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. Enjoy some food & stay for the premiere of Video Ocean at 7 PM, a documentary by our 2025 UVP Regional Commissioned […]
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. Looking back at history and […]
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 […]
Light Work UVP is partnering with Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) and La Casita Cultural Center to present a FREE workshop with our fall artists exploring the possibilities of emerging technologies! Media artists LaJuné McMillian and Manuel Molina Martagon will guide participants through exercises in self-expression through movement and the use of simple motion capture and avatar creation software, exploring the ways we can creatively “mis-use” these technologies as […]
Light Work UVP is partnering with Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) and La Casita Cultural Center to present a FREE workshop with our fall artists exploring the possibilities of emerging technologies! Media artists LaJuné McMillian and Manuel Molina Martagon will guide participants through exercises in self-expression through movement and the use of simple motion capture and avatar creation software, exploring the ways we can creatively “mis-use” these technologies as […]
January 22 – March 6, 2026 | Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery, Light Work Opening Reception: January 22, 5-7 PM Made 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 […]
January 22–March 6, 2026 Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery Reception: Thurs, January 22, 5-7pm With 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. […]
Join Light Work UVP for a free film screening and panel talk! The program features a special cut of Alisha B Wormsley's latest film, The Temple of Our Survival, exploring Black womxn's stories of and strategies for survival. A panel talk with the artist and local doulas Asteir Bey and SeQuoia Kemp, who appear in […]
March 20–May 22, 2026 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Reception: Thurs, March 26, 5-7pm We’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 […]
March 20–May 22, 2026 Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery Reception: Thurs, March 26, 5-7pm Arcanite 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 […]
POSTPONED: NEW DATE TBA Join Light Work and Penumbra Foundation to celebrate the release of We’re Just Here for the Bad Guys, the debut monograph by 2025 Workspace resident Brian Van Lau, published by Light Work. The evening will feature a conversation between the artist and Light Work’s Director, Dan Boardman, followed by a book […]
Friday, August 7 | 5-8 p.m.
Light Work
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