Please join us for a talk with Susan Van Scoy, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at St. Joseph’s University, NY, as she takes us through the lens of several of Kenji Nakahashi’s photographs featured in the exhibition “Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty.” By examining Nakahashi’s works as well as his newsletters, personal correspondences, maps, and records from his archives, Van Scoy will discuss Nakahashi’s multimedia background and his experience of living and working as a Japanese artist in New York City in the 1970s and 80s.

This special Bruce Presents event includes an early reception from 6–6:15pm.

Support for Bruce Presents is generously provided by Berkley One, a Berkley Company.

Bio

Susan Van Scoy joined the Art Department at St. Joseph’s University, New York in 2015 and teaches courses in History of Photography, American Art, Non-Western Art, Modern Art, and Introductory Surveys in both lecture and online modes. She is an avid supporter of incorporating online pedagogical approaches as well as study abroad and experiential museum visits into her courses.  

Dr. Van Scoy’s research interests include female photographers of the 1980s, the history of photography, and public art and architecture. Dr. Van Scoy has recently published The Big Duck and Eastern Long Island’s Duck Farming Industry (Arcadia, 2019) and contributed 42 artists texts to Landscape Painting Now (D.A.P., 2019). Professor Van Scoy recently guest curated an exhibition of landscape photography at the Heckscher Museum of Art entitled: "Viewfinders: Photographers Frame Nature" in January 2023. Van Scoy is currently curating a permanent installation of photographs taken by Neil Scholl, which will be on view in the Caumsett State Historic Park and Preserve's classrooms.

Professor Van Scoy is also a member of the Board of Trustees and the Collections Stewardship Committee at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, NY.  She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Caumsett Artist in Residence Program.