A few weeks remain to catch Eastman Museum’s retrospective of the life and work of photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn. Three galleries full of images, as well as objects from Coburn’s personal life, tell the story of a talented and intrepid young artist. Though Coburn lived a long life (1882-1966), he produced his staggering amount of […]
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RIT hosts exhibit of Milton Glaser posters
Even if you’re unfamiliar with the name Milton Glaser, you’ve definitely seen the renowned American designer’s work. Glaser is the man behind the ubiquitous “I Love New York” logo, and has designed countless arresting posters, packaging, publications, and environments. Through February 26, RIT’s University Gallery is holding an exhibit of 24 of the 60 Glaser […]
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Oxford ends 2015 with old and new works
During each holiday season, Oxford Gallery presents a showcase of some of the best work of the past year by artists it represents. In addition to displaying previously shown pieces, this year, owner James Hall also invited the artists to submit new work. Featuring pieces by more than 45 artists working in a wide variety […]
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Eunsuh Choi’s captivating glass sculpture
It’s not every day that you’re invited to hold and even squeeze an expensive glass artwork. This is the first thing that happened when I recently met with Korean-born sculptor Eunsuh Choi to discuss the ideas behind her current work, which is on view at Nazareth College’s Arts Center Gallery. “It looks fragile, but the […]
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Exhibit looks at the Xerox copier as the ‘Immovable Camera’
Xerox played a large role in West Coast art movements.
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Turning the camera on the glitz and glamour
Photo exhibit at Eastman Museum documents the lives of the wealthy.
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MAG exhibit highlights Carl Peters and the era of WPA murals
In flourishing civilizations, public art was funded by the ruling class as a marker of how well society was doing. But in America today, arts funding always seems to be first on the chopping block. So it’s rather amazing that during the Great Depression, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal sought to create jobs […]
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Implied forces
Robert Ernst Marx’s sculptures, prints, and paintings are populated with weatherworn humans. They are portraits of nonspecific people and of the intangible things we all carry; they are some of the loveliest depictions of the fragility and resilience of humanity. A new exhibition of Marx’s work opened recently at Rochester Picture Frame, held in celebration […]
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Spotlighting the mundane
A fascinating new show, recently opened at Gallery r, considers the world’s volume of discarded objects and sidelined creatures. In “New Sense,” artist Cecily Culver explores how the non-human world almost imperceptibly brushes against our own, and imagines the strange sentience of non-human experience. Much of the work is drawn from Culver’s thesis project, “Other […]
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Glass artist creates her own Cabinet of Wonders
Axom Gallery’s current show, “Menagerie,” featuring flame-worked glass and metal by Robin Cass, explores concepts of capturing life through a fictitious version of the natural wonderland that surrounds us. The body of work is based on the tradition of the Wunderkammern, or cabinet of wonders — old-timey collections of rare natural specimens shown off for […]
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Regional range and reach
The selections for the 65th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition, now on view at the Memorial Art Gallery, showcase an impressive skillset, a cross-section of how and what our regional artists are creating, and what is weighing on their minds. Evidently, these concerns range widely, from lofty meditations on religious tradition and explorations on the nature of […]
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Variations on a dream
When siblings and artists Lanna and Dejan Pejovic began creating their recent work, currently showcased at Ock Hee’s Gallery in Honeoye Falls, they had no idea how complementary their paintings and sculptures would be. Both work with concepts of architectural forms in nature and sacred spaces and with the emotional qualities explored in both, pointing […]
