Art

Anyone who lived through the 1960’s remembers the period as one marked with tumult, conflict, and social revolution; a time of youth breaking out of the constricting 1950’s ideals and trying to reshape their world. For many who were born after this time, the 1960’s as a decade have become a thing of fascination, a […]

The trains that thunder by every dozen or so minutes just a few yards from the oldest standing building in East Rochester are part of the history of the place, which was originally a boarding house off the railroad tracks. The space houses East Rochester’s young gallery, Art and Vintage on Main, which is managed […]

Endless clichés are encountered when a dominant culture casts only a vague glance at a dominated culture, and these clichés serve the purpose of keeping a little-understood situation tucked into two convenient dimensions. The current show in the Grand Gallery of the Memorial Art Gallery explores the ways in which contemporary Indigenous artists from the […]

In “Contemporary African American Printmakers,” the show currently on exhibit at Nazareth College Arts Center Gallery, curator Deborah Ronnen has brought together more than a dozen artists whose works speak powerfully to identity, history, and the future.

I recently read a brilliant Carl Sagan quote regarding the existence of books as “proof that humans can work magic,” in that they are a tool by which we have broken “the shackles of time,” through which we are able to hear the voice of another human, across millennia, and gain from what they have […]

Over the past few months striking progress has been made on the Memorial Art Gallery’s Centennial Sculpture Park, as well as the ArtWalk Extension project that has transformed the surrounding neighborhood. Sections of the forbidding iron fence that previously surrounded the gallery’s grounds have been removed, and the at-one-time boiling controversy over the large-scale sculptural […]

We are too tied to our own immediacy. That is the whisper that wafts off the work of Robin Germany, which is currently showing in an exhibit entitled “Watermark” at Hartnett Gallery at the University of Rochester. Full of quiet wonder and reverence, Germany’s images display the hidden minutiae just beyond the threshold of the […]

Get the details on the new “Wall/Therapy” project that has sprung up in the St. Paul district, and find out about its global implications and possible print project involving a big-deal Hollywood actor.

You could say Elizabeth Lyons is Rochester art royalty, being that she’s the daughter of artists Nathan and Joan Lyons. But Elizabeth is also a talented, award-winning, collected artist in her own right, and the owner of Elizabeth Lyons Glass as well as More Fire Glass Studios, a 4,000-square-foot glassmaking facility on Rockwood Place. The […]

Within the increasingly popular field of collectible plastic and resin art toys, some artists are set apart by the ambitiousness injected into their creations. Acting as a sort of modern-day mixture of Gepetto and Dr. Frankenstein, Bob Conge cannibalizes old toys to produce new, imaginative creations and invents complex, entertaining worlds from which each one-off […]