Recent Exhibitions

Opened in 2011:

• Extreme Materials 2
• 63rd Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition
• Alfonsas Dargis: Two Decades of
 Paintings and Prints (1950–1970)
• Fiberart International
• John Ashbery and Friends: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
• Wine and Spirit: Rituals, Remedies and Revelry
• Thaw: Considering the Climate

Opened in 2010:

• Print Club of Rochester Turns 80
• Warm, Beautiful and Useful
• Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s
• Episodes from an Unwritten History: Claude Bragdon and Fritz Trautmann
• 4th Rochester Biennial
• Albert Paley in the 21st Century
• Rembrandt. Master Etchings from the Collection of Tobia and Dr. Morton Mower
• Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan

Opened in 2009:

• Art from the Arctic
• Paint Made Flesh
• Walter Goodman’s The Printseller’s Window
• 2009 Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition
• Maira Kalman: The Elements of Style
• GlassWear
• A Unity of Opposites: Recent Work by Michael Taylor
• Lincoln in Rochester
• Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite
• Gregory Van Maanen: The Happy Survivor

For information on exhibitions that opened before January 2009, please contact the Gallery’s
library.

About the Exhibitions

Extreme Materials 2

October 23, 2011-January 15, 2012 in the Grand Gallery, Lockhart Gallery and Forman Gallery

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Pictured: Mark Khaisman, Lydmila (2009). Packing tape on Plexiglas.

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63rd Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition

July 24– September 25, 2011 in the Grand Gallery

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Pictured: Paul Brandwein of Rochester was featured in his third Finger Lakes. Pictured is Red Portal, acrylic paint on ceramic.
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Alfonsas Dargis: Two Decades of
 Paintings and Prints (1950–1970)

June 24–September 18, 2011 in the Lockhart Gallery

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Pictured: In the Garden (1950). Memorial Art Gallery, Marion Stratton Gould Fund.

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Fiberart International 2010

May 1–July 3, 2011 in the Grand Gallery

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Pictured: Emily Dvorin, Magnificent Obsession (2008). Straws and cable ties.

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John Ashbery and Friends:
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

April 1–June 12, 2011 in the Lockhart Gallery

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Pictured: Portrait of John Ashbery by Larry Rivers (1984). Photogravure with hand-coloring. Marion Stratton Gould Fund and gift of the Estate of Emily and James Sibley Watson.

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Wine and Spirit: Rituals, Remedies and Revelry

January 30–April 10, 2011 in the Grand Gallery

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Pictured: Greek (attributed to the Theseus Painter), Black-figure Skyphos with Herakles, Athena and Hermes (ca. 550 BCE). Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.
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Thaw: Considering the Climate

February 3–March 3, 2011 in the Lucy Burne Gallery

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Pictured: Untitled work by Steve Fox.

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Great Impressions: The Print Club of Rochester Turns 80

December 22, 2010–March 20, 2011 in the Lockhart Gallery

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Pictured: Charles Hewitt, The Grass Harp (blue). Color woodcut and linocut. 2004 Presentation Print of the Print Club of Rochester.
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Warm, Beautiful and Useful

December 23, 2010–January 29, 2011 in the Lucy Burne Gallery (Creative Workshop)

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Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s

October 17, 2010–January 2, 2011 in the Grand Gallery

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Pictured: Erik Parker, Space Chase (2006).

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Episodes from an Unwritten History: Claude Bragdon and Fritz Trautmann

August 13–December 12, 2010 in the Lockhart Gallery

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Pictured left to right: Claude Bragdon, Mathematical Abstraction No. 5 “Study in complementaries” and Fritz Trautmann, Galaxy.

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4th Rochester Biennial

July 25–September 26, 2010 in the Grand Gallery

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Pictured: yoU woulD crY toO (2009) by Ted Aub.

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Albert Paley in the 21st Century

May 2–June 27, 2010 in the Grand Gallery

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Pictured: Albert Paley, Memphis Portal Gate Model. Collection of the artist. Photo by Bruce Miller.

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Rembrandt. Master Etchings from the Collection of Tobia and Dr. Morton Mower

February 26-May 23 in the Lockhart Gallery

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Pictured: Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait with Saskia (1636). Etching. Collection of Tobia and Dr. Morton Mower.

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Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan

January 31–April 4, 2010 in the Grand Gallery

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Pictured: Woman’s Kimono, Japan (Taisho period, 1912–1926). The Montgomery Collection, Lugano, Switzerland.

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2009 Exhibitions

Art from the Arctic: Inuit Prints and Sculpture

November 25, 2009–February 14, 2010 in the Lockhart Gallery

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Pictured: Kenojuak Ashevak, Raven Silhouette II (1998). Color stonecut.

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Paint Made Flesh

October 25, 2009–January 3, 2010 in the Grand Gallery

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Pictured: Pablo Picasso, The Artist and His Model (1964). Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

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Walter Goodman’s The Printseller’s Window: Solving A Painter’s Puzzle

August 14, 2009–November 15, 2009 in the Lockhart Gallery

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Pictured: Walter Goodman, The Printseller’s Window, 1882–83. Marion Stratton Gould Fund.

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2009 Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition

July 26–October 4, 2009 in the Grand Gallery

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Pictured: At the 2009 Finger Lakes, Still Life: Graphite on Paper (2008) by Benjamin Entner of Syracuse was awarded the Gertrude Herdle Moore/Isabel Herdle Award. Graphite on Tyvek and fans.

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Maira Kalman: The Elements of Style

May 2, 2009–August 2, 2009 in the Lockhart Gallery

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Pictured: Maira Kalman, Roses (2004–05). Courtesy of the artist and Julie Saul Gallery.

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GlassWear

April 19–June 28, 2009 in the Grand Gallery

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Pictured: Giorgio Vigna, Gorgolio (Necklace) (2002). Hand blown Murano glass, copper, silver. Collection of the artist.

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A Unity of Opposites: Recent Work by Michael Taylor

April 19–June 28, 2009 in the Grand Gallery

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Pictured: A Linear Space Algorithm for Maximal Common Sub Sequences (2009). Cast optical, dichroic and pigmented glasses. Collection of the artist. Photograph by Bruce Miller.

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Lincoln in Rochester

February 12—April 19, 2009 in the Lockhart Gallery

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Pictured: Leonard Wells Volk, Abraham Lincoln. Maurice R. and Maxine B. Forman Fund.

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Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite

January 25–March 29, 2009 in the Grand Gallery

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Pictured: Hsin-Hsi Chen, Penumbra Series #2 (2005). Pencil on paper.

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Gregory Van Maanen: The Happy Survivor

January 25–March 29, 2009 in the Grand Gallery

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Pictured: Gregory Van Maanen, Untitled (2007). Collection of the artist.

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