On a sweltering day at the end of June, the gallerist Stephen Markos stood in front of a rather arcane and eldritch patinated copper totem. A barely discernible African mask peered out from inside the ...

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Austin Allen James is an artist, designer, poet, entrepreneur, educator and father of two, whose lifelong passion for the love of color, words and phrases led him to experiment with paint and become a ...

HALLSTEAD – Robert Griffith’s kitchen table is a reflection of his 30-year art career. The drop-leaf table combines a birch wood top and burnished steel base – two of his favorite materials.

For metal artist Greg Rice, art must have function. He proudly shows pieces he created in his art-filled home in the Upper Monroe neighborhood of Rochester. Sturdy plant holders; a metal bench ...

Blurring the lines between fine art and design, diverse natural materials are used to create works that respond to a contemporary style of curation that seek both exploration and functionality. Sabine ...

Meet Curtis Warnes, owner of Curtis Warnes Functional Art (formerly called Steel Appeal) in Empire, who has found his niche—and passion—in art reminiscent of a Michigan beach or the Northwoods.

Floyd Gompf, furniture-maker, laughs that he ought to slap a bumper sticker on his pickup: “I brake for Dumpsters.” If you saw his marvelous, whimsical, patched-together pieces of lost-and-found parts ...

Shon Walters’ studio, a 10,000-square-foot former arcade game storage facility on Wayne Avenue, is chilly and dimly lit, belying the warmth of the wood at the center of so much of his work. With work ...