Rod Faulds

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Biography

Rod Faulds grew up in California, spent several years in the northeast U.S. and now lives and works in Boca Raton, FL. and New York City. He is a seasoned museum professional and educator. As an undergraduate he studied photography and printmaking. He holds an MA in Exhibition Design and a Certificate in Museum Studies from California State University, Fullerton. He is Director of the University Galleries at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, where over 20 years, he has produced over 200 exhibitions through his curatorial work, collaborating with many guest curators including emerging curators like Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Barbaro Martinez Ruiz and developed a Museum Education Program serving school children and underserved youth in Palm Beach County.

Beginning in 2009 after a 30-year hiatus from image-making, Faulds began to employ digital photography to create abstract works caught somewhere between photography and painting. Initially these photo-based artworks blended hundreds of photographic images into gridded Beginning in 2009 after a 30-year hiatus from image-making, Faulds began to employ digital photography to create abstract works caught somewhere between photography and painting. Initially these photo-based artworks blended hundreds of photographic images into gridded patterns of light and color. More recently fewer images are combined, collaged and montaged to create bold images that conflate figuration and abstraction. Creating gritty or confounding abstractions from overlooked construction sites or other everyday domestic situations drives Faulds more than employing photographs to narrate, depict or deceive, yet photographic veracity plays an important role.

Faulds career as a curator, exhibition designer, and a producer has provided a strong critical approach to his habitual image making. While a good deal of the image making continues through the camera and computer, a nascent studio practice is emerging that employs collage and assemblage to create display situations or installations that both engage and subvert his experience of presenting art in gallery environments.

Education
1992 – Graduate Studies, Art History, Williams College, Wlliamstown, MA
1980 – MA, Exhibition Design, Museum Studies Certificate, California State University, Fullerton, CA
1977 – BA, Studio Art, California State University, Humboldt, CA

Professional Positions
1997-2021 – Director, University Galleries, and Adjunct Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
1995-1996 – Chief Designer, Brooklyn Museum, NY
1993-1994 – Assistant Director, Operations & Public Programs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1984-1992 – Acting Director/Assistant Director, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2014 – Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL

Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 – “Polyopia” Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL
2019 – “Modern Love” Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Lake Worth, FL
2018 – Two-person exhibition with Isabel Gouvela, Theater Lab Gallery at FAU, Boca Raton, FL
2016 – “Something From Nothing” Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Lake Worth, FL
2016 – “Photography Invitational” Palm Beach State College, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
2013 – “National Photography Invitational” Paducah School of Art and Design, Paducah, KY

Selected Exhibitions Curated with Catalogue Essays & Public Programs
2018 – “southXeast: Contemporary Southeastern Art” 12 artists from eight southeastern states. A recurring triennial exhibition also presented in 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, University Galleries, FAU.

2015 – “Altarations: Built,Blended,Processed” photo-based works by 23 international artists from three generations including among others James Welling (USA), Barbara Kasten (USA), Lucie Stahl (Germany), Ilit Azoulay (Israel), Ismael Randal Weeks (Peru), Asborn Skuo (Denmark), University Galleries, FAU.

2012 – “Surfing Florida: A Photographic History” with Paul Aho, traveling exhibition and book funded by Florida Humanities Council, University Galleries, FAU; Pensacola Museum of Art; University of Florida Natural History

Museum
2000-2020 Curated numerous exhibitions and wrote catalogs for the University Galleries, FAU, FL 2018 – “South Florida Cultural Consortium Media and Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition” each year twelve South Florida artists are awarded highly competitive lucrative grant. Also presented 2001, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015, University Galleries, FAU.

2003 – “Nexus Architecture X: An Intervention for 110 Children” collaboration with artist Lucy Orta, including an exhibition and performance involving 100 school children on the occasion of the first Art Basel Miami Beach, University Galleries, FAU.

2000 – “Sightings in South Florida” Terry Adkins and Peggy Diggs, created large-scale installations exploring life and literary themes of author Zora Neale Hurston (Adkins), and cosmetic surgery in collaboration with surgeons, patients, and women (Diggs). University Galleries, FAU.

1999 – “Stereo Typocal Errors” Michael Ray Charles and Joyce J. Scott, artists whose works employ negative stereotypes of Blacks, with lectures and community engagement. University Galleries, FAU.

Collections
Rod Faulds works are in public and private collections in the Americas.

Selected Bibliography/Catalogue/Press
April W. Klimley, TheBoca Raton Observer, “For the Love of Art, University Galleries Director Rod Faulds Reflects on Creative Career” (12/2020)
Jan Sjostrom, Palm Beach Daily News, “Artists make something out of nothing at Cultural Council show” (5/2016)
On View Interview with Rod Faulds, onViewMagazine.com (6/2014)