On View: Two works on view in “Off the Coast of Paradise: Artists and Ossabaw Island, 1961–Now” at the Telfair Museums Jepson Center, Savannah, GA March 13 – to September 6, 2026
Palmetto - Ossabaw, oil on panel, 1975, 39.25 × 29.5”
The Estate of Michael Mazur is pleased to share that two works are included in the exhibition: “Off the Coast of Paradise: Artists and Ossabaw Island, 1961–Now” at the Telfair Museums Jepson Center, Savannah, GA from March 13 - September 6, 2026.
Off the Coast of Paradise: Artists and Ossabaw Island, 1961–Now is the first major exhibition to explore the profound impact of an undeveloped, 26,000-acre barrier island off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, on artists working in the United States. The exhibition focuses on the Ossabaw Island Project (OIP) and Genesis—a pair of revolutionary multidisciplinary residency programs that ran on the island from 1961–1982—and their legacies in its examination of Ossabaw as a site for creative experimentation. Taking its name from a poem written by celebrated poet and former Genesis member Henri Cole, Off the Coast of Paradise features the work of internationally renowned artists, past and present, who have considered the island through myriad lenses in their work, including the historical, the environmental, the social, the cultural, and the personal. They include Harry Bertoia, Agnes Denes, Marcy Hermansader, Suzanne Jackson, Ellen Lanyon, Doris Lee, Sally Mann, Michael Mazur, Ross McElwee, Athena Tacha, Betty Tompkins, and Anne Truitt, among many others, as well as a major new commission by Allison Janae Hamilton.
Palmetto Grove, pastel on paper, 1976 71 × 89.5” on loan from Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (gift of Jim Dine)
