Summers used to be slow. Now they are jam packed. It’s a conspiracy of some sort and it forces difficult decisions. We already missed the Wiener Dog Parade and the Soap Box Derby. Last night was another First Friday already.
We started with the Arena Group’s show at the AGR space. A section of their show was set aside for the Orphan Project Portraits and I had one in there. Someday the kid I painted will get his portrait. Probably won’t even look like that anymore. We went across the street to the BookSmart space for a show of digital photography prints. Is there any other kind? Richard Edic’s “Fallen Willow” triptych on gold leaf was stunning.
Next stop was the “Asymmetrical Press” show at the Genesee Center for the Arts. They printed the first Hi-Techs single for Dick Storms and the only full color version of the Refrigerator for the Montage Festival. Both pieces were in the show! Peggi and I shared a Genny product and talked to a brewery employee about the name change (back to “Genesee Brewery”). She told us the iconic “Jenny” was still alive. Baby Shivers Boutique, with Chuck Cuminale’s son on guitar, played in the middle of room. They had a cute little cello player but you could hardly hear her behind the Fender amps. The drummer only played two drums and contributed to their off beatness.
Brian Peterson suggested an opening at Potential Life so we drove over there with Olga and were just in time to catch a the tail end of a beautiful performance by two cello players flanking a guy with spiky hair and a laptop. I was quickly mesmerized. The next band combined goth with Gregorian chant, German vocals and strummed bass through an army of sound processing boxes. We never made it over to Hungerford Hall for Jon Gary’s band but I did wind up with a sound hangover. There is a lot of music in art spaces these days.
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