“Gruntwerk was just always a term that stuck out in my head, even as a kid,” Alyssa Radwick says about the name she chose for her small jewelry business. “I love the phrase — ‘Doin’ the grunt work.’” Radwick, who is 23 years old, says she has been making jewelry from found bits of nature […]
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It had to be hue
The ubiquitous phrase “In Technicolor” was present throughout my youth on title cards at the beginning of favorite films, from the transporting “Wizard of Oz” to Disney’s animated hit, “Dumbo.” A fascinating new exhibit at Eastman House explores the history, technology, and artistry of Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation at its hundredth anniversary. The exhibit has […]
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“Arabat Spit/Healing Muds” by Sergiy Lebedynskyy
The current show at Lumiere Photo’s Spectrum Gallery offers Rochester audiences a rare glimpse at a photo movement presently unfolding on the other side of the world. “Arabat Spit/Healing Muds” is a set of deceptively contemporary images by young Ukrainian photographer Sergiy Lebedynskyy, which explores a public spa as a metaphor for his country’s difficult […]
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“Latency” by Jihwan Park
People react to adversity in a variety of ways. When a competitor tried to sabotage the work of Rochester-based artist Jihwan Park, he incorporated the experience into a new thesis about the necessity of brokenness. Uncommitted to one medium, Park’s focus is conceptual, about process, and the exploration is executed through a variety of media. […]
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Artist proof
Last year, printmaker and print collector Adam Werth identified a Picasso lithograph from the “Portraits Imaginaires” portfolio at an estate sale in Pittsford. The print wasn’t getting much attention, and the people running the sale didn’t have any information, so Werth snapped a photo and went home to do some quick research. He rushed back […]
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Projection and perception
Visual Studies Workshop’s current show isn’t really representative of Tara Merenda Nelson’s film work, most of which is in Super 8 format and tends to follow a “film diary” tradition: “intimate portraits of friends and family, travel diaries, confessions, secrets, that type of thing,” she says. Just three strange, cinematic installations comprise the show, each […]
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“The Birmingham Project” by Dawoud Bey
Currently on view at George Eastman House are 13 photographic diptychs that Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey created to commemorate 6 children killed in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963. Each of Bey’s diptych portraits — of which 16 were created — juxtapose boys and girls the same ages of the victims (11, 13, 14, and […]
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“Infinity Boxes” by Matt Elson
For a limited time, Memorial Art Gallery is hosting several installations starring your face and mine. Peer inside each of nine “Infinity Boxes,” created by L.A.-based artist Matt Elson, and your countenance temporarily becomes part of a kaleidoscopic, optical illusion created by carefully positioned mirrors, lights, flowers, candles, and other bits of pretty interest. Four […]
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Robert Burley: “The Disappearance of Darkness”
In “The Disappearance of Darkness,” Canadian photographer Robert Burley explores the rapid dissolution of film manufacturing — and film-related industries — as digital photography technology became more commercially accessible to the masses in the mid-2000’s. The show’s work itself straddles the line between the two worlds; Burley shot the images on sheet film, then scanned […]
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Elegy to an era
Two current exhibits at George Eastman House, held in conjunction, explore the history of imaging innovations from Kodak’s early days up through the present, and show an artistic documentation of the end of film manufacturing. Together, these exhibits provide a full picture of the imaging history of Image City, Rochester’s hand in the development of […]
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“Devil’s in the Details”
There are many ways the concept of the devil has been depicted throughout time and within popular culture: the cloven-hoofed, goat-faced Baphomet; the seductive, fallen angel; the serpent; the feminine temptress; or with an indirect presence, through possession. Erich Lehman, who is celebrating the sixth anniversary of his 1975 Gallery with a devil-themed group art […]
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Of earth and time
Genesee Pottery’s annual “History in the Making” exhibit provides a fascinating opportunity to see a range of great work by contemporary ceramicists from around the nation. The educational showcase also provides a specific look at the historic practices and techniques from which these artists draw influence. This year’s show, juried by Fred Herbst, professor of […]
