Ildiko Butler Gallery exhibition Caveat Emptor in The New York Times: Joining Plastic, Glass and Metal on the Recycle List: Fake Art

Ildiko Butler Gallery
March 23 – April 4
Nichole Calle, Lishuang Angela Chen, Dana DelliCarpini

Ildiko Butler Gallery
April 5 – April 22
Matthew Dyczek, Isabel Huelskamp

Ildiko Butler Gallery
April 23 – May 5
Maddie Rizzo, Danielle Waterman

Ildiko Butler Gallery
May 6 – May 18
Annie Dreyer, Sarah Takash

Lipani Gallery
March 23 – April 4
Veronica Barczak, Grace Schiavone

Lipani Gallery
April 5 – April 22
Søren Björnson, Chloe Griffith

Lipani Gallery
April 23 – May 5
Molly Brodowski, Maegan Wright

Lipani Gallery
May 6 – May 18
Camden Ador

Ildiko Butler Gallery Receptions

Flynn/Rapillo
3/9, 6-8pm

Costello/Lin
4.6, 6-8pm

Horihan/Weingord
4.13, 6-8pm

DiMarco/Scheffler
4.27, 6-8pm

Khan/O'Flynn
5.11, 5-8pm

Lipani Gallery Receptions

Deitz
2.23, 6-8pm

Chelnitsky/Gutierrez/Troncoso
3.14, 6-8pm

Bychkova
4.20, 6-8pm

Banach
4.23, 6-8pm

Robbins
5.11, 6-8pm

Ildiko Butler Gallery

Kathleen Flynn & Nicholas Rapillo
Mar 5 – 17

Chloe Lin & Liam Costello
Mar 18 – Apr 11

George Horihan & Rayna Weingord
Apr 12 – 24

Emma DiMarco & Matt Scheffler
Apr 25 – May 7

Aseah Khan & Erin O'Flynn
May 8 – 21


Lipani Gallery

Marc Deitz
Feb 23 – Mar 8

Perla Troncoso, Sophia Chelnitsky, and Mayra Gutierrez
Mar 9 – Apr 7

Masha Bychkova
Apr 8 – 21

Arthur Banach
Apr 22 – May 5

Sam Robbins
May 6 – 21

Alone with Pineles in the Ildiko Butler Gallery

“Four black tires of a dark, rolling tanker truck pass four decorative white tires half-buried in a tidy gas station lawn. On the lawn, next to commercial signage is a handmade sign, wrinkled by rain, offering two vital fluids: oil and milk. Across the road a modest motel pushes the left edge of the picture. In the misty distance a white pole and the back of the truck frame a small pastoral landscape, a grazing horse at its center. An apparently uninspiring moment delivered multiple aspects of American road travel, entrepreneurial endeavor, decorative imagination, diligent maintenance, and a romantic landscape spliced with modernism.” - Abstract and first photograph of Gas Stop

This photograph and small selection of words, for most, are what will create a first impression of David Freund, who earlier in April released his first major book - Gas Stop - at the age of 79. A selection from Gas Stop was curated by Visual Arts Professor Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock and displayed in the Lipani gallery from late March through the month of April. David and Stephan established a friendship through a shared connection with the esteemed photographer and teacher Gary Metz, which eventually lead to the display of David’s work at Fordham Lincoln Center.

When questioned how he went about curating such a work, Stephan smiled, saying “It’s the kind of show you could put up any way and it would work”. When picking up the prints from David, Stephen was told to “have fun sequencing” and that’s exactly what he did. “I took them out of the box, and said this looks good” - so Stephan sequenced the photos as he unpacked them - “not messing with what works” and knowing that “sometimes you have to be smart enough get out of the way... if something works it works”.

Stephan’s approach to curating David Freund’s photographs speaks to the level of David’s work. The process took David on a solo cross country road trip, driving more than 40 states over 4 years (1978-82) , the photos he shot acting as his fuel. David shot with a Nikon and Tri-X b/w film, a classic kit of film photography.

Speaking about Gas Stop, after 30 years of developing, selecting, sequencing, David wishes “ to inform, move, and surprise viewers, as well as give them something to do”. In the midst of promoting his work, David was told his photos “are about everything”, a response, David says, “is why I shoot”. These few but powerful words came before the praise David’s work has recently received, they touched David, and motivated him to be where he is today. However, David had “no idea it was going to be a book”, in the end, and laughed in recalling his original ambitions to “have a couple shows, maybe sell a couple prints to MoMA.”

However Gerhard Steidl, the founder of Steidl, an international publisher , also saw the vision of David’s Gas Stop project. Steidl respected David’s vision, not demanding or interfering, instead working side by side...Gas Stop... is now side by side with other publications by Steidl like Robert Frank’s The Americans. David’s work is meant to interact with both artists and the everyday person. He “wants the viewer to be surprised… to want to turn the page”.

To the aspiring photographer, “just get to work and make some prints”. His three pieces of advice “pay attention, be responsible, and cultivate empathy” apply to not only the photographer, but all in the pursuit of “becoming a better human being. That’s the ultimate goal”.

For those who can’t get enough political theater this election, there’s a new show at the Ildiko Butler Gallery celebrating election season with movie posters that revel in the world of politics.

Some of the posters are iconic, like Robert Redford in The Candidate, or Redford and Dustin Hoffman in All the President’s Men. Warren Beatty makes a couple of appearances as well, once in a poster for the 1998 comedy Bulworth and again in 1974’s The Parallax View. Directors Stanley Kubrick and Robert Altman are there too.

The show, “Politics: Movie Images from Posteritati,” was organized by Mark Street, associate professor of visual arts, and runs through Dec. 1. Street said Posteritati is a SoHo Gallery that sometimes lends out its collection exhibitions—as is the case with the show at Fordham.

“It’s interesting to see real events refracted through spectacular mass culture,” said Street. “In the collection we chose there’s satire, irony, exaggeration, fear, and paranoia. With the benefit of hindsight we can see that a lot of things that were there are in the present elections.”

On a purely visual level, the movie posters are one of mass marketing’s cleanest conveyors of information, he said.

“In the art department, we teach visual literacy,” he said. “More and more we’re in a visual culture, and these posters show that when you telegraph something without words, a short rudimentary graphic is important.”

Politics: Movie Images from Posteritati

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Brody, David. "Site Specific: Diana Cooper and Lee Boroson at Fordham." Artcritical. Artcritical, 28 Mar. 2017. Web. 29 Mar. 2017.

Jorgensen, Lindsay. "A New Exhibition at Fordham, Created for Fordham." Fordham Observer. Fordham University, 30 Mar. 2017. Web. 03 Apr. 2017.

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

"Pull up to the Bumper: Gas Stations across America – in Pictures." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 13 Apr. 2017. Web. 13 Apr. 2017.

Sadof, Karly Domb. "Perspective: ‘Where You Go to Fill up Your Tank and Shut off Your Brain’: America as Seen at the Pump." The Washington Post. WP Company, 07 Apr. 2017. Web. 16 Apr. 2017.

Butler Gallery:
Meg McCauley
Annabelle deClement
April 3-18

Hana Keiningham
Anna Creatura
April 19-29

Jason Boit
Olivia Singler
April 29-May 10

Emma Kilroy
Francesca Aton
May 11-21

Lipani Gallery:
Juliana Johnson
April 4-23

Ralph Rosario
April 24-May 7

David Nieto
May 8-21

Film Screening:
Athena Kokinakis and Anabelle Declement
April 7th (SL24 L)

Rafferty, Rebecca. "Modern Landscapes on Display at VSW." City Newspaper. City Newspaper, 26 Jan. 2017. Web. 27 Jan. 2017.

Meyers, William. "Three Photography Shows for Labor Day Weekend." WSJ. Wsj.com, 02 Sept. 2016. Web. 06 Sept. 2016.

Meyers, William. "On Photography: Life After Katrina, Life's Illusions and Cowboy's Life on the Ranch." WSJ. Dow Jones & Company, Inc., 4 Sept. 2015. Web. 15 Sept. 2015

Aletti, Vince. "Goings on About Town: Art: Jean Laughton." The New Yorker. Condé Nast, Sept. 2015. Web. 15 Sept. 2015.

Tom Stoelker "Photo Exhibit Presents Cowgirl’s View"

Stoelker, Tom. "Through a Veteran's Eye." Fordham Newsroom. 28, July 2015. Web. 30 July 2015.

"Learning from Faculty Art" by Tom Stoelker
"Spolight shines on Kalina, Pella-Woo, and Apicella-Hitchcock" by Ramona Ventranza & Loulou & Chryssides

Quaking Aspen will travel to SPEOS - Paris London Photographic Institute in 2015.
Additional press: Actuphoto, Exposition photo

Bedford & Bowrey

2014 Senior Exhibitions Schedule

Ildiko Butler Gallery

Dan Canziani
Painting
Xuan Zheng
Photography
4/6 – 4/17

Jackie Krakowski
Photography
Nick Pereslugoff
Joe/Stephan
4/22 – 5/1

Alexis Parente
Sculpture
Isabelle Langely
Painting
5/2 – 5/13

Elizabeth White
Drawing
Candace Shacklette
Photography
5/14 – 5/25

Lipani Gallery

Eric Arrendondo
Digital Design
Faith Brancale
Painting
3/30 – 4/16

Andreas Beissel
Film/Video
Jessica Wendroff
Photography
4/17 – 5/6

Kirstie Carrazales
Film/Video
Stephanie Colombini
Film/Video
5/7 – 5/24

Quaking Aspen will travel to Syracuse University's Robert B. Menschel Gallery in 2015 courtesy of Light Work

Press:
Fordham Observer
Inside Fordham

Meyers, William. "Northern Scenes, Special Snow Effects." The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, 8 Mar. 2014. Web. 25 Apr. 2014.
Link

Gunhouse, Carl. "Searching for the Light: Gary Metz, Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint @ Fordham University’s Ildiko Butler Gallery." Searching for the Light: Gary Metz, Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint @ Fordham University’s Ildiko Butler Gallery. N.p., 1 Mar. 2014. Web. 25 Apr. 2014.
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Art in America
The Huffington Post
Hyperallergic
Fordham Notes
e-skop
Jaque al arte
the National Arts Program
Galerie Michael
Community Arts NYC
Radio Romania Cultural
The Verge

The Center Gallery

C1 3/21 - 4/1
Teresa Salinas
Michaela Flatley
Catherine Murphy

C2 4/1 - 4/11
Elizabeth Allocca
Jacqueline Martonik
Emma Bonoli

C3 4/12 – 4/21
Tim Luecke
Terry O’Toole
Vera Bennett

C4 4/22 – 5/1
Apollonia Colacicco
John O’Neil
Lucy Sutton

C5 5/2 – 5/11
Nicole DeMeo
Mary Thayer
Melissa Smyth

C6 5/12 – 5/21
Tessa Abrahams
Elle Radan
Rebecca Zoltowski

The Lipani Gallery

L1 3/21 – 4/9
Joseph Motola
Rachel Sterns
Katie Fisher

L2 4/10 – 4/30
Sadia Noor
Samuel Anacker
Andrew Scherer
Molly Barker

L3 5/1 – 5/21
Claire Lorenzo
Patricia Peguero-Vidal
Amanawil Lemi
Catherine San Juan

Mary Carlson takes inspiration from religious iconography, demons, and snakes in her latest exhibition, Beautiful Beast.
"Beautiful Big Blue Beast" by Jane Dickson Oct 23, 2012 on BOMBLOG

New York Times, Thursday September 20, 2012

The Center Gallery
Ashley Breunich & Analissa Moreno
March 26 – April 10

Elizabeth Burans & Michael Fiore
April 13 – April 23

Margaret Barnard & Diana Kokoszka
April 26 – May 06

Matt Anderson & Joni Vasquez
May 09 – May 20

The Lipani Gallery
Guillaume Roemaet
March 20 – March 31

Daniel Quinn
April 03 – April 19

Julia Krivonos & Tyler Wilson
April 22 – May 07

Pauline Lu
May 11 – May 21