Shapes That Talk to Me: The Athens Scene, 1975–85

May 24 – September 28, 2014

A detail of Alice Neel's portrait of Bill Paul, at the time the director of the Georgia Museum of Art. You can just see the striped chair that he's sitting in peeking out over the edge of the crop. He wears an orange v-neck sweater over a dress shirt and a yellowish-white tie.

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90 Carlton St, Athens Georgia 30602

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706.542.4662

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  • Tues - Wed

    10 a.m.to5 p.m.

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  • Fri - Sat

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  • Sun

    1 p.m.to5 p.m.

  • Mon

    Closed

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Vibrant Local Culture

As part of Art Rocks Athens, the museum joined the UGA Special Collections Library, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Lyndon House Arts Center, Ciné and others in celebrating the Athens art and music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Paintings from the museum’s permanent collection already on view were reinterpreted and augmented with other works, highlighting many of the artists who helped shape the vibrant local culture and mark Athens’ international significance.

 

Curators
Lynn Boland, Betty Alice Fowler and Michael Lachowski

Sponsors
The W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art