August 21 - October 10
Opening Reception: First Friday, October 2
Artist's Talk with both artists: October 10 at 1pm
Hours
Open Studios: Saturday October 3, 12-5pm & Saturday October 10, 12-5pm
*contact artists directly to arrange studio visits at other times
Current Artists
Eujin V Ra (she/her)
During the residency, the artist will develop and complete Pool of Life, an ongoing series of paintings and sculpture exploring memory, transformation, and the spiritual qualities embedded in daily life. Using imagery of water, animals, and dreamlike landscapes, the project melds abstraction and physical space to examine how identity and experience are shaped by the everyday.
Hana Acabado (she/her)
The artist will create Shelf Life, an immersive installation that transforms the gallery into a grocery-store-inspired environment filled with sculptural objects made from waxes and cosmetic materials. Reimagining Filipino and American food products through the language of beauty and consumer culture, the project explores hybridity and identity through both miniature and life-sized forms.
About the Artists
Eujin V. Ra is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York, working across painting, sculpture, animation, and drawing. She received her BFA in Electronic and Time-Based Media with a minor in Behavioral Economics from Carnegie Mellon University. Ra’s practice constructs layered visual environments that connect memory, landscape, and abstraction. As a second-generation Korean American woman raised in Queens, New York, she explores how cultural inheritance and family dynamics shape the body and psyche, informed by spirituality and connection to the natural world. Her work has been exhibited at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, RIVAA Gallery, and the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, among other venues in New York and Pittsburgh. She is a 2025 ARTWorks Fellow at JCAL and the recipient of Carnegie Mellon University’s Senior Leadership Award and the Samuel Rosenberg Award. In addition to her studio practice, Ra has worked in museum and gallery settings including The Frick Collection, supporting exhibition production and public engagement. She is interested in creating art that fosters conversation and in building spaces where dialogue, reflection, and shared experience can unfold.@eujinvart
Hana Acabado is a Filipino artist, author, illustrator, musician, and designer all rolled up into one human. Her multidisciplinary practice blurs the boundaries between beauty, sculpture, and everyday life. Working primarily with cosmetic waxes and makeup ingredients such as beeswax and pigments, Acabado creates sculptural objects that reimagine food, packaging, and consumer goods through the language of beauty and self-care. Through her brand Filipinta Beauty, Acabado developed a body of work rooted in nostalgia, humor, and cultural identity. Her sculptural miniature lip balms, soaps, candles, and wax melts exist simultaneously as cosmetic objects, nostalgic artifacts, and conceptual art pieces. Drawing from Filipino and American cultural references, Acabado’s work explores themes of diaspora, consumption and pop culture. Her installations invite viewers into immersive environments that convey a playful yet surreal view on immigrant life. @filipintabeauty
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.
How to Apply
Artists: Do you need temporary studio space to complete a project and engage the public? Apply here
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
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Supported by:
New York State Council on the Arts
Farash Foundation
County of Monroe
Gouvernet Arts Fund
Richard Schwartz
Anne Havens
Mary S Mulligan Charitable Trust
and over 1,000 Members!
