Trio: Opening Reception
- 675 Pulaski st, suite 1200, Athens, GA 30601
- Dates: August 20, 2022
- Location: ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art
- Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Price: Free - Donations Encouraged
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 20, 2022, 6-8 PM
ATHICA’s early Fall 2022 exhibition TRIO features the work of Dana Jones and the two-artist-team of Sara Hess and Jon Swindler. The exhibition is the latest installment of the Solo Duo Trio series, which provides opportunities for individual artists to exhibit their work at ATHICA and its satellite location, ATHICA@Ciné. Selected by the ATHICA Exhibitions Committee with additional curation by Exhibition Committee Chair and ATHICA Board President Jon Vogt, this exhibition examines the use of found materials, abstraction, and representation through different modalities and points of view.
Dana Jones paints on the creased, punched and torn surfaces of beverage and food packaging, finding that the irregular shapes present “a good way to initiate a conversation with the paint. My work is typically flat, graphic, but fuzzily geometric.”
His work aligns with that of the Hess-Swindler team in its geometry, architectural sense of space, and use of found color and texture. Collaborators since 2019, Hess and Swindler document, collect, and draw from an array of visual and physical ephemera to make prints, drawings, collages and sculptural objects, stating that “By widening our periphery and including all manner of material and imagery, we are seeking to elicit and construct meaning from the simple act of paying attention.”
According to exhibition curator Jon Vogt, “This exhibition buzzes with the energy of three artistic perspectives contained within two bodies of work, which overlap and refract in unexpected ways.”
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 20, 2022, 6-8 PM
ATHICA’s early Fall 2022 exhibition TRIO features the work of Dana Jones and the two-artist-team of Sara Hess and Jon Swindler. The exhibition is the latest installment of the Solo Duo Trio series, which provides opportunities for individual artists to exhibit their work at ATHICA and its satellite location, ATHICA@Ciné. Selected by the ATHICA Exhibitions Committee with additional curation by Exhibition Committee Chair and ATHICA Board President Jon Vogt, this exhibition examines the use of found materials, abstraction, and representation through different modalities and points of view.
Dana Jones paints on the creased, punched and torn surfaces of beverage and food packaging, finding that the irregular shapes present “a good way to initiate a conversation with the paint. My work is typically flat, graphic, but fuzzily geometric.”
His work aligns with that of the Hess-Swindler team in its geometry, architectural sense of space, and use of found color and texture. Collaborators since 2019, Hess and Swindler document, collect, and draw from an array of visual and physical ephemera to make prints, drawings, collages and sculptural objects, stating that “By widening our periphery and including all manner of material and imagery, we are seeking to elicit and construct meaning from the simple act of paying attention.”
According to exhibition curator Jon Vogt, “This exhibition buzzes with the energy of three artistic perspectives contained within two bodies of work, which overlap and refract in unexpected ways.”
