ATHICA

COMPULSION: 2024 Juried Exhibition
October 17, 2024 – November 24, 2024

Juror Erin Dunn
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
Telfair Museums | Savannah, GA

• Saturday, October 19, 6-8 PM: Juror’s Reception

Followed by Sonic Space Music Night Featuring Shane Parrish with John Fernandes / Visiting Artists Rob Magill and Ipek Eginli

• Sunday, November 24, 4-6 PM: Artists’ Roundtable Discussion

Announcing ATHICA’s 2024 juried exhibition featuring contemporary art in all media that explores or references COMPULSION, a term that can apply to the impulse towards art-making, a common phone-induced behavior, an uncontrollable act, a desire, a need, or a sense of being driven. The works included come from all over the country and were selected by our esteemed juror Erin Dunn, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the esteemed Telfair Museums of Savannah, Georgia.

Thank you to ATHICA for the invitation to serve as juror for the 2024 juried exhibition COMPULSION. There were many excellent submissions, and the selection process is never easy, but I took cues from the theme and chose works that drew me in, that compelled me. The selected artworks all embody compulsive urges in the myriad ways it can be manifested. Through energetic repetition, intrusive thoughts, instinctive action, destructive behavior, active desire, urgent needs, or impulsive drive. I hope the exhibition and variety of works on view creates an exciting environment for viewers to question their own compulsions.

 

Thank you to all the artists who submitted for the exhibition. I am always grateful for the opportunity to view and learn about artists and their work. It is especially meaningful to jury an exhibition at ATHICA and be part of the thriving arts community in Athens as a former Lamar Dodd School of Art graduate.

— Erin Dunn, Juror

Participating Artists

COMPULSION is sponsored in part by The James E. and Betty J. Huffer Foundation, The Georgia Council for the Arts, and The National Endowment for the Arts.

About the Juror

Erin Dunn is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Telfair Museums in Savannah, GA where she has been a member of the curatorial team since 2014. She has organized numerous exhibitions including Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography, Feels like Freedom: Phillip J. Hampton, and Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s to the Present in collaboration with The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Current projects include an exhibition of work by internationally acclaimed artist Anila Quayyum Agha and the first major exhibition to explore the profound impact of Ossabaw Island on arts, culture, and the sciences in the United States during the latter half of the twentieth century. Her writing has appeared in the exhibition catalogue for Phillip J. Hampton, Late Night Polaroids: Photographs by Emily Earl, and Seven Rivers, a monograph of photographer Ansley West Rivers. In addition, Dunn spearheads Telfair’s #art912 initiative, which raises the visibility and promotes the vitality of artists living and working in Savannah. Dunn was the recipient of the Fall 2023 Margie E. West Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. She holds a BA from Emory University and an MA from the University of Georgia.

Press Release: https://mailchi.mp/athica/compulsion

Gallery Guide: COMPULSION Gallery Guide

Poster Download: COMPULSION Exhibition Poster

Exhibition Images