Karl Baden: A Long Year This summer Light Work is exhibiting Karl Baden's video installation, A Long Year, which describes the artist's one-year experience with cancer. Self-portraits taken daily throughout the year set the visual backdrop describing his experience, while audio recordings of Baden's conversations with doctors and his family delineate the emotional course of events. Baden describes the work as "a time-lapse film of my face during the period encompassing my diagnosis, treatment, and recovery." A Long Year is part of an ongoing project, titled Every Day, that captures the subtle effects of day-to-day aging. For the past eighteen years the artist has been photographing himself daily, maintaining the same image composition, lighting, and even refraining from dramatic changes in his hairstyle. A Long Year will remain on view through August 12 in Light Work's main gallery of the Robert B. Menschel Media Center. See exhibition details

Artist-in-Residence: Jennifer Greenburg Chicago artist Jennifer Greenburg has just arrived in Syracuse to begin her residency at Light Work. She is currently working on a photographic series titled The Rockabillies, which describes a subculture in the United States that follows the lifestyle and values common among the middle class of the late 1940s and 1950s. Found in small communities throughout the country, the group visually defines itself through vintage cars, homes, clothes, and jewelry of the Eisenhower era. Even tattoos mimick designs and styles popular half a century ago. Jennifer Greenburg lives in Chicago, where she teaches at Columbia College and Harold Washington College. She received the Stuart and Iris Baum Completion Grant in May 2005. Her work was recently on view in solo exhibitions at IUN Gallery of Contemporary Art in Gary and ARC Gallery in Chicago. About half of The Rockabillies series is part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago through the Midwest Photographers Project. Florida artist Peggy Nolan recently completed her residency after a productive month during which she edited years of negatives and worked her way through every roll of new film and photo paper she had brought to Syracuse. Chicago photographer Ben Gest will be arriving in a few weeks to begin his residency at Light Work. See Light Work's residency program

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