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Organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis/New York/Paris/Lausanne, in collaboration 

with the MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA, and the WestLicht Museum for Photography, Vienna. Exhibition will travel to the Museum für Künst und Gewerbe, Hamburg and the McCord Museum.

 Visit the exhibition website for more information.

Accompanying book The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology (William A. Ewing and Barbara Hitchcock, Editors) is available for sale.

Evocations by Carl Chiarenza

Photographing Abstract Collages

Except from book review published on Berkshire Fine Arts:

"Even though Evocations was published some fourteen years ago it is fresh, stunning, and remarkable. The inscription of to a gonzo from a gonzo (paraphrased) was deeply moving.

"It has encouraged me to think in what sense we share the sobriquet of gonzology.

"On many levels I have regarded [Chiarenza] as a rock-steady, grounding influence on my own peripatetic, far flung, disorienting odyssey of a life in the arts. There has always been something  reassuring about his paternalistic scolding, when called for, and mentoring encouragement to follow my own muse."

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Hunter/Gatherer

Rochester Connections: Works from the Gerald Mead Collection 

4 November 2016 – 20 November 2016

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Rochester Institute of Technology

100 College Avenue

(Downtown near Village Gate)

Rochester, New York 14607

This survey exhibition consists of over 40 artworks in all media by Western New York artists selected from the substantial art collection of Gerald Mead, and focuses on artists with current and historical ties to the Rochester community, whether current residents or with connections to RIT, Visual Studies Workshop, the George Eastman Museum, Nazareth College and more. The selection of work is a testament to Mead’s extensive passion for the art communities of Western New York, and to Rochester’s place within it.