Juliana Johnson’s immersive art exhibition
Embodying mobility and resistance against the loss of humanity and connection in our culture through movement and design.
Opening Event in the Lipani Gallery
Tuesday, April 4 at 7:00pm, with a live performance at 7:30pm
works by Anabelle DeClement and Athena Kokinakis
Friday, April 7 at 7pm in SL 24L
A review of Prismatic Shifts (at The Ildiko Butler Gallery until March 31, 2017), has been posted on Art Critical:
“Carleen Sheehan has curated a small but intriguing exhibition at Fordham that brings out new ideas from two fearlessly inventive artists, Diana Cooper and Lee Boroson, each better known for large installations.”
David Freund: Gas Stop 1978-1981
The Lipani Gallery
March 1–March 31, 2017
Reception: Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 6–7 pm
Artist Talk: 7–8pm
Curator: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
Fordham University is proud to present David Freund: Gas Stop, a sampling of twenty-seven black & white photographs pulled from a much larger investigation made between 1978 to 1981.
In the twentieth century any American driver or passenger would likely stop at a gas station weekly, not just for gas. Then, gas stations were also oases offering food and drink, car repairs, directions, telephones, maps and, importantly, bathrooms. Yet, beyond appreciation as architectural novelties, they and their offerings have been little photographed.
From 1978 to 1981, David Freund looked at the culture, architecture and landscape of gas stations in more than forty states. The photographs show customers and workers interacting, gassing up, or just hanging out. Architecture and signage, both corporate and vernacular, reach out to passing drivers.
Gas Stop presents the designed or natural landscaping seen at stations, and the regional landscapes that hold and surround them. Sparking recognition and recollection, the photographs, accrue as elements in a nonlinear narrative of automotive America.
Of more than 200,000 gas stations in the United States at the time of his project, today about half are gone, especially full service ones. Such stations and their offerings exist now mostly in memory and in this work.
David writes:
On the first morning of an intended photographic project, outside of my motel was a gas station from which I photographed a dark and rolling tanker truck as its four black tires passed a line of four half-buried white tires. In the misty distance was a grazing horse, framed by the back of the truck. In front of the station was a large, hand-lettered sign advertising milk, and across the road a small, local motel. As someone later commented, “These are about everything.”
The painter Miles Forst once described gas stations as a place to go to fill up your tank and shut off your brain. That morning, however, I became aware of gas stations as a locus for many elements that characterize America. And whether stopping in or hanging out, people in motion are often around to enliven and propel the narrative.
From that moment, looking out from and looking in at gas stations became my new project, which in the end entailed travel to forty-seven states and stops at thousands of stations. All provided discoveries. —David Freund
David Freund Photography
View his forthcoming book on Steidl Books
Prismatic Shifts
Curator: Carleen Sheehan
The Ildiko Butler Gallery
February 22—March 31, 2017
Artist Reception Friday, February 24, 6–8
PRISMATIC SHIFTS will feature site-specific works by artists Lee Boroson and Diana Cooper, working in collaborative engagement with each other’s work and the space surrounding the gallery. Both artists were inspired by the physical space of the Butler Gallery itself, which, with it’s glassed-in front wall and small lense-like windows onto 60th Street, functions as both a vitrine to showcase work and as a prism that reflects and refracts the activities taking place outside it. Both artists share an inclination for engaging and altering our perception of environments in simple yet innovative ways, and they plan to construct artworks that will connect visually to the architecture and activity of both the Lowenstein lobby and the street outside, underscoring the fluidity of our perception of the built and natural worlds, and the ways in we make connections and generate meaning through visual language.
Artist Talk with Wendel White
Monday, September 19, 11:30 am
SL24E, Visual Arts Complex, Fordham University
Mine, Yours, Ours
A Conversation on Segregation in America, Past and Present with
Rebecca Carroll, Deborah Willis, Marta Gutman, and Wendel White
followed by a reception for the exhibition
Monday, September 19, 6 pm
Franny’s Space, adjacent to the Visual Arts Complex, Fordham University
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
Film Screening and Talk with Director David Davidson
Wednesday, September 21, 6 pm
SL24L, Visual Arts Complex, Fordham University
Ildiko Butler Gallery – Fordham University
Visual Arts Department + Refugee and Immigrant Fund
June 3 – September 30, 2016
Reception: June 10, 6-8PM
What This Journey Breeds, presented by the Visual Arts Department of Fordham University and the Refugee and Immigrant Fund (RIF), is an exhibition of multi-disciplinary work created by Visual Arts students with concentrations in Graphic Design, Painting & Drawing, Photography, Architecture, and Film & Video.
As its name suggests, What This Journey Breeds describes the culmination of this unique group of students’ formative engagement with RIF and the Brooklyn Grange. Over the course of the 2015-16 academic year, Fordham students have been working closely with RIF, participating from support group meetings, to interviews, and to hands-on volunteering in the gardens and at the University. In tandem to these experiences, they have been making work in response to their relationship with the asylum seekers, investigating themes of displacement, vulnerability, loss, and above all, hope. Most significantly, this journey revealed to its participants that atrocities can occur at every scale and knows no geographic, political, or cultural boundary.
Organized by Anibal Pella-Woo, Amie Cunat and Carleen Sheehan. Participating Artists: Francesca Aton, Anabelle Declement, Nicholas Eliades, Emma Kilroy, Margaret McCauley, James McCracken, David Quateman, Eamon Redpath, and Danielle Serigano.
