Harry Roseman gave a talk on Friday evening at Vassar on the occasion of the official opening of his installation, Hole in the Wall in the atrium of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at the college.
Roseman's talk, along with a screening of a video documenting his Woven Walls installation at the Kleinert Art Center in Woodstock in 2008 preceeded the opening. The main lecture hall was filled to capacity, so a second hall was enlisted, offering a projection of a live online stream of the talk.
Unfortunately, the webstream had some form of buffering issue and we weren't able to see the entire talk. A recording of the talk is available for viewing here.
The upside to this technical glitch was that those of us in the second hall were able to go in and view the work before the crush of people filled the space...and fill the space they did. It got claustrophobic quickly, so I bailed out prior to the performance by Adrienne Elisha of a composition she created which was inspired by the installation.
It had been too long since I last visited the Loeb. There's really no better place in the area in which to casually stop in and indulge in morsels sized portions of great work. The small size of the temporary exhibition and permanent collection galleries offer a remarkable opportunity to get a fix without needing to devote a great chunk of time.
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