Faculty Spotlight 2013
Faculty Spotlight 2013
Joseph Lawton, David Storey, Mark StreetThe Center Gallery
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
December 17, 2012 – February 14, 2013
Reception: February 7, 2013, 6 – 8 PM
Joseph Lawton, David Storey, Mark StreetThe Center Gallery
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
December 17, 2012 – February 14, 2013
Reception: February 7, 2013, 6 – 8 PM
An exhibition sampling works from members of the Visual Arts faculty at Fordham University. Please view a selection of works and statements by the artists at the Visual Arts Department’s Center & Lipani Gallery website.
The artists:
Joseph Lawton, NY State Fair, 20″ x 16″, silver gelatin print, 2011
I have selected eight photographs for this year’s Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. Four from Italy, where I have spent the past three Julys teaching in Rome, and four from the New York State Fair up in Syracuse. Syracuse is my hometown and I have returned each year for the past thirty years to photograph the Fair.
I have selected eight photographs for this year’s Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. Four from Italy, where I have spent the past three Julys teaching in Rome, and four from the New York State Fair up in Syracuse. Syracuse is my hometown and I have returned each year for the past thirty years to photograph the Fair.
David Storey, “Greeny,” 2011, 8″x10″
I have been making paintings centered on the fluidly permeable boundaries of image and abstraction since moving to New York from California thirty years ago. I brought along a love of picture making, anecdote and color that were key elements of a Bay Area regionalism that shaped my work as a young painter. Over the subsequent years there has been a gradual movement towards a transcendent clarity of the incidental over the anecdotal in both image and in the paint itself. I still make abstract ensembles that function as figurative events and simultaneously occupy an equally non-literal yet compelling spatial and chromatic arena.
I have been making paintings centered on the fluidly permeable boundaries of image and abstraction since moving to New York from California thirty years ago. I brought along a love of picture making, anecdote and color that were key elements of a Bay Area regionalism that shaped my work as a young painter. Over the subsequent years there has been a gradual movement towards a transcendent clarity of the incidental over the anecdotal in both image and in the paint itself. I still make abstract ensembles that function as figurative events and simultaneously occupy an equally non-literal yet compelling spatial and chromatic arena.
Mark Street, Wanderlust, 4 monitor video installation, silent, 2012
An update of the concept of the flaneur; with abstract intrusions. Urban peregrinations recorded in Paris and NYC.
An update of the concept of the flaneur; with abstract intrusions. Urban peregrinations recorded in Paris and NYC.