Doug DuBois
Book presentation and photography lecture
Thursday, October 13, 2011
6 PM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H
Join photographer and educator Doug DuBois for a presentation and discussion of his most recent book Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights published by the Aperture Foundation.
Doug DuBois began photographing his family in 1984, prior to his father’s near-fatal fall from a commuter train and his mother’s subsequent breakdown and hospitalizations. While these events set a narrative backdrop to his work, the emotional freight is carried by the details as described by the artist: “the pallor of my mother’s skin, the glare of my father’s gaze and the tactile communion between my sister and nephew constitute a complex and resonant picture of family ties.”
More than twenty years later, DuBois’s project has developed in remarkable ways. Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights resonates with emotional immediacy, offering a potent examination of family relations, and what it means to subject personal relationships to the unblinking eye of the camera. Each photograph is rich with color, nuanced gestures and glances enveloping the viewer in a multivalent, emotionally tense world.
Links:
http://www.dougdubois.com
Biography:
DOUG DUBOIS (born in Dearborn, Michigan 1960) received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and Parco Gallery, Tokyo, among other venues, and can be found in the collections of major institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2006, he received the John Gutman Photography Fellowship.
For further information please contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu
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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
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Eileen Boxer, Ephemera transformation
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Lucille Tenazas, To Infinity and Beyond, silkscreen, 48 in x 37 in
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Lucille Tenazas, Moto Group Cards and Envelopes, Green Card, 9 ½ in x 6 in,
1994, offset on paper
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Paula Scher, Dancing on Her Knees
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Paula Scher, Him
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Gail Anderson, Lucky Serif Dream Book, 2011, offset on paper, 7 ½ in x 5 in
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Gail Anderson, Axl Rose: The Lost Years, 2000
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Elaine Lustig Cohen, Mies Van der Rohe, 2001, 35 ¾ in x 24 ½ in
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Elaine Lustig Cohen, A Millionth Anniversary 1958, offset on paper,
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Louise Fili, Le Monde, 1999, offset on paper, 2 ¼ in x 11 ½ in
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Louise Fili, Calea Nero d’Avola, 5 in x 3 in, 2008, wine bottle, offset on paper
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Daniel Seiple
Film screening and discussion: Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
6 PM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H
Join artist and producer Daniel Seiple for a screening and discussion of his project Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011, 30 minutes plus extra footage.
Project synopsis:
On December 5th in the Tone River, just up from where it meets the Kinu River in Moriya, Japan, the president of the Joso Flying Club, Ono-san, ordered his technical specialist, Sugiyama-san, to crash his radio controlled airplane into my fishing boat, per my request. I had spent the previous month filming and becoming acquainted with two RC clubs who had airfields along the river. The hobby club, which flew scale models including WWII aircrafts such as the Japanese Zero and U.S. B29, talked openly about the Kamikaze. One mentioned its absence from school history books. Another gave an eyewitness account of a plane-to-plane Kamikaze attack. The other group, the Joso Flying Club, was semi-professional and showed more interest in making history, rather than discussing it. When asked if he was interested in real airplanes, one pilot responded, “For me, airplanes are a thing to look at rather than fly.” The hobby club declined to perform the crash for safety reasons, but more likely, because they were not capable. The Joso Club agreed and 8 Japanese RC operators witnessed the attack.
Links:
Travelhome.org
Arcus Residency Moriya, Japan
Biography:
Daniel Seiple was born in 1973. Daniel Seiple has been working on projects which reconsider various “borders” in contemporary society. Mimicking, crossing, shifting, destroying or redrawing boundaries…. They include physical / geographical markers as well as social and psychological territories. Each project is realized for a specific site and situation by employing various strategies and mediums.
Images:
One production still taken during the filming of Rajikon (Radio Control); three frames from Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011.
For further information please contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu
Matthew Bakkom
Book Lecture: The New York City Museum of Complaint
Tuesday, February 8
11:30 AM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H
Join artist and producer Matthew Bakkom for a discussion of the project The New York City Museum of Complaint. Initially presented as publicly distributed newsprint edition in 2006, this collection of letters sent to the mayor of the city of New York (between 1751 and 1972) has subsequently been manifest as a fine art publication, designed by Peter Miles and released by Steidl-Miles in 2009.
Selected from the municipal archives and presented chronologically, the letters address a range of issues from dead animals in the street to swindles, capitalism, and corruption. From civil rights, adventuresses, bad luck, and broken hearts to noise and other people. These are the communiqués of dissatisfaction over the course of a city’s evolution.
The strength of this collection lies in its striking ability to capture the spirit of the city as defined by its critics and crusaders. New York City has long been perceived as a place where personal expression flourishes. These civic documents are historical embodiments of the language, wit and energy that helped forge the City’s reputation. From the passionate defense of street musicians to dedicated battles with drycleaners, police officers, pushcart peddlers and hooligans, a chorus emerges that articulates the challenges and inherent absurdity of metropolitan life.
Links:
Steidl Edition
City Room Guest Blogger compendium
Newsprint Edition
Matthew Bakkom was born in 1968. Starting in the early 1990’s, working as a visual artist in North America and Europe, he has created projects and participated in exhibitions cities such as New York, Paris, Dublin, Philadelphia, Eindhoven and Minneapolis. The creative investigation of collections and archives often serves as the basis for his work.
Image:
Cover image from The New York City Museum of Complaint
Curated by Matthew Bakkom
Book design by Peter Miles Studio
304 pages, 217 colour plates
24.5 cm x 32 cm
Hardcover
Steidl Miles
ISBN: 978-3-86521-745-5
Publication date: August 2009
For further information please contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu
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
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.
Senior Thesis exhibition on view Dec. 6th through 12th in the PushPin Gallery. Congratulations the show looks great!
Richard Kalina has a new website at www.richardkalina.net
Bill Burke
In Autrefois, Maison Privée—the title means “once a private house,” and refers to the prevalent reappropriation of once private houses for municipal and government use—Burke captures the dramatic history of Indochina, from the influence of French colonialism through the rise of communism and the devastating effects of the Vietnam War, to the repopulation of Cambodia after the fall of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge and the opening of the area to capitalism. Burke’s first entrée into the region occurred during the period of Soviet control, a period of recovery that allowed for the current explosion of capitalism, which has already begun to devastate an architectural heritage that had been well preserved in the deep freeze of socialism.
In this selection of pictures of architecture and portraits all made on Polaroid Positive/negative pack film between 1988 and 2000, Burke pays tribute to Eugene Atget and August Sander.
For more information please visit his website.
Additional contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu
