FIU faculty-artists featured at the Frost

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum is showcasing the FIU Faculty Show, featuring the work of Art + Art History professors Tori Arpad-Cotta and R.F. Buckley. The FIU Faculty Show opens alongside Lydia Azout’s exhibition titled “Out of the Ordinary Geometry,” on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 6 p.m., during Target Wednesday After Hours.

Arpad-Cotta’s exhibition, “long, lovely portage,” features a video installation, hand-bound books and cast Egyptian paste. Her work calls attention to place and practice. For nearly two decades, Arpad-Cotta has exhibited internationally and was named an Artist-in-Residence at the Process/Space Festival in Bulgaria. She is the recipient of the Florida State Cultural Council Individual Artist’s Fellowship and was recognized by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts with an Emerging Artists Award.

At FIU, Arpad-Cotta teaches installation art, which is a collaboration with The Wolfsonian-FIU. Her class culminates with a public exhibit of student work in Miami’s Design District each spring semester.

Also featured at the FIU Faculty Show is R.F. Buckley, professor of sculpture and 3-D design. His work, titled, “Reflection on Water,” is inspired by South Florida’s waterways and its elements as a place for meditation. Buckley describes his exhibition as being about the interaction and refraction of aluminum.

“My attempt with aluminum is to present a touchstone to access a few of our stored memories and experiences with water. The most recent iteration attempts to recall reflected light off of water, the movement of water and the fluidity of its changing states.”

The exhibition is free of charge and open to the public.