COMP Studios Summer 2026

Opening Reception: First Friday, June 5

Hours

Open Studios: Saturday June 6, 12-5pm & Saturday June 13, 12-5pm
*contact artists directly to arrange studio visits at other times

Current Artists

Jillian Hagadorn (she/her)
During the residency, the artist will begin a new series of paintings inspired by the iconography and social rituals of playing cards. Drawing on personal memories of gathering around the table, the work will explore ideas of chance, community, and what it means to play the hand you’re dealt.

Aidan Sofia Earle (she/her)
During the residency, the artist will continue a long-term, location-based series using discarded objects collected from specific Rochester neighborhoods to construct quilt-like works that reflect each area’s landscape and character. The project transforms community cast-offs into layered portraits of place, exploring material, memory, and what a city leaves behind.

About the Artists

Jillian Hagadorn (b. Syracuse NY, 1997) is a multidisciplinary visual artist focusing on drawing and painting based in the Syracuse, New York area. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in Dance from Alfred University (NYSCC) in 2019. In 2018, she was nominated for the Yale Norfolk Summer School of the Arts. Moved by the power of the figure, she has honed the distinct ability to capture the soul behind a subject’s unique likeness. Hagadorn has performed and been featured in exhibitions across the United States and internationally; these solo and group collaborations include This Is How I Remember It (NY, 2017), Residual Habitat (solo show NY, 2019), Everything is Different Now (TN, 2020), House Warming (ME, 2023), and place&feeling (NYC, 2024). She has also been a resident and scholarship recipient of the Stay Home Gallery (TN, 2021). Upon returning to the CNY area, in 2020 she became the Head Teacher and Assistant Program Director for a local art center, remaining with the organization until 2022. She now shares her work with a wide variety of audiences as a freelance artist and through gallery spaces.@jillianhagadorn

Aidan Sofia Earle grew up in the Monadnock region of southern New Hampshire. She received her BA in painting from Bates College and MFA in sculpture from Brooklyn College, CUNY. She has worked professionally as a fashion textile dyer and painter, a puppet and prop designer/builder, a preparator - managing museum art collections.These experiences have informed the approach to her own art practice. She works with a wide range of materials and techniques. Interested in themes of reuse, repurposing of discarded materials, human accumulation, and handwork-the work is often dense, handsewn and colorful. She has exhibited nationally with Sharon Arts Center-NH, Perimeter Gallery-ME, David Zwirner Gallery-NY, 440 Gallery-NY, Gallery Ho-NY, among others. Residency fellowships include Vermont Studio Center- Johnson, VT, Contemporary Artists Center-Troy, NY, chaNorth-Pine Plains, NY. @aidansofiaearle

About COMP Studios

COMP Studios provides artists with inexpensive and free, temporary space to advance their practice and engage the public. This initiative expands RoCo's work to support artists, advances the ecosystem for contemporary art in Downtown Rochester; and builds upon grassroots efforts like First Friday, Rochester’s Citywide Gallery Night, and 2019's Current Seen. In addition to providing work space, this initiative will boost an artist's access to audiences and expose the public to an artist’s latest artwork. COMP Studios is Creative Opportunities Made Public. In 2024 COMP was located offsite at a nearby office building and supported by Chashama and The New York State Council for the Arts. In 2025 we moved this program back to the 2nd Floor of RoCo's main facility at 137 East Avenue.