MFA SPRING WALKTHROUGH - Tuesday May 14th

Please join us for the MFA Spring Walkthrough where the first years will be showing their work!

MFA Thesis Show Openings at VSW

Thanks to David Beyerlein and Margaret Cogsdill for photos from the opening!

MFA Thesis Exhibit Opening - Video

Thanks to Dan Wang for making this little video at the opening last Friday!

MFA Thesis Exhibtions at VSW

Seven Master of Fine Arts graduate students in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (SPAS) at Rochester Institute of Technology are participating in a group thesis exhibition at Siskind Gallery at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. The multimedia exhibition is open to the public and will run from April 5 through April 19, 2013. The opening on April 5 from 6 to 9 p.m. will coincide with Rochester’s First Friday Citywide Gallery Night and will feature a performance by participating artist Tina Starr.

Exhibiting artists include:
Salah Ahmed, "Impartial Validity"
Katherine March Driscoll, "It’s Hard To Be Down When You’re Up."
Ben Gilberg, "Living Fossil"
Sergio Gomez, "A/ Part"
John William Keedy, "It’s Hardly Noticable"
Luke Shaw, "Approaching Significance: Dr. Rodano Takes a Bath"
Tina Starr, "Lady Bits"

Siskind Gallery
Visual Studies Workshop
31 Prince Street
Rochester, NY 14607

Opening Reception:
April 5th, 6PM - 9PM

Winter Walkthrough

Work by first year MFA grads shown in the last ever Winter Quarter Walkthrough.

February 19th, 2013 | Fourth Floor Studios

Catherine Hellston

Jay Tyndall

 

Justin Fondrie

 

Maggie Pinke

Michelle Bablitz

Nick Hruby

YuWen Wang

photos by Nina Ramadan

SPAS Faculty Exhibition

Please join us for a the Annual SPAS Faculty Exhibition!

Opening this Thursday Feb. 7 at 5pm

SPAS Gallery, 3rd floor, Gannett Building

Closing Reception: Being Close to Far Away by Misha Tulek

Join us for the closing reception of Being Close to Far Away, Thursday, January 31st, from 6-10PM. This is your last change to see Tulek's incredible Ice Frames as they melt and disappear during the reception. 

Misha Tulek is a multi-media capture artist whose work focuses on social issues. His topics range from trash-pickers in Nicaragua's largest landfill to remote arctic landscapes where Stalin's Gulag prison camps once stood. His work often passes the hardline of documentary realism in order to weave a more nuanced and holistic approach to reportage. Built into Misha's work is a constant reassessment and critique of photography as practice and conceptual discourse. Being Close to Far Away is a recent body of work which focuses on a remote location in Russia which once belonged to a network of Stalinist era prison camps collectively known as the Gulag Archipelago. This body of work wrestles with the difficultly of comprehending and photographing the Gulag site which no longer shows any trace of it's former capacity for torture, suffering, and atrocity.

Being Close to Far Away is a multimedia exhibition inspired by history, family story, and personal experience. In addition to photographs and video, a major element of the exhibition is installation pieces called ice frames. The ice frame art pieces are inspired by a story told by the artist’s great-grandfather who constructed windows from ice. In the arctic gulag, there was no glass. Instead of living in the dark, the inmates invented a way to use ice in place of glass to allow light into their prison barracks. The ice windows lasted several weeks before they needed to be replaced. The artist has borrowed this technique to freeze photographs he recently took while visiting the Gulag his great-grandfather survived. The pieces are a play on memory, history, and the fictive power of creativity to revive the past into a flourishing present.  

Jen Burger
Gallery Director, Black Radish Studio
jen@blackradishstudio.com

Opening Reception: Something other than I had planned || In the Wake

Mia Katz and Sergio Gomez

Louis Michael Hernandez & Elaine O'Neil

Sam Angarita

Luke Shaw, Maggie Pinke, & John Keedy

Misha Tulek & Sergio Gomez

Kristy Carpenter, Elaine O'Neil, Christine Shank, & Patti Russotti