Opening Reception: First Friday, June 6, 6-9pm

When the sun sets, Rochestarians set off on all manner of adventures. They toil in the "Kangaroo Rescue Section" at Durand Eastman Beach. They protect Noam Chomsky’s intellectual blanket. They burrow deep in the earth and fly high in the sky under their own power. They chaperone field trips where the children multiply indefinitely. They lose books at the Scholastic Book Fair and fall deep down in the void.

Using collage and mixed media, Erica Bryant seeks to honor and preserve these untethered creations of unconscious minds. Her exhibition “Other People Dreams” features the fruits of four years of dream collection – from friends, family, and strangers who visited her booth at the Rochester Public Market. From these dreams, she has selected 44 elements to materialize.

Other People’s Dreams can be enjoyed like a traditional art show. Or visitors can make use of a randomizer that will allow them to order disparate elements of their neighbors’ night visions and generate a new dream of their very own.

Open Hours: Saturday, June 7, 12-5pm & Saturday, June 14, 12-5pm
Enter through RoCo's main entrance. Normal gallery admission applies.

Additional hours by appointment, contact the artist directly HERE

About the Artist

Early in life, Erica Bryant (@Erica_Likes_Alligators) dreamt that she was the spiritual leader of a group of alligator-human baby creatures. She awoke with an enduring love of dream imagery and concepts. Through her art, she seeks to honor and preserve the untethered creations of the unconscious. Her work has appeared in art spaces in California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and New York, including the Hammonds House Museum in Atlanta. In 2024, the City of Rochester selected her portrait of abolitionist Anna Murray Douglass to be painted as a mural on the outside of School 19. In waking life, Bryant is the associate director of writing at the Vera Institute of Justice, an organization that seeks to end mass incarceration and protect immigrant rights. She was born in Rochester, New York, during a mid-April snowstorm.

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts.