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."