"Sculptors ReCollected" turns the Massry Gallery at the College of Saint Rose into what is almost a primer on contemporary sculpture and sculptural installation. Francis Cape, James Clark, and Judy Pfaff are each given a third of the gallery to make very different dimensional statements as part of a splashy 10th anniversary celebration of the Massry.
Each artist has a style that is easy to grasp, and generally easy to like. The most severe and arguably most uncompromising work comes from Francis Cape in a range of forms based on interior architecture. Cape originally studied wood carving in the 1970s and his love of wood remains, but he is no whittler by the campfire. The present works are highly finished and pristine, each the unbottled essence of a certain kind of furniture or cabinetry—a table, a wooden wall with bench, a short wall.
