Light Work

Jeffrey Hoone Gallery Dedication
2023-09-14 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
A gallery dedication event for our current Hallway Gallery.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography Opening Reception
2023-09-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
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.
Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants program is one of the longest-running photography fellowships in the country. Each recipient receives a $3,000 stipend and appears in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual. This year’s judges were Ally Caple, Kris Graves, and Kelsey Sucena.
August 25– December 13, 2023
Hoone Gallery
Reception: Thursday, September 14, 5-7pm
Hoone Gallery Dedication: Thursday, September 14, 6pm

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song Opening Reception
2023-09-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
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 its ever-present light and heat—two intangible forces that we feel but we cannot directly see or photograph. Yet light and heat wield direct and enigmatic power over who and what Rivera photographs. While seeking this subject in everyday moments, Rivera moves fluidly between two very different analog cameras: the 6 x 7 medium format and the 4 x 5 field camera. The results of his moving between these two precise instruments to interpret and organize what he sees within the frame, his knowledge, clarity of intention, and sense of space all become obvious. Whether using the handheld camera or the one upon a tripod, he might stage the image. Rivera responds to what he sees in front of him.

August 25–December 15, 2023
Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery
Opening Reception: Thurs, Sep 14, 5-7pm
Artist Talk & Gallery Dedication: Thurs, Sep 14, 6pm

Evan Starling-Davis: FRACTURE Guided Experience
2023-08-31 20:00 - 22:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
In this innovative exhibition, viewers can interact with UVP’s projection on the facade of the Everson using their personal smart devices to explore the virtual world of FRACTURE, imagined by Evan Starling-Davis. FRACTURE is an Afro-Surreal poetic experience featuring 3D renderings of objects from Afro-diasporic culture in local collections and archives, including the SUArt Museum.
FRACTURE will transform the Everson Plaza into a space of communal interactivity—between viewers, the virtual world, and each other. Leaning into the experience of play, FRACTURE allows the audience to immerse themselves imaginatively in the created world, taking time to reflect on the possibility suggested by the title: “Maybe you may find yourself in the fracture.”
CREDITS
Artist: Evan Starling-Davis
Lead Developer: Sonny Cirasuolo
Consulting Developer: Gary Tyler McLeod
3D Model and Game Engine Consultant: Chanee Choi
Artist Talk & Guided Experience on the Plaza
Thursday, August 31 | 8pm
Everson Plaza

Black Artist Collective: Black August at Freedom Fest
2023-08-19 17:00 - 23:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
Black Artist Collective in collaboration with Urban Video Project commemorate BLACK AUGUST at the 3rd Annual Freedom Fest on Saturday, August 19, 2023, on Everson Museum Plaza. The Fest from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. will include a pop-up market of 30+ vendors and food trucks Elbita’s Cocina, Yum Yum Shack and The Crab Ladies!
From 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., there is an outdoor screening on the plaza of BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER. This event is FREE and open to the whole community!

Lessons in Living Otherwise ONLINE Screening + Q&A
2023-05-25 18:30 - 20:00 | ONLINE
Join us for an online screening of “Lessons in Living Otherwise”!
RSVP required

Lessons in Living Otherwise PROGRAM 1: Screening + Q&A
2023-04-19 19:00 - 20:30 | NY
Program 1: Wednesday, April 19 at 7pm in Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Bldg. (SU campus)
Light Work UVP presents two different film programs, both featuring the work of multimedia artists Sofía Gallisá Muriente and TJ Cuthand.
More Info and RSVP

Deborah Willis Keynote Lecture | Remarks on Light Work's 50th Anniversary
2023-04-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
Light Work will host an artist lecture with award-winning historian, author, curator, photographer, and former Light Work residency participant (1990), Deborah Willis, Ph.D., in the Everson Museum’s Hosmer Auditorium on Thursday, April 13, at 6:00 p.m. This Event is free and open to the public.

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Reception and Artist Talk
2023-04-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, 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 landscape is fleeting.

Artist Talk begins at 6:30 pm.

Photobook Night
2023-03-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Come and share photobooks you love and we will do the same. This freeform hang with Director Dan Boardman and Associate Director Whitney Hubbs, (two huge photobook nerds) is for anyone interested in photography and photobooks. They will be sharing gems from their personal collections plus books from former Light Work Artists. Bring books you love and want to share and/or your books-in-progress. Pizza and napkins provided
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

50th Anniversary Opening Reception
2023-02-03 17:30 - 19:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
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.
Everson Museum Gallery C and D
Members free | Non-members $20
