Bio Terrains is an exhibition of multimedia installations and sculptures by Minneapolis-based artist Jane Powers. Through the use of metaphors and symbolism, the artworks featured in this show embody Powers’s research on biomedical developments in tissue engineering and xenotransplantation. Powers' extended practices investigates the tensions between creation and destruction...
In Zumbro Bend: Three Desiring Bodies, Minneapolis based visual artist Pete Driessen installs three separate site-specific works, each a different abstracted fork in the river ecosystem. Titled after the South Fork Zumbro River that winds around the Rochester Art Center, the artist illuminates meandering sociopolitical variants on the river as...
Atrium Installation Anne Labovitz created an artwork specifically for Rochester Art Center's soaring, three-story atrium to respond to the light, air and unique architecture of the atrium space. Entitled, Will to Meaning, the enormous artwork is 40-feet by 35-feet by 5-feet is made of vibrantly painted Tyvek® scrolls that subtly...
What and where is home? Is home a place, a smell, a memory, an object, a person? As Rochester grows every day to be a more racially diverse and international city, the Rochester Art Center strives to highlight and celebrate a plurality of voices through the stories of transplants, immigrants...
We are pleased to welcome interdisciplinary artist Drew Maude-Griffin to lead a tour of their artwork as part of the current exhibition Chronicles of the Chronic. As an artist, curator and educator, Maude-Griffin’s practice explores illness, disability and the complex politics of care. Tours last approximately 45 minutes. This...
