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Rochester-based artist Aaron Humby captured the making-the-most-of-it mood of 2020 with his digital illustration, titled "When Life Gives You a Dumpster Fire, Roast Marshmallows."
This month, Rochester Contemporary Art Center launches a group exhibition ominously but aptly titled “Last Year on Earth.”
The title might conjure images of the End Times, but the name actually refers to our collective experience over the past life-altering year, which for many people felt like the march to Judgement Day.
Rochester Contemporary invited artists in the region to submit work made after February 2020 that reflected on the bad and the good: traumas of the pandemic, political strife, racial injustice, as well as the human capacity for empathy, innovation, and hopefulness.