The Gallery of Art, Temple University Rome, is pleased to invite you to the opening of Art +1, an exhibition of the Visual Arts and Architecture faculty at Temple Rome, along with their Plus 1 invited guest. The show opens on Tuesday, March 10, 6 – 8 p.m., and runs through March 27, 2026.
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Each year, the Visual Arts and Architecture Faculty at Temple Rome present their recent works in a group exhibition, offering our students, colleagues and the community an insight into their developments as they exchange and share ideas.
The Plus 1 format allows for a deeper understanding of the artist’s creative inspiration through relationships of friendship, professional collaboration, and admiration.
As we visit the exhibition and think about the works of art and the pairing, we can learn more about each artist. To help the visitor, our colleagues provided a personal statement responding to why they chose their Plus 1. Let’s see what you think; I would love to have your feedback.
Architect Carolina Vaccaro: Silvia Codignola and Piero Passacantando.
Silvia Codignola tells us about Rome. Piero Passacantando, as Roman, does not escape this narrative. For this reason, for both of them together and with me, and each with their own tools, it is a case of “Searching Rome in Rome”.
Architect Cinzia Abbate: Bruna Esposito.
Bruna Esposito taught me to see what escapes the eye —sometimes with irony, sometimes with wonder.
Sculptor and Paper Maker Roberto Mannino: Riccardo Masini.
Riccardo Masini is a young sculptor who was my woodcarving student in 2019; his works make you breathe through moss and bark, giving soul to discarded wood trunks.
Painter and Photographer Lucy Clink: Lisa Fedich.
I selected Lisa to show with me because we have worked together for some years, I admire her work and her process.
Digital Printmaker Katherine Krizek: Norberto Cenci.
I’ve been familiar with Norberto’s work as a graphic artist for years, but I only recently discovered his playful—yet dark—vignettes. They offer sharp, ironic commentary on contemporary issues like sustainability.
Lens based Photographer and Filmmaker Liana Miuccio: Jennifer Bornstein.
I chose talented Jennifer Bornstein because I am drawn to how she uses autobiography and fiction in her work. Her self portrait in this show was taken after an eye injury using light as a metaphor. Our work complements each other because we weave memory and storytelling in our art.
Sculptor, Printmaker and Digital Photographer Marina Buening: Angela Palmarelli.
Angela's work is very linear, methodical, and produced in large series. Her prints are also similar in style to her clay works. I probably love her work because it is so different from mine.
Painter Pola Wickham: Dominique Lacloche.
Looking at Dominique Lacloche’s work draws one into a world of rhythms, directions, intervals and all the abstract formal elements of a painting language. Simultaneously one is transported into a realm of pure feeling and imagination. And then slowly the magic of an image, then a series of images, are revealed.
Painter and Printmaker Anita Guerra: Paolo Bielli.
I first met Paolo Bielli at our group show for the writer Pier Paolo Pasolini at Palazzo Guglielmi in Fiumicino on a blistering summer day. Bielli, in hot pants and a sleeveless undershirt, strolled from room to room, read Pasolini’s poems, ripped them from a book, and threw them on the floor. His performance served to unite the entire exhibition, as in Feng Shui, when the presence of a child or a pet enhances the flow of energy in a room.
Painter William Pettit: Candice Smith Corby.
Candice’s work and mine complement each other through an attention to materials and an interest in bridging historical and contemporary painting in a poetry of distance, longing, and hope.
Printmaker Devin Kovach: Sebastiàn Contreras.
Whatever the venue, I’ve always admired the incisive conceptual play that animates Sebastiàn’s work. Occasionally provocative, sometimes humorous, Sebastiàn's work is always deeply felt, thought provoking, and meticulously crafted.