Artist Crystal Z. Campbell shines light on the tragedy of the Tulsa Race Massacre with “Lines of Sight” at the Memorial Art Gallery.
Video Art
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Six art shows you shouldn’t miss this fall
Get these exhibits in your calendar, get gussied, and get off the couch.
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ART TALK | ‘Centering Black Women: A Conversation About Art and Organizing’
Thursday’s live-streamed talk will address the importance of fore-fronting Black women’s voices in both art and political organizing.
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RoCo’s sidewalk screening
We got the scoop on Rochester Contemporary’s window video installation and the 411 on the ‘6×6’ virtual exhibition.
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Mortal coils
Currently presented at Rochester Contemporary is “Earthen,” a set of three short video artworks that are gorgeous little meditations on our experiences with nature and time.
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RoCo’s new screening room features ongoing video art series
A new space within Rochester Contemporary Art Center is dedicated to screening video art programs curated by artists from other Great Lakes cities.
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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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‘Martyrs’ focuses on victimhood, not persecutors
Bill Viola’s high definition video series, “Martyrs,” is the latest exhibit in the Memorial Art Gallery’s Media Arts Watch program. In the darkened room dedicated to the program, four narrow, flat-screen monitors surround the viewer, each installed on one of the four walls. Brief, bright dramas play out in sync, requiring the viewer to continuously […]
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Media art giants on display at MAG
Since taking the reins as director of the Memorial Art Gallery, Jonathan Binstock has made it his mission to flesh out the institution’s contemporary collection with heavy hitters. This trend continues as MAG, last month, announced a new collaboration with independent consulting curator of film and media arts, John G. Hanhardt. Throughout his career, Hanhardt […]
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Connecting the spectrum
“Question Bridge: Black Males” October 3 through November 16 Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Avenue Opening reception: October 3, 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday: 1-5 p.m., Friday: 1-10 p.m. | $2, free to members | 461-2222; rochestercontemporary.org When giving public talks about the video project, “Question Bridge: Black Males,” artist and educator […]
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ART REVIEW: “Memory Theatre”
The Memorial Art Gallery’s new exhibit, “Memory Theatre,” opened on one of the recent bright and brisk autumn evenings, when the daylong sunshine was punctuated by evening temperature drops and the fragrant decay of leaves, dipping us into that wistful ache of another year’s departure. The show is a collection of works that speak of […]
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Raiders of a lost art
Rochester Contemporary’s current show, “signals_now_,” was created in collaboration with Signal Culture, a new experimental media studio soon to be located in Owego, New York, run by artists Debora and Jason Bernagozzi. The exhibit showcases four artists who will be among the first to participate in Signal Culture’s residency program, and who each question the […]
