Shawn Dunwoody’s “Unfinished Business” depicts civil rights uprisings in Rochester’s history to show what hasn’t changed.
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Award-winning painter Brian O’Neill passes the paintbrush
Brian O’Neill is a master of both photo-real and abstract styles, and teaches his skillset to studio students.
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In isolation, artist Liz Pritchard finds opportunity
Artist Liz Pritchard has always used her creativity to express herself, but the pandemic era has been a boon to her work in multiple mediums.
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How artist Ephraim Gebre came ‘full-circle’ to create ‘I Am Speaking’
In November, 21-year-old muralist Ephraim Gebre led a project honoring the late John Lewis and reconnected with his mentor Shawn Dunwoody.
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Art and social justice series ‘Black House Narratives’ debuts Thursday
21st Century Arts presents an 11-day, robust program of screenings, visual art, performances, and discussions with activists and artists.
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The late Robert Marx, and the faces in the mirror
The late Rochester artist Robert Ernst Marx was quiet and enigmatic, but he leaves behind a body of work that speaks volumes about humanity.
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Call for artists: racist carousel panel to be replaced with a black panther
A call for artwork has been issued to replace the offensive caricature panel taken down from the Dentzel Carousel
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Faux-doc ‘Fritz’ examines what success means as an artist
Rochester-based filmmaker Ben Gonyo spent more than five years creating a convincing faux-documentary about a deaf, septuagenarian, undiscovered artist named Fritz. Gonyo placed himself in the story as the documentarian who urges Fritz out of the shadows. While the story follows one unique (fictional) life, the core themes — pursuit of recognition, rejection, bereavement, and […]
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Elder artists present fresh work at Main Street Arts
Main Street Arts’ latest exhibit, “Re-emerging Artists,” showcases the work of Robert Marx and John Greene, two late-career artists whose art continues to evolve and gain new audiences. Nearly 70 drawings, paintings, and sculptures fill both rooms of the gallery’s first floor, as well as an additional space upstairs. The majority of the work is […]
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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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Lucinda Storms stands out across styles
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 […]
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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.
