Fordham University Visual Arts 2025 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
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Fordham University Visual Arts is pleased to announce the start of the 2025 Senior Thesis Exhibitions. Please follow our talented emerging artists as they exhibit throughout the spring semester in our Ildiko Butler Gallery and Lipani Gallery.
For further information on the exhibition, please contact Vincent Stracquadanio. For the Visual Arts Department Website: click here.
URBAN DEVOTIONS: Images of Faith in the City, A Photographic Exhibition by David Gonzalez ?>
The Fordham University Galleries Lipani Gallery January 21 – February 17, 2025 Fordham University at Lincoln Center map 113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue New York, NY 10023 fordhamuniversitygalleries
RECEPTION JANUARY 23rd, 6-7:30PM
New York has been a city of faith, whether it’s small devotions in unexpected nooks or bold public declarations of belief. And with a global city reshaped every few generations, traditions offer a familiar and comforting touch, if not hope itself, in every corner of the city if you look. Indeed, as the writer Oscar Hijuelos once said to me about New Yorkers who go about their days oblivious to the nuances of faith: “They are like tone-deaf. They hear a piano being played and they only hear ‘thunka-thunk.’ There is this wild jazz going on called religion and some people don’t have the chops.” -David Gonzalez
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.
