Singer writes computer code that recreates the natural phenomena of form and color, creating geometry-based abstractions that become dazzling monotype prints, which in turn inform the geometric visuals he paints in oil and acrylic.
Axom Gallery
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What about the survivors?
Tina Starr’s multimedia exhibit and performance ‘Like a Kiss’ confronts the epidemic of rape and assault
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‘NARTCAN’ addresses the pain and oblivion of addiction
Sorrow and angry grief smacked my brain when I saw the work in the addiction-themed group show currently up at AXOM Gallery. This past summer, when I was moving the last of my belongings into the house I currently live in, I paused setting things up to gather around a backyard fire with my new […]
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St. Monci and Lives Styled stage dream spaces at Axom
Axom Gallery has been temporarily transformed from a white walls art gallery into a supremely fun, impossibly chic series of staged living and working spaces. A beloved local creative couple — painter St. Monci and Hannah Betts of design studio Lives Styled — have taken over the room, filling it with their art and carefully […]
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Paul Garland’s broken symmetry
Nearly half a century has passed since Paul Garland’s first professional solo exhibition of paintings, which was held in February 1967 at Rochester’s since-closed Janus Gallery. In celebration of Garland’s five decades of intensive studio work and numerous solo shows in New York City, Toronto, Chicago, Buffalo, Minneapolis, and elsewhere, AXOM Gallery is currently presenting […]
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FUA Krew’s RANGE has first solo show
You can usually tell when a graffiti artist has a gallery show by the names dropped all over the block. Following the Saturday night opening of Victor “RANGE” Zarate’s solo show at AXOM Gallery, monikers in colorful calligraphy were scribbled and scrawled on the city’s surfaces up and down Anderson Avenue — consider it a […]
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Breathing cityscapes fill AXOM Gallery
I come away from some shows with a song mysteriously buzzing at my brain, implanted by associations with the imagery. While immersing in the gritty, dream-like urban realms of Isaac Payne’s “Rose-Colored Glasses,” currently on view at AXOM Gallery, my inner antenna picked Black Star’s “Respiration” out of the ether. Payne’s recent mixed-media paintings on […]
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Art from the weekend past
City check out Axom’s experimental art & music night and The Yards’ Artist Residency
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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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Seasonal exhibitionism
A preview of the 2015-16 art season With the first tastes of autumn in the air comes the energy of a fresh arts season. Here are a dozen or so not-to-be-missed shows to distract you from the dead-weather doldrums. Some exhibition details may change, so check back with the galleries as time moves forward. Admission […]
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More than this
An already stylish studio and gallery shared and operated by Rick, Robin, and Margot Muto, AXOM Gallery is becoming even more so with the integration of a design showroom. With a formal opening of AXOM Objects coming up in May, Robin has already begun showcasing a variety of elegant and useful modern objects — from […]
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“Mad Sally with Things on Strings” by Joy Adams
Many people who are labeled “eccentric” are simply living their lives defiantly unencumbered by meaningless norms — and in doing so, may find more soul-fulfilling ways of moving through this strange trip. And these types can teach the rest of us a thing or two. The current exhibit at Axom Gallery showcases the engaging work […]
