Category: Exhibitions

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The Unexplained Spaces Marked Off

The Unexplained Spaces Marked Off
Lipani Gallery, Fordham University Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street (SL24)
New York, New York 10023
August 3, 2012 to September 20, 2012
Closing Reception September 18, 2012 6:00 to 8:00 PM

Organized by Anibal Pella-Woo and Daniel Willner

Participating Photographers:
Inbal Abergil
Tanyth Berkeley
Antonio Chirinos
Michael Chovan-Dalton
Kai McBride
Katherine McVety
Claudio Nolasco
Anibal Pella-Woo
Preston Rescigno
Dennis Santella
Daniel Willner
Johanna Wolfe
For artists of such solitary practice, photographers spend a lot of time in conversation. Most often, we speak through our work, responding to the precedent of our models and our peers, trying out new ideas or improvising on themes that have played since the beginnings of the medium. But sometimes, we actually get together and talk.
The photographers participating in The Unexplained Spaces Marked Off were all once photo students in the MFA program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. If we did not meet there, we met through friends, and we have all found—not just that we enjoy each other’s company—but that we share a common language and a similar passion. We have each learned, in our own way, that the camera is not just a tool, but also a guide. It is a way of asking questions, of calling out and getting a response.
In his landmark book The Unofficial Countryside, Richard Mabey initiated a new natural history drawn from observations of the interface between natural and urban environments. He describes the peculiar attraction of “a town map with the unexplained spaces marked off.” A similar map might be found in the camera bag of any of these photographers. But for us, the camera itself is our atlas, charting our passage from the known to the unknown, laying out the strange terrain along this intersection.
When we return from our exploration of the new world down the block, our discoveries burned on film or written to card, we are just beginning the conversation. Now to see how these new photographs fit, how they shape themselves in context. Should we meet and share our work, we often find how closely our independent investigations align. Our own compass draws us each to the complexity of the urban landscape: to the shifting boundaries between nature and culture; to the profound mysteries of the commonplace; to the way history lays its palimpsest over the land.
This exhibit is an instance of our ongoing conversation. It is a manifestation of where we are now in our thinking about the urban landscape, what it looks like and what it means. If a common thread were drawn through the work, it might look something like Robert Frost’s first line from The Gift Outright: “The land was ours before we were the land’s.” Each photograph in its own way describes our unresolved claims to the land, our imperfect stewardship, and our struggle to acknowledge its true quality and value.

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Arbitrary Taxonomies

Nina Katchadourian, Lake Michigan, 1996
2012. Image courtesy of Nina Katchadourian and Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
Arbitrary Taxonomies: works by Dave Charlesworth, Nina Katchadourian, Catherine Lee, Rory Mulligan, and Mickey Smith. Curated by Bridget Donlon.

As soon as there was human experience, there was art. Modern architect Louis Khan articulated this in his statement that “Art, which was immediately felt, was the first word … the first utterance.” Prehistoric-man created cave paintings, if not to proclaim his existence then to document it. This impulse exists throughout art history and is as ever relevant in contemporary art.

Bringing together artists with disparate practices, Arbitrary Taxonomies presents inventories of invented, existing, and insular worlds through documentation, as with the photographs of Rory Mulligan and Mickey Smith; the ritual of Catherine Lee’s Mark Drawings series; by conflating fiction and reality in Dave Charlesworth’s videos; or when Nina Katchadourain creates works that adhere to an inner logic. Each of these artists work according to a set of systems that are entirely personal, yet are open to multiple readings.

Dave Charlesworth creates a cohesive narrative out of found images in his video works. His latest project attempts to create an arbitrary visual archive of all the terms in the glossary of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, publications from the mid-twentieth century that documented the architecture of the British Isles.

Nina Katchadourian takes the approach of a dedicated scientist to the everyday experience, making order out of a chaotic world with unexpected results such as creating genealogical histories for found objects. The collage Lake Michigan demonstrates this ability to create a new context for the familiar.

In an obsessive daily studio practice, Catherine Lee filled each square in a grid of varying size with a personal hieroglyph to produce The Mark Drawings and The Mark Paintings series of the 1970s. The repetitive imagery results in small variations that reveal a personal system of coding, a record of thought told through abstraction.

Following the lead of historical street photographers, Rory Mulligan uses an existing framework to insert a personal perspective in landscape and portraiture. His collection of images ruminate on gay identity, the suburbs, and everyday weirdness.

Mickey Smith investigates the aesthetics of libraries and their collections, such as the New York Public Library and the Federal Depository Libraries, among others. The works are documentation of a dying form of print that the artist has expressed no sentimental attachment to, but rather serve as an aesthetic material for what she describes as “conceptual language-based, anthropological works”.

For more information, please contact Bridget Donlon at bridget.donlon@gmail.com

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graphic Modern USA, Italy and Switzerland 1934–66

graphic Modern
USA, Italy and Switzerland 1934–66

From the experimental to the playful to the rational, Modernism’s idealism is a testament to its vitality and long standing. Bringing together over 75 works from Display, Graphic Design Collection, graphic Modern serves as an overview of this important period and features advertisements, periodicals, posters and ephemera examples from over 30 design pioneers including Herbert Bayer, Lester Beall, Karl Gerstner, Franco Grignani, Max Huber, Alvin Lustig, Herbert Matter, Bob Noorda, Paul Rand, Emil Ruder, Studio Boggeri, Ladislav Sutnar and Massimo Vignelli, among others. The varied and unique styles of these designers are the foundation for the visual language of today and presumably, tomorrow.

An informal talk and walk-through of the exhibition will take place on Friday, June 15th at 5pm. graphic Modern is curated by Patricia Belen and Greg D’Onofrio – designers, writers and partners at Kind Company, an independent design office in New York City. Display, the website they founded in 2009, is a platform for research, writing and discoveries in graphic design history. Documenting, preserving and providing public access to original materials will help raise the profile of Graphic Design as a source of educational, historical and scholarly analysis. For more information, please visit thisisdisplay.org

Sponsored by The Department of Visual Arts at Fordham University with assistance from Abby Goldstein, Associate Professor and Jaclyn Deihl, BA 2012.

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EXHIBITION

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
Casey Ruble Abby Goldstein Carleen Sheehan
December 6, 2011 through January 30, 2012
Opening reception: Thursday, December 8th 6 to 8pm
CENTER GALLERY
Fordham University 113 West 60th St. New York, NY 10023 T: 212.636.6303 Fordhamvisualarts.com
Hrs: Monday to Sunday 9am to 7pm Sponsored by the Theatre and Visual Arts Department

 

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BENCHMARKS: Seven Women in Design | New York

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The DailyHeller on BENCHMARKS


From June 10 through August 15, Center Gallery at Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus, Lindsay Reichart and Abby Goldstein are pleased to present the exhibition Benchmarks: Seven Women in Design | New York.” In the past half a century women have gained prominence and recognition in what was a male dominated profession. This exhibition is curated to give homage to seven remarkable designers who practice in New York and have made significant contributions to graphic design. These designers include Louise Fili, Carin Goldberg, Paula Scher, Gail Anderson, Eileen Boxer, Elaine Lustig Cohen, and Lucille Tenazas. The exhibition features work that exemplifies a pivotal point in their direction or approach to their design practice. Through this exhibition, the extraordinary creative voices of seven designers are revealed, and the relevance of their design and their role in shaping the future of design celebrated.
 
June 10–September 15 | 113 West 60th Street, NYC
Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10am–8pm
 

For further information, please contact Lindsay Reichart C: 631.875.9714 or lindsay.reichart@gmail.com. or Abby Goldstein: T:718 852 5048 or abby@abbygoldstein.com

 
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Carin Goldberg, The School of Visual Arts Senior Library, 2004, hardbound,
offset on paper,10 ¾ in x 7 3/8 in

 

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Carin Goldberg, Punctuation, 2004, silkscreen, 40 in x 26 in

 

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Eileen Boxer, Ubu Invitations, 1995 – 2007, Ubu Gallery, various sizes and
mediums

 

Eileen Boxer, Ephemera transformation
Lucille Tenazas, To Infinity and Beyond, silkscreen, 48 in x 37 in
Lucille Tenazas, Moto Group Cards and Envelopes, Green Card, 9 ½ in x 6 in,
1994, offset on paper
Paula Scher, Dancing on Her Knees
Paula Scher, Him
Gail Anderson, Lucky Serif Dream Book, 2011, offset on paper, 7 ½ in x 5 in
Gail Anderson, Axl Rose: The Lost Years, 2000

 

Elaine Lustig Cohen, Mies Van der Rohe, 2001, 35 ¾ in x 24 ½ in
Elaine Lustig Cohen, A Millionth Anniversary 1958, offset on paper,

 

Louise Fili, Le Monde, 1999, offset on paper, 2 ¼ in x 11 ½ in
Louise Fili, Calea Nero d’Avola, 5 in x 3 in, 2008, wine bottle, offset on paper


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Roma

Roma
Curated by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton
January 4 – February 18, 2011
Reception: Thursday, February 3, 6 – 8 pm

A sampling of photographs from participants in the 2010 Rome Athenaeum course: VART 3500: Photography in the Documentary Tradition: Rome. Over the course of one month in Rome this intensive class introduced students to the basic and advanced techniques of image production with a major emphasis on generating documentary projects directly relating to the people, architecture, and culture of Italy.

The cosmopolitan city of Rome, rich with artistic history, served as the source for our photographic explorations, as well as the catalyst for discussions addressing the historical significance of the documentary impulse. Our studies and production brought us from exhibitions in progressive contemporary art galleries, to the ancient architecture of the Colosseum as we utilized the wealth of visual stimuli as a resource, as well as a backdrop against which to critically discuss the strategies that documentarians utilize in communicating their interests.

A full color catalog of the exhibition with essay will be available for purchase.

Participants in the program and exhibition:
Alicia Bozzone
Apollonia Colacicco
Megan Cook
Nicole DeMeo
Kathleen Detjen
Eve Krupitsky
Patricia Peguero-Vidal
Melissa Smyth
William Tanksley
Joni Vasquez

Fordham University’s Center Gallery
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
The Center Gallery is open from 8 am – 8 pm everyday
http://fordhamvisualarts.blogspot.com/
For further information please contact: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu

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Senior Seminar Exhibition, Pushpin Gallery

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Senior Seminar Exhibition, Pushpin Gallery Dec. 8-14th, 2010

Artists: John Angles, Brendan Banks, Brandon Cruz, Jacklyn Cunningham, Maria Gotay, Olga Muzician, Vincent Straquadanio, Eddy Segal, Megan Weissner, Johanne
Sterling, Amelia Strohsnitter, Mickey Velez.

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35minutesmen

35minutesmen

大同朋子 Tomoko Daido, 福村順平 Junpey Fukumura, ペイ PAI,
酒航太 Sake Kota, 長広恵美子 Emiko Nagahiro, 真田敬介 Keisuke Sanada,
塩田正幸 Masayuki Shioda

Curated by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Anibal Pella-Woo
Essay by Taro Nettleton
Translations by Akiko Nakamura

35minutesmen book, 71 pages, color with essays in English and Japanese

Fordham University Center Gallery
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023

On view: November 6 – December 19, 2010

Opening reception: Friday, November 12, 6 – 8 pm
The Center Gallery is open everyday from 8 am – 8 pm

“35minutesmen” brings together a sampling of work from a Tokyo based collective of photographers in the format of a gallery exhibition and accompanying book with essay. The collective existed for just one year, yet they created a tremendous volume of work that was displayed in a series of monthly exhibitions held in their gallery – a now defunct Fuji film 35 minute processing lab.

While I was living in Tokyo in the fall of 2009, Taro Nettleton, a former student from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, introduced me to a small group of photographers that he knew – the “35minutesmen.” I went to a number of monthly openings at their gallery; however, the exhibition space was so small and the crowd was so large that I rarely got into the space to actually see the photographs. Regardless, I knew that the community that these seven photographers were generating was exciting and would be inspirational for students as a model for maintaining production and fostering connections after undergraduate school.

It seemed appropriate in light of the communal nature of their endeavor that the material would need to be organized by more than one person, so Anibal Pella-Woo and I decided to work on this project as co-curators. Our working method of putting this exhibition together was very organic, low fidelity, and do-it-yourself, not unlike the manner that things get accomplished in a collective – which is to say, slowly and on the smallest of budgets. First, a year’s worth of images were sent from the seven photographers in Tokyo via email and edited in New York down to a working group of 60. Then the continuation of the curatorial process took place in emails sent over the course of three months between New York, Italy, and Japan.

Anibal printed out a set of small test prints in New York on an ink jet printer and I printed out the same set at a drugstore while traveling in the south of Japan. Interesting image pairings were arranged on tabletops in New York, taped to hotel walls while teaching in Rome, shuffled, examined, photographed, and exchanged by email once again. Ideas and opinions were discussed and clarified thanks to Gmail. Even the exhibition postcard image of the “35minutesmen” gallery space was acquired by traveling to Japan via Google Earth and utilizing its “street level view.”

In light of Taro Nettleton’s closeness to the “35minutesmen” scene (he grew up in Japan with one of the collective’s members) we decided that he would be best suited to provide a detailed look into the history and working nature of the group. His insightful essay found in the exhibition catalog also bounced its way between Japan, New York, and Rome numerous times before arriving at its present state.

Faced with the challenge of organizing images made over the course of one year by different people with different concerns, an appropriate selection criteria and organizational schema was a necessity. Initially this entailed looking at the photographs with basic formal concerns in mind and centered on creating visual connections within the group of images. We then branched out into looking at the possibilities of contrasting photographic meanings, context, and pacing. To take a year of work from a disparate group of people and distill it into a singular statement seems to go against the grain of the “35minutesmen” spirit, which was what drew us to them in the first place. In fact, the variety of black and white photographs, color photographs, traditional film based photographs, digital photographs, Polaroid photographs, and sizes all testify to the range of styles within this group of “like-minded” individuals. Consequently, the photographs and sequencing of photographs in this show represent but one of the many ways that they could have been organized.

Duplicating the raucous energy of their openings is an impossibility, as is the inclusion of every image generated by the group; nevertheless, the images on display will serve to give some idea of the variety of photographic strategies and interests that are currently in play in a small collective, in a small area of Tokyo called Araiyakushi. The do-it-yourself nature of the “35minutesmen” project, their communal spirit, and energy will hopefully serve as encouragement for young photographers and emerging artists to create their own peer support structure and exhibition opportunities regardless of their divergent interests – in fact, perhaps all the more so because of them.

Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock and Anibal Pella-Woo, 2010

For additional information please see the 35minutesmen website Alternately, email Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu or Anibal Pella-Woo pella@fordham.edu

本「35minutesmen」展は、東京在住の写真家グループによる作品を、展覧会と併せてエッセイを収録したカタログを通して紹介するものである。1年間限定で集まったこのグループは、短期間で膨大な量の作品を制作、そしてそれを月に一度、廃業した35分仕上げのDPEショップで展示していたのだった。

僕が東京に住んでいた2009年秋、ボストンのミュージアム・スクール出身のネトルトン・タロウが紹介してくれた写真家達、それが「35minutesmen」だった。オープニングの日が来るたびに、僕は何度となく彼らのギャラリーへと足を運んだ。ただし、ものすごく狭い展示スペースに訪れる観客はかなりの人数にのぼったため、実際に中に入って写真を見られることは滅多になかった。それでも僕は、この7人の写真家によって生み出されたコミュニティを面白いと思ったし、また学生達にとっては、卒業後いかに制作を継続して繋がっていけるかということの、ひとつの手本になるんじゃないかという気がしていた。

彼らの試みのコミューン的性質を踏まえると、今回の写真展も複数の人間でオーガナイズするのがふさわしいと思い、アニバル・ペラ=ウーと僕は共同キュレーターとしてこのプロジェクトを進めることにした。展覧会開催にこぎつけるまでの過程はかなり有機的かつローファイかつDIY、これはつまりチームで何かを成し遂げる時の作法とも言えるもので、最小予算内でゆっくりと進んでいった。まず東京にいる7人の写真家達からeメールでニューヨークに送られてきた1年分の写真を、60枚にまで絞った。それからさらに3ヶ月間、eメールによるニューヨーク、イタリア、日本間でのキュレーションに関するやり取りが続いた。

ニューヨークにいるアニバルが、選んだ写真の縮小版をインクジェット・プリンタでプリントアウトし、日本南部を旅行中だった僕も同じものをコンビニでプリントした。ニューヨークでは、それらが興味深いペアの組み写真として机の上に並べられ、僕が講師として滞在したローマのホテルの部屋でも壁にテープで貼られたりしながら、さらにシャッフルされ、吟味され、並べた写真が再度撮影されてeメールで交換された。アイデアや意見を交わしながら整理していく際には、Gメールが役立った。ちなみにこの写真展のDMに使われている35minutesmenの拠点となったギャラリーの画像も、グーグルアースのストリートビューを利用して手に入れたものだ。

ネトルトン・タロウは「35minutesmen」シーンとごく近しい関係にあり(彼は日本育ちでメンバーのひとりとは幼なじみである)、このグループの歴史と本質を洞察するのには、彼が最も適役であるということで僕達の意見は一致した。写真展のカタログに収録された彼の見識あるエッセイもまた、完成までに何度も日本、ニューヨーク、ローマを飛び交ったのだった。

様々な関心を持つ様々な人間が1年間かけて撮った写真をまとめるという難題を抱えた本展覧会には、何らかの選択基準と体系化が必要だった。そういうわけで僕達はまず、ごく基本的なスタイルの問題を念頭に写真を吟味し、そこに視覚的な関係性を見出すという作業を重点的に行なった。そしてそれをさらに発展させて、写真的な意味、文脈、緩急をふまえた対置の可能性を探っていった。それぞれに全く異なる写真家達が撮った1年分の作品をひとつのステイトメントとして提示することは、そもそも僕達が惹かれた本来のもの、つまり「35minutesmen」精神の本質に反するようにも思えた。実際ここに見られる、白黒、カラー、昔ながらのフィルム写真、デジタル写真、ポラロイド、そして大小織り交ぜた様々なサイズといった多様性が、このグループ内のスタイルの幅広さを物語っている。よって最終的に選んだ写真とその配置も、あり得た多くの可能性のうちの、ひとつの見せ方にすぎない。

彼らのオープニングでの喧しいエネルギーをここで再現することは、彼らが生み出した写真を全て見せることと同様に、不可能だ。それでもなお、今回展示された写真からは、東京にある新井薬師という小さな町に集った小さなグループが実践した数々の写真手法とその多様さの、一旦を窺い知ることが出来るだろう。そして僕達は、「35minutesmen」のDIY精神、共同体的性質、そしてそのエネルギーが刺激となって、若手写真家やアーティスト達が、関心は異なれども——いやむしろ異なるからこそ——仲間同士で支え合う仕組みを作り、自ら発表の機会を作り出すようになることを、心から願っている。

スティーブン・アピチェラ=ヒッチコック/アニバル・ペラ=ウー, 2010

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EXHIBITION

RADIANT

Now on view in the Center Gallery, RADIANT, with New York artists Shari Mendelson,
Julia Kunin, and Susan Rabinowitz.

Curated by Carleen Sheehan, Artist-in-Residence, Dept. of Theatre & Visual Arts

June 4th-August 1, 2009

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JUNE 4TH, 2009, 6-8pm
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RADIANT brings together three artists whose work radiates light, color, and formal intensity while exploring our understanding of the environment, natural phenomena, and the subjective, often dual nature of what we call beautiful. Each artist’s process (flowing pigments on canvas, impressions cast in clay, or recyclables re-collected and reconfigured) achieves a transformation of materials into transcendent objects that concentrate our gaze while expanding our vision.

Shari Mendelson’s work is constructed from small modular pieces of industrial plastic that
are transformed through accumulation and repetition into glowing nebulae, faceted crystalline vessels, and sparkling screens of light and color that disperse and refract light. She recently began collecting recycled plastic bottles, attracted by the ornamental possibilities concealed in the ridges, textures and bases that give those bottles their practical functionality. This newest series of vessels defies its origins by creating connections to ancient glass and sparkling prisms.

Julia Kunin’s richly-glazed porcelain sculptures are exquisite piles of otherworldly life created from casts of sea creatures, insects, and animal forms. Kunin’s work addresses complex ideas about beauty and decay, sensuality, nature and death. Their forms reflect her interest in Asian scholars’ rocks used for meditation and contemplation of the natural world, and also allude to aspects of the grotesque by referencing the excesses and indulgences of the 19th century “Wunderkammer”, fashionable collections of natural specimens, accrued and sometimes altered for display to both amuse and enchant viewers.

Susan Rabinowitz’s work evolves from a process whereby transparent veils of paint flow across the expanse of canvas, reacting to gravity as they form layers of color and light. Their extreme horizontal format provides a horizon that locks the image into place, and speaks of the experience of infinite space. Her flowing colors generate perceptual phenomena and subtle atmospheric effects that are about the experience of nature: of seeing the light of the sun, the span of the sky, or the glimmering surface of the sea.

For additional information, please contact Carleen Sheehan at csheehan3@earthlink.net.