Artist Jerry Vessuzo will present and discuss his photo and video work which represent the dynamics of a working class family in New York City. He will also share about his current projects and zines in the making.
Presenters: Jerry Vezzuso
Moderators: Lorie Novak
Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Artist Jerry Vessuzo will present and discuss his photo and video work which represent the dynamics of a working class family in New York City. He will also share about his current projects and zines in the making.
Jerry Vezzuso is a photographer born and raised in Brooklyn. His works has been exhibited widely and is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and The Museum of the City of New York.
He is currently a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts, Teachers College, Columbia University, and the International Center of Photography.
He is also the recipient of NYFA’s Special Projects Grant.
Lorie Novak is an artist and Professor of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch School of Arts. She is the co-curator with Deborah Willis of the exhibition cit.i.zen.ship: reflections on rights,part of the For Freedoms 50 state initiative, on view at Photoville and Tisch School of the Arts. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and internationally, and she is a 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in Photography. She is also Director and Founder of Future Imagemakers, a social practice project at NYU Photography & Imaging, offering free digital photography classes to NYC area high school students. Novak’s installation Random Interference was exhibited at the first Photoville in 2012.
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