All the info for ROCO Members Exhibition and John Graham! -- Dec. 6th

VIA ROCO:

Members Preview Reception: Dec. 4, 5-6pm

20% off any artwork purchase

First Friday Public Preview: Dec. 4, 6-10pm

Opening Reception: Dec. 5, 6-10pm

Performance Art Night at MuCCC: Dec. 9, 7-10pm

John Graham: Three Night Stand for RoCo

Special Benefit Concert: Dec. 10, 11 & 12 @ 8pm

Non-members: $25 / Members: $15 / Students: $10

Call to purchase tickets. Only 50 available per night.

Artwork Pick-up: Jan. 17, 5-7pm, Jan. 18-19, 1-6pm

Art Exhibit: Karen Sardisco.

VIA Nazareth Casa Italiana:

Exhibit runs through Friday, January 8, 2010.

Twigs and rosebuds. Swirling patterns and drips of color. Shapes remiscent of wishbones, knots and ropes—what do these suggest about the true nature of things? That is the question artist Karen Sardisco poses in her work. Using mixed media such as acrylics paints, conte crayon, and pastels, Karen uses simple forms from nature to "convey the energies that hum beneath the day-to-day surface of things."

Karen, a working artist and professor of fine arts at Monroe Community College, says that art is a visual conversation that helps her connect with issues that are important to her. "I believe that as a vehicle for transformation, art is revelatory," she says. "I like to force forms together that may not seem to have much of a connection. I want my audience to try to piece together what the relationships may be."

Karen received a B.S. in Art Education from SUNY College at Buffalo, and an MFA in Painting from Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Art and Design. She is a practicing artist whose recent exhibitions include the 51st Chautauqua National Exhibition, and the First Rochester Biennial at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY. Her work is included in many public and private collections.

Survey of Artist's Books from VSW Press (Joan Lyons, ed.)

Via VSW: 

Books: Visual Studies Workshop Press 1971-2008

A survey of the books published by VSW Press announcing this year’s publication
of our new bibliography edited by Joan Lyons.

On view in the Bookstore: November 6-December 20, 2009

Gallery hours: Thursdays, 5-8pm, Friday-Sunday, 12-5pm Joan Lyons will be signing copies of Artists’ Books: Visual Studies Workshop Press

1971-2008 in the Bookstore and Gallery on December 4, 2009 from 7-8pm.

Inuit Prints and Sculpture at the MAG

MAG is putting on a new exhibit at the Lockhart gallery, entitled "Art from the Arctic: Inuit Prints and Sculpture." Starts Nov. 25th. Runs through Feb. 14th. Enjoy!

Review of Zorcutt

The City Newspaper has posted a largely positive review of Zachary Orcutt's installation and performance at the Hartnett Gallery. Congratulations Zach and Jessica!

Heidi Nelson Lecture at VSW

Via VSW:

Heidi Neilson works in drawing, printmaking and book arts with an occasional public project—all with conceptual inclinations. She recently cofounded an artist-run weather station on a studio building rooftop and presented her Queens neighborhood as a gigantic sundial, with a lone skyscraper as the shadow-casting spire. Originally from Oregon, Heidi received MFA in painting from Pratt Institute, and lives and works in New York. www.heidineilson.com

Artist Calls for Artwalk 2 (Available NOW!)

Head over to Rochester Art Walk for more details.

But click here for the current calls, and to receive a notice for when new calls are released.

Interactive website on the narrative arts and the stories they tell (MAG)

Via MAG:

Every work of art has a story to tell, either through image and symbol, or through custom and ritual. These stories can explain the unexplainable, teach a life lesson, or celebrate our common human experiences.

Picturing the Story uses works of art as a springboard for an interdisciplinary approach to culture, environment, language, and learning. It was developed for classroom use, using selected narrative works of world art from the permanent collection of the Memorial Art Gallery.

9th Annual Fine Craft Show at the MAG

Nov. 6th-8th...

Via MAG: 

Preview Party Friday 7 to 9 pm;
$45 (event patron $75)
show and sale Saturday 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday 11 am to 4 pm; admission $10 each day (Students with ID, $5); includes MAG admission

Ceramics, glass, jewelry, furniture, metal, wood, wearable art and more… This popular event sponsored by the Gallery Council is the place to buy one-of-a-kind and limited edition works by 42 master craft artist. 

Megalethoscope Viewer!

Not quite sure what it does, or where it came from, but this strange little addition to the George Eastman House website is quite cool!

Heidi Kumao lecture and exhibition at VSW

Via VSW:

Current VSW Artist-in-Residence, Heidi Kumao, will be speaking about her most recent work on Wednesday, October 28 at 6PM in the Visual Studies Workshop Media Center.

“Timed Release,” an exhibition of Heidi’s work will open next Friday, November 6 at VSW.

Heidi Kumao is a 2009 Guggenheim fellow and an artist resident of Visual Studies Workshop this year. She is an interdisciplinary artist who creates video and machine art to explore ordinary social interactions and their psychological undercurrents. Emerging from the intersection of sculpture, theater and engineering, her “performative technologies” generate artistic spectacle in order to visualize the unseen: psychological states, emotions, compulsions, thinking patterns, and dreams. These works are designed to re-enact an event, perform a task for the viewer, or mediate her roles as a woman. Through the creation of kinetic and electronic sculpture, interactive installations and digital animations, she seeks to heighten awareness of our everyday experiences such as childhood play, family dynamics, television news, and even the wearing of clothes.

IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO: AN EVENING WITH GREGORY CREWDSON

Via Albright-Knox


IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO: AN EVENING WITH GREGORY CREWDSON
 
Friday, November 20, 2009
 
7 pm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery Auditorium, FREE

Beneath the unsettling stillness of Gregory Crewdson's dreamlike photographs reverberates the suggestion of mysterious and unimaginable narratives. Using sets of epic proportions and large-scale film crews that translate into pristine single-frame photographs, Crewdson (American, born 1962) conflates the worlds of cinematography and still photography, as well as the realms of fact and fiction, into an expanded field of production. Alluding to the artist's interest in Freud, the unconscious, and interior psychological landscape, the images themselves feature strange and inexplicable moments in natural, suburban, or domestic landscapes, often illuminated by light emanating from unseen sources or bathing its inhabitants in an eerie glow. Such subterranean narratives invoke suspension of time and disbelief, and cast the viewer in perpetual curiosity regarding the otherworldly happenings at hand. Crewdson's Untitled (boy with hand in drain), 2001-02, from the "Twilight" series, is part of the Permanent Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and was featured in the recent exhibition Bad Habits. Begun in 1998 and completed in 2002, this series examines the luminescent moment at twilight - "the magic hour" - where the transformation from day into night generates an unearthly setting privy to legend and strange happenings. At 7 pm on Friday, November 20, join us for a free event in the Gallery's auditorium featuring a conversation between the artist and Albright-Knox Curator Heather Pesanti. Gusto at the Gallery features free exhibition admission, art activities, tours, and live music from 3 to 10 pm on Fridays. For a full schedule of events, please visit www.albrightknox.org.

Carole Tanenbaum: Vintage Collection

Mark your calies for the Eastmanhouse exhibition and sale of jewelry and photographic items from the Carole Tanenbaum Vintage Collection.

From the website:

"An exhibition and sale of vintage jewelry — including 19th-century photographic items — highlight three days of events at Eastman House that offer you a chance to own a glamorous piece of history while supporting the Museum."

Kicks off December 3rd. 

"How Do We Look?"

The George Eastman House is exhibiting photographs of Rochester from three, internationally-acclaimed artists: Kristen Ashburn, Pep Bonet and Magnum photographer Eli Reed, in conjunction with their "Where We Live" series, going on until mid-January.

"How Do We Look," is going on now!

Home Movie Day at VSW--Deschamps

Via VSW:

"Bookworks in Space"
Francois Deschamps will attempt to present 20 years of bookwork’s as a topological space of images and concerns, in response to Tate Shaw’s forthcoming paper Blurring the Library, on October 15, 3 pm in VSW’s Screening Room.

Home Movie Day is an annual celebration of amateur films and filmmaking, co-sponsored by VSW and George Eastman House, in the VSW Auditorium on Saturday, October 17th from 1 to 5pm.

Heidi Kumao will give an artist talk on her current work and the exhibition “Timed Release,” video installations in VSW’s Bookstore and Gallery on October 28, 7 pm in VSW’s Screening Room.

Julie Perini will screen her recent work and answer questions for the general public on October 30, 7 pm in VSW’s Screening Room.

For more information call (585) 442-8676 or email info@vsw.org

Early Alert for "Paint Made Flesh"

Starts October 25th. Will remind you again before then, about Paint Made Flesh at the MAG :)

A Message From High Falls Art Gallery

Rochester Artists,

 

Thinking about submission to the "Upside Down" exhibit? There is an entry form below [not available here--ed.] (and similar form attached in easy to read table format.)

 

Drop off is next Wednesday through Sunday, October 14-18. I am now closed again Monday and Tuesday, so PLEASE wait until Wednesday to come down. The reception is tentatively scheduled for December 6 to avoid the Thanksgiving holiday and the RMSC Holiday Bazaar.  

 

If you have a representational work you'd like to exhibit but NOT show upside down, sideways is acceptable.

Also acceptable is work containing an upside down element (like reflections, acrobats or tumblers, Ferris wheels, etc.) This is the exhibit which will be on during the holiday buying period so I urge you to reflect on the phrase "PRICED TO SELL." Visitation will be UP UP UP.

 

If you are currently exhibiting in LOUD BRIGHT BOLD, pick up will be 11/8 and 11/9 a Saturday and Sunday, when parking at High Falls is EASY!

 

Happy Columbus Day!

 

Best Regards,

Sally

 

Upside Down November/December 2009

High Falls Art Gallery 60 Browns Race Rochester, NY 14614 325-2030 swinslow@frontiernet.net

Works in any medium, any size (Is your work over 4 feet? Please call first!)

Submit 1-3 pieces per artist, for one $15 entry fee. Exhibit runs during peak summer season for world & local visitors-- including Labor Day, and NEW Laser Show schedule.

 

 

Sally Wood Winslow, Director

Center at High Falls

Rochester Visitor Center & NYS Heritage Area

60 Browns Race, Rochester NY 14614

585.325.2030

www.centerathighfalls.org

 

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Artist NAME with EXACT spelling for tags

Artist address with zip (Where you want your checks sent when work is sold?)

Where can more work be seen currently?

Phone

Email address

Web site

Work Place and Address

Work phone number

 

Title, #1

Technique and/or materials

Price (including 25% gallery commission)

Short description of work

Frame type and finished size

 

Title, #2

Technique and/or materials

Price (including 25% gallery commission)

Short description of work

Frame type and finished size

 

Title, #3

Technique and/or materials

Price (including 25% gallery commission)

Short description of work

Frame type and finished size

 

Work displayed at the Center at High Falls, a City Visitor Center and NYS Heritage Area, is selected for enjoyment by all age groups. Acceptance of artwork is not a guarantee of its exhibition. I understand that High Falls Art Gallery carries no insurance on temporary exhibitions and is not liable for damage or loss during exhibition. I accept conditions of exhibition including adherence to drop off and pick up dates.

Your signature

I authorize the gallery to remove work from the show if the buyer is an out of town visitor.

Your signature

For Office Use Only Form Art Fee

Turner to Cezanne at the Everson

Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales

October 9, 2009 - January 3, 2010 at the Everson Museum of Art. Syracuse, NY.

"Where We Live" is officially open!

In celebration of the 175th anniversary of the city of Rochester, "Where We Live" is kicking off today with "Picturing Rochester."

Via Eastmanhouse:

"George Eastman House presents this fall “Where We Live,” a series of exhibitions showcasing Rochester in photographs as the City of Rochester celebrates its 175^th anniversary in 2009. Featured will be photographs submitted by the community as well as Rochester through the lens of professional photographers and unique images from the Eastman House collections."

Opened today

Last few days to see "Arrogance of Power"

Robert Marx's "Arrogance of Power" show closes on the 5th. So if you haven't seen it, get over to the 1st Unitarian Church of Rochester before you miss it!

Beauty + Pity

"Beauty Plus Pity features new and recent video installations by artist duo Duke & Battersby."

Check out the ROCO website for more info...

Ingrid Calame: Step on a Crack (Albright-Knox)

Via Albright Knox:  

On view through February 28, 2010...

Ingrid Calame (American, born 1965) is best known for her artworks based on tracings of stains and marks found on city streets and sidewalks that she transposes onto museum walls. In June 2008, she became the inaugural artist in the Albright-Knox's Artist-in-Residence Program. Battling wind, rain, sun, and the heat generated by steel production, Calame and her team made hundreds of square feet of drawings, which she then transformed in her Los Angeles studio into the drawings and paintings that make up this exhibition. The drawings, traced at numerous sites in and around Buffalo, have, in the words of the artist, "stopped short of being symbols-they are captured images that combine history, physical fact, decay, memory, and personal experience."
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MEMBERS-ONLY EXHIBITION PREVIEW
Thursday, September 24

Reception 5-7 pm
Members' Tour  6 pm

EXHIBITION OPENING AND ARTIST TALK
Friday, September 25, 2009

Gallery Opens at 10 am; FREE Admission 3-10 pm
Artist Talk 7 pm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery Auditorium, FREE

Ingrid Calame: Step on a Crack (Albright-Knox)

On view through February 28, 2010


Via Albright Knox:


Ingrid Calame (American, born 1965) is best known for her artworks based on tracings of stains and marks found on city streets and sidewalks that she transposes onto museum walls. In June 2008, she became the inaugural artist in the Albright-Knox's Artist-in-Residence Program. Battling wind, rain, sun, and the heat generated by steel production, Calame and her team made hundreds of square feet of drawings, which she then transformed in her Los Angeles studio into the drawings and paintings that make up this exhibition. The drawings, traced at numerous sites in and around Buffalo, have, in the words of the artist, "stopped short of being symbols-they are captured images that combine history, physical fact, decay, memory, and personal experience."
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MEMBERS-ONLY EXHIBITION PREVIEW
Thursday, September 24

Reception 5-7 pm
Members' Tour  6 pm

EXHIBITION OPENING AND ARTIST TALK
Friday, September 25, 2009

Gallery Opens at 10 am; FREE Admission 3-10 pm
Artist Talk 7 pm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery Auditorium, FREE

At the Oxford: Sharon Gordon and Peter Harris

Above: Night Lot 12:30 AM, Peter Harris

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Running from until October 10...

Via the Oxford Gallery:

At first impression, the linear realism of Peter Harris may seem a radical contrast to the lush tone poems of Sharon Gordon. Yet both artists raise fundamental – though fundamentally different – questions about the way we see what we see.

For Toronto painter Harris, the landscape we see is greatly conditioned by the means we must use to see it. Our natural vistas are always intersected by roads, bridge abutments, vehicles, and the other man-made devices we must use to get there, these devices becoming elements of the modern landscape itself. His hauntingly beautiful, if sometimes lonely, urban nocturnes resolve into shifting patterns of artificial and reflected light.

For Syracuse artist Sharon Gordon, by contrast, the landscape, seascape, or cloudscape we see is no longer “out there”; it resides in the mind of the observer and in the particular associations which each observer brings to the view. Gordon provides just enough visual information to stimulate memories and associations in the viewer, who must then complete the image in an imaginative act of re-creation.

More information can be found on OG's website. 

Bicycle tour of street art

Via ROCO:

Join us for a Sunday afternoon Bicycle Tour of some of Rochester's most significant murals, including some by State of the City Artists FUA Krew.

Departs: Rochester Contemporary Art Center at 1pm on Sunday, September 27th.

New Topographics Panel Discussion

THURSDAY, Sept. 24, 5:30- 7 p.m. -- New Topographics Panel Discussion.

"New Topographics photographers Joe Deal and Frank Gohlke join co-curators Alison Nordstrom of Eastman House and Britt Salvesen of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to discuss the re-creation of this landmark exhibition on view trough September 27. Widely recognized as a seminal moment in the history of photography, New Topographics is accompanied this time with extensive interpretive historic material and a catalog published by Steidl. The exhibition will travel throughout the US until 2010, then continue on a European tour. Booksigning will follow. Inc. w/ admission. Free to students with ID. Dryden." 

"Result:0"

Via VSW: 

"Result:0" (Photographs by Khiang Hei of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests) 
September 18-October 25, 2009

Opening Reception:
Friday September 18, 6-9pm

Gallery Hours:
Thursdays 5-8pm
Fridays-Sundays 12-5pm

Call 585.442.8676 or email info@vsw.org for more information

Last of the Finger Lake lectures--John Griebsch

Memorial Art Gallery

Thursday, September 24, 2009

(Starts at 11:00 am)

"John Griebsch of Pultneyville gives the last of three lectures by artists in the 62nd Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition. Griebsch received his BFA in photo illustration from RIT and has studied motion picture production at Ohio University. His aerial photographs of American and European landscapes, most taken from his 1952 Cessna, depict the pattern, color and design of natural and man-made landforms. Two of these, Textural Orchard 2--Near Sodus, NY, USA (pictured) and Woven Woods Near Zurich, NY, USA, were selected for this, his second Finger Lakes. Other recent exhibits include Sounding Out at the Chicago Art Source and the 8th International Photography Competition in Bethesda, MD. Followed by an exhibition tour. Included in Gallery admission."

Upcoming Workshops at VSW

Via Visual Studies Workshop:

Space is limited and classes are filling up fast! Register now for these upcoming workshops:

Introduction to Alternative Process Photography with Sara McKenna
Thursdays: October 1 through November 19
6:30pm-9:30pm

Photoshop Basics with Jaimee Lindvay
Thursdays: October 1, 8, 15 & 22
6:30pm-9:30pm

The Practice of Teaching with Douglas Holleley
Saturdays: October 3 & 10
10am-4pm

Intro to Video Production
Michael Bartolotta
Mondays: October 5 through November 23
6:30pm-9:30pm"

A full course catalog is available online at: http://vsw.org/education/fall_09.html
 

Parking day!!! Tomorrow

Last year RoCo partnered with numerous community groups to create PARK(ing) spaces in Rochester. On September 18, 2009 (10am - 6pm) RoCo will again join City Hall, The Landmark Society and The School Without Walls to create one large PARK(ing) space at 137 East Ave! Please join us in advocating for green space by visiting our PARK(ing) Space on September 18!.

PARK(ing) Day is a one-day, global event where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks. National Park(ing) Day is a fun way to advocate for green space in cities by creating temporary public parks in public parking spaces. 

New Topographics Panel Discussion at the Dryden

THURSDAY, Sept. 24, 5:30- 7 p.m. -- New Topographics Panel Discussion

New Topographics photographers Joe Deal and Frank Gohlke join co-curators Alison Nordstrom of Eastman House and Britt Salvesen of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to discuss the re-creation of this landmark exhibition on view trough September 27.  Widely recognized as a seminal moment in the history of photography, New Topographics is accompanied this time with extensive interpretive historic material and a catalog published by Steidl.

The exhibition will travel throughout the US until 2010, then continue on a European tour.

Booksigning will follow. Inc. w/ admission. Free to students with ID. Dryden.

Habitat DEVASTION + Artistic IMAGINATION = Environmental RESTORATION

Alfred University, Alfred, NY:


"Please join the Visiting Artist and Scholar Committee in welcoming Linda Weintraub this week, Wednesday September 16, at 5pm in Holmes Auditorium.


Linda Weintraub will present the diverse and inspiring strategies that contemporary artists are developing to unpollute the waters, detoxify the landfills, and reverse the effects of careless industrial expansion. She is the author of Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology.


Daniel McCormick

"Linda Weintraub is a curator, educator, artist, and author of several popular books about contemporary art. She is currently writing the fourth book in her eco-art series that is titled Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology. The three books are EcoCentric Topics: Pioneering Themes for Eco-Art; Cycle-Logical Art: Recycling Matters for Eco-Art; EnvironMentalities: Twenty-two Approaches to Eco-Art. Weintraub established Artnow Publications in order to apply environmental responsibility to the books’ material production, as well as the content of the text. This series is designed to highlight and accelerate the integration of environmental principles throughout university art pedagogy.

Weintraub is the author of  In The Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Artists (2003) (co-published by D.A.P. in NY and Thames & Hudson in the UK), Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society (1995, Insights Press).  The exhibition "IS IT ART?" was mounted in conjunction with the book and toured nationally from 1995 and 1997.  From 1982 - 1993, Weintraub served as the first director of the Edith C. Blum Art Institute located on the Bard College campus where she originated fifty exhibitions and published over twenty catalogues. Previously she served as the Director of the Philip Johnson Center for the Arts at Muhlenberg College. She was the Henry Luce Professor of Emerging Arts at Oberlin College. She is curator and co-author of Lo and Behold: Visionary Art in the Post-Modern Era, Process and Product: The Making of Eight Contemporary Masterworks, Landmarks: New Site Proposals by Twenty Pioneers of Environmental Art, Art What Thou Eat: Images of Food in American Art, and The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line. Since leaving Bard College Weintraub co-curated an internationally touring exhibition entitled "ANIMAL. ANIMA. ANIMUS" with Marketta Sepalla and "THE ART OF BODY CRAFTING. She has taught both contemporary art history and studio art and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers University.

Weintraub has recently served as curator for four ecologically-inspired exhibitions: Demo Eco M.O. applies sustainability to all aspects of art exhibition; Thirty-Below: Eco Project Runway invites students and community members to design clothing that is ‘warm’ (functional), ‘hot’ (sustainable), and ‘cool’ (fashionable); Teeny Green challenges artists to create art with minimal material presence; and AHOY! Where Lies Henry Hudson involves renowned architects who are challenge to produce  outdoor memorials for Henry Hudson without purchasing any materials."

Abraham Ferraro at MCC

Tonight is the opening of Ferraro's "Art Machine" exhibition at the Mercer Gallery.

Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo) Prresents: "Submerged Ghosts"

Sept. 11th, 7-10pm - Opening Reception  
7:30pm - Artists Lecture w/ Megan Roberts & Raymond Ghirardo
8:30pm - Outdoor Animation Festival (Encore Screening) in Adjacent Parking Lot

"On September 11th, 2009, Squeaky Wheel will celebrate the opening of their newly accumulated storefront exhibition space during Curtain Up! 2010 with a full-scale video/sound sculpture, "Submerged Ghosts", by award winning artists Megan Roberts & Raymond Ghirardo.  After spending much time on the west coast during various art residencies, this Ithaca-based art duo created “Submerged Ghosts” with a fascination regarding ghost towns and ghost lands, specifically to address issues surrounding the disappeared towns of the west-- not just for the historical narratives, artifacts and physical evidence, but for the initial stories conjured that lead to other stories told. This site-specific video and sound sculpture will feature video projections which reflect off of multiple man-made ponds built into the space and casted salt molds of body parts that will slowly disintegrate throughout the duration of the exhibition."

Nathan Lyons At The Dryden

Via Eastman House young professionals mailing list:
 
"Lecture with Nathan Lyons, founder of the Visual Studies Workshop, will be at 5 p.m. in the Dryden
Theater.  He will be presenting Return Your Mind to its Upright Position, his new body of work that uses a sequence of photographs developed over almost 50 years to trace a period of American history.
He will also be discussing his working method and structural considerations for the project."

Rochester On Film : James Card Memorial Lecture 2009

Sunday, September 13th 2009, 7:00 pm, at the Dryden Theater 

"Ed Stratmann presents “Rochester on Film” (program running time: 90 min.) This fun and fascinating program will offer more than a glimpse of Rochester’s past as we screen rare 16mm and 35mm film from the city’s past. You’ll see footage of the 1934 city centennial celebrations; the Coburg Ferry to Canada; Rochester’s earliest baseball team; War Industries campaign films; silent movie stars visiting our city, and more! Ed Stratmann, Associate Curator in charge of Film Preservation at George Eastman House, is your guide through this year’s edition of our annual presentation named in honor of the first Curator of Eastman House’s motion picture collections. Live piano by Philip C. Carli."

"Conversation Pieces" at CEPA Gallery

"Conversation Pieces is an exhibition that brings together projects by artists who stage, subvert, provoke, intervene in or document public dialogues. These projects have multiple, often interrelated objectives: claiming public space, time and attention to start specific conversations around specific issues; questioning the current states, definitions, and limits of dialogue in the public realm; and presenting alternative possibilities for or re-imaginings of the public through various models of participation in (variously public) dialogues."

9/11-9/12

Image City Photography Gallery: "Rochester Mosaic"

September 9th through October 4th

More details here

Limits Of Control

Just another reminder: Jim Jarmusch's hermetic, self-reflexive, bizarre, and GORGEOUS film "The Limits of Control" is playing tonight at the Dryden.

Sell Your Art At "The Clothesline Festival"

"Two Halves Gallery is renting a booth at this year's Clothesline Festival in front of Memorial Art Gallery. There will be hundreds of local artists showing their art." -THG

First Friday Is Tomorrow Night!

There are going to be 17 venues open this month... (Fri. 6-9pm)

Via First Friday Rochester: 

"First Friday is a monthly citywide gallery night that encourages collaboration between non-profit, university, and commercial art venues in Rochester, NY. This initiative showcases area artists and arts institutions by promoting the First Friday evening of each month from 6-9pm as a community night for experiencing art. First Friday ensures a healthy art scene and a healthy city through regular exchange and discussion between venues, artists and patrons. First Friday Rochester was initiated, and is administered by Rochester Contemporary Art Center."

Submit To "Picturing Rochester"

"Help George Eastman House illustrate the strengths and challenges of our community by being part of the fall exhibition series Where We Live, presented in conjunction with the City of Rochester's 175th anniversary. Submit your photographs (limit four per person), to be considered for inclusion in the upcoming George Eastman House exhibition Picturing Rochester."

Registration Going On Now For VSW Fall Evening And Weekend Workshops

Visual Studies Workshop is offering 15 exciting new workshops for Fall! Weekend, one-day and short-term evening workshops in Photography, Artist Books, Web Design, Video, 16mm Film and much more will be taught by local artists and instructors.

The City Paper on "State of the City"

Rebecca Rafferty, writing in the City Newspaper, takes the occasion of reviewing The Rochester Contemporary Art Center's annual "State of the City" show to contextualize the not entirely recent re-framing of the debate around street art.

Mark Your Calanders for "Tokyo Sonata" and "The Limits of Control"

The Dryden Theater is going to be showing the latest film from Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, "Tokyo Sonata," on the 4th and then again on the 6th of September. This movie picked up a lot of buzz at the last NY Film Festival and Cannes, and marks a significant departure from the landscape of the psychological and horrifying for which the director has become known, to the more Ozu-like territory of the everyday dramas of families.



Also, if you are interested in seeing Jim Jarmusch's latest movie, a kind of surrealist meditation on narrativity, you may want to catch "The Limits of Control" on the 5th or the 6th.

"State of the City" going on until Sept. 20th

Make sure you head over to the Rochester Contemporary Art Center before the 20th of next month for their State of the City exhibit.

August 7 - September 20, 2009
Opening Reception: August 7, 6-10pm     
Artist Talk: August 8, @ 1pm
Film Screening of Style Wars: September 13, @ 1pm

ARTISANworks and the George Eastman House to present the photography of Nathan Lyons

News from ARTISANworks:

On Thursday, September 10, and Friday, September 11, ARTISANworks and The George Eastman House will present the photography of Nathan Lyons as part of their annual lecture and exhibit series. In memoriam to the harrowing incidents of September 11, 2001, Lyons’ series, After 9/11, was developed in response to the destruction of the World Trade Center.

On September 10, in a lecture at the George Eastman House, he will present a preview of an entirely new body of work entitled Return Your Mind to its Upright Position at 5 p.m. in the Dryden Theatre.

On September 11, ARTISANworks will host the opening reception for After 9/11 from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. These events are open to the public and free to ARTISANworks and Eastman House members.

After 9/11

In response to the tragic events of September 11, photographer Nathan Lyons, known for his direct and often questioning observations of American culture, has created a poignant body of images. Photographing in small towns and large cities, Lyons has keenly observed the extreme variety of responses – from deep reverence to blatant commercialization - displayed by average Americans.

The provocative sequence of images, often loaded with multiple messages, is powerfully coherent and strangely disturbing. The edited sequence of photographs will both engage audiences to question their responses to this horrific event in the context of our complicated society and memorialize the loss of so many innocent lives.

Return Your Mind to its Upright Position

This current project represents a continuation of an ongoing investigation of the complexity of American culture. It began in the early 1960’s with the publication of Notations in Passing and was followed by Riding 1st Class on the Titanic, in 2000, and After 9/11 in 2003. This extended sequence of photographs has been developed over a period of almost fifty years and traces at one level a selective social history of America through this period and also sustains a broader historic overview of our layered past. Lyons will discuss his working method and the structural considerations used in developing an extended sequence of images.