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