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07.30.09

Contact: Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts, Sally Corbett, 404-727-6678, sacorbe@emory.edu; Jessica Moore, jkmoore@emory.edu, 404-727-1687; Visual Arts Department, Mary Catherine Johnson, 404-712-4390, mcjohn7@emory.edu 

EMORY VISUAL ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS
“THE LUCID EYE,” A YEAR OF PHOTOGRAPHY  

Exhibitions to Feature Joel Leivick, Dawoud Bey, Ruth Dusseault, Masterworks from the Collection of Arnall Golden Gregory, and a Juried Show  

The Emory Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to announce “The Lucid Eye: A Year of Photography at Emory, 2009 – 2010,” a series of exhibitions and programs throughout the upcoming academic year that consider key issues in contemporary photography. Included are solo exhibitions of new work by Joel Leivick, Dawoud Bey and Ruth Dusseault, as well as the inaugural show of twentieth-century masterworks from the collection of Atlanta, GA law firm Arnall Golden Gregory. The series concludes with a juried exhibition of images that explore the theme of “home.”

“My hope is to mark out key positions in the field of contemporary photography through a suite of superb exhibitions,” says Jason Francisco, Associate Professor of Photography at Emory University, who is co-curator of the series with Mary Catherine Johnson. “Whether they are working with the natural or social landscape, portraiture or narrative forms, these photographers wrestle in fresh ways with photography’s core propositions—that a picture stems from and sustains an encounter between the world and the creative mind, that this encounter is both enduring and perpetually unresolved, and that it acts as a hinge between memory and imagination, critical awareness and dreams.”

Following is the schedule for “The Lucid Eye” exhibitions. Additional details and images can be found at www.visualarts.emory.edu.

“The Lucid Eye: Photographs from the Collection of Arnall Golden Gregory,” Aug. 27, 2009 – Sept. 25, 2009, Emory Visual Arts Gallery, 700 Peavine Creek Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, www.arts.emory.edu, free.
Opening reception: Thurs., Aug. 27, 5–7 p.m.
This exhibition of twentieth-century masterworks inaugurates a series of exhibitions spanning the 2009-2010 academic year at the Emory Visual Arts Gallery reflecting on the state of the photographic image as art. Featured are works by Zeke Berman, Margaret Bourke-White, Harry Callahan, William Christenberry, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Mario Giacomelli, André Kertész, David Levinthal, Helen Levitt, Danny Lyon, Irving Penn, Toshio Shibata, Paul Strand and others. This show presents key examples of the range and vitality of photographic art as it has evolved over the last century.

“Joel Leivick: In the Garden – An Exhibition of Photography ,” Oct. 1, 2009–Nov. 20, 2009, Emory Visual Arts Gallery, 700 Peavine Creek Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, www.arts.emory.edu, free.
Opening reception and artist talk: Thurs., Oct. 1, 5–7 p.m. (talk begins at 7 p.m.)
Intimate, sensual and complex, celebrated California-based photographer Joel Leivick’s new work reflects on the ways that gardens dwell in the land and in the mind. Leivick’s photographs are at once precise descriptions, luminous observations, and sharp acts of contemplation.

“Picturing Home: Juried Photography Exhibition ,” Dec. 3, 2009 – Jan. 29, 2010, Emory Visual Arts Gallery, 700 Peavine Creek Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, www.arts.emory.edu, free.
Opening reception: Thurs., Dec. 3, 5–7 p.m.; Jurors’ talk at 7 p.m.
What is home, and where is it? What does it mean to look for home, to find home, to lose home, to be at home? How is “home” being impacted by the current economic crisis in America? This juried exhibition presents photographic works that investigate “home” in its familiarity and unfamiliarity, its pleasures and discomforts, its communal and personal aspects. The jurors are Julian Cox, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, and Jason Francisco, acclaimed photographer and chair of Emory’s Visual Arts Department. Consideration for this juried exhibition is open to Emory Friends of Visual Arts. Membership begins at $35/year (Emory employees and alumni $30; Emory students $10). To join, call 404-727-6200. For submission process information, please go online to www.visualarts.emory.edu.

“Dawould Bey: Class Pictures – An Exhibition of Photography ,” Feb. 4, 2010–Mar. 4, 2010, Emory Visual Arts Gallery, 700 Peavine Creek Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, www.arts.emory.edu, free.
Opening reception: Thurs., Feb. 4, 5–7 p.m.
In his series of images made in public and private high schools across the United States, renowned portraitist Dawoud Bey offers a cross-section of a generation, which is also a microcosm of the American experience as it finds expression in and as adolescent preoccupations, dreams and intensities. This exhibition is sponsored by Emory University's Transforming Community Project, whose mission is to mobilize critical reflection on Emory’s history as it relates to race.

" Ruth Dusseault: Play War – An Exhibition of Photography ,” March 18, 2010 – April 23, 2010, Emory Visual Arts Gallery, 700 Peavine Creek Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, www.arts.emory.edu, free.
Opening reception and artist talk: Thurs., March 18, 5–7 p.m. (talk begins at 7 p.m.)
Ruth Dusseault’s compelling new work looks at the recreational war games that occur within depleted suburban spaces. Dusseault is an astute visual geographer, exploring an exuberant and slightly dystopic American frontier.

ABOUT THE EMORY VISUAL ARTS GALLERY
The Emory Visual Arts Department and Gallery is the university’s center for the study and practice of contemporary visual art. The Gallery exhibits five to seven contemporary art shows each year, bringing leading national and international artists to Southeastern audiences. Recent solo exhibitions and lecturers include Martha Rosler, Eve Andrée Laramée, Radcliffe Bailey, Alice Aycock, Pat Ward Williams, and Janine Antoni, among many others.

ABOUT EMORY UNIVERSITY
Emory University, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is an inquiry-driven, ethically engaged and diverse community whose members work collaboratively for positive transformation in the world through courageous leadership in teaching, research, scholarship, health care and social action. The university is recognized internationally for its outstanding liberal arts college, superb professional schools and one of the Southeast's leading health care systems.

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