In the Gallery and MFA Gallery at the Visual Studies Workshop is the Opening Reception for The Curious Reality of Images: Rick McKee Hock, Aesthetic Technologies: Works by Philip Mallory Jones in the Hallway, and Keith Johnson's What's a Photograph Supposed to Look Like Anyway? in the Project Space, on display through December 19.

Four Rochester, NY cultural institutions will be exhibiting the work of Rick McKee Hock (1947-2015) in the fall and winter of 2015 and 2016. These exhibits are a tribute to Hock's commitment to art and culture in the area as well as his lasting art. Hock, who passed away earlier this year, made extraordinarily complex images filled with references to the history of art, folklore, philosophy, psychology, and poetry in his uniquely dark yet playful manner of association. VSW will exhibit Hock's early photographs made within the region as well as selections from several major bodies of work, the Codices, Lost Horizons, and recent drawings and paintings including an incomplete bestiary with poems by photography historian and curator Alison Nordström. Rochester Contemporary Art Center will exhibit a series of recent humorous drawings we are calling Artist vs. Artist, depicting Hock's contemporary art historical heroes pummeling other artists with perhaps more fame and dominance in the art marketplace. The rotation in the History of Photography Gallery at George Eastman House will include an early work of Hock's and The University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery will be exhibiting two of his renowned Codices works in their galleries this fall and winter.

[source: Visual Studies Workshop website, 2015-Aug-31]