On a recent chilly, rainy morning, painter and glass bead maker Lucinda Storms and I drank tea and discussed her work in her cozy space at the Hungerford Building, where she has had studios on and off for 20 years. Currently, she’s situated in a long space on the third floor, her row of windows […]
Artist Profile
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 […]
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 […]
Ink plots
For such a young artist, Rochesterian Justyn Iannucci is hella methodical. And it’s paid off with some impressive clients, including Playboy Magazine and Complex Media. The way the 26-year-old describes his process is like a bit of a memory theater, or what BBC’s “Sherlock” referred to as a “mind palace”: “When I think of drawing, […]
Fierce and found
“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 […]






