whitespace Fall Exhibitions (saturdays)

From the venue:

Trip The Light Fantastic | Didi Dunphy

Didi Dunphy is a native New Yorker, Los Angeles transplant, living in Athens GA. Ms. Dunphy received an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in the contemporary arts. She has had exhibits in major venues such as the Atlanta Contemporary, COCA, St. Louis, Telfair Museum in Savannah, the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art in Florida, the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA and more. A number of features have been written about Ms. Dunphy including Southern Living, Athens Magazine, Craft, CMYK, as well as art and exhibition reviews in the LA Times, SF Chronicle, Atlanta Journal Constitution, burnaway.org and ArtsATL, and others.

Ms. Dunphy’s design works; Recess of Modern Convenience Studios, have been placed in a number of collections and included in design publications such as Elle Décor, Paper, Interior Design, Vogue Living, Cookie, Metropolis as well as design book publications including Downtown Chic by Rizzoli, Toy Design by Braun Publishing and Fun Rooms, Collins Design publishing.

Ms. Dunphy is a former Visiting Scholar and Professor in the contemporary and digital media arts at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, UGA, Ms. Dunphy works in the curatorial field previously as the Gallery Director at the Hotel-Indigo-Athens, Indigo’s GlassCube project space and the Classic Center as well as the guest curator at the Albany Museum of Art. She is the curator for the Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia series with the Georgia Museum of Art, Ms. Dunphy has been the Program Supervisor at the Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens GA for ten years, directing exhibitions, education and studio programs and community art events.

Ms. Dunphy received the Georgia Governors Award for Arts & Humanities 2022, the Louis Griffith Hospitality Leadership Award, Athens, in 2017, and is a Hambidge Fellow.

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LOSE OR | Wihro Kim

The paintings featured in Wihro Kim’s exhibition, LOSE OR, arise from a collection of works that sat unfinished in his studio for some time. Instead of starting a new series from scratch, he decided to resolve these unfinished paintings. One pragmatic reason is that he is soon relocating across the country and wants to minimize his belongings. These paintings in limbo originated as sites where he tried new ideas and techniques without the pressure of becoming finished pieces. This is a continuation of an ongoing practice where he seeks to expand the allowances he gives himself as an artist in order to challenge himself and to reflect and contend with a large and ever-changing world. This idea of gathering these disparate, unfinished works and attempting to cull them into a working exhibition invigorated Wihro. It seemed appropriate for this moment in his life to reflect this time of expansion and as a meditation on a culmination of experiences in a specific time and place. While each piece began with a particular material or procedural consideration, they were each worked back into with the larger abstract and conceptual frameworks that shape his other work. These frameworks revolve around questions about perception, particularly regarding space and time, and how cognition underscores that perception of the world in various ways. This work entailed addressing what was already present in each piece and layering new interventions atop those existing images to disrupt any overt context. By obscuring the image and layering process, Wihro aims to create paintings that rest in a paradoxical state between being innately recognizable and simultaneously unknowable, activating a sense of wonder in himself and the viewer.

Wihro Kim received his BFA from Georgia State University in 2015. Since then, he has been exhibiting consistently, mostly locally in Atlanta, GA, with other notable shows outside of Georgia in New York City and Lexington, KY. He has had solo shows at Institute 193 in Lexington and The Sliver Space at the Atlanta Contemporary, amongst others. Notable group shows include exhibitions at MARCH in NYC, The Zuckerman Museum in Kennesaw, and Johnson-Lowe Gallery, Swan Coach House, MOCA GA, Hilo Press, and The High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Wihro is/was a finalist for the Edge Award in 2016 and 2023, was a Hughley Fellow in 2016-17, and completed a residency at Vermont Studio Center in 2017. He will be pursuing his MFA at UCLA beginning this fall.

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Sexy Snakes in the Shed | Jaime Bull

“Black velvet, serpent tail soft sculptures twist within a niche of glittering scale tiles. An oasis of palms, a bubbling fountain, and swirling disco light: descending the stairs of the Shedspace feels like popping into Jeannie’s bottle during one of her disco parties. This installation is inspired by my recent trip to Budapest, swimming through the Art Nouveau and Ottoman bathhouses, seeing the ornate tilework, water flowing through sculptures, and the act of soaking with all sorts of people in hot pools. I am also thinking about black snakes and both the thrill and the terror of having one slither across your path, live in your attic, or sleep in the shed. A combination of respect and fear, biblical and mythological, they’re fantastic to have around but not great to be surprised by.”

Jaime Bull earned an MFA from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. She makes drawings, paintings, sculptures, and videos of sea creatures, beaches, and bodies with a feminist and often humorous perspective. Bull has been a studio artist at the Atlanta Contemporary and participated in residencies at the Aquarium Gallery in New Orleans and Hambidge in North Georgia. Her work has been shown at Day&Night Projects, Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Greenville, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Auburn University, and Whitespace Gallery, and she has a brand-new installation at the Atlanta Airport in Terminal E6.

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Funtown| Joseph Peraginet

“Funtown is a short, looped animation that features surreal and seedy tapestry of evenings along the Jersey shore. Through a kaleidoscope of dream-like neon imagery, this piece seeks to capture the paradoxical essence of beachside culture—juxtaposing the whimsical with the raw and the sacred with the profane.”

Joseph Peragine is an artist and educator. His paintings, sculpture and animation have been presented widely in galleries, contemporary art spaces and museums throughout the USA and abroad. Recent exhibitions include Low Anchored Cloud at Marcia Wood Gallery and Transitions: States of Being at the Zuckerman Art Museum at Kennesaw State University. His animation Patriotic Drawings for Children was an official selection of the Garden State Film Festival in Asbury Park NJ in 2017.

Peragine was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and spent many summer evenings at the Jersey Shore. He is currently a Professor of Drawing and Painting and the Director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

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