Archived - Shows And Events

October 22, 2016 - January 29, 2017 - This historic and long-overdue monographic exhibition celebrates Rosalyn Drexler’s multidisciplinary artistic practice and acknowledges her important contribution to Pop art. In this retrospective survey, Drexler’s early sculptures, paintings, and collages are presented alongside examples from her award-winning plays and novels. These are accompanied by docume...

October 21, 2016–March 5, 2017 - The most comprehensive exhibition of Buchanan’s work to date, Beverly Buchanan Ruins and Rituals presents approximately 200 objects, including sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, and notebooks of the artist’s writing as well as documentation of performances. A new video installation of her existing earthworks is presented for the first time.

October 19 - December 31, 2016 - This is an exhibition of the innovative minds and personalities that defined a century as seen through the eyes of one of its own; Arnold Newman. Recognized as the ‘Father of Environmental Portraiture,’ Newman’s work is collected and exhibited in major museums and collections around the world. With over 60 portraits, including Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Martha...

October 18, 2016 to March 15, 2017 - In this exhibition, Grossen has mined the Museum's permanent collection and brought her own rope sculptures together with a selection of work from MAD's unusual collection of baskets, as well as other work in fiber, wood, and metal. Privileging elemental methods of construction as a language of abstraction, Grossen’s selections highlight an approach to contempo...

October 18, 2016 to March 15, 2017 - Approximately 35 examples from this crucial body of early work will be featured in the exhibition, most of which have not been exhibited on the east coast for four decades. Also included will be three of the artist's rarely seen works in oil on canvas, which help to demonstrate how Voulkos developed his ideas concurrently in painting, sculpture and pottery.

October 15, 2016 - April 2, 2017 - In this exhibition Rita Lombardi strives to show the transformative power of the neighborhood library. When being used, it ceases to be a warehouse for books and becomes a place of magical transformation, imagination, and empowerment. This is a place founded on the wonderfully democratic ideal that anyone who is interested should have free access to information.

October 15, 2016 - April 2, 2017 - Reading and writing in all variety are the featured subjects in this exhibition of fine and decorative arts dating from the 19th through the 21st centuries. Reading is a good diversion for the person who must sit quietly under the artist’s scrutiny, and literature has inspired visual artists in the Western tradition since ancient times. “Portable Magic” includes ...

October 15 - December 31, 2016 - Selections from the recent gift of 55 works of Modern art from the collection of Werner Feibes and the late James Schmitt will be exhibited. The gift represents a remarkable group of paintings, drawings, prints, mixed media, and sculpture by many of the world’s leading modern artists, including Josef Albers, Sol LeWitt, Grace Hartigan, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mothe...

October 15, 2016 - Cars & Coffee presented by Rochester Auto Museum, East Coast Hot Rod, and Franks Garage. Get together with owners and admirers of hotrods, muscle cars, classics, customs, exotics, motorcycles, trucks, and motor-sport at the lot in front of Rochester Auto Museum & Franks Garage. The museum will be open for you to see Bob’s collection featuring very rare Mopar & Pontiac muscle car...

October 9, 2015 - June 24, 2016 - On display is a selection of objects from the Burchfield Penney's permanent collection. The collection started in 1977 with the acquisition of a pair of bookends and a rare and important music stand. In 1994 Charles Rand Penney donated his entire Roycroft collection, which included 472 objects and 568 books and magazines. Subsequently, in 2001, The Center acquired...