ATHICA is closing out its 2024 juried exhibition, “COMPULSION,” with an artists’ roundtable to
discuss the impulse toward art-making. “COMPULSION” opened in October and features works
from 33 artists around the country and one from Japan, selected by juror Erin Dunn, who is a
Lamar Dodd School of Art graduate and now works as the curator of modern contemporary art
at the Telfair Museums in Savannah. Dunn selected works for the exhibition that drew her in
the most, embodying “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.” The roundtable discussion will delve further into this behavior,
which is described as uncontrollable and commonly phone-induced, as well as how individual
artists applied this idea in their works.
WHO: Artists Roundtable
WHEN: Sunday, Nov. 24, 4 p.m.
WHERE: ATHICA
HOW MUCH: FREE!
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