Look back on exhibitions hosted at the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery.
Using materials that glow under blacklight, ultraviolet delves into the nuanced relationship of glow-in-the-dark, neon, and fluorescent entities within analog and computational photography, printma...
View Full GalleryLandfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking celebrates 50 years of work from one of the country’s most renowned printer-publishers. Landfall is celebrated for its spirit of collaboration, which has...
View Full GalleryIn this international exhibition, faculty from the Division of Expanded Media will show with faculty from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. Over the past two decades these artists a...
View Full GalleryMcKean's sculptural installations explore objects, materiality and time set within densely elliptical, narrative spaces.
View Full GalleryThis exhibition celebrates the art and life of pioneering media artist Woody Vasulka (1937-2019). Highlighting Woody’s research and discoveries in electronic moving-image, Point Zero will feature o...
View Full GalleryAn exhibition highlighting artwork by faculty from the Division of Dimensional Studies, including Sarah Blood, Diane Cox, Karen Donnellan, Brett Hunter, Coral Lambert, Angus Powers and guest collab...
View Full GalleryThis exhibition celebrates the diversity of artistic voices across the School of Art and Design; both faculty and students who contribute to the vibrant culture of the first-year program.
View Full GalleryCelebrating Three Decades of NYSCA/NYFA Fellowships
View Full GalleryCelebrating Three Decades of NYSCA/NYFA Fellowships
View Full GalleryFive contemporary artists use trompe l'oeil drawing, painting, and sculpture as a seduction to reel the viewer into questioning perceptions of reality.
View Full GalleryThe exhibition presents over 25 works from the archives of this esteemed Alfred University Professor of Printmaking, Andy Brady (1970-76). Brady was a standard bearer of clear thought transposed in...
View Full Gallery"Rising" is an exhibition celebrating the School of Art and Design MFA graduate students moving into their second year of study. The exhibition will take place in the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery June 8 ...
View Full GalleryCandidates for the Spring 2024 MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Electronic Integrated Arts, Painting, and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies are featured in a series of culminating exhibitions in the Fosdick...
View Full GalleryFrom vessels to photographs, fiber works to sculpture, the BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) artists presented in this exhibition use a mixed media approach to explore how bodies are seen ...
View Full GalleryThis improbable, monumental installation of soft billowing forms, cast on-site in thin plaster skins, addresses fragility, containment, architecture and the body.
View Full GalleryAn exhibition of sculpture in various modes by faculty in the Sculpture Dimensional Studies Division at the School of Art and Design including Glass, Light, Foundry, Kinetics, Fibers and Mixed Media.
View Full GalleryBy exhibiting artworks that engage play from various artists and designers with disparate artistic practices and concerns, Playthings seeks to broaden our understanding of the intersections between...
View Full GalleryCeramic sculptor Meghan Smythe concludes her three-year tenure as the Turner Teaching Fellow within the Division of Ceramic Art. The Turner Teaching Fellowship was established in honor of Robert Ch...
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Electronic Integrated Arts, Painting, and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies are featured in a series of culminating thesis exhibitions.
View Full GalleryLayer on layer on layer. Covering up, peeling back, adding to subtract. This show brings together new work from U.S.-based artists and includes painting, photography, sculpture.
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Electronic Integrated Arts, Painting, and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies are featured in a series of culminating exhibitions in the Fosdick-Nelson, Robert ...
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Sculpture, Glass and Electronic Integrated Arts are featured in a series of culminating exhibitions.
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Sculpture, Glass and Electronic Integrated Arts are featured in a series of culminating exhibitions
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Sculpture, Glass and Electronic Integrated Arts are featured in a series of culminating exhibitions.
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Electronic Integrated Arts, Painting, and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies are featured in a series of culminating thesis exhibitions.
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Electronic Integrated Arts, Painting, and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies are featured in a series of culminating thesis exhibitions.
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Electronic Integrated Arts, Painting and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies are featured in a series of culminating exhibitions in the Fosdick-Nelson, Robert C...
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Sculpture, Glass and Electronic Arts are featured in a series of culmination exhibitions.
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Sculpture, Glass and Electronic Integrated Arts are featured in a series of culminating exhibitions.
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Sculpture, Glass and Electronic Arts are featured in a series of culmination exhibitions.
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Sculpture, Glass and Electronic Arts are featured in a series of culmination exhibitions.
View Full GalleryPhotographs from Burma and Cyprus
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic, Sculpture, Glass and Electronic Integrated Arts are featured in a series of culminating exhibitions.
View Full GalleryAn exhibition of Painting and Ceramics
View Full GallerySculpture exhibition featuring works by alumni who studied with Glenn Zweygardt. The exhibition marks Zweygardt’s 38 years of teaching at the School of Art and Design and celebrates the opening of ...
View Full GalleryEarth, sky, time, light, space: Wayne Higby's work is a meditation on the relationship between mind and matter. It is not about landscape. EarthCloud is the largest hand cut porcelain, architectura...
View Full GalleryD. Chase Angier, assistant professor of dance, in collaboration with Marketa Fantova, assistant professor of theater design; and John Laprade, a musician who divides his time between Alfred and New...
View Full GalleryHarrell Fletcher along with Dallas Kavanagh, Elizabeth Emery, Terese Longva, Steve Randall, Tom Shim, Shannon Yoder, Matthew Corson-Finnerty, Rebecca Gray, Kaye Waltman, Alicia Eggert, Ben Martel, ...
View Full GalleryUndertow presents four emerging artists from Brooklyn and Chicago in an exhibition of conceptual sculpture and installation excavating human history, discovery, and personal memory.
View Full GalleryIn the works of Terri Weifenbach and Christine Gray the languages of photography and painting commingle in inventive and paradoxical relationships.
View Full GalleryA group exhibition featuring several video artists: all inspired by iconic 1970's performance art work, contemporized by a shared satirical wink at western pop culture. Glancing back with both feet...
View Full GalleryVisual and performance artist Nick Cave constructs intricately bejeweled costumes from a range of materials including sequins, beads, twigs and bottle caps. A selection of his "Sound Suits" - so n...
View Full GalleryLyn Carter's sculpture of stretched fabric and Ani Hoover's process paintings explore the geometry of the circle, transforming the simple shape into complex abstractions. Carter references the dome...
View Full GalleryDon Metz has composed a surround-sound composition using a modified piano and other objects found in his garage on Vernon Place in Buffalo. Final editing completed at the Institute of Electronic Ar...
View Full GalleryThe artists represented in 'Ferrous Bloom' examine the unique and fascinating nature of iron as a sculptural vehicle, drawing on its innate physical properties and rich historical associations.
View Full GalleryThis exhibition showcases artwork conveying the breadth, diversity and expertise of the faculty in the School of Art and Design.
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Sculpture, Glass and Electronic Integrated Arts are featured in a series of culminating exhibitions.
View Full GalleryIn the 1970's Steina and Woody Vasulka laid the groundwork for the "free electron" in media art. The work in this exhibition examines the structure of video, its relationship to sound, image proces...
View Full GalleryCandidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Sculpture, Glass and Electronic Integrated Arts and featured in a series of culminating exhibitions.
View Full GalleryThis show brings together four painters investigating fictitious and actual locations. The works reveal their interactions and experiences with specific environments, examine ephemeral occurrences,...
View Full GalleryRaw Goods displays artifacts of manufacturing in Western New York as examples of artful engineering, elegant solutions and material innovations and illuminates the historical relationships between ...
View Full GallerySixty years of life drawing by Mario Prisco, artist and former Dean of the School of Art and Design, will be on display in conjunction with a circulating exhibit of student drawings resulting from ...
View Full GallerySixty years of life drawing by Mario Prisco, artist and former Dean of the School of Art and Design, will be on display in conjunction with a circulating exhibit of student drawings resulting from ...
View Full GalleryAn exhibition of ceramic art in myriad forms by faculty, staff and technical specialist in the School of Art and Design including digital design, functional, pottery, figurative sculpture, and arch...
View Full GalleryThe cycle between light and dark, day and night, reveals a daily spectacle of color which has long-inspired scientists and artists, brining forth a canon of theories about color and perception. Fre...
View Full GalleryFeaturing work by Freshman Foundation faculty Ted Morgan and Angie To. Morgan will exhibit a series of photographs and To will display paintings. The exhibition marks Ted Morgan's 35th year of teac...
View Full GalleryThe Fosdick-Nelson Gallery is proud to present a performance installation created by D. Chase Angier of Angier Performance Works, in collaboration with Luftwerk, The Tiffany Mills Company, Kristi S...
View Full GalleryBridging traditional textile processes with contemporary imagery and ideas, Soft Core features the work of three artists who embrace fiber techniques - knitting, weaving and embroidery - to develop...
View Full GalleryAn exhibition of work by new faculty and technical specialists to the Division of Ceramic Art.
View Full GalleryA collection of works that playfully skirt between the functional and sculptural, by individuals and collaborative teams who identify as both artists and designers.
View Full GalleryThe School of Art and Design celebrates the launch of the new MFA Painting program with an exhibition featuring work by painting faculty: Jutta Haeckel, Heidi Hahn, Stephanie McMahon, Kevin Wixted ...
View Full GalleryFascination with the natural world triggers the imagination. Materials and processes foster a transformation. These artists create allusions to timelessness and the infinite.
View Full GalleryThis exhibition features artwork by MFA alumni from the class of 2020. Work by sixteen artists will be on display in the Fosdick-Nelson and Turner Galleries.
View Full GalleryPresenting a cross section of current ceramic work this show will address the subject of function and implicating the site/space of the table. Fourteen artists collectively represent practices in C...
View Full GalleryThree faculty from the School of Art and Design representing print-making, sculpture and graphic design showcase their work.
View Full GalleryThis exhibition features recent artwork created by the Drawing, Painting and Photography faculty, revealing the broad range of studio practices and interests that comprise this division in the Scho...
View Full GalleryThis exhibition asks: what is a queer perspective and how does queerness meet form. Originating at Yale University Queering Space and the curatorial team migrate to Alfred to expand the dialogue.
View Full GalleryHighlighting the intaglio process this exhibition of prints from the Wingate Studio includes a wide range of artists from Walton Ford and Sol Lewitt to Joel Werring and Jiha Moon.
View Full GalleryAn immersive video installation that integrates dance and film, TOKIMEKI BLUE is a collaboration between choreographer Cameron McKinney and filmmaker Cayla Mae Simpson. Inspired by the Japanese ono...
View Full GalleryCulled from the exhibition Transformational Image-making: Handmade Photography Since 1960, curated by Robert Hirch, this selection focuses on works specifically dealing with the material process of...
View Full GalleryThis exhibition features contemporary Chinese artists actively working in the field of printmaking.
View Full GalleryFeaturing work by faculty and staff from the Division of Expanded Media: Peer Bode, Xiaowen Chen, William Contino, Andrew Deutsch, Gerar Edizel, Mark Klingensmith, Barbara Lattanzi, Judy Livingston...
View Full GalleryFive artists re-imagine the Nordic landscape, using photography to create alternate realities that dazzle and quietly threaten. Each artist adopts an experimental, manipulated approach to the mediu...
View Full GalleryShowcasing seven contemporary painters Donnie Copeland, Matthew Farina, Amy Feldman, Julian Jackson, Karen Schifano, Laurel Sucsy and Rachael Wren who combine the fundamental elements of color, mar...
View Full GalleryFour artists work in diverse ways with the visual lexicon around the genre of landscape. Using materials ranging from ceramics, print, painting, video, and textiles the artworks in this exhibition ...
View Full GalleryDrawing has experienced a renewal of critical attention as the lines of demarcation between drawing, painting, digital images and sculpture continue to blur, merge and influence one another. This e...
View Full GalleryCloaked in the guise of color and pattern, three installation artists reveal subtle signs of discontent.
View Full GalleryMeasured Space directly and indirectly draws on the historical and geological trajectories of the area of Alfred, New York, as both source and site. Through diverse materials and sculptural process...
View Full GalleryPresenting a collection of books, posters, videos, postcards, interviews and mass-media images by or about Joseph Beuys. Also included are contemporary works produced in response to Beuys works by ...
View Full GalleryThis exhibit of painting, collage and video explores issues surrounding appropriated images in art. The artists directly lift subject matter from popular culture and media to create work that quest...
View Full GalleryWorking collaboratively with improvisational cosplay, the artists create speculative video installations that re-imagine educational practice and explore post-human fictions.
View Full GalleryThrough a prism of the one who stands behind an action, working with and within language, we are exposed to a critical stance. Social structures manifest in the linguistic eco. The show will featur...
View Full GalleryThis exhibition highlights artwork produced at the IEA in Alfred, NY, established in 1997 to support projects by artists working in digital media. Resident artists include: Cory Arcangel, Brandon B...
View Full GalleryFeaturing work in painting, video, sculpture.
View Full GalleryThis exhibition showcases experimental media artworks that explore the materiality of digital bodies, spaces, technologies, and the entangled meaning within. Electronic media has embedded intellige...
View Full GalleryFour artists from the Division of Ceramic Art, each using distinct approaches to process, technology, and material, come together to construct objects and installations that complicate perception o...
View Full GalleryThis show brings together a group of artists with a keen interest in the blunt facts of painting. Facts that when deployed can demonstrate a wide range of pictorial languages that stretch across an...
View Full GalleryFeaturing the work of two glass installation artists, this exhibition explores measuring devices and optical observations of inner and outer landscapes.
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