Regional Curation

Bascom Art Center

Highlands, NC

SKATE

April - June 2021

Artists Featured
David Hale/Love Hawk
Dan Smith AKA See Dan Paint
Elinor Saragoussi
Didi Dunphy
Jaime Bull
Amanda Burk
Mike Landers
Jason Thrasher
Justine Santora
Lauren Fancher
Gregor Turk

The origins and motivation of the sub-culture of skateboarding have always supported individuality, creativity both through design and the physical, alternate thinking, questioning the norm with a bit of anarchy. Skate design can range from boards with layers of rough worn stickers to elegant engineering but always the potential for energy-fueled action and a bit of a revolutionary spirit.

I consider these qualities to also define an artistic practice. For this exhibit, I invited and in some cases commissioned, these artists to interpret the world of skateboarding with ingenuity, whimsy, and their unique style. Some used traditional art tools, a brush and paint, camera lens, fabric, and ceramic, while in some cases, a couple of wheels and a piece of wood.

Bridge Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art

Athens, GA

This exhibit explores what 28 artists are thinking, doing, not doing, working on, avoiding, accomplishing and postponing. From December 1, 2014 - January 15, 2015, all artists were instructed to use a work from a limited edition mono print/two run screen print made by Dunphy at Double Dutch Press as his or her to-do list, post-it, stickies, doodle page, inspiration notes, date book, planner and note paper.

Athens Institute for Contemporary
Art (ATHICA)

Athens, GA

The Way Things Work

April - May 2011

Artists Featured
Atanas Bozdarov
Robert Ladislas Derr
Andrea Flamini
Ernesto R. Gómez
Dan Grayber
John O’Connor
Julia Oldham
Will Pergl
Andrew Sunderland
Cody Vanderkaay
Andy Moon Wilson

This colorful and spectacular exhibit features large-scale installation, indoor and outdoor sculpture, drawings, videos and sound art by 11 national and international artists. All of these artists create works that respond to the systems we subscribe to as a culture, revealing and deconstructing norms.

Selected from over 300 submissions, their works investigate a wide range of subject matter – from a meandering and lyrical installation referencing building construction to small drawings mapping the intricacies of lottery ticket predictions. In doing so they reveal how we classify the world around us in fascinating, surprising and amusing ways.