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| The crowd on opening night - is that Wendell Castle? |
I’d never been to an opening night of an exhibit at the
Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo), so didn’t know what to expect. It
coincided with “First Friday” and good weather, so there were quite a few
people at the gallery admiring the pieces by five New York-based emerging
artists, and taking the opportunity to ascend to a visit the open studios
upstairs.
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| One of Derek Lerner's pen and ink drawings |
The exhibit is an eclectic mix of paintings, drawings,
and sculpture. Derek Lerner’s ballpoint pen drawings were fascinating, and you
could only imagine the amount of time, effort, and patience that went into
creating these abstract works. For example, a drawing that looked like a small lightning
flash of white on a solid blue background from afar was, on closer inspection,
various shades of blue pen ink with just a sliver of white background
remaining.
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| Norm Paris' The Fumble |
I’ll admit that I didn’t ‘get’ most of what I was
looking at, but luckily, Blue Cease, Executive Director and Curator, was on
hand to share his excitement and knowledge about the artists and the particular
pieces in the gallery. Of course I could have just read the posted
descriptions, but what fun is that? The two largest sculptures, by Norm Paris,
played with the concept of negative space. The sculptures are meant to
represent shipping crates for non-existent sculptures of bygone athle
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| Liz Jaff's intricate folded-paper Plomb |
Speaking of interactive, RoCo will be the venue for
Poolastic, on Friday September 18, from 2-10pm, as part of Rochester’s Fringe
Festival. I’m not sure I’ll want to jump into the bin of 10,000 plastic bottles
myself, but it’ll be fun watching others do it, and perhaps it will provide a
jolt to people about how bad these bottles are for our environment.
Brooklyn Bridge runs through November 15. Admission is only $2.
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