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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Our weeping wounds
Though this summer marked 150 years from the end of the Civil War, the nation remains covered in undressed wounds. And despite the desperately bloody history of slavery and the still unresolved fallout, America tends to gloss over the more violent uprisings in favor of highlighting leaders of civil disobedience. But contemporary African American artist […]
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Throwing sculptural shade
Mercer Gallery kicked off the academic art season with “Elliott Arkin: Lifetime Achievement Exhibition” a retrospective of five decades of the artist’s work. Arkin is known for his clever, satirical sculptures that poke fun at everyone from artists, art dealers, and art critics to politicians and popes. While the sarcastic pieces punch at exalted art, […]
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Spatial preoccupations
Rochester Contemporary worked with The Memorial Art Gallery and Robert Henry Contemporary to present “Brooklyn Bridge,” a show connecting Rochester audiences with the work of five New York-based emerging artists. “The works in the exhibition range from 9-foot-tall sculptures to fine, delicate drawings, yet are aesthetically connected and linked,” says Bleu Cease, RoCo executive director. […]
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Fantasy on flesh and facade
Every time I see Lea Rizzo, the artist and single mom is buzzing with slightly frazzled energy but still somehow has a dose of sunshine for everyone. She has a sensitive and loving nature, and stays busy with her own projects between her practice as a tattoo artist, collaborating with artist friends, helping run The […]
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Disrupting our disruption
You might consider knowledge of the range of species in a rainforest or a coral reef to be privileged, reserved for scientists and others who study such things. But truth be told, most of us are only vaguely conscious of the minute, diverse scope of life that exists all around us, as we buzz through […]
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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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Bordering bodies
Sometimes we learn something about ourselves through an outsider’s fresh-eyed perspective. This concept is being explored as part of a project by poet and performance artist Moheb Soliman, who is currently in the middle of a mission to trace the borderlands of the Great Lakes, documenting and digesting bits of interest along the way. Later […]
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A view anew
In the early 1990’s, as the medium of film’s centennial approached, British filmmaker Peter Greenaway decided to hold a series of 10 exhibitions in capital cities around Europe. Each of these exhibitions would, in its own way, reflect upon the language and the history of film. This first installment, held in Geneva, Switzerland, was about […]
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Kid-friendly culture
It’s easy to imagine that the blessing of warmer weather arrives with the puzzle of how to fill up more than two months when the kiddos are sprung from school. And it’s understandable that adults might not want their time to be eaten up completely with events geared entirely toward children. Many of our local […]
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Drawing from experience
My first glimpse of Caitlin Yarsky’s talent was at the 2008 Artist’s Row at the Rochester Public Market, when I spied a tall, epic painting of a girl adventurer visible quite a distance from Yarsky’s booth. The subject was leaning out from her grasp on the mast of a ship and studying the horizon, oblivious […]
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Rule breaker, fun maker
“This is probably my last solo show,” says photographer Dan Neuberger of the current exhibit of his work at Image City Photography Gallery.” I’m 86, and shows are a lot of work and expense. So I decided to show my favorites — the ones that I’m particularly fond of.” Born in the former Yugoslavia (now […]
