Fairfield University Art Museum Spring 2022 Programs

SPRING 2022 PROGRAMS

HOURS Bellarmine Hall Galleries Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Walsh Gallery Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 4 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

ink/stone This exhibition features paintings and works on paper from the late 20th and 21st centuries inspired by traditional Chinese artistic subjects of rocks and mountains, presented together with stone sculpture, including a scholar’s rock. Curated by Ive Covaci, PhD, ink/stone investigates how contemporary Chinese artists deploy and transform this motif, using a range of media from ink on paper to oil on canvas.

SEEING IS BELIEVING: CROSSINGS AND TRANSPOSITIONS, PART II This exhibition presents the work of five contemporary Chinese artists: He Jiancheng, Luo Biwu, Zhang Zhengmin, Xiao Yaoning and Zuo Zengyao. The exhibition is organized

by Fairfield University studio art professor Jo Yarrington, who travelled to China in 2016 with four other American artists to present SEEING IS BELIEVING: CROSSINGS AND TRANSPOSITIONS, PART I.

January 21-March 5, 2022 Walsh Gallery

Thursday, January 20, 6-8 p.m.

Opening Reception: ink/stone and SEEING IS BELIEVING: CROSSINGS AND TRANSPOSITIONS, PART II exhibitions Walsh Gallery and Quick Center lobby Wednesday, February 2, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Demonstration and workshop: Cyantoype (Jo Yarrington) and four-color etching (Mary Teichman) Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Crossings and Transpositions Extended: Reflections from China, Loyola Hall Studio Art Galleries, Studio Art Program (January 20-February 10, 2022) Loyola LL printmaking studio (limited to 15)

Zuo Zhengyao, China Long Tone 10, 2012, print. Courtesy of the artist

Thursday, January 20, 5 p.m.

Opening Night Event: Introduction of ink/stone by Ive Covaci, PhD, and filmed conversation between Prof. Jo Yarrington and SEEING IS BELIEVING artists Kelley Theatre + streaming

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

Wednesday, February 2, 2-4:30 p.m.

Demonstration and workshop: Japanese woodblock print (mokuhanga) with cloisonné reference (Margot Rocklen) and silkscreen monoprint (Carmela Venti) Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Crossings and Transpositions Extended: Reflections from China, Loyola Hall Studio Art Galleries, Studio Art Program (January 20-February 10, 2022) Loyola LL printmaking studio (limited to 15) Tuesday, February 8, 5 p.m.

Lecture: Rocks and Mountains in Recent Chinese Art Yao Wu, Jane Chace Carroll Curator of Asian Art, Smith College Museum of Art in Conversation with Ive Covaci, PhD Co-sponsored by the Art History & Visual Culture Program, Department of Visual and Performing Arts Walsh Gallery (limited to 35) Wednesday, February 9, 7 p.m.

Workshop: Chinese Calligraphy with He Jiancheng Streaming Wednesday, February 16, 11 a.m.

Workshop: Chinese Brush Painting with Yuemei Zhang Loyola LL printmaking studio (limited to 30) Tuesday, February 22, 5 p.m.

Lecture: Reconsidering the Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art Practices* Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe, Director, Asia Society Museum Kelley Theatre + streaming

Zhan Wang, Artificial Rock No. 77, fabricated 2012, Stainless steel with mahogany wood base. Lent by Williams College Museum of Art, Gift of Susan Adler in honor of the Williams College Faculty of Art, in memory of Herbert S. Adler, P’99. ©Zhan Wang

*Part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation

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

ADGER COWANS: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Adger Cowans (American, b. 1936) is celebrated as one of the founding members of the Black photographers’ group called Kamoinge. Curated by Halima Taha, this exhibition will explore how Cowans uses photography as a vehicle to articulate beauty within the human condition and the world in which we live, and will feature over fifty works from across his illustrious career as a photographer of portraiture, landscape, and film.

January 28-June 18, 2022 Bellarmine Hall Galleries

Adger Cowans, Egg Nude, 1958, silver gelatin print. Courtesy of the artist and Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York. © Adger Cowans

Thursday, January 27 6-8 p.m.

Opening Night Event: Book signing with Adger Cowans and live music

by Grammy-award-winning saxophonist Patience Higgins Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room + streaming Wednesday, March 9, 5 p.m.

Lecture: Collecting Black Art* Halima Taha, Curator of Adger Cowans: Sense and Sensibility Kelley Theatre + streaming Wednesday, March 30, 5 p.m.

Conversation: The Illustrious Career of Adger Cowans* Deborah Willis, PhD & Adger Cowans, moderated by exhibition curator Halima Taha BCC, Dogwood Room + streaming

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

13 Ways of Looking at Landscape: Larry Silver’s Connecticut Photographs Photographer and Photo League member Larry Silver moved to Westport, CT in 1973 and with his camera, began exploring its regional environs, and pushing the boundaries of what landscape is. This exhibition, curated by Leslie K. Brown, PhD, will bring together over 40 years of Silver’s work made of and in Connecticut.

March 25-June 18, 2022 Walsh Gallery Thursday, March 24, 5 p.m.

Opening Night Lecture: 13 Ways of Looking at Landscape: Larry Silver’s Connecticut Photographs* Leslie K. Brown, PhD, Curator of the Exhibition Kelley Theatre + streaming Thursday, March 24, 6 - 8 p.m.

Reception: 13 Ways of Looking at Landscape: Larry Silver’s Connecticut Photographs Walsh Gallery and Quick Center lobby Wednesday, April 20 , 5 p.m.

Conversation: Halima Taha and Leslie K. Brown in conversation with Adger Cowans and Larry Silver Kelley Theatre + streaming

Larry Silver, Sitting at Water’s Edge, Sherwood Island State Park, Westport, CT, 2014, archival inkjet print, courtesy of the artist and Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York. © Larry Silver

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

Open VISIONS Forum Co-sponsored by Fairfield University Art Museum and Art History & Visual Culture Program, Department of Visual and Performing Arts Thursday, February 24, 7:30 p.m.

Open VISIONS Forum: Art Talk as Therapy: Observing the New York Art World, 1972-2022 Judd Tully, Art Critic Dolan Event Hall Tuesday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.

Open VISIONS Forum: Jackson and Lee: What Was Really Cooking in the House and Studio Helen Harrison, Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Director of the PollockKrasner House and Study Center Dolan Event Hall Tuesday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.

Open VISIONS Espresso: Starving Artist: Investigating Power and Privilege in the Art World Zachary Small, correspondent, New York Times; Financial Times; Times Literary Supplement; The Nation; Hyperallergic Dolan Event Hall

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

ART IN FOCUS STREAMING THURSDAYS AT 11 A.M. January 20 Alexandre Lunois, Bullfight, 1897 February 10 Luo Biwu, Parts, 2015 March 3 Josiah Wedgewood, AntiSlavery Seal, ca. 1790-1800 April 14 Lawrence Gipe, Panel #18 from The Last Picture Show (Olympic Diver 1936), 2000

BELLARMINE HALL GALLERIES THURSDAYS AT 11 A.M.

Alexandre Lunois, Bullfight, 1897, color lithograph. Gift of James Reed (2021.11.19)

January 27 Alexandre Lunois, Bullfight, 1897 February 17 Luo Biwu, Parts, 2015 April 21 Lawrence Gipe, Panel #18 from The Last Picture Show (Olympic Diver 1936), 2000

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

Workshops Tuesday, March 29, 7-9 p.m.

Drawing Party: Art supplies and snacks provided Bellarmine Hall Galleries Tuesday, May 3, 5 p.m.

Art Workshop: De-Stress with Art With educator Kate Wellen Streaming

Mindfulness and Meditation

Ann Chernow, Lady in the Lake, 20th century, linocut. Gift of James Reed (2019.03.275)

With Jackie DeLise, master certified meditation and mindfulness teacher Bellarmine Hall Galleries, Mondays at 4 p.m.

January 24, February 28, March 21, April 11, May 23 Streaming, Tuesdays at 4 p.m.

January 25, March 1, March 22, April 12, May 24

Family Days Select Saturdays, with opt-in art kits and YouTube tutorials January 29: Chinese Art February 26: Roman Art March 26: It’s All About Perspective April 23: Art of Pre-Columbian Mexico Unknown Mexican artist, Nayarit Seated Couple (Male), 200 BCE- 200 CE, terracotta. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fass (2018.10.02)

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FairfieldUniversityArtMuseum Cover: Lawrence Gipe, Panel #18 from The Last Picture Show (Olympic Diver 1936), 2000, oil on board. Gift of the the Florimbi Family (2021.15.01)