The Sun Echoed Like A Song is an exhibition of photographs made in Eduardo L Rivera’s childhood hometown near the Arizona/Mexico border. Taking inspiration from light and heat, he has been exploring the personal histories of family, community, and environment throughout the last decade. Rivera takes his visual cues from this project’s central character, Phoenix, and […]
Light Work announces the 49th annual Light Work Grants in Photography! The 2023 award recipients are Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, and Linda Moses. 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. […]
A gallery dedication event for our current Hallway Gallery.
Urban Video Project (UVP) will present media arts collective The Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO) for an multimedia artist talk followed by panel discussion with writer and scholar Jack Halberstam using Halberstam’s concepts “unworlding” and “bewilderment” as a way to reimagine inhabiting the landscape beyond colonial and extractive practices. This event will take place in […]
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, […]
Join us on Thursday, January 25th for Light Work's Open House, and to celebrate Syracuse University's BFA work in photography. Food and refreshments will be served! Sophia Chai's exhibition, "Character Space", will also be on view in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery. RSVP here
When: 2/13, 6-8pm Where: Light Work, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center. Cost: Free Open to members and non-members! Link to register: https://forms.gle/sqUk3VcjEE7CPuvz5 Come hang with us in the lab! Bring your photos or other lens-based projects and check out what others are working on. Show us your […]
Tuesdays: 3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26 from 6-8 PM Where: Light Work, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center. Cost: $150 Open to members and non-members! Link to register: https://commerce.cashnet.com/lightworklab?ItemCode=41200-079 Get to know Photoshop in this four-week course led by Koz and Becky. Running each Tuesday from 6-8pm, this class […]
Join Light Work’s Urban Video Project for a series of Community Night pop-up exhibitions and events on the plaza this ! Are you interested in hosting a UVP community night event? Submit a proposal today! These events are FREE & OPEN to the public. TeenReel: Teens With A Movie Camera Friday | March 8 Rain or shine! Light […]
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 […]
How To Watch A Solar Eclipse with Jason Lazarus When: Monday, March 25th, 4 PM Where: Online (Zoom) Zoom Link Meeting ID: 853 8936 6642 Passcode: 733310 Cost: FREE Open to members and non-members! In anticipation of the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse–the last total solar eclipse in the lower 48 states until 2044, HOW TO […]
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. […]