The Fordham University Galleries Ildiko Butler Gallery November 25, 2024 – January 17, 2025 Fordham University at Lincoln Center map 113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue New York, NY 10023 fordhamuniversitygalleries
The Visual Arts Program at Fordham University and the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs are please to present The Intimacy of Prayer, an exhibition of Chester Higgins’ photographs of various forms of devotion taken across the Untied States, Africa, and the MENA region.
Photographer and author Chester Higgins was born in Alabama in 1946 and was formally educated at Tuskegee University, graduating in 1970. Experiences with his family’s church community, as well as with college campus student protest, were formative in developing the direction of Higgins’s artistic practice. Higgins’s oeuvre portrays the dignity of the African American and African diasporic communities, and this work has brought Higgins all over the world, and to Africa in particular, many times. Higgins worked as a staff photographer for The New York Times from 1975 until 2014, and is the author of several publications, including Black Woman (1970); Drums of Life (1974); Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa (1994); Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging (2000); and Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey (2004).
Higgins’s work has been the subject of many international exhibitions and is held in notable collections, such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Higgins lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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The Fordham University Department of Visual Arts is pleased to present, Moments and Time,a final group show of the 2024 Senior Thesis Students.
Featuring work by: Booch O’Connell, Sara Lockett, Gabrielle Gowans, Arina Medvedeva, Maureen Segota, Erin Newton, Spencer Balter, Mila Gras, Julia Boberg, Caroline Wong, and Madison Nash.A closing reception will be on May 15 from 6-8pm.
Fordham University’s Lipani Gallery August 21—October 4, 2023 Performance by the artist and public reception: September 7th, 5:30—7:30 pm Fordham University at Lincoln Center map 113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue New York, NY 10023 Map to the Lipani Gallery fordhamuniversitygalleries
Chilean-born, New York-based artist María Verónica San Martín offers a retelling through performance, book art, and engravings of politically crucial moments of recent Chilean history and their interconnectedness with US experience. As we approach the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état against Chile’s democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, this exhibition focuses on San Martín’s motif of Dignidad as a connector of different elements of Chilean and US history across time and space, denouncing past abuses and crying out for social justice.
These elements include the coup on September 11, 1973—actively supported by the CIA—as well as other events before and afterward. One is the establishment in 1961 of Colonia Dignidad, an autarchic, fascist compound in southern Chile that aided in the torture and repression of leftist dissidents throughout the seventies and eighties. Meanwhile, in a finely made series of artist’s books, San Martín calls out for the dignity of the people tortured and disappeared by the dictatorship. The exhibit finishes with San Martín’s more recent etchings representing Chile’s social upheaval in 2019, in which protesters against neoliberal scarcity, state-sponsored racism, and police violence rechristened one of Santiago’s central squares as Plaza Dignidad.
The multidisciplinary exhibit—San Martín’s third solo exhibit in New York City—comprises eighteen pieces, including one sculpture, four artist’s books, two video screens showing a series of performances by the artist, and eleven engravings. The pieces are organized chronologically to trace the development of the concept of “Dignidad” over the past sixty years in Chile. There is a series of explanatory texts that contextualize the works within Chile’s history and culture.
These activities will provide an opportunity for three different academic departments at Fordham – Modern Languages and Literatures, Communication and Media Studies, and Visual Arts – to collaborate in an effort to position art, cinema, and literature as ways of working through the trauma of the coup and keeping the memory of the dictatorship’s victims alive.
At the opening reception on September 7, San Martín will introduce her work and do a mini-performance.
The exhibit is part of Chile 1973/2023, a series of programs organized by Fordham, Columbia, Princeton, and New York Universities to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Chile’s military coup through art shows, film screenings, and literary events.
About the artist: María Verónica San Martín (b. 1981) is a Chilean, New York-based multidisciplinary artist and educator who explores the impacts of history, memory, and trauma through archives, artist books, installation, sculpture, and performance. She was a fellow at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program and holds an MA from The Corcoran School of Art and Design, George Washington University, Washington DC. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY; Artists Space, the New York Immigrant Artist Biennial, the Queens Museum and Rockefeller Center, all in New York City; at Trinity College, in CT; at the Print Center in Philadelphia, PA; and at the Chilean National Archive, Galería NAC, and Galería Animal in Santiago and at the Museum Meermanno, The Hague, Netherlands. Her work is held in more than 60 collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Watkinson Library, CT; the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. María is currently working on a commission for NMWA’s Holding Ground: Artists’ Books for the National Museum of Women in the Arts project while preparing her first solo exhibition in Canada at The Goethe-Institute in October. She teaches at Parsons, The New School, NY; the Center for Book Arts, NY; Penland School of Craft, NC; The University of Miami, OH, and is part of the education program of Booklyn Art as well as an artist and board member.
Exhibition curated by Carl Fischer, Professor and Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Fordham University
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The Department of Visual Arts at Fordham University is pleased to present the Fordham Galleries Online third installment, Roei Greenberg: English Encounters. Every other week the gallery features a body of work by a contemporary artist, alternating with our Adjunct Faculty Spotlight Series, in which our talented adjuncts share samplings of their production with the Fordham community.
Currently, the Fordham University Galleries are closed in response to COVID-19. However, our gallery website will continue to feature a robust selection of offerings from the world of contemporary art and different areas of study offered in the Department of Visual Arts: Architecture, Film/Video, Graphic Design, Painting, and Photography. Stay tuned for our online presentations, discussions, and public dialogues coming this fall as our gallery website functions as a launching platform for a thoughtful engagement with the issues of our times.
English Encounters Statement: The rural walk is a well-known English cultural practice. Though it may be civil, the act of walking itself is rooted in ideology from my cultural background; to walk the land is to know the land, and therefore suggests belonging entitlement and ownership. I begin to survey the English countryside, becoming familiar with the island’s geography, an act of mapping that refers to imperial and colonial histories.
Pertaining to Romanticism, I appropriate the visual rules of the picturesque, traditionally used to create an illusion of social and natural harmony. The dramatic light and weather conditions combined with forensic attention to details and on-site interventions intend to provoke the ambiguous feelings of seduction and alienation. Poetic and alluring yet tinged with irony, the images seek to disrupt traditional modes of representation in a place where land ownership and social hierarchy have shaped the form and perception of the landscape for centuries.
Roei Greenberg Bio London based – Israeli artist (b.1985)
I grew up on a Kibbutz, located on the northern Israeli border with Lebanon. In 2009 I moved to Tel Aviv, where I completed a BA Photography in 2013. After years of investigating the Israeli landscape, its geography, historical narratives, and my biography, I left Israel in 2018. In the search for a new subject matter, I found myself once again drawn to questions of land and power, belonging, and legitimacy.
My photographic practice is concerned with landscape as a complex intersection between culture, geography, and autobiography. The effects of human activity on land, political borders, and ecology are amongst the issues investigated in my work. The use of large-format camera and film creates a multi-layered photographic perspective, pictorial and alluring yet seeking to disrupt traditional modes of landscape representation. Website Instagram
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“Case Study Tokyo 2020” by the Gabelli School of Business is now Available! ?>
I am pleased to announce to you the completion of a project that is very dear to me. Clocking in at 438 pages with over 4500 images, Case Study Tokyo 2020 by the Gabelli School of Business is finally here!
Take one part working methodology from the influential 1972 book, Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, combine with the megacity of Tokyo, add Fordham University Gabelli students, stir for ten days in Japan and what do you get? You get direct acquisition of knowledge through experience with a small team, realized in a hardback research volume focusing on branding, sensory marketing, architecture, design, photography, and urban planning.
Hearty congratulations to the intrepid researchers: Madison Burkart, Branden Cheung, Kaia Corthell, Alexa Cucchiara, Shauna Fortier, Alexander Gardner, Sekai Kaminski, Fionna Lui, Declan McCabe, Sraboni Paul, Anja Pelkola, Raimundo Sanchez, Amanda Scacalossi, Samantha Schwartz, Joseph Sellmeyer, Polina Yafizova, Kevin Zhang, Yiyun Zheng. Preview the entirety of the book HERE. As well, you can order in softcover or two different hardcover formats. Enjoy!
167 Days Until Graduation: Highlights from the Senior Seminar ?>
