Temple Rome's Gallery of Art presents: Contact Point

Opening: Tuesday, November 10, 2026 from 6-8 p.m.

The exhibition will be on display through December 2, 2026.

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Temple University Rome is pleased to present Contact Point, an exhibition curated by Heather Susanna Roach that opens at Temple Rome’s Gallery of Art on Tuesday, November 10, 2026 from 6:00-8:00 PM. The exhibition will remain on view until December 2, 2026.

Contact Point explores works of art created through physical contact with a matrix, where the trace left behind becomes the artwork itself. Utilizing frottage with discarded riso masters, incised ceramics, and image transfer, the artists engage in a dialogue with their personal memories and experiences of Rome.

This exhibition offers viewers a glimpse into the varied perspectives of three creators: a newcomer to the city, an artist who explores the city by motorino, and a Roman artist whose work excavates its many layers. The city serves as inspiration for texture, shared history, and romanticism expressed across printmaking, video, and sculpture.

Contact Point highlights how these artists come together in one space to manipulate surfaces in new and unexpected ways, reflecting Rome through texture and physical memory.

Michael Vasquez is a queer artist, printmaker, and educator originally from Santa Cruz, California. Currently an MFA candidate in Printmaking at Temple University, studying in Rome, his multidisciplinary practice explores memory, intimacy, belonging, and the traces we leave behind through printmaking, photography, poetry, and printed ephemera.

Maddalena Scuderoni is a self-taught artist whose non-academic path is deeply rooted in tradition. Through formal reduction, Scuderoni investigates sites of tension, focusing on elements of imbalance and instability. She is drawn to objects endowed with a strong expressive charge, placing them in environments conceived as spaces for interaction and dialogue, working with the intensity they generate and the perceptual dynamics they activate. 

Andrea Aquilanti is an artist whose practice unfolds in continuity across drawing, painting, and immersive site-specific installation. His work emerges from an ongoing dialogue with public and private spaces, with a particular focus on the city of Rome and its visual and conceptual heritage of classical art and architecture, reactivated through contemporary languages and technological mediation. 

Fall 2026 Student Exhibition

Opening Thursday, December 10, 2026 from 6-8 p.m.

One day only!

Black History Month 

Temple University Rome is excited to host its eighth annual Black History Month from Feb. 2-25, 2027.

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 2, 6 – 8 p.m., and runs through March 24, 2027.

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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.

Temple Rome Gallery of Art
(One-day-only Exhibition)
Thursday, April 22, 2027
6-8 p.m.

Temple University Rome presents the Spring 2027 Student Exhibition featuring art work created by the students of visual arts and architecture classes. 

The exhibition features architecture, black and white and digital photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and sketchbook exploring the students' rich and varied experiences during their Study Abroad journey.

Temple Rome's Gallery of Art is pleased to present the exhibition: "The Floods" with Rod Coover and Adam Vidiksis.

Opening May 18, 2027 from 6-8 p.m.