Light Work Podcast

8:36

Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely: museum

Light Work Podcast ·

2026/09/25

Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely: museumAugust 24 – December 11, 2026Kathleen O. Ellis GalleryOpening Reception: Thursday, September 24, 5-7 PMLight Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists’ time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the

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18:48

2026 Light Work Grants in Photography: Maureen...

Light Work Podcast ·

2026/07/15

2026 Light Work Grants in Photography: Maureen Beitler, Hernease Davis, Ian Sherlock Molloy, Amrita Stützle, and Patty TomanovichJune 15 – August 7, 2026Kathleen O. Ellis GalleryReception: Friday, August 7, 5-7pmFor its fifty-first year, Light Work has expanded the region to include all of New York state, with the exception of New York City. The five grant recipients: Maureen Beitler(Columbia), Hernease Davis(Monroe), Ian Sherlock Molloy(Onondaga), Amrita Stützle(Onondaga), and Patty

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6:38

Brian Van Lau: We're Just Here for the Bad Guys

Light Work Podcast ·

2026/04/10

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 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

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7:19

Karolina Wojtas: Made in Poland

Light Work Podcast ·

2026/02/12

In her first US solo exhibition, Karolina Wojtas is sending us a conceptual care package, as an installation titled Made in Poland. Presented here are images of her family, friends, sometimes herself, kitsch objects, and folkish cultural treasures. These images are printed onto inkjet paper and textiles; soft sculptures, a video, and a text piece in the form of a letter together make up Wojtas’s own little fun fair in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery.There is a cultural legend in Poland about a “rich

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9:52

Sasha Phyars-Burgess: Everything Nice

Light Work Podcast ·

2025/09/10

Sasha Phyars-Burgess: Everything NiceSeptember 8–December 5, 2025Kathleen O. Ellis GalleryReception: Thurs, Sep 18, 5-7pmSasha Phyars-Burgess’s photographic projectEverything Nicetraces 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 photographs are taken in various locations: Madeira, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and

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12:13

Aaron Turner: The Archive as Liberation

Light Work Podcast ·

2025/05/30

Aaron Turner: The Archive as LiberationMay 12–August 29, 2025Kathleen O. Ellis GalleryReception: Friday, July 25th, 5-7pmThe Archive as Liberationisa publicationand exhibitionorganized by Aaron Turner (Light Workartist–in-residence, 2018, and Light Workexhibitingartist, 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

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6:04

Nabil Harb: Mater si, magistra no

Light Work Podcast ·

2025/01/21

Nabil Harb’s projectMater si, magistra no(a macaronic phrase that translates as “Mother yes, teacher no”) presents photographs that describe and depict moments and scenes within his hometown of Lakeland in Polk County, Florida. This Central Florida location is both the backdrop and main character of Harb’s visual narrative: a story that emits surreal qualities which twist ideas of the region through photography’s formal language into a conceptual idea—an idea of how to describe the atmosphere of a

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8:05

Nicholas Muellner: Asea

Light Work Podcast ·

2024/09/13

In this exhibition, Nicholas Muellner offers up photographs depicting people pantomiming in a verdant landscape made complex with surreal lighting; these images are paired with an issue of Contact Sheet that serves as a guidebook to the exhibition. The text in Contact Sheet is wryly poetic and succinct, and loosely leads us from picture to picture. Asea takes us somewhere without making its destination specific, setting a tone and mood that guides our desire for meaning but refuses to precisely

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17:02

According to the Laws of Chance

Light Work Podcast ·

2024/06/29

According to the Laws of Chance: Group ExhibitionMay 31–August 16, 2024Kathleen O. Ellis GalleryReception: Friday, July 26, 5-7pmAccording 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

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7:05

Sophia Chia: Character Space

Light Work Podcast ·

2024/01/08

In 1987, Sophia Chai immigrated to New York City from South Korea as a teenager without knowing English. Looking back, she has described that experience as feeling untethered to any internal compass that she could use to navigate her place in a new country with a new language. She visually explains these experiences to us by reinterpreting the Korean language’s characters in photographs that enable us to see the contradictions of visual and verbal communication.Chai uses optics (focal length,

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5:02

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song

Light Work Podcast ·

2023/08/28

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.eduardolrivera.com—Special thanks to Daylight Blue Media daylightblue.comLight Work lightwork.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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6:26

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)

Light Work Podcast ·

2023/03/23

In Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land), 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.arkodatto.com—Special thanks to Daylight Blue Mediadaylightblue.comLight

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8:18

Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing

Light Work Podcast ·

2023/01/29

Jenny Calivas' images breathe in photography’s liminal space between intuition and what words can only sometimes convey. Here is a photographer whose practice is consistently curious and rigorous. Her images can unexpectedly taunt us, at once generous and withholding, still and active. In so doing, Calivas wrestles and succeeds with a multitude of ideas—from the spiritual to the feminist to the ecological—and elicits moods that range from the humorous to the

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7:15

Guanyu Xu: Suspended Status

Light Work Podcast ·

2022/11/01

Guanyu Xu’s Suspended Status depicts an artist caught in a web of red tape. The work on view for this exhibition comprises images from his ongoing series, Resident Aliens, as well as a large grid of images that he calls Suspension. Both bodies of work use visa status in the United States as a means of framing images that depict people who are suspended between countries and cultures. Their futures hang on faceless state agencies in a churning political current. Xu's major influences are the

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6:10

Samantha Box: Caribbean Dreams

Light Work Podcast ·

2022/09/12

Samantha Box’s new body of work, Caribbean Dreams, is a series of complex studio still lifes of personal, familial, and regionally-referenced objects, heirlooms, fruits, vegetables, and plants, onto which she collages family and vernacular images, fruit stickers, packaging, and receipts. A departure from earlier methods and subject matter, the constructed, experimental, and unpredictable compositions of Caribbean Dreams embody Box’s exploration of multiple diasporic Caribbean histories and

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8:02

Melissa Catanese: The Lottery

Light Work Podcast ·

2022/03/22

Light Work presents "The Lottery" a solo exhibition of new works by Pittsburgh-based photographer Melissa Catanese. In "The Lottery," Catanese turns her attention to the tense and confusing state of contemporary politics and culture. Her images bring together large groups of people, barren caverns, natural forces, physical exertion, and eruptions both crude and colorful. The accumulated manic puzzle shifts the viewer from crowded street to darkened cavern. Along the way, we see a geyser of oil,

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7:21

Pixy Liao: Futari (Two Persons)

Light Work Podcast ·

2022/01/11

Futari (Two Persons) is an exhibition of photographs depicting the ongoing relationship between the artist Pixy Liao and her Japanese partner and muse Moro. Liao met Moro at the University of Memphis in 2005 while attending graduate school, where she invited Moro, who is five years younger, to model for her. In some ways, this served to reverse expectations that women seek older and wiser men. From the beginning of their collaboration, Liao took the role of the director, arranging and posing Moro,

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5:44

James Henkel: Object Lessons

Light Work Podcast ·

2021/11/08

In his new exhibition, Object Lessons, artist James Henkel looks back over thirty years of image-making, following a conceptual and formal thread that ties his work together and seems to stubbornly insist on resurfacing.Whatever is discarded, broken, and damaged draws Henkel to it. The objects he collects, assembles, or deconstructs are humble, common, and often no more than the scale of the human hand. Both the patina of wear and the handling that was often the source of the object’s destruction

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9:15

Clifford Prince King: We Used to Lay Together

Light Work Podcast ·

2021/08/19

Clifford Prince King is a self-taught queer Black photographer from Arizona. The images in this exhibition focus on King’s life in Los Angeles. In his work, King’s lifestyle and experiences are starting points to explore desire, intimacy, and day-to-day life with HIV. King’s images chronicle himself and others located in lamp-lit domestic settings. We see a brotherhood of men enacting moments of domestic bliss, nude bodies in the moments before or after a sexual encounter, and the side effects and

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14:34

Meryl Meisler: The Best of Times, Worst of Times

Light Work Podcast ·

2021/03/25

Meryl Meisler: The Best of Times, Worst of TimesMarch 22 - July 23, 2021Kathleen O. Ellis GalleryIn Light Work’s early days, during the 1970s and 80s, many artists arrived for their month-long residency with no specific plans for using their time. With only a camera and a vague idea of exploring, they walked the streets of Syracuse, open to the synchronicity of what might happen. Incredible photographs ensued and the artists often called them gifts. Grateful to land in the right place at the right

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