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UnderPants zine release party and screening of Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists, 2014

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Flew the Coop
Vincent Stracquadanio and Amie Cunat


October 12 – November 1, 2017
UnderPants zine release party and screening of Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists, 2014
Tuesday, October 31, 6-8PM


The Lipani Gallery
Fordham University at Lincoln Center MAP
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
The galleries are open from 9am to 9pm everyday except on university holidays
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The Visual Arts Department of Fordham University is pleased to announce, Flew the Coop, a two-person exhibition of new paintings by Vincent Stracquadanio and Amie Cunat. The opening reception will be held at the gallery on Thursday, October 12, 2017 from 6:00-8:00 in the evening. The artists will also host a launch reception for their zine edition, Underpants. The zine includes a series of collaborative drawings by Cunat and Stracquadanio. The originals drawings are exhibited on the gallery’s project wall.

Focusing on thematic overlaps within their respective work, the exhibition addresses the artists’ reflection on empty sites where humanity Flew the Coop, and only what is displayed through painting remains. As a result, the viewer becomes a participant in this larger narrative by looking, searching and finding the idiosyncrasies and humor implicit in the artists’ work.

Cunat’s wall painting The birds of tin covers the gallery walls with an ashen landscape reminiscent of Bowser’s haunted castle and fish tank props of ruined civilizations. Its horizon line circumnavigates the gallery interior dipping and rising according to Stracquadanio’s canvas works. While Cunat addresses an exterior scape, Stracquadanio’s paintings describe a range of richly decorated, baroque interiors. Stracquadanio constructs the paintings as if the viewer is positioned as if peering into a space. In Myth Ray Um #1, you are situated to peer upwards at a vast ceiling depicting vegetation, figures, and mountain ranges. In other paintings, you feel as if you are walking along a corridor or peeking through a window-like vacancy.

Stracquadanio’s paintings resemble architectural spaces comprised of visual references to the artist’s personal history. His sources range from the patterning on Sicilian ceramics, the narratives depicted through paintings inside his neighborhood Catholic church, the fig trees in his parent’s back yard in Queens, and to a pizza box from a local restaurant in New Haven. Although the work alludes to biographical experiences, the artist also wishes to maintain a sense of mystery or the indeterminate in a painting’s narrative. He compares his work to the experience of visiting a Mithraeum ruin (a meeting place for an ancient Roman cult dedicated to a Persian deity named Mithras). Throughout Europe, Mithraeum ruins all share the same visual iconography—such as a man adorned with a floppy hat sacrificing a bull or a man being born from a large boulder. A visitor may try to infer their own connections or associations from these cues in service of a larger story, but their true meanings are uncertain.

Cunat’s work reveals parallels between abstraction and perception through paintings and installation. What began as an observation becomes a painterly image that is of the original experience. Recently the artist has been drawing various churches or buildings in her Lower Manhattan neighborhood, then translating these sites into site responsive wall paintings. The once structural buildings adopt biomorphic tendencies in the paintings, and their contours bend as if their frames have been pulled out, leaving behind the suggestion of a jelly-like skin sagging from its own weight. Other forms maintain a sense of buoyancy and appear to sway with a larger atmospheric force that pushes this imagined landscape into contorted positions.

Vincent Stracquadanio (b. Queens, NY) earned an MFA from Yale University and a BA from Fordham University. He has exhibited his paintings at Field Projects (NY), Green Hall Gallery (CT), Trestle Gallery (NY), Public Address (NY) and ArtHelix (NY). He is the recipient of the First Year Gamblin Paint Award in addition to the James Storey Memorial Visual Arts Award. He lives and works in New York, NY.

Amie Cunat (b. McHenry, IL) received an MFA from Cornell University, Post-Baccalaureate Degree in Painting and Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Dual BA in Visual Arts and Art History from Fordham University. Her recent exhibitions include The Clock is Taking a Nap. at Knockdown Center (NY), Curtains at This Friday or next Friday (NY), Hideout at Wave Hill (NY), and Clue, Cue at Foley Gallery (NY). She has participated in numerous residencies including The Studios at MASS MoCA (MA) and Guttenberg Art STAR Program (NJ). She lives and works in New York, NY.

Both artists are Fordham University Alumni and currently teach Painting and Drawing in the Visual Arts Department.

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Summer 2018 Documentary Photography Rome

Dear all potential photographers/world travelers,
Enrollment for the Summer 2018 Documentary Photography Rome class is about to start for the University; however, priority is given to Visual Arts Majors & Minors. Feel free to reach out by email with any questions, or to schedule a meeting to go over the class details. Enrollment is limited, so don’t wait if you are interested in going to Rome this summer!
 The application link is here.
An example of a recent student Italy book can be seen here.

2018 Documentary Photography Rome Poster

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Leave Me Alone With the Recipes: The Life, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles

Opening Announcement

Leave Me Alone With the Recipes: The Life, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles

The Ildiko Butler Gallery
October 17-January 21

Opening reception and book signing with editors Sarah Rich and Wendy MacNaughton:
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6-8pm

Curators: Wendy MacNaughton and Sarah Rich
Exhibition Advisor: Debbie Millman
Exhibition Coordinator: Abby Goldstein

Press Release

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Mark Alice Durant: 27 Contexts An Anecdotal History in Photography

Visual Arts presents a reading with

Mark Alice Durant 27 Contexts An Anecdotal History in Photography
Monday October 16 6:30 PM in SL 24 L

Mark Alice Durant is an artist and writer living in Baltimore. His essays have appeared in numerous journals such as Art in America, Aperture, Dear Dave, and Afterimage, and many catalogs, monographs and anthologies. With Jane D. Marsching, he was co-curator and co-author of Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology and the Paranormal. He was co-curator and co-author of the traveling exhibition Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post War America and curator of Celestial at the Camera Club of New York and Notes on Monumentality at the Baltimore Museum of Art. He is a professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Maryland. In 2011 he started the website Saint-Lucy.com which is devoted to writing about photography and contemporary art.

Sponsored by the Visual Arts Program

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Visual Arts Events

June 8 – Oct 2, 2017
Sit Beside Me: Between Other and Author
Interpersonal Documentaries from the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio
Lipani Gallery

June 27 – Oct 2, 2017
Location, Location, Location
Ildiko Butler Gallery

Wednesday, Sep 13, 2017
6 – 8 pm
Reception: Location, Location, Location
Ildiko Butler Gallery

Tuesday, Sep 19, 2017
6 pm
Artist Talk: Multidisciplinary Artist and Designer Michelle Elzay
SL24H

Thursday, Sep 28, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L

Thursday, Oct 5 , 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L

Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017
5:30 pm
Urban Walk: From New Amsterdam to Ground Zero
Contact Colin Cathcart (cathcart@fordham.edu) for more info

Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017
6 pm
Artists in Conversation: Martha Clippinger & Amie Cunat
SL24H

Thursday, Oct 12, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L

Monday, Oct 16, 2017
6:30 pm
Reading by Mark Alice Durant: 27 Contexts: An Anecdotal History
in Photography
SL24L

Oct 17, 2017 – Jan 21, 2018
Cipe Pineles: Leave Me Alone with the Recipes
Ildiko Butler Gallery

Tuesday, Oct 17, 2017
6 pm
Reception: Cipe Pineles: Leave Me Alone with the Recipes
Ildiko Butler Gallery

Tuesday, Oct 17, 2017
6 pm
Guest Speaker: Writer, Artist, and Co-founder of Svetlana Gallery
Bosko Blagojevic
SL24H

Wednesday, Oct 18, 2017
3 pm
MANDATORY Majors’ Reception
Lipani Gallery in the Visual Arts Complex

Thursday, Oct 19, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L

Thursday, Oct 26, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Guest Speaker: French Cinematographer Caroline Champetier
SL24L at Fordham Filmmaking Club

Thursday, Nov 2, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L

Thursday, Nov 2, 2017
6 – 7 pm
Artist Talk: Zac Seeger
room TBA

Tuesday, Nov 7, 2017
5:30 pm
Urban Walk: From Jane Jacobs House to the Stonewall Inn
Contact Colin Cathcart (cathcart@fordham.edu) for more info

Thursday, Nov 9, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L

Tuesday, Nov 21, 2017
5:30 pm
Urban Walk: From Hughs Hall to the Arthur Avenue Market
Contact Colin Cathcart (cathcart@fordham.edu) for more info

Thursday, Nov 16, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L

Thursday, Nov 30, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L

Wednesday, Dec 6, 2017
10 am
Application deadline: Senior Review
Contact Casey Ruble, caseyruble@gmail.com

Dec 6, 2017 – Jan 19, 2018
Senior Seminar Highlights
Lipani Gallery

Friday, Dec 8, 2017
6 pm
Fordham Student Film Festival
SL24L

Mar 1, 2018
Enrollment deadline: VART 3500 Documentary Photography in Italy
Program dates May 30 – Jun 29
Contact Joe Lawton (jlawton@fordham.edu) or
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock (tattarrattat@gmail.com)

Mar – May, 2018
Senior Thesis Exhibitions
Ildiko Butler Gallery

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The 2016–2017 Ildiko Butler Travel Award Recipients

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Photographs by: Jason Boit, Phillip Gregor, Sam Robbins, Yu Ting Lin (images)


Curators: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton
Exhibition Dates: July 2017—May 2018


The Hayden Hartnett Project Space
Fordham University at Lincoln Center MAP
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
Office of Undergraduate Admission, Lowenstein, RM 203
New York, NY 10023
The galleries are open from 9am to 9pm everyday except on university holidays
fordhamuniversitygalleries.com


Fordham University’s Department of Theatre & Visual Art is proud to present an exhibition of the 2016—2017 Ildiko Butler Travel Award Recipients: Jason Boit, Phillip Gregor, Sam Robbins, and Yu Ting Lin. This highly competitive grant is offered to sophomore and junior Visual Arts Majors for independent research. Up to four Ildiko Butler Travel Awards are given annually for exceptional work in the medium of photography.

The grant has enabled students to travel the world from Rome to Havana, Berlin to Budapest, and even from Moscow to Beijing on the Trans-Mongolian Railway. In each and every case the travel opportunity afforded by the award has been educational and transformative for the students. The photographs generated while traveling often become the core of a student’s senior thesis exhibition. In addition, a selection of work from each year’s recipients is included in a year-long exhibition in the Hayden Hartnett Project Space. This year our recipients traveled across India (Boit), Italy (Gregor), America (Robbins), and Taiwan (Lin).

About the Hayden Hartnett Project Space: this space presents yearlong exhibitions of photographic work produced by students in the Department of Theatre and Visual Art. Located in the Office of Undergraduate Admission at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus, the Hayden Hartnett Project Space introduces prospective students and their parents to the high caliber of visual work produced at Fordham University.

Location and hours: The Hayden Hartnett Project Space is inside the Office of Undergraduate Admission on the second floor of the Leon Lowenstein building, RM 203 and is open Monday—Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Visual Arts Student Debuts Film

The Last Playboys, a 10-minute-long film written and directed by two Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) students, will be screened at the Princeton Student Film Festival this week.

Rising juniors Luke Momo and Nevin Kelly-Fair, made the film as part of Campus MovieFest, a festival held at the Rose Hill campus in April. Participants were given six days to create a five-minute film, but Momo and Kelly-Fair went a step further, splitting The Last Playboys into two parts.

The movie follows the romantic and social misadventures of Kelly-Fair and fellow Fordham students Daniel Camou and David Moses over the course of a single evening, as they attempt to blend in at a fashion show. It will be screened Thursday, July 20 at the Princeton Public Library.

Read More at Fordham News