A new exhibit opening Oct. 28 at the Housatonic Museum of Art, 900 Lafayette Blvd. in Bridgeport is appropriately named “Drip-Drop, Tick-Tock, Here + Now.” Originally scheduled in 2018, the show was canceled a week prior to opening due to water damage from a fire above the gallery. When rescheduled for 2020, the exhibit was postponed again due to the pandemic.
“It is funny how the title, Drip-Drop, Tick-Tock, seems to have anticipated the circumstances of the show cancellations. Drip-Drop for the water damage and Tick-Tock for the ticking time bomb of Covid,” said the artist, Joseph Fucigna.
The multimedia sculpture exhibition presents modest industrial materials transformed into elegant, yet provocative abstractions. The Drip Series was inspired by silicone putty sliding down a wall, the Drape Series by the configurations of hanging cloth and the most recent Hose Series by typical, suburban garden hose.
The exhibition opens Thursday, Oct. 28, with a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The show will be on view in the museum”™s Burt Chernow Galleries in Lafayette Hall on the Housatonic Community College campus through Friday, Dec. 10. A gallery talk with the artist will take place Saturday, Nov. 13 at 1 p.m. as part of CityWide Open Studios.
Joseph Fucigna lives and works in Weston, Connecticut. An art professor at Norwalk Community College and chair of the Studio Arts Program, Fucigna holds a B.F.A. from Alfred University and an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts. His work has been exhibited throughout the Northeast and New York and he is a 2018 recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
