03/01/2024
I’m super honored and proud to finally announce the show that myself and my good buddy Richard Colon have up at St John Fisher, in the O’keefe Ross Gallery.
It’s not a surprise that he and I are huge fans of Rochester, so we were a quite excited when we were given an entire gallery space to create and share the various parts of the city we love.
Along with the Golden Frames of Roc component of this show, I’m extremely excited to share the work I did showcasing one of the natural wonders of this city; that being the massive murder of crows that all come together in the cold months to roost here in the city at night. Larger than life art pieces of crows are on display in the gallery, as well as going up on campus and around the city. These pieces were such a blast to create, and super happy how they turned out.
One of the aspects of the show I’m really proud of is the collaboration with my talented friend Tom Snyder from the Seneca Park zoo, where he was able to capture a surround sound experience of what it sounds like to have 15,000 crows fly over at twillight and the caw-cophony of sounds they make while roosting. In this show there is an audio box i built that you can choose to hear an hour of ambient rochester twillight with crows coming to roost, or 10 minutes of peak “Cawsterpiece Theater”. The amazing varied sounds of a massive murder of crows sitting downtown and talking amongst themselves.
The gallery is now open if you want to check it out for yourself, and a large awesome gallery event will be happening later this year as I bring all the Golden Frames back together to showcase the artistic creativity of the city.
Rochester artists Magnus Champlin and Richard Colón will host the mixed media art exhibit, “Urban Alchemy,” at the Patricia O'Keefe Ross Gallery, located in the Joseph S. Skalny Welcome Center at St. John Fisher University. The exhibit opens on Monday, Feb. 26.
