Imagine stepping into a dragon’s den that’s filled with its hoarded jewels. Everywhere you turn, surfaces gleam with precious metals and sparkling stones. Now picture this particular dragon has a penchant for organization — instead of haphazard dunes of gold and precious crystals in a dim cavern, the dragon has carefully displayed each item to […]
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St. Monci and Lives Styled stage dream spaces at Axom
Axom Gallery has been temporarily transformed from a white walls art gallery into a supremely fun, impossibly chic series of staged living and working spaces. A beloved local creative couple — painter St. Monci and Hannah Betts of design studio Lives Styled — have taken over the room, filling it with their art and carefully […]
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Portraits of places
I first viewed images from Lucinda Devlin’s daunting photographic series, “The Omega Suites,” in 2012, when the work was displayed at SUNY Brockport’s Tower Gallery. The photographs — sobering, meditative looks into execution chambers and other spaces where the condemned spend their final hours — have always stuck with me. Devlin’s work is being shown […]
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WALLTHERAPY 2017 Coverage
The popular mural festival takes place Friday, July 21, through Sunday, July 30, and features a new arts and activism conference and a block party
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WALLTHERAPY focuses on activism in 2017 festival
Rochester’s mural festival, WALL\THERAPY, returns Friday, July 21, through Sunday, July 30, presenting a theme of arts, activism, and community. The festival has been held each July since 2011, except for 2016 when the organization participated in an artist exchange with a Berlin-based arts group. The organizers originally had “storytelling” as a loose theme for […]
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Affording the arts
The Trump Administration’s 2018 federal budget proposal cuts arts funding. How would that affect Rochester’s scene?
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Women’s work
Rose Liu, an RIT student and photographer and video artist, in early May issued a challenge to local art institutions when she posted fliers on the front doors of museums and galleries that asked, “Do you feature as many female artists as you do male?” She also posted pictures of the fliers on social media […]
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Trump gets the Ax treatment in Rochester street art
If you were out and about last weekend, you might have noticed Donald Trump on his knees, wearing bondage gear and a ball-gag, leaning against various city street signs. The risqué image is a project by Rochester-based street artist Ax, who is known for adorning walls with stenciled political and social commentary. The project included […]
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Bradd Addison Young’s surreal summer
Tomorrow is the last opportunity to catch “Faux Été” (“Fake Summer”), the solo show of Rochester-based artist Bradd Addison Young currently hosted at The Yards. Young’s mixed-media illustrations are fresh and strange, each pastel-toned picture a peek into a cartoonish, nostalgic narrative with a slightly ominous underbelly. His background is in studio art and graphic […]
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Defying gravity, all grace
Rochester Brainery Gallery Coordinator Jason Barber continues his curation of women-centric shows this month with Brittany Williams’ “Ascension.” Not only is the solo show by a young woman artist, but it exclusively features gorgeous portraits of young black women. The show’s title refers to Williams’ rising star in the art world, but also alludes to […]
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Mural series ‘Her Voice Carries’ lifts local women
Rochester-based artist Sarah Rutherford is in the midst of a new series of murals that spotlight local women who work to lift up the voices of others.
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Corn Hill Arts Festival releases 2017 poster
The Corn Hill Neighbors Association and ESL Federal Credit Union on Friday unveiled the 2017 Corn Hill Arts Festival poster created by artist Ryan Martin. For the 49th annual event’s poster design, Martin explained that he used a “broad color scheme” to reflect Rochester’s unique “energy and history.” The poster itself has an Impressionistic style, […]
