彦島 Hikoshima

 


彦島 Hikoshima
Size 5×8 in, 13×20 cm
88 Pages
ISBN: softcover: 9780368099113
Publish Date Jan 04, 2019
Preview the entirety of the book here.

The images in this book are selected from a body of work made in the south of Japan over the past ten years. I first started photographing on the small island of Hikoshima in the city of Shimonoseki during visits to see my wife’s family. I wanted to walk where she had walked, gradually discovering a sense of place through observation. After my son was born I continued my walks; however, with him strapped to my chest, my camera in one hand, and a baby bottle in the other. My son and I now walk the island together and he often points out things to me that he thinks would make interesting images, in addition to making his own images with a point-and-shoot camera. It is enormous fun, as well as a means for him to connect to the place in which he was born.

100 Photography Alumni
Curator: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

The Lipani Gallery
Exhibition Dates: May 31–September 14, 2018
Reception: October 17, 6 pm – 8 pm
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
 *The galleries are open from 9 am to 9 pm every day except on university holidays

The current exhibition at Fordham University's Lipani Gallery, 100 Photography Alumni, features one hundred photography alumni from across twenty years. Each photographer was asked to submit four images of their choice, which were produced as postcards. This “deck” of cards was shuffled and the images installed from left to right repeatedly circling the gallery. Despite the fact that the image sequence is random, interesting juxtapositions occur of content, geography, and era.

Press: Seiwell, Emma. “Lipani Gallery Chronicles the Paths of Fordham Alumni.” The Observer, Fordham University, 26 Sept. 2018, fordhamobserver.com/35589/features/lipani-gallery-chronicles-the-paths-of-fordham-alumni/.

Participants:
Last Name, First Name, Caption information (optional)

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167 Days Until Graduation: Highlights from the Senior Seminar
Featuring: Margaret Ball, Henry Boyd, Katelyn Christ, Carla de Miranda, Audrey Fenter, Renata Francesco, Meredith Gottbetter, Mackenzie Heslin-Scott, Yuerong Li, Jingyi Liu, Mary Katherine Magee, Luis Mejicanos, Hailey Morey, Genevieve O'Brien, Samantha Pajonas, Carmen Recio
Curator: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

The Lipani Gallery
Exhibition: January 12, 2018—February 17, 2019
Reception: December 12, 6—8
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
*The galleries are open from 9 am to 9 pm every day except on university holidays

The current exhibition in Fordham University's Lipani Gallery, 167 Days Until Graduation: Highlights from the Senior Seminar, brings together the sixteen artists who participated in the 2018 Senior Seminar in Visual Art. The work on display represents a snapshot of their endeavors thus far and provides a glimpse into their upcoming senior thesis exhibitions beginning in February 2019. Their chosen mediums range across architecture, film/video, painting, and photography. Accordingly, their styles and topics vary; however, their attention to craft, concept, and message is consistently deliberate and thoughtful.

Card design: Audrey Fenter
For further information on the exhibition please contact: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu

The 2016–2017 Ildiko Butler Travel Award Recipients

The 2017 Ildiko Butler Travel Award Recipients 

Photographs by: Jason Boit, Phillip Gregor, Sam Robbins, Yun Ting Lin

(click for images)

Curators: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton
Exhibition Dates: July 2017—May 2018

The Hayden Hartnett Project Space

Fordham University at Lincoln Center MAP
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
Office of Undergraduate Admission, Lowenstein, RM 203
New York, NY 10023
The galleries are open from 9am to 9pm every day except on university holidays
fordhamuniversitygalleries.com

Fordham University’s Department of Theatre & Visual Art is proud to present an exhibition of the 2016—2017 Ildiko Butler Travel Award Recipients: Jason Boit, Phillip Gregor, Sam Robbins, and Yun Ting Lin. This highly competitive grant is offered to sophomore and junior Visual Arts Majors for independent research. Up to four Ildiko Butler Travel Awards are given annually for exceptional work in the medium of photography.

The grant has enabled students to travel the world from Rome to Havana, Berlin to Budapest, and even from Moscow to Beijing on the Trans-Mongolian Railway. In each and every case the travel opportunity afforded by the award has been educational and transformative for the students. The photographs generated while traveling often become the core of a student’s senior thesis exhibition. In addition, a selection of work from each year’s recipients is included in a year-long exhibition in the Hayden Hartnett Project Space. This year our recipients traveled across India (Boit), Italy (Gregor), America (Robbins), and Taiwan (Lin).

About the Hayden Hartnett Project Space: this space presents yearlong exhibitions of photographic work produced by students in the Department of Theatre and Visual Art. Located in the Office of Undergraduate Admission at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus, the Hayden Hartnett Project Space introduces prospective students and their parents to the high caliber of visual work produced at Fordham University.

The Hayden Hartnett Project Space is inside the Office of Undergraduate Admission on the second floor of the Leon Lowenstein building, RM 203.

Location, Location, Location

Location, Location, Location 

Featuring photographs by: Roei Greenberg, Brian McClave, Sergio Purtell
Curators: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton
Exhibition Dates: June 27—October 2
Reception: September 13, 6–8 pm

The Ildiko Butler Gallery

Fordham University at Lincoln Center MAP
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Open from 9am to 9pm every day except on university holidays

fordhamuniversitygalleries.com

Fordham University is proud to present Location, Location, Location, twenty landscape photographs pulled from larger investigations made by three photographers from Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Their work represents a range of years, different photographic styles, and interests; however, despite the differences in their individual focus, each photographer is engaged in the process of carefully studying the world and representing it in a straightforward, descriptive manner. Fidelity to what is framed is of paramount importance. Regardless of the photographers’ chosen subjects, the participants in this exhibition are deeply engaged in the process of looking at what is in front of them. Their images embrace a long tradition in the medium of photography that celebrates the revelatory power of direct representation.

Artist Statements:

Roei Greenberg, b. Israel (left wall)
The name of this project, Along the Break, is taken from the Hebrew translation of the geographic phenomena: “The Syrian-African Break” (The Great Rift Valley) which crosses Israel from its northernmost point to its southernmost tip. This geography also plays a key role in the way physical borders have been placed. It shapes the borders with Lebanon and Syria in the north and the border with Jordan and Egypt in the south. My work is an exploration along the natural, as well as political boundaries in the landscape. For further information please visit his website here.

Brian McClave, b. United Kingdom (right wall)
Early in my career I returned to the house I grew up in and made large format photographs. The pictures were an attempt to recapture my intimate connection to that place. The photographs were as much about fleeting recollections as they were about the actual landscape. Thirty years later, when revisiting these photographs, it became apparent that my perception today of the world that I once occupied is thoroughly shaped by these images. For further information please visit his website here.

Sergio Purtell, b. Chile, American (center wall)
In Real, Sergio Purtell documents the architecture, landscape, and ongoing changes in and around the area where he lives and works in Brooklyn. Utilizing a custom made hand held large format camera, he shows his subject in all its quotidian detail and beauty. For further information please visit his website here.

Press: Gunhouse, Carl. “Roei Greenberg, Brian McClave and Sergio Purtell, Location, Location, Location @The Ildiko Butler Gallery at Fordham University.” Searching for the Light, 21 July 2017, carlgunhouse.blogspot.com/2017/07/roei-greenberg-brian-mcclave-and-sergio.html. Accessed 22 Aug. 2018.

Vanishing Lands

Vanishing Lands

Curators: Doron Polak & Esti Drori

Exhibition dates: May 10, 2017

Artura/The International Artists’ Museum

Design Hotel Ca' Pisani
Venice, Italy

#122: Kitakyushu, Japan 

The complexities of how to cultivate attachment are divulged, yet the language is either scrambled, or in a dialect that I can't understand.

The 2017 Whitney Biennial: Debtfair

The 2017 Whitney Biennial: Debtfair

Curators: Occupy Museums (Arthur Polendo, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Kenneth Pietrobono, Noah Fischer, and Tal Beery)

Exhibition dates: March 17–June 11, 2017

The Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street

New York, NY 10014
whitney.org

"Formed during the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, Occupy Museums connects the struggle for economic and social equity to art institutions, highlighting instances when they propagate and normalize injustice. In 2012, the collective launched Debtfair, an exhibition platform that categorizes artists according to their debts and other financial realities. The system reveals the relationships binding individuals to the banks holding their loans—a hidden but highly consequential factor underlying American art."

David Freund: Gas Stop

David Freund: Gas Stop
Curator: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

The Lipani Gallery
March 1–March 31, 2017
Reception: Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 6–7 pm, Artist Talk: 7–8pm
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
The gallery is open from 9am to 9pm every day except on university holidays

Fordham University is proud to present David Freund: Gas Stop, a sampling of twenty-seven black and white photographs pulled from a much larger investigation made between 1978 to 1981. In the twentieth century, any American driver or passenger would likely stop at a gas station weekly, not just for gas. Then, gas stations were also oases offering food and drink, car repairs, directions, telephones, maps and, importantly, bathrooms. Yet, beyond appreciation as architectural novelties, they and their offerings have been little photographed.

From 1978 to 1981, David Freund looked at the culture, architecture and landscape of gas stations in more than forty states. The photographs show customers and workers interacting, gassing up, or just hanging out. Architecture and signage, both corporate and vernacular, reach out to passing drivers.

Gas Stop presents the designed or natural landscaping seen at stations, and the regional landscapes that hold and surround them. Sparking recognition and recollection, the photographs, accrue as elements in a nonlinear narrative of automotive America. Of more than 200,000 gas stations in the United States at the time of his project, today about half are gone, especially full service ones. Such stations and their offerings exist now mostly in memory and in this work.

David writes:
On the first morning of an intended photographic project, outside of my motel was a gas station from which I photographed a dark and rolling tanker truck as its four black tires passed a line of four half-buried white tires. In the misty distance was a grazing horse, framed by the back of the truck. In front of the station was a large, hand-lettered sign advertising milk, and across the road a small, local motel. As someone later commented, “These are about everything."

The painter Miles Forst once described gas stations as a place to go to fill up your tank and shut off your brain. That morning, however, I became aware of gas stations as a locus for many elements that characterize America. And whether stopping in or hanging out, people in motion are often around to enliven and propel the narrative.

From that moment, looking out from and looking in at gas stations became my new project, which in the end entailed travel to forty-seven states and stops at thousands of stations. All provided discoveries. —David Freund

Press: Verel, Patrick. "Photo Exhibit Highlights Bygone Era of Independent Gas Stations." Fordham Newsroom. Fordham University, 08 Mar. 2017. Web. 22 Mar. 2017.


For further information please contact: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu
For additional information about David's photography please visit his website
View his book at Steidl Books

Fundació Joan Miró: Autogestó

Autogestó

Curator: Antonio Ortega, Adam Nankervis

Exhibition Dates: Februaury 16, 2017—May 21, 2017

Fundació Joan Miró

Parc de Montjuïc

08038 Barcelona

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Autogestó includes work from Adam Nankervis' another vacant space project, of which I am a long time fan and contributor. Antonio Ortega writes, "Self-organization provides a genealogy of artists from the 1960s on who have been developing strategies to recover the authorship of their own narrative. The exhibition is also an attempt to understand recent art and confirm the current validity of these dynamics." Desire Line, 2005, is the piece selected by Adam Nankervis for Antonio Ortega's exhibition.

Desire Line, 2005, C-print mounted to Sintra and Plexiglas, h 70.5” x w 3” (right image: detailed enlargement)

Desire Line presents the entire cast and crew of a single movie on one vertical support the precise height of the artist. As with the companion video Desire Lines, the title of this piece refers to the landscape architecture term of the same name where the placement of concrete sidewalks is established by the organic paths worn into the landscape by foot traffic.