Full Time Faculty
Diane Bertolo had a solo show entitled “today.getDate() 2006” at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York from January 19 – March 4, 2007. She is part of a university-wide team evaluating new learning software in a program initiated by ITS. In addition she is part of the Faculty Technology Working Group, a university-wide group organized by ITS and including members from each school to assess needs of faculty regarding technologies related to learning and scholarship. She has served on several committees including the department Curriculum Committee and the Admissions Committee. Outside of the department she serves on the Digital Image Archive Committee.
Erika deVries had a solo show entitled “Far and Then Farther” at M.Y. ART PROSPECTS that opened Thursday, February 22, 2007 and continues through Saturday, March 31. She also took part in a group show entitled Lovely Dark and Deep: Female Artists Retake the Fairy Tale at the Pelham Arts Center in Pelham, NY. This exhibition was curated by Barbara Mundy and Titia Hulst and will be running from March 9 - April 28, 2007. She also is taking part in an artist talk at LaSalle University in Philadelphia PA as part of the University’s “Women and Art Week”
Tom Drysdale organized and facilitated the Victorian Magic Lantern show event, even taking on the role and garb of the Victorian “Professor” for the evening. He has also been instrumental in organizing events and reaching out to our Alumni, as the department is gearing up to celebrate 25 years. With the assistance of alumni and friends a production fund for students was established in his name this year. The “Tom Drysdale Production Fund” will provide selected Photography and Imaging students with completion assistance for creative, documentary or research projects.Mark Jenkinson’s work was featured in 6 stories for national magazines; sports, fashion, business, portraits, photojournalism. He also shot 2 ad campaigns, wrote 2 small articles for national magazines and a feature article. Jenkinson was one of fifty artists selected worldwide for the exhibition “Justice for All”, an exhibition of work dealing with Capital Punishment as subject matter, the show is currently traveling and on view now in Houston.This year Professor Jenkinson served on the Admissions, Facilities and Alumni Committees. He organized and moderated the alumni career night with Speakers Wyatt Gallery, Kristen Ashburn, and Katy Howe. He also served on the Dean’s Executive Committee.
Editha Mesina served this year on the Photography & Imaging Department’s Curriculum committee, the Digital Archive committee, and the Admissions committee. She was the organizer and facilitator for three student grant opportunities, the Tobias award for recent alumni which gives the graduate a $5,000 award in addition to an exhibition in the department’s gallery, the Leon and Michaela Constantiner Fellowship, which is awarded to a graduating senior to produce a body of work relating to the city of New York, and the Rosenberg Fellowship which enables a graduating senior to complete a project that involves travel. Both fellowships showcase the work produced in a gallery exhibit occurring in the fall. Professor Mesina will be the visiting artist and teacher for a self portraiture project dually funded by NYFA and the Alex G. Nason Fellowship in April 2007, involving the 5th grade class at the New Explorations Into Science Technology and Math Public School on the lower east side in New York City.
Lorie Novak spoke about her work as a visiting artist at CCA (California College of Arts, San Francisco and Oakland). She was a presenter at "Exposed Memories: Family Pictures in Private and Public Memory" Conference; Organized by the Hungarian Section of AICA – International Association of Art Critics In collaboration with IAWIS (International Association of Word and Image Studies) in November 2006, at the Goethe-Institut, Budapest. She was a visiting artist at the Griffin Museum Artist in Schools Program. She also lectured on her work at the Boston Arts Academy in February 2007. Novak was a presenter as part of “Objects and Memory: Engendering Private and Public Archives” Conference at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender,Columbia University in March 2007. Novak served as a Juror for the Six Points Visual Arts Fellowship which is a new fellowship program to support individual artists in the New York area who want to develop new projects with a Jewish focus, theme or element. She was on the Editorial Board of WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly) CUNY. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. Novak was the Chair of the University Steering Committee of the Visual Arts Coordinating Council. She was also a Tisch Representative for the ITS Faculty Working Group for the Fall 2006 semester. Four of Novak’s images of 9.11 memorials will be published in Marita Sturken's upcoming Tourists of History: Memory, Mourning, and Kitsch in American Culture, Fall 2007. Also four of her photographs will be included in the exhibition, Corpolíticas / Body Politics in the Americas: at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in June 2007 in conjunction with the 6th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of the Performance and Politics in the Americas where she will also be leading a photography workshop.
Paul Owen exhibited his photographs and drawings at the Bella Vista Gallery, in Asheville, N.C. He also showed more of his photographs at the Drew Deane Gallery, Brevard, N.C. in a show called “Small Works”.
Shelley Rice wrote the introductory essay for Candida Hofer: In Portugal (with Jose Saramago), published by Schirmer-Mosel in conjunction with the exhibition at the Cultural Center of Belem, Lisbon, Portugal (Nov. 30, 2006: pub date) She also published an article in the Feb. 2007 Aperture Magazine entitled: About Time and Movement. Her Catalogue essay for Mayumi Terada at the Robert Miller Gallery was published March 1, 2007 (opening and pub date) Professor Rice lectured about Candida Hofer's work, at the Cultural Center of Belem, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 29, 2006, in conjunction with her exhibition and book. She was Co-Chair and presenter (with Gail Buckland) on the History of Photography Committee. She also spoke at the Oracle Conference of International Photography Curators, Prague, Czech Republic in November 2006. Professor Rice interviewed Dennis Hopper in an evening of conversation about his work, his art collection, and experiences with the Wallace Berman Circle in conjunction with the Semina Culture exhibit at the Grey Art Gallery, Kimmel Center, NYU.
Fred Ritchin lectured at Ringling College in Sarasota, Florida on "New Possibilities in Media". He also spoke at the International Student Photography Festival in Warsaw, Poland on "Photography in the Digital Age" as well as the Musée d'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, on "We are all Photographers Now". Ritchin lectured at Columbia University Journalism School on New Media Possibilities in Journalism as well as Columbia’s Punch Sulzberger Executive Leadership Conference. He is moderating a panel talk which is a joint venture between ICP and NYU, entitled Photography 2.0. It addresses the elevating of the role of the amateur who, equipped with digital cameras and cell phones capable of recording images, now plays a major role in visually defining the world we live in. Professor Ritchin participated on a panel addressing media and advocacy at the Aperture Foundation. He will address similar issues as a panelist at StartingBloc Institute, Cambridge, MA. Recently, he was selected as a juror for the Dart Foundation. Professor Ritchin is directing a website project called "Beyond Katrina" for the Open Society Institute. He is also co-organizing "Women, War and Photography: A Tribute to Catherine Leroy" for Aperture/New School. Among the recent articles and essays that he has written are an article on Joseph Rodriguez's life and work for American Photo magazine a catalogue essay, "A Necessary Conversation," for an exhibition in the Netherlands of the work of Robert Knoth on the impact of nuclear radiation on people's health in Eastern Europe and a catalogue article, "Photography in the USA," for international photography festival in Warsaw, Poland.
Deb Willis published an essay in Matador, Volume 1/ New York: Culture, Ideas and Trends Magazine 1995-2002 entitled “Witness to a Dream: James VanDerZee” She also wrote ``Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist,'' DVD Essay: The Image of Robeson in ``Sanders of the River'' (1935) and ``Jericho'' (1937). Dr. Willis had photographs published in American Quarterly: Rewiring the “Nation”: The Place of Technology in American Studies, also in an essay by Nicole R. Fleetwood “Failing Narratives, Initiating Technologies: Hurricane Katrina and the Production of a Weather Media Event” She was interviewed for Exposure Magazine, Volume 39:2, Fall 2006 “Deborah Willis and Susan kae Grant: A Conversation” Her work was included in the book Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, Phaidon Press. It is a global survey of new developments in the medium of photography, featuring 121 living artists who have made a contribution to the international art photography scene in the last five years. Dr. Willis’ recent exhibitions include “Couples Discourse” at Pennsylvania State University, which was curated by Joyce Henri Robinson. This catalogue documents an exhibition about how “couples” discourse — about the ways in which artists cope with the social connections and practicalities of being artists in a couple. She was included in the show “Recollections of Once Hidden History”, WBGO, in Newark, New Jersey. Her work was also exhibited in the show “Agents of Change: Women, Art and Intellect” on view at the Ceres Gallery in New York Feb.1st-24th 2007. Deb Willis’ recent lectures include “From Taboo to Icon: Images of the Black Body” at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, “Beauty Matters: Photographs of the Body” at Young Harris College, Georgia. She had the honor of moderating two panel discussions recently; “A Conversation with Betye Saar and Leslie King Hammond” at the New York Historical Society, New York, and “Beyond Katrina “ with Fred Ritchin, sponsored by the Open Society Institute, in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Willis presented a paper at an art history panel “Border zones” Conference, at New York University. She also presented a paper entitled “After the Storm: Art, Culture, and Politics beyond Katrina,” at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. She served as a Juror/Panelist for the Joyce Wein Art Award, from the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Adjunct Faculty
Terry Boddie exhibited photographs as part of the show “If It Ain’t Broke” at Gallery 138, in New York, NY February 8 – March 9, 2007
Rose DeSiano will be exhibiting at Ateliers B93 in Enschede, Holland in collaboration with Dutch artist Petra Groen from March 9-April 1st 2007.
Nichole Frocheur’s work was featured in Nuevo Luz Magazine. She will be teaching a 5-week course this Spring at ICP, entitled The Handmade Photographic Book.
Jessica Ingram’s work was part of a group show at Gallery 138 called “If It Ain't Broke” She was also included in a show at the Stonybrook SAC Gallery in a show called “Reparations” Professor Ingram was awarded the Cadre Art Grant for the project “A Civil Rights Memorial” She is currently finishing a large scale public art video installation at the Oakland International Airport, CA with collaborators Hank Willis Thomas, Bayete Ross Smith, and Ryan Alexiev.
Joe Rodriguez marked the publication of his book "Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City” with a booksigning, Thursday November 16th in the department. This year Rodriguez received an OSI Katrina Media Fellowship for his photographic work in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Joe Rodriguez is one of ten photographers featured in American Photo Magazine’s, “Heroes of Photography: A Tribute to Ten Photographers Who Inspire Us” The piece includes an essay by Fred Ritchin and a photo gallery, which features some of Joe’s Katrina work.
Jefferey Scales sat on the panel Photography 2.0: A New Paradigm, as a picture editor for the New York Times .
Staff
Bamidele Adedoyin showed her work at the Bronx Museum in a show entitled "Here and Elsewhere" April 1st - August 19, 2007.
Caitlin Berrigan, our digital coordinator, has been busy in the creation of new interactive multimedia works and presenting them across the country. Since this fall she has presented new work at the Conflux Festival for Psychogeography in New York, the Storefront for Art & Architecture Gallery in Soho, Secret Project Robot gallery in Brooklyn, L.A. Freewaves Festival at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Ben Shahn Gallery at William Paterson University in New Jersey, Maryland Center for the Creative Arts, and the department’s annual faculty and staff show. She also traveled to the University of Madison, Wisconsin as part of the TRANS visual culture conference to present an edible political piece called Viral Confections, which are chocolate truffles cast in the molecular structure of the hepatitis C virus. Berrigan was able to produce these sculptures from a rapid prototype with the assistance of NYU’s Advanced Media Studio. She also used the Advanced Media Studio’s facilities to create a map in black silicone relief for The Smelling Committee, commissioned for the Storefront for Art & Architecture. This spring Berrigan will be presenting her work at Location One gallery in Soho, creating a new electronic work as part of the Bent Festival at Eyebeam in Chelsea, and designing a futurist dinner to take place at the acclaimed Moto restaurant in Chicago.
