RADIANT

EXHIBITION

RADIANT

Now on view in the Center Gallery, RADIANT, with New York artists Shari Mendelson,
Julia Kunin, and Susan Rabinowitz.

Curated by Carleen Sheehan, Artist-in-Residence, Dept. of Theatre & Visual Arts

June 4th-August 1, 2009

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JUNE 4TH, 2009, 6-8pm
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RADIANT brings together three artists whose work radiates light, color, and formal intensity while exploring our understanding of the environment, natural phenomena, and the subjective, often dual nature of what we call beautiful. Each artist’s process (flowing pigments on canvas, impressions cast in clay, or recyclables re-collected and reconfigured) achieves a transformation of materials into transcendent objects that concentrate our gaze while expanding our vision.

Shari Mendelson’s work is constructed from small modular pieces of industrial plastic that
are transformed through accumulation and repetition into glowing nebulae, faceted crystalline vessels, and sparkling screens of light and color that disperse and refract light. She recently began collecting recycled plastic bottles, attracted by the ornamental possibilities concealed in the ridges, textures and bases that give those bottles their practical functionality. This newest series of vessels defies its origins by creating connections to ancient glass and sparkling prisms.

Julia Kunin’s richly-glazed porcelain sculptures are exquisite piles of otherworldly life created from casts of sea creatures, insects, and animal forms. Kunin’s work addresses complex ideas about beauty and decay, sensuality, nature and death. Their forms reflect her interest in Asian scholars’ rocks used for meditation and contemplation of the natural world, and also allude to aspects of the grotesque by referencing the excesses and indulgences of the 19th century “Wunderkammer”, fashionable collections of natural specimens, accrued and sometimes altered for display to both amuse and enchant viewers.

Susan Rabinowitz’s work evolves from a process whereby transparent veils of paint flow across the expanse of canvas, reacting to gravity as they form layers of color and light. Their extreme horizontal format provides a horizon that locks the image into place, and speaks of the experience of infinite space. Her flowing colors generate perceptual phenomena and subtle atmospheric effects that are about the experience of nature: of seeing the light of the sun, the span of the sky, or the glimmering surface of the sea.

For additional information, please contact Carleen Sheehan at csheehan3@earthlink.net.

Selections from Drawing I and Photo on view now

Currently on view in the Center Gallery is work from the Drawing I class and in the Push Pin Gallery selections from Prof. Lawton's Photo Class.

日本から来ました。日本に行ったことがありません。上記のどちらでもありません。

日本から来ました。
日本に行ったことがありません。
上記のどちらでもありません。
I came from Japan.
I have not been to Japan.
I am neither of the above.

有川 滋男 Shigeo Arikawa
康雅筑 Ya-chu Kang
西村 明也 Akinali Nishimula
志甫 和美 Kazumi Shiho
Eric Van Hove
Ben Washington

Curated by Stephan Apicella–Hitchcock

November 15 – December 19, 2008
Reception: Tuesday, November 18, 6 – 8 PM

Fordham University’s Center Gallery
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023-7414

I came from Japan. I have not been to Japan. I am neither of the above. brings together contemporary artworks from six international artists that display differing relationships with Japan; however, this exhibition makes no singular statement about Japan, or implies that there might even be a cohesive Japan that the artists could speak about. The connections between Japan and this exhibition border on incidental – hence the title, which simply describes the varying levels of association between the artists and the country.

The works in this show are part of a larger exploration into finding a balance between the poles of stating and describing something overtly and leaving something implied, or unsaid. For example, a Scottish computer engineer working for the Toyota company explained to me in a doctor's waiting room in Tokyo that communication between the East and the West is not unlike an iceberg, where what is discernible, what is above water, only represents a small portion of the iceberg's actual structure.

Whether this analogy has any relevance to the dynamic of understanding between different cultures is a lengthy and problematic debate. Still, this concept is an excellent framing mechanism to consider the sculptures, films, and photography by Shigeo Arikawa, Ya-chu Kang, Akinali Nishimula, Kazumi Shiho, Eric Van Hove, and Ben Washington. Each artist demonstrates a superb understanding of their craft in realizing their pieces as discreet objects in front of you,  while the conceptual aspects of the works are sufficiently receptive to support a number of interpretations. Maintaining a curious spirit while engaging with the works will allow the emergence of numerous formal connections, overlapping historical concerns, and latent conceptual associations between the pieces.

For additional information please email Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock at: apicellahit@fordham.edu

http://fordhamvisualarts.blogspot.com/
http://www.fordham.edu/visualarts/

北風は明らかに氷山から吹き出す。
A north wind blows, obviously off the icebergs.

ANDREW MIKSYS Photography Lecture Series

Image caption: Misha and Boris, Lithuania, 2005, C-Print, 32 x 40

Please join photography concentrators and faculty for a lecture and image presentation by photographer Andrew Miksys. Andrew Miksys (b. 1969) is a native of Seattle, Washington. His photography has been shown internationally including exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre, and De Appel Contemporary Arts Centre in Amsterdam. Miksys has been the recipient of grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2000) and the J. William Fulbright Program (1998 and 2002). He currently divides his time between the US and Vilnius, Lithuania. He is represented by Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles and Gallery Kominek in Berlin.

Tuesday, November 11

6:30 – 8:00 PM

Fordham University

113 West 60th Street

Room SL24L in the Visual Arts Complex

This lecture is open to the public and all students

For more images and information please visit the following links:
www.andrewmiksys.com

www.paulkopeikingallery.com
www.kominek-gallery.com

Casey Ruble at Foley Gallery

Image caption: Isosceles (detail), 2008, 44 x 71 inches, gouache on paper

Casey Ruble: Except in Struggle
October 14 - November 15

Foley Gallery
547 W 27th Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10001
212.244.9081 p
212.244.9082 f
info@foleygallery.com

MICHEL AUDER Senior Seminar Lecture Series

Michel Auder talks about his work and his over-40-year career in filmmaking. A member of the 1960s Zanzibar French filmmaker collective and married to Warhol superstar Viva and later to Cindy Sherman, Auder has spent his career voyeuristically documenting his own life and the downtown New York art scene with both poignancy and irony. Auder's work has been included in numerous prestigious film festivals and collections and has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art, the Anthology Film Archives, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

TUESDAY, OCT 21
6 - 7:30 pm
SL24H

Open to the public and all students

David Storey at Leslie Heller Gallery

NYC D.O.T directional compass design competition

Navigating our city’s streets can be a confusing experience when traveling to unfamiliar neighborhoods for residents and visitors alike. Subway riders face a special challenge as emerging from the station to the street can prove disorienting to even seasoned New Yorkers. To help improve the situation, NYCDOT is requesting design proposals for orientation elements to aid pedestrians on route to their destinations as they exit from below grade subway stations or descend to the street from above ground platforms.

A total of sixteen sites (three in the Bronx, four in Queens, five in Brooklyn, and four in Manhattan) have been pre-selected by NYC DOT with input from some of the participating schools (the Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons The New School of Design, and Pratt Institute). Fordham University used the exercise for a spring class, and will be also included in the final exhibit). in NYC to be invited to participate in this desiign competition for the NYC Department of Transportation.

Above: examples of student proposals from Cathcart's and Goldstein's design and architecture classes, Spring 2008.

Architectural Drawing

Imaging Black Culture

Imaging Black Culture 
A lecture by Deb Willis (NYU)
November 12 11:30 am LL 816
presented with the generous support of a 2008-09 Dean's Challenge Grant
reception to follow the lecture

ALL ARE WELCOME

Visual Arts Events

DESIGN CONVERSATIONS

Rick Frankel and Fred Krughoff discusses the Semantic Web and Standards — why should you care?

Monday, Sept. 29th at 6:30 in the Visual Arts Crit room

The Semantic Web is about structuring the content of web pages — extending xhtml to make web pages accessible to users and other computers. From a designer’s standpoint the most important part is separating the look of a website from the content. Rick’s presentation will discuss the how and why this is important for the future of the web.

“The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content”. Wikipedia said that.

Rick Frankel is a brilliant programmer, who has over 30 years experience in information technologies planning, data systems design and development, his expertise includes XML/XSLT, SOAP, /RPC, HTML, Java, C/C++, Perl and Ruby. Rick began his career earning an M.F.A. in Electronic Visualization from the University of Illinois, Chicago, then at Bally Corp. where he designed and worked on many coin-op video games including Professor Pac-Man and GORF (Galactic Orbiting Robot Force).
He is a former Senior Principal Consultant for such giants in the industry as Sun Microsystems, and the Oracle Corporation. Rick is currently President of cyberCode consulting.

Fred Krughoff is a Visiting lecturer at Fordham University Lincoln Center on the Design and the Web.