ATLANTA.- The Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta will debut a new site-specific outdoor installation by Dennis Oppenheim titled “Alternative Land Art” as part of a series of events including a related exhibition and lecture by the artist.

The “Alternative Land Art” installation will integrate sculpture, landscape architecture and design, and will be located on the front lawn of SCAD-Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St., May 9 – Aug. 5. Oppenheim will work with a select group of SCAD-Atlanta sculpture students on the installation as part of a special topics class on art in public places.

Oppenheim’s related exhibition at SCAD-Atlanta’s Gallery 1600 explores his current artistic practice of public commissions and large outdoor installations. The exhibition features photo montages of landscapes with superimposed alternative landscape objects, preparatory sketches, computer renderings of landscape components, installations for remote landscapes and suburban houses, sculptural elements and recently commissioned public projects.

The exhibition runs May 9 – Aug. 5 at Gallery 1600, located at 1600 Peachtree St., and an opening reception will be held May 9, 6-8 p.m. Oppenheim will also give a lecture on May 9, at 3 p.m. at SCAD-Atlanta, located at 1600 Peachtree St. The exhibition and lecture are free and open to the public.

Born Sept. 6, 1938, in Electric City, Wash., Oppenheim earned his B.F.A. in 1965 from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. He moved to New York in 1966 where he first taught nursery school and then high school art while working toward his first one-person exhibition in New York, held in 1968 at age 30. Oppenheim has produced a wide range of sculpture work over a 30-year period, including conceptual art, performance art, earth works and quirky mechanical pieces. On March 1, Oppenheim received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale in recognition of excellence in sculpture and the arts, in particular for Artistic Merit in Public Art. His work can be found in countries around the world and in major museum collections. He lives and works in New York City.