5/22/2023 0 Comments Mass moca hours![]() ![]() The work is largely formal, depending on being emphatic, and maybe therefore powerful. The imagery? I found this intentionally limited. Sculpturally, the rolls of uncut photographic paper are like ribbon candy writ large. We tallied the votes from this year’s Best of the Capital Region contest in 100 categories. Second, there is the elusive content, taken from social media sources and historical imagery, including faces and lots of ambiguous material. ![]() First, there is the imposing presence of repeated imagery on large rolls of photographic paper and in repeating frames in packed grids on the walls. In the next building, the large, semi-sculptural photographs of Carrie Schneider unravel for an installation called “Sphinx,” which turns our heads in two directions. Then, as if in a dream, I saw this joyful EJ Hill mixed-media work showing a roller coaster beneath some text reading: I Found God in a Robert Cartmell. I saw these first, by chance, and instantly thought of a colleague of mine from decades ago at UAlbany, Robert Cartmell, whose art was all about, you guessed it, roller coasters. And in an abutting gallery, Hill presents more traditional paintings and mixed media objects (some with neon) under the overall heading of joy studies. ![]() (Life.) This limited version of a ride that has better kinetic edge and formal elan elsewhere is promoted as a social jab, an aesthetic rejoinder, but that only goes so far.Īt the other end of the exhibition hall there are some smaller, though still rather large, wooden models, or sculptural comments, about roller coasters. My reaction was simple: I would rather have looked at, and listened to, and smelled, “real” roller coasters, big and small, in amusement parks. That is, life is terrific, and if it is the basis of what really matters in art, it also competes rather well with it. As Robert Rauschenberg (who had his own giant show in this very space long ago) said in various ways: art and life commingle. Once you accept this audacity-I can only imagine the insurance company’s reaction-there is the problem of life itself. Admission: Adults $20, Seniors / Veterans $18, Students with ID $12, Kids (6–16) $8, EBT/WIC Cardholder $2.Summer hours beginning May 24: Wednesday-Monday,10am–6pm. ![]()
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