December 9, 2022-May 28, 2023
Lockhart Gallery
In Praise of Trees showcases the work of the contemporary Japanese-Canadian print artist Naoko Matsubara (b. 1937). The exhibition presents 39 woodcuts from her portfolio In Praise of Trees. Each print represents a single tree or a quality associated with trees, such as hardness, strength, stability, and vitality. All were inspired by her childhood memories of Kyoto, Japan, where she grew up as the daughter of a Shinto priest.
April 23–August 6, 2023
Docent Gallery
The Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition (RFLX), a long-running showcase for artists from western and central New York, returns to the Memorial Art Gallery for its 68th installment during the spring of 2023. On view from April 23–August 6, 2023, this year’s exhibition is being juried by Molly Donovan, curator of contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
February 25-August 13, 2023
Forman Gallery & Installations through MAG’s American permanent collection galleries
Joan Lyons (b. 1937) has been extending the limits of photography, printmaking, and artists’ books for over six decades. In the 1960s–1980s, she focused on a feminist inquiry into the deeply personal and particular as subjects for her art. To this day she continues to investigate the power and conventions of photography, image-making, and representation within Western culture. The Memorial Art Gallery has organized the first museum exhibition to survey the artist’s significant career in her home town of Rochester, NY.
February 8, 2023-January 7, 2024
Media Arts Watch Gallery
Crystal Z Campbell’s multidisciplinary art practice centers on “public secrets”—stories known by many but rarely told. Lines of Sight illuminates the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, when white mobs attacked and killed hundreds of Black residents, destroying over 35 city blocks of the predominantly Black Greenwood district (a.k.a. Black Wall Street) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With each artistic decision and gesture, Campbell employs various modes of making historical records legible or illegible, complicating how we as viewers perceive history.
August 15, 2021–July 2023
Hurlbut Gallery
SALUT’s arresting bright pastels and amorphous shapes capture the humor and absurdity of everyday life through the lens of an optimistic young child. For the next installation of contemporary mural art at MAG, Rochester artist SALUT (Bradd Young) will fill the walls of the Hurlbut Gallery with his light-hearted and candy-colored images inspired by the cartoons and memories of childhood.
