Binghamton University Department of Art and Design

Please join us on Friday from 6-8 at Spool Contemporary Art Space for the opening reception of “To The Workers” - the third exhibition by our Site-Specific Installation Class. This exhibition features site-responsive projects by Zoe Congdon, Ethan DePinto, Noelia Feliciano, Emily Gangloff, Simon Liebskind, Margo MacWilliams, Thomas Medlarz, Andrew Nieves, Lucciana Robertson, Caitlin Smith, and Anna Stacey. 
138 Baldwin St., Johnson City, NY
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For those who can’t make it to the opening, the exhibition will be open from 11:00-5:00 on Saturday and Sunday.

The Elsie B. Rosefsky Memorial Art Gallery Visiting Artist program returns with a solo exhibition “ASSESMENT” by Andrew Ellis Johnson. 

Opening reception and artist talk is on Thursday, January 25th at 5:00pm

The exhibition is on view from September 25th - October 22nd, 2024.

This event is free and open to the public.

Artist bio:

Andrew Ellis Johnson was born in Cortland, NY to a jazz guitarist, civil war historian father and science major mother who, together, won many bowling tournaments. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA) and Carnegie Mellon University (MFA) in Pittsburgh, where he is Associate Professor of Art. His work has appeared in galleries, festivals, public collaborations, conferences, and publications in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Johnson has performed as co-founder of the socially engaged collective PED in Buffalo, Belfast, Chongqing, Rio de Janeiro, St. John’s, and Toronto. Residencies and exchanges include those at: Skowhegan in Maine; Poznan Academy of Art in Skoki, Poland; Korean National University of the Arts, Seoul; University of the Arts London, Camberwell; Fayoum International Art Center, Egypt; Sites of Passage in Jerusalem/Ramallah/
Pittsburgh; and Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Wishing everyone luck on finals and a great winter break!❄️☃️

Closing off fall semester BFA Seniors had their final Senior Seminar critique where they created projects using an idea from one of the class readings discussed in class. Each student was able to employ any artistic medium of their choice to communicate the ideas presented in the readings.

Slide 1 - Santa Barbara Maslar
Slide 2 - Caitlin Smith
Slide 3 (top) - Fiona Sullivan
Slide 3 (bottom) - Jade Kirdahy
Slide 4 & 5 - Samantha Ballin
Slide 6 - Addy Phoenix
Slide 7 - August Mason
Slide 8 - Kevin Lin
Slide 9 - Zoe Congdon
Slide 10 - Giovanna Mitchell

💥 POP UP SHOW 💥
Students from ARTS 380H: Media and Visual Narrative, ARTS 380I: Digital Media in Motion, and ARTS 360 Intermediate Photography would like to invite everyone to their Pop-up art show; "Infinite Realities" at the Rosefsky Gallery.

The Arts 380 are special topics classes for this semester and the Intermediate Photography class is based on experimental photo books connected with narrative and time-based projects.

Opening:
December 7th (Thursday) from 5 pm to 7 pm.

On view:
December 8th (Friday) from 9 am to 5 pm.

Please join us tomorrow for the opening reception of new works by our Site-Specific Installation class at the Bundy Museum!

Opening Reception: Friday, December 1st at 6pm - 8pm

Working in partnership with staff at the Bundy Museum, students in Binghamton University’s Site-Specific Installation class created artworks which respond to the museum’s architecture, history, and collection. Through these projects, students considered ideas around historical traces, memory, archives, ghosts, labor, time, gender, and colonialism, while exploring the Bundy family and business‘ specific technological, architectural, and domestic legacy.

Artists included in this exhibition are:
Thomas Medlarz
Caitlin Smith
Margo MacWilliams
Andrew Nieves
Zoe Congdon
Emily Gangloff
Lucciana Robertson
Anna Stacey
Noelia Feliciano
Simon Liebskind
Ethan DePinto

Project will also be on view throughout Saturday's Save the Bundy events (12:00-8:00), and will continue until January 1, 2024.

Address: Bundy Museum of History & Art, 133 Main St, Binghamton, NY 13905

Daesha Devon Harris’ exhibition “Our Souls are Kindred with the Tide" closes this Saturday! Be sure to check it out

The VMC has a new printer!
To break it in, we are inviting you to submit your photographs and design to print LARGE!
Two prints will be chosen to be printed and exhibited outside the Visual Media Center. Current students and Alumni are welcome to submit. Submissions are due Sunday, November 12th at 11:59pm. Submission details on the next slide >>>

COLLABORATION ALLERT 🚨
Art & Design students Fiona Sullivan and Rhea Dacosta performed a live collaborative drawing through the runtime of performance “Envoy”. Stationed adjacent to the set, they interpreted the set, performance, and mood of the production. (See them at work in slide 3)

Envoy opens tonight, October 12th and runs through October 15th. Tickets are available at the Anderson center box office.

The Elsie B. Rosefsky Memorial Art Gallery Visiting Artist program returns with a solo exhibition “Our Souls are Kindred with the Tide” by Daesha Devón Harris.

Opening reception and artist talk is on Thursday, October 5th at 4:30pm

The exhibition is on view from October 5th through October 26th, 2023.

This event is free and open to the public.

Show statement:

The thought of “home” has always been a comfort and an inspiration to me. My work explores this theme as it intersects with both my own and the historical Black American pursuit of full, undefiled citizenship, equality, and Freedom. Growing up my greatest joy was exploring the pastoral landscape of my immediate and extended home. I include these sites in my work to emphasize our connection to the landscape and to celebrate and document the life and memories that inhabit the home of my ancestors. Contemplating on the ephemerality of family histories, my work combines elements from shared cultural narratives with my own familial traditions and lore.

The selections from, "Just Beyond the River" are inspired by Black Folklore, American Slave Narratives and Harlem Renaissance poetry. This work recognizes America's enduring legacies of colonialism and systemic racism that defines our nation’s history, while reiterating the central narrative that emerges from the referenced memoirs - the ongoing struggle for Freedom. 

In this series I have incorporated a personal collection of unidentified portraits which I submerge in a body of water and then photograph to create an image layered with various visual elements from the past and the present. By combining powerful words with these found images of unidentified ancestors drifting through aquatic landscapes, this work acknowledges the courage and sacrifice of our ancestors and reclaims their presence, especially those who have been forgotten, excluded or displaced. The bodies of water in which I photograph are deeply significant to me both personally and historically. They include places where memories of joy, sorrow, love, loss, and liberation continue to reside.

   

BU Art & Design wishes to congratulate Cameron Wallace on being awarded the Chancellor’s Award of Student Excellence as well as the University President’s Award!! This is the highest honor the university can bestow on an undergraduate student.
Wallace ‘23 majored in environmental design and sustainability, with minors in Spanish and sculpture. Between sculptures about invasive species (photo from site-specific installation in Fall ‘22) and experiments making tables out of mycelium (photo from independent study with Frank Chang), not to mention fashion shows with Rena and curating with , Cam has made an incredible impact on our Art and Design department!

Please join us on extending our congratulations, and check out a modified iteration of the Nature Preserve sculpture in the BA show opening at the Rosefsky as part of Open Studio Night festivities this Friday!
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OPEN STUDIO NIGHT IS BACK!!!

The Department of Art and Design at Binghamton University is pleased to announce that its 9th Annual Open Studio Night will be on Friday, May 5, 2023 in the Fine Arts Building beginning at 5:00 p.m. Show will be open from 5:00pm - 7:00pm.

Studios and classrooms on all three floors of the Fine Arts Building will be open and filled with wonderful student work and designs in the areas of Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Design, Printmaking and Photography. In addition to great art on display in the various studios, visitors will be able to take in the Seniors Exhibition and reception in the Rosefsky Gallery as well as attend the Student Awards Ceremony at 6:00 p.m. in the Grand Corridor. All OSN events are free and open to the public.

It is the LAST WEEK to view the BFA show from the class of 2023. “It’s Not Just Me, it’s Everybody” is open to view through Friday April 28th. Check out the work at the and outside in the Grand Corridor. ✨🎉✨

BU Art and Design is thrilled to share that Grace Moon has been awarded a Best of SUNY award for her print “Day and night, I pick flowers for you” at the 2023 SUNY Art Exhibition!

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Grace’s print was chosen from over 135 nominated artworks from SUNY institutions across the state. She was one of three winners for the top honor (1000$ prize).

When informed of her win, Grace said “I am so glad I met the professors that I have at Binghamton. They have given me a lot of direction and confidence. This community helped solidify that art is something I want to pursue after graduation, and that my STEM background can be an asset, not a disadvantage when comparing myself amongst my peers.”

Grace Moon is currently working on establishing her path as a printmaker who is experimenting with multilayered prints. She will be graduating in Spring 2023 with a major in engineering and a minor in printmaking.

Congratulations Grace!!
You can see more of her work and process here:

https://www.youtube.com/

During this past first Friday, students in Blažo Kovačević’s advanced drawing class featured their work at a pop-up exhibition in downtown Binghamton.
This collaboration between Nelson Development Group LLC and the Department of Art and Design at Binghamton University features the works of Professor Kovačević and his students: August Mason, Sydney Newton, Emily O’Brien, Abigail Pepples and Caitlin Smith.
Curated by John Brunelli, Gallery Director, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts.

Tomorrow is the very last day to check out the faculty show!! Swing by on your way out of town for a very well deserved spring break 🧚🏼
See you on the other side!!

Photos from the opening night March 9, the crowd was really incredible!

Congratulations to BFA students Haley Keener and Caitlin Smith, whose work was selected for the 120 Intercollegiate Regional Art Exhibition at Saratoga Arts!!
Photos from the Opening Reception March 24.
Haley Keener showed her painting Margmaid and her drawing Restraint (2022).
Caitlin Smith’s paintings were The Fetch and The Greenhouse (2022)

We are incredibly proud of you both!

Guess what?? Art and Design just designated two corridors in the Fine Arts building exclusively for student-run exhibitions! The inaugural exhibition, “Heaven & Hell” is a two-part show taking place in Pandora’s Box (outside FA 258) and The Labyrinth (outside the wood shop). Works were selected by Madison Mark and Evan Lau from an open call earlier this month and we are quite excited to have these spaces up and running! The work will be up through the rest of the semester.

Coming in hot with a light study project out of Marcus Newton’s intro to Digital Photography class. The project prompted students to use light and shadow to direct the narrative of the image. ✨✨✨

In order of appearance
📷 Yingyin Xu
📷 Antonio Ferrer
📷 Antonio Ferrer
📷 Chynna Evan’s
📷 Madeline Hu
📷 Madeline Hu
📷Samuel Ramos
📷 Amar’e Coakley
📷Sodai Furuta
📷 Saul Hakim

Binghamton University Department of Art + Design — Faculty Show

Opening Reception: Thursday March 9th @ 4:30PM

The exhibition will be on view from Thursday March 9th to Friday March 31st.

This event is free and open to the public.

ALISHA SICKLER BRUNELLI
FRANCIS Y. CHANG
ALEXANDRA DAVIS
GOKHAN ERSAN
RONALD M. GONZALEZ
HANS GINDLESBERGER
SOYEON JUNG
ANDREA KASTNER
BLAZO KOVACEVIC
YEON JIN KIM
DECARLO LOGAN
COLIN LYONS
NATALIJA MIJATOVIC
MARCUS NEWTON
EMRE PARLAK
LUANNE REDEYE
ALESSANDRO SEGALINI
CHRISTOPHER SWIFT
ALEXANDROS SKOURAS
KARI VARNER

     

It’s the last week to catch “Home in Each Other”, a collection of paintings by Lecturer Luanne Redeye at in Downtown Bingamton!! Definitely one not to miss. Check it out mon-Friday 9am-5pm, 223 State Street

Please join our Site-Specific Installation class this Friday from 6-8pm at Spool Contemporary Art Space for the opening of their third exhibition, From hoof to foot, within four square miles.

Working in partnership with Spool Mfg., students in Binghamton University's Site-Specific Installation class created artworks which respond to the factory's architectural, material and labor legacy. Through these projects, students considered ideas around historical traces, collective memory, deindustrialization and gentrification, while exploring the Lestershire Spool Company's history, and the broader ideals set out by The Square Deal in this community. Projects designed by students include performance, installation, projection mapping, stop-motion animation, architectural interventions, murals, and sculpture.

Spool Contemporary Art Space, 138 Baldwin St., Johnson City, NY, 13790

Artists:
Aaron Berkowitz
Anler Apivatvipa
Antoine Jacques Seif
Ariana Saez
Audrey Franza
August Mason
Cameron Wallace
Emery Yael Miller
Grace Moon
Jack Lichtenstein
Jacob Roth
Joseph Rodriguez
Katrina Eucker-Balanay
Santa Barbara Maslar
Santiago Parra
Sarah-Renee McNeal
Sophia Cassetta-Unrath

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Image: Santiago Parra, Fractured Space: Effluorescent, Steel, plywood, high density plastic, polycoated paper, 1-Channel Video Projection (Mapped and edited in Touchdesigner), 2022-23.

Currently on view at the ‘Best of SUNY’ art exhibition is this work by Chynna X Evans. It was made as part of a self directed project in which she examined intimacy and love✨✨

“Life is imperfect, and love is erratic, complicated, but alluring”🖤

Silver Gelatin Print, 2022
Chynna X Evans (Photography Major, Pre Law)

Binghamton University Department of Art and Design updated their address.

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As part of Professor Segalini’s class, Megan Pan explores type specimens as a relevant form of commercial art, cultural and historical research. She has designed and typeset a 28-page specimen booklet for the font degular. 💙