After some brief holiday downtime,
local galleries and museums are back in full force. So you have an array of
culture to choose from, if you’re into that kind of thing.
At Rochester Contemporary, 137 East Avenue,
Deborah Jack’s Lift/Left, an
installation of video, sound, text, and still images, is on display January 13
through February 12. The primary motif, bodies moving through water, conjures
stories of captured Africans who jumped from slave ships.
www.rochestercontemporary.org
A\V,
the space devoted to displays of art and sound, is letting its talented
curators have a go in its Curators Show,
on display through January 28. Find A\V at 8 Public Market or at
www.avspace.org
Spirit
Stands Still, on display from January 13 to March 26 at the Community
Darkroom Gallery at the Genesee Center
for the Arts and Education (713 Monroe Avenue),
is the work of five photographers featured in the center’s Meet the
Photographer lecture series. 271-5920, www.geneseearts.org
The Evolutionary Girls Club (this restrictive sounding name is actually
for an all-inclusive artists’ group) has their annual local exhibit and auction
— this year titled Memory Making
Meaning — at Visual Studies Workshop (31 Prince
Street) through February 12.
www.evolutionarygirlsclub.com.
At the new BaobabCulturalCenter, devoted to African culture,
has a rich mixed-media exhibit continuing through February 3. Baobab is in the
German House, 315 Gregory Street, 546-4790.
One of the city’s newest venues, Image
City Photography Gallery (722 University Avenue, 271-2359), has Ahron Foster’s Out of
the Gates through January 22. New shows go up every three weeks. The Center at High Falls Art Gallery (60
Browns Race, 325-2030) will open three new exhibits on January 20 to continue
through February 26. Work
and Working, unseenamerica,
and We Not Me (city photographer Ira Srole on Bill Johnson’s tenure).
At the universities: University
of Rochester’s Rush Rhees Library has Oh
Death!: Death, Dying and the Culture of the Macabre in
the Late Middle Ages through March 17. (275-0110) At SUNY Brockport Alternative Girlhood: Diaristic
Indulgence and Contemporary Female Artists has the art of 11 female artists
— whose mediums are comics, graphic novels, and zines
— from January 24 to February 19. (395-2805) The NTID Dyer Arts Center at RIT
is bringing the traveling exhibit The
Allen Sisters: Pictorial Photographers 1885-1920 from January 16 to March
3. (475-6855 or rbaker@ntid.rit.edu) And an Art
Faculty Exhibition at the Davison Gallery at Roberts Wesleyan continues
through January 26. (594-6442)
George
Eastman House will show an exhibit Robert Weingarten called 6:30 AM:
the 19 brilliant-colored photographs of Malibu
mornings will be displayed January 14 through February 12 on the museum
grounds, amid the winter weather. Another respite amid the snow is Picturing Eden, 133 contemporary
contemplations of paradise, on view January 28 through June 18. And opening
February 18 are photos of Paris by
Eugene Atget and Christopher Rauschenberg.
www.eastmanhouse.org, 271-3361
In step with the persistent “extreme”
trend, the Memorial Art Gallery (500
University Avenue) opens Extreme Materials January 29. It’s work
made with, well, trash: fish skins, carrots, rubber tires, duck sauce packets,
etc. But I mean that in the best possible way. See the “nontraditional”
artworks through April 9. mag.rochester.edu
The horse-drawn sleigh rides at Granger Homestead have proved so
popular the museum added another sleigh. Dash through the
snow Sunday afternoons through mid-March, weather permitting. Granger Homestead
is on North Main Street in
Canandaigua. Call ahead for availability: 394-1472.
RochesterMuseum and ScienceCenter (657
East Avenue) opens Expedition Earth Glaciers & Giants on January 21. See the
inside of a glacier, walk where mastodons did, visit a dig site. www.rmsc.org,
697-1944
StrongMuseum (1
Manhattan Square), the National Museum of Play,
has extended the stay of the Think Tank exhibit
to February 26. The riddles, teasers, puzzles, and games are all there to help
kids exercise their brains. www.strongmuseum.org, 263-2700
And check City‘s weekly listings for gallery and museums events throughout
the season.
This article appears in Jan 11-17, 2006.
