The 2nd Faculty Biennial brings together artworks from recent Art and Art Education Program faculty working in drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, and new media.
The show is on view from November 2-27 at Macy Art Gallery
Jun Gao
Zoom Quarantine-On the edge between virtual reality and real virtuality
Online meeting platforms, such as Zoom and Google Meet, connect people in a virtual meeting space. "The virtual meetings are synchronization of time and visual expansion of space. Such synchronization creates an illusion of being real, a sense of real-time. The connection happens via the flat screen, microphone, and speakers; the expanded space is visual and solely two dimensional. Such illusional expansion of space is mere virtual. Precisely, Online meeting platforms cannot synchronize time. The meeting experience is neither a form of virtual reality nor a real virtuality. Instead, it swings between the two digitized living experiences. This project reverses the common usage of the Zoom meeting. There is only one subject in the setting, the sole person in the zoom meeting. In this setting, the meeting is happening in one space. Nine cameras surrounded the person for the zoom meeting. The images show even in the same place, each device responds at a slightly different time. In these screenshots, synchronized time became fragmented; the space became deconstructed. A Zoom meeting is a photography shop; its screenshot turns into a novel form of collective photography through the lenses of 9 cameras used for this Zoom meeting.”
Gerard Vezzuso
'Home Alone'
"'Home Alone' is a non camera series of cyanotypes. Created during the Covid crisis I found myself without the school studios and equipment for a period longer than I hoped. The subjects were objects from my apartment. The objects are being scanned while I'm holding them to give an added organic affect. After I get the right image it is moved into photoshop where I create a 5x7 negative. The negative is then exposed to 4 UV Reptile light bulbs which I rigged up in my closet using clip lamps.The exposures are generally 50 minutes then washed and dried. I use pre coated cyanotype paper often available in colors."
Aimee Ehrman
Glazescape #1
"I often find myself drawn to textures and surfaces in the environment around me. I love to touch the walls of buildings, get close and see the layers of lichen on the trees, and examine how these surfaces feel under my fingers. I think about how I can create layers of glazes that reflect the feelings that embody my experiences with my environment. My series of wall works, within which this piece resides, are representative of this examination."
Learn More About Artists on View
Aimee Ehrman
Studio Instructor
Aimee is currently pursuing an Ed.D.DCT in Art Education and holds an Ed.M. from Teachers College. She has a M.F.A. from SUNY New Paltz and a B.A. from Baldwin Wallace University. Aimee’s research interest involves examining the intersection of embodied learning and ceramics, and how the embodied practices of ceramics can be explored in higher education. Aimee is also interested in how the educational setting can influence art making practices and subsequent artworks. As an active artist and educator, she brings both her movement and artist practices to the classroom, where she challenges students to both experiment with the material and consider the role of the body as a tool. Aimee’s artistic individual works and installations are held in private collections and exhibited in galleries nationwide.
Jun Gao
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Gao is an established artist and passionate educator who has taught art and art education for twenty years. He obtained a Doctor of Education degree in art and art education from Teachers College, Columbia University, an MA from University for the Creative Arts (Britain), an MFA from Boston University College of Fine Arts, and a BA from Tsinghua University (China). In addition to his multidisciplinary art practice, Dr. Gao teaches painting courses in the Art and Art Education Program at Teachers College and gives lectures at art schools in China. Besides serving in different advisory committees, he presented at national and international conferences and conducted workshops in world-renowned institutions, such as The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and National Art and Art Education Association. His teaching passions include painting, drawing, photography, graphic design, digital art, visual culture, art theory, and art education. Many of his artworks are collected by internationally acclaimed American and Chinese institutions and are published in various art books and periodicals.
Erika Vogt
Studio Instructor
Erika Vogt is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Vogt’s sculptures have taken the form of installations and collaborative theatrical performances. She works materially across mediums including time. Past institutional solo exhibitions have included the New Museum in New York, the Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and Triangle France in Marseille. Her work has been exhibited and screened at institutions including Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, and REDCAT. Theatrical commissions include The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2014 and Performa in New York City in 2015.
Zhenzhen Qi
Studio Instructor
Zhenzhen Qi is a research artist, educator and technologist. Since 2014, she has taught theory and practice of interactive media, web, and game development at Teachers College, Columbia University, City University of New York(CUNY), Guangzhou Academy of Art(GAFA), Creative Technology Week(CTW), Power Station of Art(PSA), among others. She is a technology resident at Pioneer Works, a member of the art and technology incubator NEW INC, led by New Museum, co-founder of New York based media research and production studio zzyw.org. She was recently awarded a Brooklyn Arts Council fund to research and develop Collaborative Worlding, an alternative education model that involves artists, technologists, and general audience of art. Zhenzhen holds a BS from University of California, Berkeley, MPS from Tisch School of Art, NYU, and is currently pursuing her Doctor of Education (EdD), focusing on Computational Art Education, at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Olga Hubard
Associate Professor of Art and Art Education
I am interested in humanizing power of art and in how educators can help promote meaningful art experiences for all learners–particularly in museum settings. I have also conducted research on the contributions of studio art learning for non-art majors in higher education.
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Richard Jochum
Associate Professor of Art and Art Education
Richard Jochum is a conceptual artist working in a broad variety of media with a strong focus on video, interactive installation, performance, and photography. He is a studio member at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and an associate professor of art and art education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has worked in various media since the late 1990s and has had more than 200 international exhibitions and screenings. Richard Jochum received his PhD from the University of Vienna (1997) and an MFA in sculpture and media art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (2001). His art practice is accompanied by publications and research in the field of cultural theory, new media, and contemporary art and he has been awarded several grants and prizes. One of his latest large scale art installations has been a 30,000 square feet collaborative video mapping project onto the Manhattan Bridge.
Mary Hafeli
Professor of Art and Art Education
Scholarly Interests
Ideas, ways of thinking, decisions, and judgments that characterize the practices of artists as they produce creative work; the teaching environments in which students' art works are created; youth and adult perspectives on "good" teaching in art; art-based and literary forms as methods of inquiry, college art teaching and learning, arts leadership in higher education.
More about Professor Hafeli here
Gerard Vezzuso
Studio Instructor
Jerry Vezzuso is a photographer and multimedia artist working in New York City. Born in Brooklyn NY studied at the School of Visual Arts is the recipient of The New York Foundation for the Arts Special Project Grant. Jerry Vezzuso is currently working in printmaking. His work is in the collection of The Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Museum of the City of New York and exhibits often in N.Y. galleries..
During the 1980s he was color photographer for the La Mama ETC experimental theater in the East Village. His book based on haircuts in the East Village 1984 was published by Ballantine Books. 'New American Haircuts' later became a zine 'Model Release'. He has been exhibited and published widely including Vanity Fair, DoubleTake, Dear Dave, Manhattan Ink and more. He is co-founder of The Tierney Fellowship in Photography.
Bat-Ami Rivlin
Studio Instructor
Bat-Ami Rivlin is a New York based sculptor. Rivlin utilizes found and surplus objects to create installation and sculptural works that explore conceptual spaces between object ontology, material function, and bodily characteristics. Rivlin received her MFA from Columbia University in 2019 and her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2016. She has exhibited in such venues as the Jewish Museum, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Knockdown Center, Times Square Space, Bahnhof Gallery, M23 Projects, Latchkey Gallery and more. Rivlin was selected as artist-in-residence at NARS Foundation Residency, Arts Letters & Numbers Residency, and SVA Sculpture and New Media Residency. Rivlin was awarded the A.I.R. Gallery fellowship for the 2020-2021 year. Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Lef(t) Publication, Office Magazine, Artnet News, The Paris Review, Basis Magazine for Art and Culture, ArtSlant, Peripheral Vision Arts, BTR Radio and more.
Linda Kourkoulis
Studio Instructor
Zhenzhen Qi is a research artist, educator and technologist. Since 2014, she has taught theory and practice of interactive media, web, and game development at Teachers College, Columbia University, City University of New York(CUNY), Guangzhou Academy of Art(GAFA), Creative Technology Week(CTW), Power Station of Art(PSA), among others. She is a technology resident at Pioneer Works, a member of the art and technology incubator NEW INC, led by New Museum, co-founder of New York based media research and production studio zzyw.org. She was recently awarded a Brooklyn Arts Council fund to research and develop Collaborative Worlding, an alternative education model that involves artists, technologists, and general audience of art. Zhenzhen holds a BS from University of California, Berkeley, MPS from Tisch School of Art, NYU, and is currently pursuing her Doctor of Education (EdD), focusing on Computational Art Education, at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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