The Memorial Art Gallery today announced a new series of media art commissions by three international artists and inspired by the city of Rochester. The three-part series, “Reflections on Place,” will be presented individually beginning in the spring and will become part of the gallery’s permanent collection afterward. MAG’s consulting curators of media arts, John G. […]
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‘Martyrs’ focuses on victimhood, not persecutors
Bill Viola’s high definition video series, “Martyrs,” is the latest exhibit in the Memorial Art Gallery’s Media Arts Watch program. In the darkened room dedicated to the program, four narrow, flat-screen monitors surround the viewer, each installed on one of the four walls. Brief, bright dramas play out in sync, requiring the viewer to continuously […]
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Third Flower City Pottery Invitational shows 21 regional, national artists
A chunk of the joy to collecting art is getting to know the artist behind the object, whenever possible. This extends beyond picking a painter’s brain for insight into their work; the very vessels you serve food from can be part of your collection. Handmade bowls and mugs have stories, and are as much a […]
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Sarah Gilbert’s engraved glass wonders
Sarah Gilbert’s solo show at More Fire Glass Studio is a homecoming of sorts. Now based in Tacoma, Washington, she’s originally from Rochester, and took her first glass class in 2000 at More Fire Glass Studio. Owner Elizabeth Lyons got her into glass blowing, Gilbert says. “I worked with her for a long time at […]
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Art/WORK Episode 4: Nydia Padilla-Rodriguez
A video series on Rochester’s rich community of artists: sculptors, actors, dancers, glass artists… Come with us as we talk with them in their studios.
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The New Rochester Biennial hits three venues
The Memorial Art Gallery on six occasions presented the Rochester Biennial, an invitational exhibit that boasted the work of some of the best regional artists. The Biennial brand was passed to Rochester Contemporary a couple of years ago, and after some consideration and restructuring of the show, RoCo is sharing the stage. The New Rochester […]
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Effectively deceptive
If anything is going to make Rochester a “City of the Arts,” with acknowledgement from the wider world for our home-grown offerings, it’s going to be the efforts of the artists and arts organizations themselves, not just building a new theater. Those who are paying attention know these organizing efforts are already underway, and are […]
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‘Rainforest IV’ performance gives voice to objects at MAG
“Rainforest IV,” an interactive sound-sculpture collaborative performance, will be installed at the Memorial Art Gallery Thursday, September 7, through Sunday, September 10.
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The life and work of Arthur Singer is on view at University Gallery
In a celebration of the stunning diversity of life and the art that captures it, RIT’s University Gallery, through October 28, is hosting “Arthur Singer: The Wildlife Art of an American Master.” The extensive exhibition displays dozens of Singer’s original illustrations and paintings, but the exhibit also serves as a celebration of an individual life. […]
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Poems and paintings pair together in Makers exhibit
Leading up to Monday afternoon’s Great American Eclipse, I visited Makers Gallery and Studio to see the current show, “Schemes,” which consists of eight collaborative paintings and poems arranged in artful installations. I had been reading some articles about how the sky show would affect minute animal life on Earth, so my dome was already […]
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Queering everything: Marval A. Rex discusses his art
Marval A. Rex is a trans man whose cross-disciplinary, norms-confounding work is currently on view as part of “Peripheral Of: The Periphery” at Flower City Arts Center. For a review of the show, click here. Rex’s work reflects a mind that connects a lot of dots, introducing new constellations from stars that have always been […]
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Flower City ceramic exhibition confounds the norms
“Peripheral Of: The Periphery” is one of four current exhibitions that showcase the culminating works by the most recent rounds of artists in residence at Flower City Arts Center. On view at the center’s Firehouse Gallery are works by the 2016 ceramics residents, Ryana Lawson, who is from Rochester, and Marval A. Rex, who is […]
