During the last Super Bowl, an appeal to consider domestic water usage appeared as a halftime commercial from Colgate, in which a man kept the faucet running while he brushed his teeth. All the while, different hands reached in and out of the sink, filling cups, rinsing vegetables, and bringing hands full of the priceless […]
Sculpture
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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 […]
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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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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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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 […]
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Spotlighting the mundane
A fascinating new show, recently opened at Gallery r, considers the world’s volume of discarded objects and sidelined creatures. In “New Sense,” artist Cecily Culver explores how the non-human world almost imperceptibly brushes against our own, and imagines the strange sentience of non-human experience. Much of the work is drawn from Culver’s thesis project, “Other […]
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Throwing sculptural shade
Mercer Gallery kicked off the academic art season with “Elliott Arkin: Lifetime Achievement Exhibition” a retrospective of five decades of the artist’s work. Arkin is known for his clever, satirical sculptures that poke fun at everyone from artists, art dealers, and art critics to politicians and popes. While the sarcastic pieces punch at exalted art, […]
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Variations on a dream
When siblings and artists Lanna and Dejan Pejovic began creating their recent work, currently showcased at Ock Hee’s Gallery in Honeoye Falls, they had no idea how complementary their paintings and sculptures would be. Both work with concepts of architectural forms in nature and sacred spaces and with the emotional qualities explored in both, pointing […]
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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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Compressed expansiveness
Four decades of work by ceramic artist Wayne Higby are represented in the Memorial Art Gallery’s show, “Infinite Place,” and honestly, there’s not a thing he’s done that I didn’t feel all swoony about. The exhibition begins with a trio of examples from Higby’s early work, created in the late 1960’s, and inspired by world […]
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“Da Vinci — The Genius”
Humble beginnings don’t predict all there is to a life. Leonardo da Vinci was born out of wedlock to a peasant woman and a respected notary, but due to a precocious talent that exposed him to the movers and shakers of the day, he would go on to became one of the most celebrated figures […]
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“Latency” by Jihwan Park
People react to adversity in a variety of ways. When a competitor tried to sabotage the work of Rochester-based artist Jihwan Park, he incorporated the experience into a new thesis about the necessity of brokenness. Uncommitted to one medium, Park’s focus is conceptual, about process, and the exploration is executed through a variety of media. […]
