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SUMMARY:Oracle in the Aperture: Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:March 20–May 22\, 2026\nJeffrey J. Hoone Gallery\nReception: Thurs\, March 26\, 5-7pm \nArcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists\, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows\, a library of small personal projects began to build\, and\, excitingly\, as more people were invited to share their work\, a lineage and an echoing formed\, discoveries were made\, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language\, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities\, subcultures\, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture\, artists were selected to join with peers\, personal influences\, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other’s stories\, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes. \n-Brian Van Lau \nExhibiting artists: Walker Bankson\, Bryan Birks\, Marisa Chaftez\, Luis Manuel Diaz\, Paloma Dooley\, Hannah Edelman\, Ryan Frigillana\, Sabrina Giacomaggio\, Stephen Ross Goldstein\, Phoebe Shuman Goodier\, Lexi Hide\, Jasmine Huang\, Jeffrey Jin\, Tommy Keith\, Ian Kline\, Joe Leavenworth\, Jinyong Lian\, Chika Winston Ma\, Jordan Monloire\, Ricardo Nagaoka\, Pete Pin\, Ian Ritter\, Dylan Safranek\, Ian Sherlock Molloy\, Ian Edward White\, Kevin Williamson
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/oracle-in-the-aperture-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings
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SUMMARY:We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:March 20–May 22\, 2026\nKathleen O. Ellis Gallery\nReception: Thurs\, March 26\, 5-7pm \nWe’re Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau’s relationship with his estranged father. Lau’s father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release\, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam\, remarried\, and gradually disappeared from Lau’s life. Nearly a decade later\, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father’s sudden illness\, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together\, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father’s unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father’s passing\, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai‘i seeking closure\, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father’s life. Entrusted with dispersing his father’s ashes across O‘ahu\, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/were-just-here-for-the-bad-guys-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings
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SUMMARY:2026 BFA Art Photography Annual Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:January 22–March 6\, 2026\nJeffrey J. Hoone Gallery\nReception: Thurs\, January 22\, 5-7pm \nWith great pleasure\, Light Work presents the 2026 BFA Art Photography Annual. This exhibition features work by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Film and Media Arts Department at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. \n  \nExhibiting Artists: \nAlex Cai \nDonniae Collins \nSofia Marie Capparelli \nBrooke Datys \nIxchel Loren Flores \nAshlyn Garcia \nNadia Holl \nAdeline Hume \nMia Ignazio \nHannah Stein \nElla Tovey \nMing Zhong
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/2026-bfa-art-photography-annual-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings
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SUMMARY:Karolina Wojtas: Made In Poland Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:January 22 – March 6\, 2026 | Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery\, Light Work\nOpening Reception: January 22\, 5-7 PM \nMade in Poland\, Karolina Wojtas’ first U.S. solo exhibition\, unfolds like a care package sent to America—one filled with the absurd\, the folkish\, and the wonderfully weird cultural treasures of Poland. The exhibition features a dynamic mix of fabric prints\, soft sculptures\, and traditional photographs that play with form while drawing on everyday observations\, childhood memories\, and the oddities of growing up. Wojtas’ project becomes a journey through education\, family relationships\, and first loves—infused throughout with nostalgia\, humor\, and a generous dose of self-irony.
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/karolina-wojtas-made-in-poland-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings
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SUMMARY:2025 MFA Photography Survey Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Light Work announces with great pleasure our triennial exhibition in partnership with the Art Photography MFA program from the Film and Media Arts Department in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. In this survey of candidates\, we see a wide range of approaches that complement and vary from each other: ideas of documentary and fictionalized documentary\, the landscape\, the personal archive combined with found imagery\, female gender\, power dynamics\, a reworking of personal histories\, cultural histories\, and mass media. Altogether\, this selection presents both a curious and confident showcase in experimental and traditional picture-making processes that highlights the ever-expanding field of photography through distinct perception and follow-through. \nThe goal of the Art Photography MFA program is to help artists develop their unique voice. Through intensive study that includes individual and group critique along with courses in history\, theory\, and criticism\, candidates benefit from an intense and passionate learning environment that emphasizes contemporary art and practice. \nThe exhibition includes work by: Reyad Abedin\, Lucas Cobb\, Jared Dominique\, Taylor Gearhart\, Suihang Huang\, Christian Jones\, Jacobb Nichol\, Tony Rayo\, Lia Teeuwissen\, and Jiayue Yu.
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/2025-mfa-photography-survey-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings
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SUMMARY:Sasha Phyars-Burgess: Everything Nice Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Sasha Phyars-Burgess’s photographic project Everything Nice traces her family history through Portugal\, the Dominican Republic\, Florida\, and Louisiana\, following the paths of sugarcane farmed on colonial plantations and the transatlantic slave trade in relation to her ancestors. The pictures provide clues and details that are layered into a larger story. \nLooking back at history and locating the present\, Phyars-Burgess is thinking through the idea that we are all living in a history\, whether it is acknowledged or not. Once acknowledged\, and if we allow ourselves to live with the past\, with choices made by and for others\, we can access a wider view of the present day. \nThrough research and picture-making\, Phyars-Burgess’s ongoing project affords us a better understanding of globalization and its languages\, and shows us that places which at first glance look “ethnic” can be regarded differently. \nThe work’s title\, Everything Nice\, is the name of a song by Popcaan. In it\, he speaks about the hardships and struggles that people are going through while also joining together in community\, getting to the heart of the matter\, and being present. This exhibition invites us to slowly look\, ask questions\, and decipher information to uncover possible and actual answers. \n— \nSasha Phyars-Burgess. \nb. 1988. \nScorpio. \nBlack. \nAlive. \nsashaphyars-burgess.com
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/sasha-phyars-burgess-everything-nice-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings
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SUMMARY:Source Material: An Evening of Archival Explorations at Light Work
DESCRIPTION:Stop by Light Work’s galleries at 5 PM to check our shows\, The Archive as Liberation and the 2025 Grants in Photography. At 5:30 PM\, Aaron Turner will be present for a gallery talk. \nEnjoy some food & stay for the premiere of Video Ocean at 7 PM\, a documentary by our 2025 UVP Regional Commissioned Artist\, Courtney Rile\, followed by a panel discussion between Rile and curators DJ Hellerman (MoCA Cleveland) and Tara Merenda Nelson (Visual Studies Workshop) exploring media art history and preservation. \nThen head down to the Everson Museum Plaza to see Rile’s commissioned piece In Conversation on the facade of the building at 9 PM and on exhibit at UVP through August 30. \nAll events are free & open to the public.
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/source-material-an-evening-of-archival-explorations-at-light-work/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings,Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250512T100000
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SUMMARY:2025 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:May 12–August 29\, 2025\nJeffrey J. Hoone Gallery\nReception: Friday\, July 25\, 5-7pm \nWith enormous pleasure\, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography! The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence)\, Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County)\, and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County). \nThis year’s judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston\, NY)\, who writes: “From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home\, family\, and memory\, this year’s grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal\, urgent and political\, in innovative\, collaborative\, and deeply felt ways.” \nThe Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a fifty-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975\, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/2025-light-work-grants-in-photography-exhibition/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings
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SUMMARY:The Archive as Liberation Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:May 12–August 29\, 2025\nKathleen O. Ellis Gallery\nReception: Friday\, July 25th\, 5-7pm \nThe Archive as Liberation is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner (Light Work artist–in-residence\, 2018\, and Light Work exhibiting artist\, 2021). Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley\, calista lyon\, Raymond Thompson Jr.\, Harrison D. Walker\, and Savannah Wood\, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes\, Alec Kaus\, Andrew Martinez\, Aaron Turner\, Amelia Wallin\, and Wendel A. White\, with a foreword by the book’s editor\, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker.  \nTo mark the launch of this publication\, Light Work has mounted an exhibition highlighting many of the contributing artists. This exhibition includes work by Andre Bradley\, Chisato Hughes\, Alec Kaus\, calista lyon\, Raymond Thompson Jr.\, Harrison D. Walker\, Wendel A. White\, and Savannah Wood.  \n“The artists included in this publication and exhibition are engaged in resilience\, ancestral understanding\, counter-memory\, translation\, activism\, tension\, narrative\, and critique. Through their artistic gestures\, they illustrate freedom in the Archive.” —Aaron Turner  \nThe exhibition also includes a unique reading room curated by Turner with artists’ books from his personal collection and pieces from Light Work’s collection.  The reading room will be in Light Work’s Lab for the duration of the exhibition.
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/the-archive-as-liberation-exhibition/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings
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SUMMARY:Lines of Flight: Screening + Q&A with Miryam Charles and Joiri Minaya
DESCRIPTION:Join Light Work in Watson Theater (across from our galleries) on Thursday\, March 20 for a screening and Q&A with filmmaker Miryam Charles and multimedia artist Joiri Minaya. \nLight refreshments from Recess Coffee & Roastery will also be served. \nThis event is FREE & OPEN to the public. \nStreet parking is available on Waverly and Comstock Avenue outside of the building. \nThis special event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Lines of Flight at Light Work UVP’s architectural projection site on the Everson Museum facade February 20 through May 24\, 2025. \n  \nThursday\, March 20 | 6:30pm\nLight Work\, Watson Theater\n316 Waverly Ave
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/lines-of-flight-screening-qa-with-miryam-charles-and-joiri-minaya/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings,Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241213T170000
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SUMMARY:2024 Newhouse Photography Annual
DESCRIPTION:Light Work presents the 2024 Newhouse Photography Annual\, featuring work by photography students in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. The exhibition is a collection of seventeen photographs by students enrolled in the Visual Communications Department. Thematically diverse and representing various approaches to photographic practice and technique\, this collaboration showcases the breadth of images that today’s students are producing. Selected works will be on view in the Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery at Light Work from October 21 to December 13\, 2024. \nLight Work congratulates the exhibiting artists: Troy Conner\, Justin Dalaba\, Reed Granger\, Md Zobayer Hossain Joati\, Ania Johnston\, Sadie Jones\, Kelsey Leary\, Arthur Maiorella\, So Nishitani\, Kailyn Peng\, Cassandra Roshu\, Malcolm Taylor\, Shuyang (Sky) Zhuang\, Surya Vaidy\, Diana Valdivia\, Joe Zhao\, and Emily Zheng. \n“The Newhouse Photography Annual is the first exhibition for many of our students and an important learning opportunity for them\, introducing their work to their peers and Light Work’s community.” \n—Michael Snyder\, Assistant Professor of Visual Communications\, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/2024-newhouse-photography-annual/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational,Openings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240726T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240726T210000
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SUMMARY:Embracing the Unpredictable: A Night of Events with Light Work
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of events on July 26th! From 5-7 PM\, we will have opening receptions at Light Work (316 Waverly Avenue) for our Summer Exhibitions\, According to the Laws of Chance and the 2024 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition. At 8:30 PM\, Light Work’s Urban Video Project will have a live video performance from our regional commissioned artist\, Paulina Velázquez Solís\, on the Everson Plaza (401 Harrison Street). \n  \nAccording to the Laws of Chance \nAccording to the Laws of Chance is a subtitle included in many works by the Dadaist painter Jean Arp that describes his systematic yet chance-driven method of creating his simple and playful paintings. Arp would let torn pieces of paper fall to the floor to determine his painting or collage compositions. Although the outcomes are different\, Arp’s ethos can be found in the work of the photographers selected for this group exhibition. \nThe artists in this exhibition—Cheryl Miller\, Claire A. Warden\, Jaclyn Wright\, Josh Thorson\, Kyle Tata\, Louis Chavez\, and Will Stith\, and Light Work’s collection artists\, Cecil McDonald\, Jr.\, James Welling\, Peter Finnemore\, and Rita Hammond—are using and defining chance as a core element of their largely divergent practices. \nChance is a core tenet in photography. Anyone who has ever taken a photograph knows that the translation of light through the camera and onto film or a digital sensor is never one-to-one. Much effort is expended in tamping down the unwanted and unexpected elements of image-making. The image-makers in this exhibition embrace the unpredictable and find ways to amplify chance to suit their own conceptual and creative needs\, from using darkroom materials that reveal process rather than mitigate it\, to employing the camera to pin down quick moments of emotion in daily life\, to exploring images that heighten the tactile aspects of a traditionally flat medium. The diverse work produced by this group of artists demonstrates that chance is being put to use as an essential creative tool in photographic practices today. \nKathleen O. Ellis Gallery\, Light Work\nReception: Friday\, July 26\, 5-7pm \n  \n  \n2024 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition  \nLight Work announces the 49th annual Light Work Grants in Photography! The 2024 award recipients are Malik Abdoulmoumine\, Rosely Htoo\, and Kari Varner.  The Light Work Grants in Photography are part of Light Work’s ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to Central New York artists working in photography within a fifty-mile radius of Syracuse. \nJeffrey J. Hoone Gallery\, Light Work\nReception: Friday\, July 26\, 5-7pm \n  \n  \nUnseen/forgotten: An ode to the humble landscape | Invisible/olvidado: Oda al paisaje humilde \nPaulina Velázquez Solís will be present for a live performance on the Everson Plaza on July 26th at 8:30 PM. \nThis project\, which will include interactive and performance-based elements\, will explore Central New York as a site of “post-industrial natural wonder”\, using regionally extinct species in local herbaria as tools to meditate on  “[t]he tension between what prevails and what has shifted or disappeared” in a field of “memory\, transformation\, and territory”.
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/opening-reception-according-to-the-laws-of-chance/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings,Screenings
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SUMMARY:Sophia Chai: Character Space Reception and Artist Lecture
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAn opening reception will take place in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery at Light Work on April 4th\, from 6-7 PM. There will be a public lecture in Watson Theater from 5-6 PM. \nThis event is part of the Syracuse University Humanities Center’s 20th annual Syracuse Symposium\, focused on a “Landscapes” theme for 2023-2024.
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/sophia-chai-character-space-reception-and-artist-lecture/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings
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SUMMARY:Crystal Z Campbell: Artist Lecture
DESCRIPTION: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. \nMakahiya\, 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 of thigmonasty\, or touch-induced movement\, Campbell’s film is structured like intertwined vines. Digital video filmed on a recent trip to their mother’s ancestral homeland in the Philippines mingles with archival footage\, hand drawn animation\, and manipulated photographs. Campbell’s work explores this seemingly sentient plant’s paradoxical identity\, from  rampant weed to indigenous medicinal plant. Makahiya reflects on photosynthesis\, memory\, and the violent colonial impetus of regimented forgetting. \nMakahiya is an excerpt from Campbell’s longer\, forthcoming film project\, Post Masters. This body of work is drawn from Campbell’s familial history––a Black military father formerly stationed in the Philippines and Filipinx mother hailing from the archipelago\, who both retired from the US Post Office. Campbell explores both explicit and implicit traces of labor\, landscape\, love\, and bodies as intimate agents\, modes\, and witnesses of empire ripe for decolonizing through the unraveling of sound\, image\, and cinematic time. \nAll programs are free and open to the public \nScreening: \nFebruary 22 – May 25\, 2024 \nThursday – Saturday\, dusk – 11pm \nEverson Museum Plaza \n401 Harrison Street\, Syracuse\, NY \nLecture: \nThursday March 21\, 6p.m. – Artist Talk at Hosmer Auditorium at the Everson Museum of Art
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/crystal-z-campbell-artist-lecture/
LOCATION:Everson Museum Auditorium\, 401 Harrison St.\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13202
CATEGORIES:Openings,Screenings
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SUMMARY:2024 BFA Art Photography Annual Reception
DESCRIPTION: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\, at 6:30p.m. The in-person reception is free and open to the public and includes refreshments. \nThe exhibiting artists are Keming Chen\, Madison Chloe\, Zhiyu Feng\, Siya Hu\, Megan Ivy\, Megan Jonas\, Yu-Hsia Liu\, Tyber Longacre\, Chika Winston Ma\, Clara Neville\, Hieu Minh Nguyen\, Avery Wild\, Suhao Yang\, and Joe Zhao. Nelson Chan served as juror\, selecting Siya Hu as Best in Show. \nAssociate Professor Laura Heyman\, coordinator of the Art Photography BFA program\, writes: \nEach spring\, seniors in the art photography program exhibit a selection of images from their senior thesis at Light Work. Senior thesis is a yearlong (or longer) in-depth photographic exploration of a subject chosen by the students. The open-ended nature of the process can be a challenge\, and the work often changes radically between the beginning of September\, when students start their projects\, and December\, when the work is installed for exhibition. Students choose\, edit\, and print the images in collaboration and with the assistance Light Work’s curatorial staff and master printers. The BFA Art Photography Annual is not only the first exhibition for many of our students\, but also an important learning opportunity for them.  In addition to giving students the space to imagine how their thesis work might develop over the next several months\, the Art Photography Annual introduces their thesis work to their peers\, the local community and the renowned curators and critics who jury the exhibition.  
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/2024-bfa-art-photography-annual-reception/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings
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SUMMARY:Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Reception and Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION: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 landscape is fleeting. \n  \nArtist Talk begins at 6:30 pm.
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/arko-datto-shunyo-raja-kings-of-a-bereft-land-reception-and-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Light Work\, 316 Waverly Ave\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Openings
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SUMMARY:50th Anniversary Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION: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 event is free for Everson Museum members\, $20 for non-members\, and includes hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. \nEverson Museum Gallery C and D\nMembers free | Non-members $20 
URL:https://www.lightwork.org/event/50th-anniversary-opening-reception-2/
LOCATION:Everson Museum Auditorium\, 401 Harrison St.\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13202
CATEGORIES:Openings
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