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Syracuse University 316 Waverly Ave. Syracuse, NY 13244 Phone: 315-443-1300 info@lightwork.org Website: www.lightwork.org
Hours: Sunday-Friday, 10am-6pm
Light Work Gallery Coming Events
museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Thursday, September 24, 2026, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Thursday, September 24, 2026, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Friday, September 25, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Friday, September 25, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Saturday, September 26, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Saturday, September 26, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Sunday, September 27, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Sunday, September 27, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Monday, September 28, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Monday, September 28, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Thursday, October 1, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Thursday, October 1, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Friday, October 2, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Friday, October 2, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Saturday, October 3, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Saturday, October 3, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Sunday, October 4, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Sunday, October 4, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Monday, October 5, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Monday, October 5, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Thursday, October 8, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Thursday, October 8, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Friday, October 9, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Friday, October 9, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Saturday, October 10, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Saturday, October 10, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Sunday, October 11, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Sunday, October 11, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Monday, October 12, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Monday, October 12, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Thursday, October 15, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Thursday, October 15, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Friday, October 16, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Friday, October 16, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Saturday, October 17, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Saturday, October 17, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Sunday, October 18, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Sunday, October 18, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Monday, October 19, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Monday, October 19, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Thursday, October 22, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Thursday, October 22, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Friday, October 23, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Friday, October 23, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Saturday, October 24, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Saturday, October 24, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Sunday, October 25, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Sunday, October 25, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Monday, October 26, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Monday, October 26, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Thursday, October 29, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Thursday, October 29, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Friday, October 30, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Friday, October 30, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Saturday, October 31, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Saturday, October 31, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Sunday, November 1, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Sunday, November 1, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Monday, November 2, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Monday, November 2, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Thursday, November 5, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Thursday, November 5, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Friday, November 6, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Friday, November 6, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Saturday, November 7, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Saturday, November 7, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Sunday, November 8, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Sunday, November 8, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Monday, November 9, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Monday, November 9, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Thursday, November 12, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Thursday, November 12, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Friday, November 13, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Friday, November 13, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Saturday, November 14, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Saturday, November 14, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Sunday, November 15, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Sunday, November 15, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Monday, November 16, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Monday, November 16, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Thursday, November 19, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Thursday, November 19, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Friday, November 20, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Friday, November 20, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Saturday, November 21, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Saturday, November 21, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Sunday, November 22, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Sunday, November 22, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Monday, November 23, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Monday, November 23, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Tuesday, November 24, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Saturday, November 28, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Saturday, November 28, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Sunday, November 29, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Sunday, November 29, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Monday, November 30, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Monday, November 30, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Thursday, December 3, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Thursday, December 3, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Friday, December 4, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Friday, December 4, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Saturday, December 5, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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Saturday, December 5, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Sunday, December 6, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Sunday, December 6, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Monday, December 7, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Monday, December 7, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Thursday, December 10, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Thursday, December 10, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
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Friday, December 11, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely. The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.
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The Thing Itself
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Friday, December 11, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Light Work Gallery 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse
Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.
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