Allen Topolski

Allen Topolski

Professor of Art

Chair, Department of Art and Art History

MFA (in Sculpture), Pennsylvania State University, 1990

Office Location
506A Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7451
Web Address
Website

Office Hours: Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.-noon and by appointment

Research Overview

Research Interests

  • Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience.

Courses Offered (subject to change)

  •  Senior Studio and Seminar
  •  Markings, Methods, and Materials
  •  Material Matters
  •  Introductory and Advanced Levels of Sculpture

Selected Exhibitions

  • Things Transfigured, solo, Tower Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Brockport, NY
  • Sculptors Drawing, group invitational, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, East 2nd Street, NY, NY
  • Vessel: Revisioning the Receptacle, group invitational, Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
  • Residuals, large-scale collaborative outdoor installation, Play/Ground, Artpark, Lewiston, NY
  • Domestic Odyssey, group invitational, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
  • Rainforest IV, collaborative installation, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
  • Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
  • Compartmented, large-scale installation, Lyric Opera Company, Rochester, NY
  • How Good Are Your Dwelling Places, Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, Ontario
  • Uncanny Congruencies, Palmer Museum of Art, State College, PA
  • Once Familiar Twice Removed, solo, Buffalo Art Studio, Buffalo, NY