VCP’s PRINT GALLERY

March 2026 Featured Artist:

A Conspicuous Place by Luke Strosnider

Exhibition Dates: March 6 – 29, 2026 
Artist Reception: Friday, March 6, 2026, 5-8pm

Artist Statement

At times I feel as though the world speaks not in words, but in spaces, objects, and scenes. The images of A Conspicuous Place were my attempt to hear the city of Rochester, New York. In 2006 and again in 2007, I spent significant time walking the city that — as home to the Kodak, Xerox, Bausch & Lomb corporations — once served as a cradle of photography, optics, and image-making.

As I explored Rochester, intuition was my only true guide. My faith resided in the idea that the act of walking would lead me to what the city wanted me to see. I was guided by filmmaker Werner Herzog’s dictum: “The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.”

The results are akin to a translation: a city speaks its image-language, and — in response — a photographer sees, selects, and sequences the images, seeking to build an impressionistic description, more lyrical than journalistic.

The truest expression of the images of A Conspicuous Place is as a book, a linear format in which you move from beginning to end. These prints are intended to be seen as page spreads and are presented in the same sequence as found in the book. Read them as you would, say, a paragraph of text (beginning in the upper left-hand corner). Or you may wish to wander among the images intuitively, in whatever order or direction you sense is right, mirroring how the photos were made.

About The Artist: 

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