50th Anniversary Opening Reception

Everson Museum 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY

Through a partnership with the iconic Everson Museum of Art, Light Work’s 50th Anniversary retrospective exhibition will be on view in two of the Museum’s main gallery spaces from January 28 through May 14, 2023. An opening reception and program will be held on Friday, February 3, 2023, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Please Note: This […]

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Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Reception and Artist Talk

Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

Arko Datto’s epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world’s largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this […]

2024 BFA Art Photography Annual Reception

Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

Light Work presents the 2024 BFA Art Photography Annual of photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. The exhibition takes place in the Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery from January 19th - March 8th, 2024.  We will host a reception with the exhibiting artists on Thursday, January 25th, […]

Crystal Z Campbell: Artist Lecture

Everson Museum 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY

Light Work's Urban Video Project presents Makahiya, an exhibition projected on the facade of the Everson, featuring new work by multimedia artist Crystal Z Campbell. Makahiya, a Tagalog word that translates to "shame" or "shyness", is the latest short experimental film from Crystal Z Campbell. Rooted in botanical research on a plant that displays the unusual trait […]

Sophia Chai: Character Space Reception and Artist Lecture

Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

Sophia Chai’s Character Space comprises photographs that are a return to her mother tongue, Korean. In these studio-made images she references these written characters and enacts three key ideas of language, optics, and photography. An opening reception will take place in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery at Light Work on April 4th, from 6-7 PM. […]