Oona Dodgson
Bio:
If nothing else, Oona Dodgson has been divisive. A SCAD dropout, Oona made her early career in photo-journalism, before moving into professional art circles as a contemporary photographer. Relying on both her background in classical art, and the spunk that made her work “too subversive” for mainstream art culture, she won over critics with her collection: Beneath the Flesh, which provided a personal look at those suffering in urban America’s dark underbelly.
“Wherever there is success, there is failure, and wherever there is opulence, there is grime. The purpose of art is to displease, to make people confront those inner demons they like to ignore. It’s not about composition or color theory, those are simply boundaries that we impose on art. Art is meant to break boundaries.”
An influential photographer and all around artist, Oona’s gift to tear down the establishment and bring a new and fresh perspective to the art scene has made her an instrumental founding member of Thousand Paper Cuts, as well as the overseeing manager for the Winter Retreat. Oona serves as a tempering voice on the council, known to be a biting critic, as well a dark horse of the photography scene, Oona was offered an honorary degree from SCAD, but refused it.
Oona’s primary influences are Diane Arbus, Mark Jefferson, and Robert Mapplethorpe.
