Each year, City Newspaper highlights four young Rochester-based artists who are beginning to come into their own. The following emerging artists — Chara Dow, Evyn Morgan, Johnnie Smith, and Kurstie Grimble — come from diverse origins and work in a range of media, but all share the drive to generate and sustain artful lives. Those […]
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Artists transform Lyric Theatre space
A group of regional artists will temporarily
transform the former Sunday school space located in the back of what is now Lyric Theatre.
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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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See for yourself
When many of us travel, we are ushered around carefully preened and planned channels that brush against but never penetrate the world known by the locals. And the exotic versions of the place offered to visitors are rarely experienced by the actual residents. This is the consideration behind Barbadian artist Ewan Atkinson’s “The Neighbourhood Project.” […]
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Deck all of the halls
Local artists hand-make ornaments for any time of the year Confession: I don’t put up a tree during the holidays. My living space is modest in size and I’ve never adored the ritual of cutting down a whole tree, only to curb it a few weeks later. But I’m not a Grinch — I enjoy […]
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Figures framing essence
Every so often, art collector and dealer Deborah Ronnen and her assistant Jen Burger pull together a showcase of work to exhibit at Deborah Ronnen Fine Art. Ronnen is dedicated to introducing Rochester audiences — and collectors — to work by artists they might not otherwise encounter. The current show on view, “Body and Soul,” […]
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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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Bright earth
A show of 18 luminous, unabashedly joyful paintings by Jay Pullman is on view at Lumiere Photo’s Spectrum Gallery through Saturday, November 28. The lovely work depicts all four glorious seasons, and even the snowy scenes are cheerful enough to quell some of my dread of the impending winter. The small paintings mostly portray the […]
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Three to see
Three currently running art shows, featuring the work of four Rochester artists, deal with concepts of the human condition.
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The freedom of perspective
At the Seneca Art & Culture Center, people tell their own stories A dream 30 years in the making has finally been realized with the opening of the Seneca Art & Culture Center at Ganondagan State Historic Site. The center officially opened on October 24, and will provide a year-round venue for exhibits and programming […]
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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 […]
