Community School of Music and Art (CSMA)
Located at 330 East State Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
For more information please go to csma-ithaca.org
Main Gallery
Jesse Wright & IHS Student Artists: "Painting With Hurricanes"
Main Gallery - Artist, educator Jesse Wright’s layered visual language references his blended Jamaican American heritage and speaks of a diverse reverence to a longing for home physically and spiritually. These paintings, made with the assistance of Ithaca High School students artists, are inspired by ongoing relief efforts in Jamaica in response to category 5 hurricane Melissa. Hope and resilience are given attention in the complexity of ancestral narratives and present-day experiences. Wright’s committed to empowering and uplifting community through creative engagement projects and global humanitarian initiatives. More info: www.starlightjamaica.org Artist info: @sunday.rebel on Instagram or www.sundayrebel.com
Community School of Music and Art (CSMA)
Located at 330 East State Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
For more information please go to csma-ithaca.org
Downstairs Lower Gallery
Rob Whitcomb: Donde Permanece la Luz (Where the Light Remains)
Influenced by Paul Strand’s Mexican Portfolio, from the 1930’s, my photographs were shot in the Yucatan region of Mexico. My goal was to explore the quiet presence of ordinary architecture and the histories embedded in the walls, and urban surfaces. Weathered plaster, exposed stone, faded signage, and improvised repairs reveal layers of occupation, memory, and change. Working in high-contrast monochrome, I reduced the familiar structures to elemental relationships of light, oppressive heat, and texture, allowing the images to move between documentation and abstraction. Rather than romanticizing decay, the work examines endurance, erosion, and adaptation, revealing how built environments continue to bear witness to the human condition.
