Automythography

Dodd Galleries Artist-in-Residence, Mequitta Ahuja, presents “Automythography,” an exhibition of recent paintings.  The title is a term Auja uses to describe her practice and derives from Audre Lorde’s 1982 book Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, in which Lorde introduces the term ‘biomythography’ to describe the woven nature of myth, cultural history, and the notion of telling one’s story. ‘Automythography’ encourages a new way of being in the world, “a strategy I use to counter limiting frameworks,” the artist explains. “It is the expansive and inclusive process of self-construction and self-representation, a creative form in which I gain and enact my agency.”

For more information and images visit: Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia