Three Adelphi Univeristy faculty members will have their artwork displayed as part of the Exhibitions Programs’ Faculty Spotlight. Hannah Smith Allen, David Hornung and Christopher Saucedo, faculty members from the department of art and art history will have their artistic creations on view now through Jan. 10 in the Ruth S. Harley University Center Gallery.
A reception will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.
Smith Allen, assistant professor of photography and digital media, received her MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts and BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She is the recipient of a 2007 Individual Photographer’s Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, a 2010 Artist Fellowship in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a 2011 A.I.M. residency at the Bronx Museum of Art, and the recipient of the 2012-2013 A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship.
Her work has been exhibited nationwide, including venues such as the Phoenix Museum Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, and San Francisco Camerawork.
Allen will be exhibiting selections from her Scheduled Implosions series. In this collection she “considers the temporality of our constructed landscape by photographing media coverage of building demolitions.” Allen shoots instant film, re-crops the original video frames, and employs long exposures in order to make visible the tensions between still and moving pictures.
Hornung, professor of art, received his MFA in painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI and his BA in fine art from the University of Delaware-Newark, DE.
His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is the author and designer of a color textbook (Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers) that is widely used and has been translated into five languages. Hornung has been teaching art at art schools and universities for four decades and has been on the faculty of the Art and Art History Department at Adelphi University since 2004.
In this exhibition, he will feature a group of cyanotypes made from cut paper collages. Influenced by his love for 19th century marble dust painting, these micro dramas reflect shadow puppetry and the cut paper animation of Lotte Reiniger.
His pictographic renderings compose simple scenes of people alone and together under the night skies, beset by the dreams and dangers of existence. These pictures have evolved from his long-term fascination with the mystery that unfolds when the narrative and decorative are intermingled.
Saucedo, associate professor of art, received his MFA from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his BFA from New York’s School of Visual Arts. After attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, he did post-graduate work at the Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Saucedo retired as research professor and chair of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of New Orleans where he ran the sculpture program for 20 years.
He is the recipient of numerous awards including recent grants from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, The Joan Mitchell Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Saucedo’s artwork has been included in many group and solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad and he has artwork in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art; The Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham Alabama; The Weatherspoon Art Museum Greensboro, North Carolina; The Odgen Museum of Art, New Orleans and The National September 11th Memorial & Museum.
Saucedo composes artwork that is relevant in his time, creating conceptual pieces that address the unexpected events that shaped his life.
The Ruth S. Harley University Center Gallery is open weekdays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and weekends from 12 to 4 p.m.
