Fulbright Grant in Creative and Performing Arts
Marie Porterfield Barry is currently a Fulbright Research Grantee to Turkey in Creative and Performing Arts, living in Kütahya, Turkey from September 2011-June 2012. In Turkey, she is studying traditional Turkish tile painting (çini), researching the differences in the creative process between collectivist and individualist societies, and building a collaborative public art installation with Turkish artists which will later be installed in Turkey and viewable via the web.
For a personal account of her time as an artist in Kütahya, please visit http://kutahyailluminated.wordpress.com/
2011 MFA Exhibition
Lamar Dodd School of Art
The University of Georgia
March 25-April 11, 2011
Opening Reception March 25 from 6-9 p.m.
MFA degrees will be awarded to twenty-four graduate students at the University of Georgia’s spring 2011 graduation ceremony. Thesis work produced by these MFA candidates will be on view throughout the the Lamar Dodd School of Art on River Road, including large-scale work in the atrium and courtyard from March 25th through April 11th. The accomplishments of the 2011 MFA candidates with be celebrated with a gala reception in the Lamar Dodd School of Art from 6-9 p.m. on March 25th.
Ideas for Creative Exploration presents a film by Marie Porterfield
Starring Viviana Chavez and Carole Kaboya
With Original Music by Basil Carter and David Mitchell
And Poetry and Philosophy by Samuel Barry and Joey Carter
Featuring a multitude of interdisciplinary collaborators from Athens, Georgia and Beyond
Beings called Specters from the outer spaces explore the earth. Although they are invisible to most humans, a girl of extraordinary vision, the Believer, is able to see one of the Specters. The pair embarks on voyage of discovery and wonder. Based on the philosophical aspects of astrobiology, phenomenology and religion, Specters of the Outer Spaces addresses the incredible importance of the human belief in the unseen.
The film is viewable online at spectersoftheouterspaces.com
Specters of the Outer Spaces Premiere
Saturday May 1 at 7pm
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S150
FREE! and Open to the Public
spectersoftheouterspaces.com
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) presents a film by Marie Porterfield: Specters of the Outer Spaces. The film stars Viviana Chavez and Carole Kaboya with original music by Basil Carter and David Mitchell, philosophy and poetry by Joey Carter and Samuel Barry, and features a multitude of other collaborators from Athens and beyond.
Beings called Specters from the outer spaces explore the earth. Although they are invisible to most humans, a girl of extraordinary vision, “the Believer”, is able to see one of the Specters. The pair embark on voyage of discovery and wonder. Based on the philosophical aspects of astrobiology, phenomenology and religion, Specters of the Outer Spaces addresses the incredible importance of the human belief in the unseen.
Formal attire optional.
The screen will take approximately 1 hour and will be followed by a reception.
Open Studios features the most recent work of Lamar Dodd School of Art Masters Candidates in Painting & Drawing
small works show
Blue Tin Art Studio is located in the same building as Big City Bread on North Finley Street, Athens, Georgia.
Works will remain installed through the beginning of January 2010.
The Others Who Haunt Me and Whom I Haunt, UGA graduate student Marie Porterfield’s current exhibit at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, showcases her stunning work in painting, drawing, and ceramics. And haunt, it does; fantastically complex scenes and gaunt, wretched characters will pull you inside their world and refuse to let go, even after you’ve left the gallery.
Porterfield described the work, all from 2009, as an exploration of peoples’ relationships—or lack thereof—with supernatural entities, spirits, and ghosts. Ghouls and wraiths swirl through Porterfield’s world, spun like otherwordly larvae into gauzy cocoons. Miniature ceramic apparitions hang from the ceiling at eye level, each confronting the viewer with an eerily lifelike stare. Faces gaze up from a floor piece as if daring you to believe in them—or themselves to believe in you, the giant invader of their world.
Catch this show at the Bridge Gallery through November 24th. Like the ghosts who inhabit it, Porterfield’s work must be experienced to be believed.
the others who haunt me and whom i haunt
“the others who haunt me and whom i haunt”
recent works by marie porterfield
november 12-november 24, 2009
opening reception: friday november 13, 7-9pm
the bridge exhibition space
lamar dodd school of art
the university of georgia
270 river road
athens, georgia 30602
just outside the bounds of my imagination,
bound creatures I will never know,
whom i imagine with human eyes and human faces,
but who are beyond my imagination.
Making Masters: Selected Works by 2nd Year MFA Students at The Lamar Dodd School of Art
Making Masters: Selected Works by 2nd Year MFA Students at The Lamar Dodd School of Art
Madison Museum of Fine Arts
290 Hancock Street / Madison, Georgia
September 25-October 15, 2009
Artists’ Gallery Talks: Saturday, October 11, 6-8pm
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/venues/Madison_Museum_of_Fine_Art.html
In celebration of The Smithsonian Institution National Museum Day (September 26) Madison Museum of Fine Art presents the works of nine University of Georgia MFA candidates: Doug Barton, Denton Crawford, Jody Fang, Helen Farmer, Craig Hawkins, Layet Johnson, An Pham, Marie Porterfield and Charles Westfall.
Curated by UGA Art History Professors Dr. Asen Kirin and Dr. Isabelle Wallace and Lamar Dodd School of Art Gallery Director Jeffrey Whittle.
The University of Georgia Dance Department and Dance Repertory Project present Origins and Assertions, September 20th, 2009 at 7 PM at the Seney-Stovall Chapel, 201 N. Milledge Avenue, Athens, Georgia.
Inspired by digital cross section images from cadavers, the project ventures far beyond anatomy into the functions/dysfunctions of the psychological self through movement, poetry, text, animated paintings and music. The work will feature performance poet Minton Sparks, of Nashville, Tennessee, musicians Rob McMaken, Chris Enghauser, and Patrick Davis, Lamar Dodd School of Art graduate candidate Marie Porterfield, and UGA Dance Department faculty members Rebecca Gose Enghauser and Denise Posnak.
Origins and Assertions is supported in part by an ICE Project Grant.
Tickets are $7 general admission, $5for UGA students and seniors. Call 706-542-8579 for reservations and ticket information.
See http://ice.uga.edu for more information.
