Fairfield University Art Museum Spring 2024 Programs by Fairfield University

SELECT PROGRAMS SPRING 2024

For more programs and information visit fairfield.edu/museum

Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., with extended hours on Thursdays until 8 p.m.

Events listed below with a location are live, in-person programs. Where indicated, those events will also be streamed on thequicklive.com and the recordings posted to our YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com

Streaming: Sculpture by Christy Rupp January 19 - April 27 Walsh Gallery Understood as one of the early pioneers in the field of ecological art activism, the artist, activist and thought-leader Christy Rupp has an international reputation. Streaming will feature a survey of Rupp’s intricate collages, wall installations and free-standing sculpture, which chronicle the ongoing tension between natural systems and the environment in transition, and call our attention to our interconnectedness with non-humans and habitat – transmuting detritus gathered from the waste stream through collage and sculpture to reveal what is hidden away from common view and understanding. Informed by science and the historical representation of natural history, the artwork in this exhibition examines the way we frame our opinions of nature, using irony and wit to represent the human impact on our natural habitat. Faculty Liaison: Brian Walker, PhD, Professor of Biology

Christy Rupp, Aquatic Larvae, 2020, welded steel and collected single use plastics. © Christy Rupp

SIGNATURE EVENTS Thursday, January 18, 5 p.m. Opening Night Lecture: Christy Rupp Quick Center for the Arts, Kelley Theatre and streaming on thequicklive.com Presented as part of the Edwin L. Wiesel Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation

Thursday, January 18, 6-8 p.m. Opening Reception Quick Center for the Arts, Lobby and Walsh Gallery Thursday, April 11, 11 a.m. (in-person, Walsh Gallery) and noon streaming on thequicklive.com Art in Focus: Christy Rupp, The Goldfinch (after Carel Fabritius), 2017

Christy Rupp, Nesting Pesticide Dolls, 2017, wood and paint. © Christy Rupp

Christy Rupp, The Goldfinch (after Carel Fabritius), 2017, plastic net bags, steel, plastic, fishline and paint. © Christy Rupp

Helen Glazer: Walking in Antarctica February 2 - March 16 Bellarmine Hall Galleries In 2015, artist Helen Glazer traveled to Antarctica as a grantee of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, in order to photograph ice and geological formations for eventual production as photographic prints and sculpture. She worked out of remote Antarctic scientific field camps and had access to protected areas that can only be entered with government permits or in the company of a skilled mountaineer. Inspired and informed by her experiences, Walking in Antarctica is an immersive, interdisciplinary exhibition bringing together photography, sculpture, and audio narrative to take the viewer on a journey through an extraordinary environment of remote places that the tourist ships do not reach and few people get to witness in person. The exhibition is organized as a series of “walks” through remarkable Antarctic landscapes: over frozen lakes, around towering glaciers and baroque sea ice formations, into a magnificent frozen ice cave, across fields of surreal-looking boulders, and through a lively colony of nesting Adélie penguins. Visitors to the exhibition who have smartphones will be able to access an audio tour narrated by Glazer, drawn from a blog in which she recorded her experiences. Faculty Liaison: Brian Walker, PhD, Professor of Biology

Helen Glazer, Bridge Onto Lake Hoare, Antarctica, 2015, archival pigment print. © Helen Glazer

SIGNATURE EVENTS Thursday, February 1, 5 p.m. Opening Lecture: Helen Glazer Diffley Board Room, Bellarmine Hall and streaming on thequicklive.com Presented as part of the Edwin L. Wiesel Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation

Thursday, February 1, 6-8 p.m. Opening Reception: Helen Glazer: Walking in Antarctica Bellarmine Hall Great Hall and Bellarmine Hall Galleries Thursday, March 14, 5 p.m. Lecture: Long Ago and Far Away: Three “Summers” on a Remote Antarctic Island Brian Walker, PhD, Professor of Biology, Fairfield University Diffley Board Room, Bellarmine Hall and streaming on thequicklive.com

Helen Glazer, Penguin Yoga, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 2015, archival pigment print.© Helen Glazer

Suzanne Chamlin: Studies in Color April 5 – July 27 Bellarmine Hall Galleries In this exhibition of recent work, Chamlin explores ideas about color theory and light through a series of landscape and interior stills. For each of her paintings, Chamlin sets a highly specific palette; experimentation within this limited range then guides her decisions about process and pictorial space. Suzanne Chamlin is Associate Professor of Studio Art in the Department of Visual & Performing Arts at Fairfield University. Her drawings are in the Suzanne Chamlin, Rose Bush, 2019, oil on wood panel. © Suzanne Chamlin. Photo credit: Malcolm Varon, nyc collections of the National Gallery of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Nelson Atkins Museum. Chamlin has attended residencies at the Albers Foundation, Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, Fundación Valparaiso, and Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony. Chamlin received her B.A. from Barnard College and M.F.A. from Yale University. Faculty Liaison: Marice Rose, PhD, Professor of Art History & Visual Culture

SIGNATURE EVENTS Monday, March 25, 5 p.m. Virtual Lecture: Color Theory for Artists, Designers, and Visual Thinkers Marcie Cooperman, Assistant Instructor, Parsons School of Fashion Streaming only on thequicklive.com Thursday, April 4, 2024, 5 p.m. Opening Night Lecture: Artist Suzanne Chamlin, interviewed by Marice Rose, PhD Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room and streaming on thequicklive.com

Suzanne Chamlin, Painter Hill Road 2, 2023, oil on canvas. © Suzanne Chamlin, photograph courtesy Malcolm Varon, nyc

Thursday, April 4, 6-8 p.m. Opening Reception: Suzanne Chamlin: Studies in Color Bellarmine Hall Great Hall and Bellarmine Hall Galleries Thursday, April 18, 11 a.m. Gallery Talk: Suzanne Chamlin Bellarmine Hall Galleries

The Landscape in Focus: Recent Acquisitions in Photography April 5 – July 27 Bellarmine Hall Galleries

Huang Yan, Dismantle Landscape, 2005, C-print on paper. Gift of Helyn Goldenberg and Michael Alper, 2023.32.01b

Peter Anton: Just Desserts May 10 - July 27 Walsh Gallery Thursday, May 9, 5 p.m. Opening Lecture: Connecticut Confections: The Sweet and Savory History of Our Local Food Eric. D. Lehman and Amy Nawrocki, authors of A History of Connecticut Food Dolan School of Business Event Hall and streaming on thequicklive.com Thursday, May 9, 6-8 p.m. Opening Reception: Peter Anton: Just Desserts Reception: Dolan School of Business Event Hall and Exhibition Viewing: Walsh Gallery

OTHER EVENTS Tuesday, January 23, 5 p.m. Lecture: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Dogwood Room, Barone Campus Center Special Agent Geoff Kelly, FBI Art Crimes Task Force Tuesday, January 30, 7:30 p.m. Open VISIONS Espresso: Guarding the Met’s Masterpieces: Meditating on the Meaning of The Stele of the Three Brothers, Volos Archaeological Museum, Greece (L247). The visible-induced Art While Discovering my own Soul luminescence image shows the distribution of Egyptian blue. Patrick Bringley, author and former Met guard Presented by the Quick Center for the Arts, co-sponsored by the Museum, Art History & Visual Culture Program, and Visual and Performing Arts Department Dolan School of Business Event Hall (tickets required, please contact QCA box office) Wednesday, February 21, 7:30 p.m. Open VISIONS Espresso: Searching for Edward Hopper: Legal and Ethical Issues of a Vanished Legacy Gail Levin, PhD, author and Distinguished Professor ofArt History, American Studies, and Women’s Studies, Baruch College, CUNY Presented by the Quick Center for the Arts, co-sponsored by the Museum, Art History & Visual Culture Program, and Visual and Performing Arts Department Dolan School of Business Event Hall (tickets required, please contact QCA box office) Monday, April 8, 5 p.m. Lecture: Material Evidence in Ancient Greek and Roman Painting Giovanni Verri, PhD, Conservation Scientist, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Vincent J. Rosivach Lecture in Ancient Mediterranean Studies, presented by the Program in Classical Studies, co-sponsored by the Museum, the Arts Institute, and the Science Institute DiMenna-Nyselius Library Multimedia Room

ART IN FOCUS Informal discussion around one work of art with Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo, PhD Select Thursdays, Bellarmine Hall Galleries at 11 a.m. and streaming at Noon February 15: Master of San Martino alla Palma, The Flagellation, ca. 1330 March 14: Helen Glazer, Blue Fractals, Erebus Ice Tongue Cave, Antarctica, 2015 April 11: Christy Rupp, The Goldfinch (after Carel Fabritius), 2017 (this event takes place in the Walsh Gallery) May 16: Kunichika Toyohara, Nakamura Fukusuke as Chūrō Onoe, 1865

Kunichika Toyohara, Nakamura Fukusuke as Chūrō Onoe, 1865

DRAWING PARTIES Bring your own projects or enjoy tips from educator Kate Wellen. Art supplies provided! Bellarmine Hall Museum Classroom, 7-9 p.m.

Christy Rupp, Remaining Balance Insufficient, 2015, welded steel, gold credit cards, and plastic gift cards © Christy Rupp

Thursday, February 22 | Thursday, April 18

FAMILY DAYS Select Saturdays, 12:30-2 p.m. and 2:30-4 p.m. (Space is limited; registration required) February 24: Ice and Snow Bellarmine Hall Presented in conjunction with Helen Glazer: Walking in Antarctica

April 27: Mixing It Up with Color Bellarmine Hall Presented in conjunction with Suzanne Chamlin: Studies in Color

March 23: Re-Re-Re-Recycle! Walsh Gallery Presented in conjunction with Streaming: Sculpture by Christy Rupp

May 25: Crafting Sweet Treats Walsh Gallery Presented in conjunction with Peter Anton: Just Desserts

OTHER RESOURCES fairfield.edu/museum Visit our website to: • browse our collections online • catch-up on past lectures and events on our YouTube channel • find coloring pages and kids’ activities • check out our on-campus sculpture map

FairfieldUniversityArtMuseum Cover: Christy Rupp, Parrots (after Frida Kahlo, ca. 1937), 2017, plastic net bags, steel, plastic, fishline and paint. © Christy Rupp