Studio 61

New York Institute of Technology
Faculty Exhibit
By Evonne Fitzgerald

Outstanding is the word that comes to mind when I think of the latest exhibit in New York Institute of Technology’s Gallery 61, which in case you don’t know, is on the eleventh floor of the New Technology Building here on NYIT’s Manhattan campus. Eleven is also the number of artists who participated in last month’s photography exhibit. One wonders what the odds were that all eleven artists would choose to contribute photographs and not some other form of media such as sculptures or paintings for example. Nevertheless, we were certainly graced by the expressive range of photographic styles that were on view. For there were beautiful black and white landscapes by Dean Roger Yu, glorious mountain landscapes by Maureen Robinson, and unique city scrapes by Herb Savran. Jody Saslow contributed photographs of New York that were sensitive and seemed to comment on the folly of the physical world while still expressing non judgmental objectivity. There was a series of six photos showing the aftermath at the World Trade Center site. Silent and tragic all at once, there were beautiful color portraits of children from around the world by William Lawrence. Phillip Hopper contributed colorful scenes of city life–an interesting photographic interpretation of the interplay of structural design and neon colors. There were also works by Karen Chandler, Rob Sherwin, Angela Marshall, and Diego Rios. All the photographs in this exhibit were exceptional, demonstrating what an extraordinary academic community we have here at NYIT.