Joseph Fucigna

Joseph Fucigna, Orange Swirl, 2013, Wood, Panel, Acrylic Paint

2013

Joseph Fucigna is a multimedia artist whose work is rooted in process, play and the innate qualities of the materials used. He received his MFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Fucigna also attended the Triangle Workshop in Pine Plains, New York and worked with the renowned sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and critic Clement Greenberg. Fucigna is a full-time Professor of Art at Norwalk Community College and is the Chair of the Studio Arts Program. He has also taught in the Art Department at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Presently, he resides and works in Weston, Connecticut. Fucigna has exhibited nationally including shows at the Fitchburg Art Museum in Massachusetts, Real Art Ways in Connecticut, the United Nations, Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in Connecticut, the New York State Museum in Albany, New York and the Burchfield Art Center in Buffalo, New York. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Fred Giampietro Gallery, Sculpture Barn, Norwalk Community College Art Gallery, Artist Space New Haven and the Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College. Fucigna was also a recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.