At Rochester Contemporaryโs exhibit of prints and collages, the message is in the medium.
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โA Change Is Comingโ to RoCo
A new exhibition featuring three contemporary printmakers comes to Rochester Contemporary Feb. 4-27.
Eastman Museum looks back with a Carl Chiarenza retrospective
While reflecting on nearly seven decades of work, photographer Carl Chiarenza hasnโt stopped evolving his artistic practice.
Lorna Bieber weaves together borrowed imagery at Eastman
“All of my work is about the search for spirituality,” says Lorna Bieber in the cell phone tour that accompanies “Fabrications,” an exhibit of her largescale, black and white work currently in the Project Gallery at Eastman Museum. “To me, spirituality means trying to connect to the unseen forces that lie beneath the material world,” […]
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 […]
Retrospective exhibit explores human nature
After teaching for 38 years at Nazareth College, Lynn Duggan will retire at the end of this semester. The current exhibit at the college’s Arts Center Gallery is a retrospective that spans nearly four decades of her work, and includes the elegant jewelry and sculpture Duggan is known for as a masterful metalsmith, and mixed […]
ART: The center of the universe
“Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman” by Mickalene Thomas Through October 19 George Eastman House, 900 East Avenue Tuesday-Saturday: 10 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | $5-$12 | 271-3361; eastmanhouse.org. Children spend their lives orbiting their origins, barely conscious of the gravity their parents’ lives have on their own. Much like our […]
ART REVIEW: “Transmutations: Photographic Works by Carl Chiarenza”
Of the transmission of experience through art, poet Robert Frost wrote, “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” Though renowned photographer Carl Chiarenza creates abstract works that are purposefully open to viewers’ interpretations, the crystallized emotional experience of the artist is present […]






