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19th Annual Members Exhibition and Celebration

December 5 – January 17, 2010
Over 250 Artists, 26 artworks were purchased!                                                         View Complete Artist List
Members Preview Reception: Dec. 4, 5-6pm                                            Review: City Newspaper [Link] [PDF]
      20% off any artwork purchase                                                                                                          [PHOTOS]
First Friday Public Preview: Dec. 4, 6-10pm
Opening Reception: Dec. 5, 6-10pm

Performance Art Night at MuCCC: Dec. 9, 7:30-10pm
John Graham: Three Night Stand for RoCo
     Special Benefit Concert: Dec. 10, 11 & 12 @ 8pm
     Non-members: $25 / Members: $15 / Students: $10
     Call to purchase tickets. Only 50 available per night.
Artwork Pick-up: Jan. 17, 5-7pm, Jan. 18-19, 1-6pm
  Join or renew your membership here


 

Each year Rochester Contemporary Art Center welcomes all current members to show their artwork. Over 190 artists participated in last year's Members Exhibition!

Any current member may enter one artwork. All media are accepted for this exhibition including 2D, 3D, traditional and non-traditional media. Please call before November 1 to make arrangements for performance art (performance art night at MuCCC) and electronic media. Each artist is limited to one piece maximum 40"x40". Artists may join or renew their membership at the time of drop-off.

Performance Art Night
The Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) and Multi-use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) will organize a special performance art night on Wednesday, December 9th 7-10pm as part of the annual RoCo Members Exhibition. Members of RoCo are encouraged to present their best performance art, noise music, avant garde music, avant garde theater, or video documentation of performance art projects that have occurred elsewhere. see performance list below.

Performance Art Awards:
The Performance Art Award/Borek Award: A $500 first prize underwritten by performance artist John Borek. Winners: Bloody Noes and Michelle Harris

The RoCo Performance Art Award: Given to documentation of a performance piece. Winner: The Black Box

The MuCCC Performance Art Audience Awards: 3 artists will be given a free shared evening at the MuCCC to perform again. Winners: Bloody Noes, ORAA, and Tumul


The 19th Annual Members Exhibition and Celebration will be open to the public December 5 – January 17. Opening Reception will be held December 5, 6-10pm. Rochester Contemporary Art Center will be closed from December 21- January 5 during normal gallery hours. Artwork pick-up dates are January 17, 5-7pm, January 18-19, 1-6pm.

View Complete Artist List

Exhibition propectus / submisson form

John Graham: Three Night Stand for RoCo
  Special Benefit Concert: Dec. 10, 11 & 12 @ 8pm
  Non-members: $25 / Members: $15 / Students: $10
  Call to purchase tickets. 50 available per night.
  (585 461 2222)

John Graham: Three Night Stand for RoCo
Described by the NY Times as “a star in his firmament” John Graham has been recognized in the U.S., Europe and Asia as one of the leading violists performing today. He is a Visiting Artist at the Aspen Music Festival and School and Professor Emeritus of the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. His program will explore music for solo viola and the viola paired with electronic sounds, percussion and guitar. He will be joined by Baljinder Sekhon for the first performances of his new work for viola and percussion and guitarist Petar Kodzas. www.grahamviola.com

Concert Program

Join us December 10th, 11th, 12th at 8 pm.
   

Underwritten by:

      
  Comella Orthodontics
City Councilwoman Elaine
Spaull and Malcolm Spaull
  

 

Sponsored by:

John Borek & Jacqueline Levine
Canandaigua National Bank & Trust
Rome Celli
Gallina Development Corporation
Howe & Rusling
Connie Mauro
Restaurant 2 Vine
Rochester Picture Framing Inc.
Mary Lisa Sisson
Gordon & Edith Lunt Small
Dean Spong
Performance Artist List:
To Univert: The Bloody Noes are MC Drywall (Ian Downey) and DJ Cardboard (Mary Lewandowski), a hulk and sylph hailing from the Burned Over District, two figures remembering sequences of a "crypto-mythological newscast" [S. Oliver]. They have recently returned to Rochester from New Orleans and Wilmington Fringe Festivals, where they staged their full-length theater piece "Bloody Noes' American Dream". The Noes are pleased to welcome you to Episode #24: To Univert. Winner of the MuCCC Performance Art Award and the Performance Art Award/Borek Award


Bubbles: The Professor of Rap (John Borek and Brandon McNeil) explore if a sixty year old white male with an Ivy League degree can use rap, trance and disco to explore the recesses of an overfed mind. (Out of competition).

The Black Box: Janet Lipp . A video of a multimedia, interactive, performance installation with performances that have taken place over a span of 5 years with a variety of artists in a variety of venues that interpret human actions while questioning the validity of linear time. Winner of the RoCo Performance Art Award

ORAA: Chris Reeg, bass and synths; R. Scott Oliver, guitar and effects and Ian Downey, cello and guitar. Improvisational music with ambient and post-rock leanings. Winner of the MuCCC Performance Art Audience Award

Reminiscences of a Young Priestess: Krysia Mnick

Tumul: Tumul is a psycho-electronica-caca-techno-phonia that generates strange live lyrical qualities of screaming polyrhythmic dimensions while unfolding electro-convulsive primitive ritualisms". The fact that it makes no sense is very reflective to the state of sensory confusion ppl often experience when being exposed to our live performance. Winner of the MuCCC Performance Art Audience Award

FlahertyMcDougalMcDougalFlaherty: Joe Fox-Boyd and Mike Bulger. Irish Vaudevillians meet Samuel Beckett

Barbie Mirror (2009) (Michelle Harris): What would your world look like if it were completely composed of Barbies? The Barbie Mirror video installation lets viewers travel to a Barbie world, where everything is transformed into a moving mosaic of Barbie doll faces. Winner of the Performance Art Award/Borek Award