Full Time Faculty
Diane Bertolo
Spoke at The Blur of the Otherworldly: Technology and the Paranormal
at the Center for Art and Visual Culture UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Erika deVries
Participated in the group show Dark Nature: Part 1 at the Front Street Galleries in Brooklyn.Her Solo exhibition: Preschool, M.Y. Art Prospects, open Nov.17 - Dec.24 was at the Project Room, Chelsea.
Performed in "ACTIONS (3)" which was the third in a running series of performance events hosted by Fivemyles gallery and organized by Zach Rockhill. The ACTION events are a semi-annual non-thematic platform for the presentation of new experimental performances by emerging artists. This year "ACTIONS (3)" took place on the evening of April 8th and featured performances by Wayne Hodge, Lucas Kelly, Nathaniel Lieb, Marc Lepson, Ivan Monforte, Jeanine Oleson, Clifford Owens, Xaviera Simmons, Erin Thurlow, Carla Repice, Zach Rockhill and Erika deVries.
Taking part in an Artist in Residence Program at the Montana Artist's Refuge in Basin, Montana for the month of June.
Tom Drysdale
Solo exhibition at the Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia that opened November 4th, 2005.
Editha Mesina
Received 2006 NYFA fellowship in Photography.
Lorie Novak
Participated, along with Fred Ritchin, in Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis, an international day long conference at The Graduate Center, CUNY December 9, 2005. Published "Fragments and Past Lives": A new exploration of the 1950s that puts the offbeat at center. WSQ Fall/Winter 2005 Deborah Nelson (Editor) http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/
Featured Photographer in the Korean Monthly Photo Magazine, October 2005.
Created the cover image for the March 2006 issue of the PMLA (Publication of the Modern Language Association of America.
Shelley Rice
Moderated the panel: Creating the Archive: When Experience Becomes History March 7, 2006 Presented in conjunction with the Grey Art Gallery's The Downtown Show. This forum explored the process by which lived experience and eyewitness reports are transformed into historical data-in museums, archives, scholarship, and the classroom. With Tavia Nyong'o, Department of Performance Studies (TSOA); Marvin J. Taylor, Director, the Fales Library; and Martha Wilson, Founding Director, Franklin Furnace Archive Inc. Moderated by Shelley Rice, Department of Photography and Imaging (TSOA) and Department of Fine Arts. Third in a series of panels about the changing role and nature of The Archive in contemporary life. Co-sponsored by NYU's Department of Photography and Imaging (TSOA), Department of Fine Arts, Fales Library, and Grey Art Gallery. http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/downtown/dthome.htm
Recently published "Supersized," a review of the Lee Friedlander exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, in Aperture Magazine; and "Hide and Seek," a discussion of the exhibition and book "The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult," at: http://www.arhv.lhivic.org/index.php/2005/12/07/60-hide-and-seek-a-review-of-the-perfect-medium This text, written and posted in English, will soon be published in French in the Parisian magazine "l'Etude Photographique."
In addition, Professor Rice has just finished a catalogue essay entitled "Moving Bodies" for an exhibition on Women and Masquerade at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, which opened in March. She is currently planning a lecture entitled "Lesbian Nation, and other Domestic Space," to be given in Paris at a conference on Women and the Avant-Gardes. and preparing to be the Respondent for the "Visual Gossip" panel, moderated by Deb Willis and Reva Wolf, at the College Art Association annual meeting in Boston.
Fred Ritchin
Curated and produced an exhibition with PixelPress Chasing the Dream, Youth Faces of the Millennium Development Goals at the United Nations, August 12 to October 30, 2005. Profiling in photographs and text the lives of eight young people living in eight countries, this exhibition provided insight into the realities they face as they chase their dreams for a better future. Chasing the Dream was a United Nations interagency initiative that explores how each of the eight Millennium Development Goals, commonly accepted by all 189 UN members as the framework for measuring progress towards a better world by the year 2015, can be accomplished to allow these highly motivated young people not only to survive, but eventually to flourish.
Deb Willis
Organized a conference and exhibition, Framing the Triangle, for the inauguration of the NYU in Ghana Program, exploring the cultural implications of notion of the African diaspora at the Goethe Institute, Accra Ghana, NYU in Ghana.
Exhibited work in A SENSE OF PLACE: Recent Work by Six Contemporary African American Artists October 6 through December 9, 2005 University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery.
Essay Angola Bound: Writings on Aaron Neville, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun was published in Aperture Magazine no. 182
Moderated a panel by Deb Willis and co-sponsored with Africa House: Different Ways of Looking at the Geographic Alternative: America Looking Towards Africa September 22, 2005.
Exhibition Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera January 14-June 18, 2006 Wadsworth Antheneum Hartford, CT
On February 09, 2006 at the Aperture Gallery Deborah Willis lectured on the transformation of the black image in photography, and how African-Americans created a revised self-image through the medium. She showed historical imagery of the black female body and contemporary images by black photographers working today.
Featured in the February 2006 issue of Essence Magazine for the Publication of "A Small Nation of People: WEB DuBois and Portraits of Programs"
Deborah Willis' and her son Hank Willis Thomas' works are discussed in the "Generations" issue of the International Review of African American Art, vol.20 no.3
Adjunct Faculty
Ellen Brooks
Exhibited her work in Photographs from the 70s January 12 - February 18, 2006 at the Andrew Roth Gallery http://www.andrewroth.com/
Yolanda Cuomo
Aperture magazine presented art critic Vince Aletti and Aperture magazine art director Yolanda Cuomo, they discused the dynamic and fertile collaboration between art directors and the photographers whose work they commission. The conversation touched on the contributions of such luminaries as Alexey Brodovitch, Marvin Israel, Henry Wolf, Irving Penn, and Diane Arbus and was held at the Aperture Gallery on February 23, 2006
Nichole Frocheur
Participating in a 4-week residency at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York this summer.
Jeffrey Scales
Produced several online slide shows with photographer Tyler Hicks as part of his position as Photo Editor of the New York Times Week in Review.
Staff
Bamidele Adedoyin
Showed her work at the Nexus Gallery in Philadelphia April 7th - April 30th, 2006.
Caitlin Berrigan
Exhibited work in "Gender-F Group Exhibition" The show's aim was to address issues of gender, racial and economic biases resulting in systemic violence against women and minorities. It ran from March 26 - April 28 at Westnorth Studio in Baltimore Maryland http://westnorthstudio.com/
Showed work at Bent 2006 Circuit Bending Festival. Her piece "Whisper Opera" was an interactive piece consisting of small silicone body parts equipped with sensors and speakers that, when removed from their cozy display boxes and held in the palm of the hand, whispered and sung to their holders- separately or in unison. It was on view from April 19 - 23, 2006 at The Tank http://www.bentfestival.org/
Collaborated on a multimedia opera called Mosheh. Mosheh is set in a present-day urban landscape that utilizes video clips of contemporary, "grungy" Brooklyn to reinterpret the human essence of the biblical tale of Moses. The piece is structured with God as narrator (sung, chant-like, by an alto and counter-tenor in unison), the "mothers" as central characters in various tableaus and the role of Moses performed by a dancer. The work was shown on March 29, 2006 at Merkin Concert Hall.
Kathryn Van Steenhuyse
Spent 4 weeks in residence at the Vermont Studio Center in November 2005 and was named a Fellow in the Career Development Program at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia in January of 2006. She was a featured artist in the Brooklyn Academy of Music benefit auction and the Woodycrest Housing Project, an event to benefit a South Bronx government funded apartment complex housing women and children with HIV. In the Fall 2006 she will enter the MFA program in Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
