2012-2013 Studio Art Lecture Series
Fall Semester 2012
Fred Gutzeit
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Loyola 8
11:15 a.m.
Fred Gutzeit, New York artist, Fred Gutzeit's art work is comprised of a matrix of networks, paralleling urban density and connectivity. The lecture will focus on the history and development of his work in relationship to New York and the art world as an urban experience.
Sponsored by Studio Art **
Leeah Joo
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Loyola 8
2:15 p.m.
Leeah Joo, the artist, a painter and visiting studio adjunct at Fairfield University next year, will lecture on her cultural background and its influence on her current work.
Sponsored by Studio Art
The Falling Edge: Iceland, Venezuela, Bhutan
Invited panelist, Dr. Kim Bridgford, poet/collaborator. Faculty panelists include Dr. Gisela Gil-Eguis, Communications; Dr. Vincent Rosivach, Classics; Dr. Edrik Lopez, English and Dr. Ryan Drake, Philosophy.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
DNL Multimedia Room,
Reception at 5:30 and Lecture at 6 p.m.
Jo Yarrington, Robert Wall Award lecture - The Falling Edge: Iceland, Venezuela, Bhutan
The lecture and panel will focus on collaboration, interdisciplinary work and a response to cities through global travel.
Sponsored by Studio Art and the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
Dr. Matthew Kubasik: The Art and Science of Electroplating*
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Diffley Board Room
4-6 p.m.
Demonstration and lecture: The Art and Science of Electroplating*. Demonstration by Dr. Matthew Kubasik, Associate Professor of Chemistry, lecture by Ellenor Alcorn, Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Associate Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Art.
Sponsored by the BMA
Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer: Crossing the BLVD Project
Monday, November 5, 2012
DNL Multimedia Room
6:00 p.m.
Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer: Crossing the BLVD project The Crossing the BLVD traveling exhibition of photographs, sounds, and stories uses the tools of contemporary art to create a multimedia experience reflecting the changing face of America. 90 photographic portraits by Warren Lehrer portray the pride, beauty, struggle and colorful humanity of individuals who have crossed through war zones, borders, oceans, and cultural divides. Portraits are paired with short narrative excerpts of the subject's monologues; contextual maps of the country or countries of origin overlaid with maps of Queens neighborhoods; panoramic landscapes of neighborhoods and images of important objects that Crossing participants carried from home to home. Audio sound stations produced by Sloan enable visitors to hear the voices, sounds and music of those portrayed in the exhibition. An ambient soundscape of people praying, voices on the streets, found and composed music, bring visitors into this crossroad of the world upon entering the exhibition. The lecture will focus on the premise, development and exhibiting of this project.
Sponsored by Studio Art **
The Extended Landscape
Friday, November 9, 2102
Xavier 15
12:20-1:30 p.m. and 2-3 p.m.
Demonstration and lecture by Keith Johnson, photographer, on his work and digital process "Lightroom"
Sponsored by Studio Art
Constantinople: Art and Urban Life under Christian and Islamic Rule*
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
DNL Multimedia Room
5 p.m.
Dr. Sarah Tyler Brooks/James Madison University, School of Art, Design and Art History/ Assistant Professor of Art & Art History
Co-sponsored by the AH Program and the BMA
The Essential Line: Drawn to the Academic Tradition*
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
DNL Multimedia Room
5 p.m.
Dr. Patricia Mainardi (Professor Emerita, CUNY Graduate Center; Visiting Professor, New York University).
Sponsored by the BMA
Spring Semester 2013
Invisible Cities
Titled after Italo Calvino's beloved book - which imagines Marco Polo's vivid descriptions of numerous cities of a fading empire to Kublai Khan - the exhibition features the work of ten diverse artists who re-imagine urban landscapes both familiar and fantastical.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
MassMOCA, Apr 14, 2012-February 4, 2013 Galleries
Bus leaving from Fairfield Rec Plex, 7 a.m.
Mass MOCA field trip,
Participating classes: SA 300, 301, 107, AH 11, 15 (and SA/AH majors)
Co-sponsored by Studio Art, Art History
Dr. Maria Antonella Pelizzari: Photography Curator
Friday, March 1, 2013
Loyola 8
11:15 a.m
Dr. Maria Antonella Pelizzari, photography curator, Dr. Pelizzari will discuss her selection of Italian photographers who focus on the urban environment in the exhibition Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography in Context, 1950s- Present. The exhibition, accompanied by an extensive catalogue, opened at the Leibsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, February 2, 2012.
Sponsored by Studio Art **
Audrey Flack: Photo Realist painter
Monday, March 4, 2013
Venue: tbd
7:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Carl & Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies
Nathan Carter: Mixed Media Artist
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Loyola 8
12 noon
Nathan Carter, mixed media artist, whimsical in appearance, Carter's art often embraces the realm of modern technology, especially that used in covert operations, such as radio transmissions, encoded transcriptions, and other electronic communications and devices that function not only to more effectively connect different parts of the world to one another, but also to place people under surveillance and deprive them of their privacy or sense of complacency. Carter will discuss why living in New York City influences his art and how in works such as Brooklyn Street Treasures From New Utrecht Avenue he incorporates trash such as broken taillight covers, bottle caps, corks, wood, Plexiglas lifted from the streets of Brooklyn.
Sponsored by Studio Art **
A Woman Like That
(Filmmaker Ellen Weissbrod merges her own coming of middle-age story with her pursuit of the truths behind the legends of 17th century female painter Artemisia Gentileschi's dramatic art and life)
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Friday, March 22, 2013
QCA, Kelley Theatre
7 p.m.
Ellen Weissbrod/Independent Filmmaker, Screening and Audience Talk back
Sponsored by the BMA
Noah Charney: Traffickers, Thieves and Forgers in the World of Art
Sunday, March 24, 2013
QCA, Open Visions Forum, Kelley Theatre
3 p.m., (with a reception following the talk in the Great Hall and at the BMA)
The Recent Photographs of Stanley Greenberg*
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
DNL Multimedia Room
5 p.m.
Robert Shamis/Fine-Art Photographer, Consultant, and Independent Curator
Sponsored by the BMA
Opening Your Eyes to This Place: Architecture and Spirituality**
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Diffley Board Room
6 p.m. (with reception to follow in the Great Hall)
Judith Dupre
Sponsored by Studio Art, the BMA, Art History, and the Humanities Institute
* Presented with the support of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, sponsored by the Robert Lehman Foundation.
**Presented with the support of the Fairfield University Humanities Institute in the College of Arts and Sciences