Joe Fucigna
Other media: Mixed media, Installation, Drawing
Tags : abstract, plastic, installations, sculpture, drawings
160 Georgetown Road
Weston, CT 06883
Phone: 203-544-9046
Neighborhood : Weston
Email: joseph (at) fucigna (dot) com
Website: http://www.fucigna.com
Artist Statement
Sculptures/Installations
I enjoy taking modest industrial materials and transforming them into something new and unique. Over the years I have used materials such as scrap steel, inner tubes, aluminum printing plates and now plastic fencing. Through craft, manipulation and vision I alter these materials into something new and unexpected. But I do not want the sculptures to be just about the material, they also need to have an underlying concept that carries it beyond the superficial. Creating a perfect balance between idea and material that allows both to be active participants is the ultimate goal.
Drawings
The ink drawings on claybord are abstract studies that relate back to my sculptures. They can be studies of ideas for my three dimensional works or are stand alone works that are relate to the shapes, forms and ideas I am dealing with in my sculptures. I think about aerial views of landscapes, biological forms, water stains, or mold.
Selected Works
|  Brainstorm - 2010 - plastic, metal - 8' X 8' X 4'  Bucket of Water - 2011 - Plastic, metal - 12' X 8' X 5'  Stains and Puddles - 2009 - Plastic Fencing - Room Size Installation  Days Gone Past - 2007 - Plastic fencing, found objects - Room size installation  What Lies Beneath - 2006 - Plastic fencing - Room size installation  he Big Drip - 2007 - Plastic fencing - 15' X10' X 8"  Orange/Black Figure - 2011 - ink on claybord - 24" x 18"  Green/Mustard Abstraction - 2011 - ink on claybord - 20" X 16"  Drawing 1.10 - 2010 - ink on claybord - 20" X 16"  Drawing 8.09 - 2009 - ink on claybord - 12" X 12" |
Artist Bio
SELECTED ONE - PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2010 “Joseph Fucigna: A Decade of Plastics”, Sculpture Barn, New Fairfield, CT
2009 “Puddles and Stains”, Site Specific Installation, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2004 Norwalk Community College Gallery, Norwalk, CT
2002 PMW Gallery, Stamford, CT
2001 Norwalk Community College Gallery, Norwalk, CT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2011
*Extraordinary Facilities, John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
*Contemporary Souvenirs, Sacred Heart University‘s Gallery of Contemporary Art, Fairfield, CT, Curated by Laura Einstein
* The Guy Show, Artplace Gallery, Fairfield, CT, Curated by Gerald Saladyga
* 62nd Art of the Northeast USA, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT. Juror, Tom Eccles, Executive Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
2010
* Joe Fucigna/Chris Durante, 22 Haviland Gallery, Norwalk, CT
2009
* “Home”, Westport Arts Center, Site Specific Installation, Westport, CT. Curated by Terri Smith
2008
* Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY. A site-specific installation was created at this site.
* Joe Fucigna + Lori Lohstoeter, 22 Haviland Gallery, Norwalk, CT
* Art in the Windows, Norwalk, CT
2007
* City Wide Open Studios, Artist –in-Residence, New Haven, CT. A site-specific installation was created for the CWOS Alternative Space Exhibition.
2006
Current Abstraction, Black Rock Art Center, Bridgeport, CT. Curated by Margaret Roleke
2005
* In Situ: An Exhibition of Installation Art, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT. Curated by Sharon Kurland
* (re) – creation, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT. Curated by Miriam Belanger
2004
* Joseph Fucigna + Laura Watt, Branchville Gallery, Ridgefield, CT Curated by Margaret Roleke
* Dialogue in Abstraction, University of Connecticut/Stamford Art Gallery, Stamford, CT. Curated by Ben Ortiz
2003
* Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Arts Industria, New York, NY
2002
* Soft”, Art Space Gallery, New Haven, CT. Curated by Debbie Hess
2001
* Fifty Second Art of the Northeast Annual Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT. Curated by Bill Arning
1999
* Figure Fetish, PMW Gallery, Stamford, CT
* Bunch, UNTITLED(space) Gallery, New Haven, CT
* Summer Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ. Curated by Brooke Barrie
* Regeneration: Rebuilding Torn Societies, United Nations, New York, NY.
Curated by Jean Krasno and Bonnie Woit
* DD-MM-YY, Hartford, CT. Curated by David Borawski
TEACHING:
Present – Program Coordinator, Studio Arts, Norwalk Community College
EDUCATION:
MFA - School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
BFA - Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Triangle Workshop, Pine Plains, NY
Directed by Anthony Caro