I'm all about the blending of artistic media, and the people who run Potential Life Studios know that visual art and music are a great mix. This tiny, seriously hip gallery and music venue is co-owned by husband and wife team Jeremy and Colleen...
ART REVIEW: "Members: Rochester Contemporary Members Show"
Maybe it's the weather, but I focused on a whole lot of death- or darkly-themed art at Rochester Contemporary's 18th Annual Members Exhibition. I adore the skillful celebration of beauty, but I'm also strongly drawn to dark, delicate art that...
ART REVIEW: "Individual Story"
What if we could see each individual's personal history, the struggles, the anxieties, the complexities, unraveling onion-like before us? Korean-American printmaker Chunwoo Nam's art seeks to fill in the gaps of what is unknown about the Other,...
REVIEW: Method Lab's "Bushwacked"
Forget haunted hayrides. The scariest experience of my Halloween this year was The Method Lab's "Bushwacked," a group exhibit of art that together forms a retrospective of the horrific past eight years.
ART REVIEW: "Audition," by Sam van Aken
If you're down in the East End this month, you might see some young men staring lustily through the front window of Rochester Contemporary Art Center at the giant sphere of car stereo speakers. In my view, art generally falls into two groups: art...
REVIEW: John Wood "On the Edge of Clear Meaning"
Some artists are so caught up in visual language that they don't know how to talk about their own work. John Wood is not one of those people.
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As a kid, if given the choice between a history lesson and eating 10 plates of Brussels sprouts,...
OUR MONSTER ISSUE! The results are in! This year THOUSANDS of Rochesterians voted in our annual...
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Eric said:
Dear Mary Rose: I believe prints are for sale at the Memorial Art Gallery's gift shop.
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Mary Rose Bovard said:
Is it at all possible to buy a print of Midtown painting by Edith Lunt Small? Thank You.
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Bethany, Your art work is amazing; I am very proud of you.
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Hi Shirley, Sounds like an amazing exhibit, especially since it includes some of the best paper engineers in the business. I thought, after...
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It is great to see a serious review of art in City and it does make me curious about the drawings and sculpture described. On another level I am...
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