Daniel Paul Witkowski’s SMUG DREAM is a series of photographs of Rochester, NY’s downtown, post-Kodak, after its filing for bankruptcy in 2012. People, places and events are portrayed to protest Rochester author, Henry Clune, who wrote in 1947, "there is a feeling that if the great plant of the Eastman Kodak Company were removed from the city's environs a sign might be erected at the station platform ' THIS WAS ROCHESTER'." The title references Rochester's former nickname and the title of a 1957 book, Smugtown U.S.A. that satirized Rochester 200 millionaires and the perks of being a "Kodak Man." SMUG DREAM uses Rochester's former Inner Loop (a stretch of highway that separated downtown from its surrounding neighborhoods both physically and economically) as a perimeter to show a now more democratic and diverse city.

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Join the artist for an opening reception at Art Center of Rochester on Friday, September 24 from 6-9 pm. The event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.

The show will hang until October 18. Send inquiries about gallery hours to email@artcenterrochester.com