visual Arts to highlight recent work by the art faculty. Each campus has a remarkable array of talented people who are devoted to mentoring their students. In class and out, these teachers are also practicing artists whose work is featured in galleries, museums and venues around the country. During the Biennial, we celebrate the UNG faculty as professional artists by exhibiting their recent work here at UNG for the university community to enjoy.


      Stacy Koffman: Transitions

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      March 28 – April 22

      This exhibition by former UNG art professor Stacy Koffman is called “Transitions”. According to Stacy Koffman, change is inevitable and all is temporary. That is where she finds her mind and her art. Her influences range from the practice of Buddhism to Aboriginal Art, the Quilters of Gees Bend and many creative groups. She feels that trying to name and define specific “meaning” within abstract imagery is often very difficult, if not impossible. She has paintings in her studio where the meaning changes as she changes. She embraces this transitional quality of both the work and her mind. There is meaning to the process as her mind comes and goes through different spaces. Perhaps the meaning “is” the process! Letting the thoughts come and go as in a meditation practice. Trying not to hold on to any one idea or thought, and simply “be.” This is where her best work comes from and the results surprise and fill her up. It is as if she is the witness to her own process! Those are the best days in the studio.

      Fall 2021

      Transfers: Erin McIntosh and Gary Pearce

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      September 8 – October 20


      Relationships Sustain Us

      Reciprocal 2021

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      November 1 – November 26

      The Reciprocal biennial exhibition celebrates the invaluable partnership between the University of North Georgia and the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation. This is a juried exhibition featuring OCAF members. This year’s juror was Georgia native Kristen Miller Zohn who serves as the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions for the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art and the Executive Director of the Costume Society of America.

      The winner of Best in Show will have their own solo exhibition during the 2022 – 2023 academic year.

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    Call for Artists

    OCAF Members UNG Exhibit
    November 1-26, 2021

    The Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF) Members Art Exhibit is now accepting submissions for exhibition.

    • Learn More About How to Submit Your Art for the OCAF Members UNG Exhibit
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