The current show at Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs, “House and Home,” offers achingly nostalgic looks at mostly rural environments. The works of three painters, one printmaker, and one mixed-media sculptor explore the physical structures and nebulous dreams that make a home, and together they build a sense of domestic tranquility, the passage of […]
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The history behind Brighton’s ‘No Draft’ graffiti
While Defacer Eraser, Rochester’s graffiti removal operation, buffs walls soon after they’re marked up, graffiti tends to stick around on trains and other railroad property. Railroads choose to invest in structural maintenance rather than cosmetic considerations. And this is why, for 35 years, the well-known “NO DRAFT” graffiti, accompanied by a peace sign and the […]
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Eastman exhibit celebrates centennial of National Parks
A century ago, the United States created the National Park Service to preserve some of the continent’s most breathtaking wild spaces. Over time, the wilderness has also become a tourist playground. In celebration of this anniversary, the George Eastman Museum is hosting “Photography and America’s National Parks,” an exhibition of images and materials that explore […]
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Main Street Arts focuses on form and identity
Our bodies serve as our fragile interface with the world. It’s how we manifest our intentions; it bears the scrutiny of ourselves and others; it’s one important means by which we relate to and connect with one another. And it’s also often a politically-charged battleground. The current show at Main Street Arts, “The Human Figure,” […]
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Print Club show digs into archive for inspiration
In the tradition of creating artwork “after” existent artwork, the Print Club of Rochester’s 85th anniversary members’ juried exhibition, “Echoes of the Past,” presented participating artists with the opportunity to create a new work in response to prints collected in the club’s archives. The resultant show of 30 prints is currently on display in RIT’s […]
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Two exhibits include paintings of evolving identity
The first time I spied one of Shane Durgee’s paintings was during a punk show at the old Smugtown Mushrooms location near the Public Market. Pushing a narrow path between rooms, drink it hand, I looked up at the wall to see an oddly familiar element from my childhood: embedded in a riot of swirling […]
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Oxford Gallery hosts pantheon of myths
One of humanity’s defining qualities is our power of abstraction. We reflect on the past and fret over the future, and make up stories to help us understand natural phenomena and human behavior. Some of these stories fade into history as scientific explanations take their places, while others become religions. Oxford Gallery’s annual themed show […]
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Prints present pattern, process, and perception
The current exhibit at Deborah Ronnen Fine Art, “Thought
Patterns,” presents the work of nine contemporary artists, each with dramatically different techniques,
styles, and subject matter.
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Photos of time-eaten spaces at MAG
If you maintain a home or property, you know that taking care of the space is an uphill battle. Left alone, order returns to chaos. Photographer Robert Polidori is known for capturing entropy’s progress on man-made structures when, for various reasons, maintenance on those environments has ceased. The Memorial Art Gallery’s current show, “Chronophagia” — […]
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‘Sleeping Giants’ fill Makers Gallery
Andrea Durfee’s last six months of work, “Sleeping Giants,” currently fills Makers Gallery & Studio. Dozens of watercolor and ink drawings portray the female figure in diverse landscapes, visually representing “the dynamic between control and chaos in our lives, and how we reconcile opposing emotions and inclinations,” Durfee says. Some of the reclining figures dominate […]
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RoCo to present public art project
During the last Super Bowl, an appeal to consider domestic water usage appeared as a halftime commercial from Colgate, in which a man kept the faucet running while he brushed his teeth. All the while, different hands reached in and out of the sink, filling cups, rinsing vegetables, and bringing hands full of the priceless […]
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FUA Krew’s RANGE has first solo show
You can usually tell when a graffiti artist has a gallery show by the names dropped all over the block. Following the Saturday night opening of Victor “RANGE” Zarate’s solo show at AXOM Gallery, monikers in colorful calligraphy were scribbled and scrawled on the city’s surfaces up and down Anderson Avenue — consider it a […]
