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Faculty Achievements

The faculty in the Department of Visual studies are active in art research and  production in the fields of art practice, art history and visual culture. These are some of the highlights 2005-2006:

SYLVIE BELANGER, Assistant Professor, Art Program
Has been on leave for the Spring 06 semester during which she pursued her research required to produce an art/media installation based on Roland Barthe’s latest writings. She also had several exhibitions including one at Medicine Hat Art Gallery & Museum, Alberta, Canada and presented a lecture at L’Ecole Supérieure National des Beaux-Arts. Paris, France.

MILLIE CHEN, Associate Professor, Art Program
Participated in an exhibition entitled The Feast: Food in Art at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She also received a grant from Ontario Arts Council Chalmers Arts Fellowship to support research to be conducted along the Yangtze River in China and the Niagara River in Canada/U.S.A. for a new video sound installation.

ADELE HENDERSON, Professor, Art Program
Exhibited in eleven exhibitions across the US including:  September 11 Memorial Portfolio, Henry Luce Center for Art and Religion, Washington DC, organized by the American Print Alliance and Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation Exhibition, Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM.

BINGYI HUANG, Assistant Professor, Art History Program
Curated the Film Series for the Exhibition, The Wall: Reshapinp Contemporary Chinese Art, exhibited at the Albright Knox Art Gallery and at the University at Buffalo Art Galleries in the Fall of 2005.

George Hughes, Associate Professor, Art Program
Had a Retrospective exhibition at The Mabee Gerrer Museum in Oklahoma. Did an intermedia performance Identity, Culture and Beyond, at Humboldt University/Schlott Jazz Club, Berlin, Germany. Was in a two-person show at Artco in Herzogenrath, Germany with Diagne Chanel, artist, based in Paris.

JOAN LINDER, Assistant Professor, Art Program
Did a Lucas Artist Residency Fellowship at Montalvo, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California. She also had numerous exhibitions including the solo shows: death sex war, at Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, and that what was was, Mixed Greens, New York, NY.

STEVEN KURTZ, Associate Professor, Art Program
Exhibited a work by Critical Art Ensemble entitled Body of Evidence in The Whitney Biennial, at the Whitney Museum, NYC. He also had a screening of his work Evidence at the Center for Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain. He has a book currently in press: Marching Plague: Germ Warfare and Global Public Health, published by Autonomedia.

GARY NICKARD, Assistant Professor, Art Program
Had a collaborative exhibition with Reinhard Reitzenstein entitled Pluto’s Cave, Making the Invisible Visible, at Big Orbit Gallery, in Buffalo which also traveled to the Visual Arts Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City. He also received an Andy Warhol Foundation Grant.

ELIZABETH OTTO, Assistant Professor, Art History Program
Curated an Exhibition entitled Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt, which was exhibited at the following sites:The Bausus-Archive, Berlin, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, and The International Center of Photography, New York, NY. She also authored the exhibition catalog.

JACK QUINAN, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Art History Program
Published the second edition of his book, Frank Lloyd Wright, Larkin Building: Myth and Fact. University of Chicago Press, 2006.

REINHARD REITZENSTEIN, Assistant Professor, Art Program
Was an invited featured artist at the Three Rivers Festival in Pittsburgh, PA. He was also chosen for the Kenaston Gardens Park Design Competition, commissioned by Daniels Corporation in Toronto, Canada, to design a community park integrating art and landscape design.

STEPHANIE ROTHENBERG, Assistant Professor, Art Program
Was commissioned to do an underwater, telematic performance with collaborator Elyce Semenec entitled sub/merg/ency, at the Radiator Festival for New Technology Art, Nottingham, England. Her piece Termite TV: Niagara was part of the Beyond/In Western New York Regional Art Exhibition at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY

DAVID SCHIRM, Professor, Art Program
Installed a major exhibition of his paintings and drawings in the University Gallery at University at Buffalo. A catalog, Welcome to the Promised Land, was funded by the Dean’s Subvention Fund.

PAUL VANOUSE, Associate Professor, Art Program
During his sabbatical, Vanouse initiated his new project "Latent Figure Protocol" for which he received grants from the Creative Capital Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts, and was an Honorary Research Fellow at SymbioticA, Art and Biology research lab, University of Western Australia, Perth. He also exhibited his project "Relative Velocity Inscription Device" at the NGBK in Berlin for the exhibition "Put Your Blue Genes On".

VANCE WATROUS, Professor, Art History Program
Received two major grants: for The Galats Regional Project, and Gournia Survey Publication, both from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory.