Years ago, thousands of people arrived at the main entrance of the Sprague Electric Company to put in a day’s work; the collection of buildings is now one of the largest contemporary art museums in the country if not the world.

Approaching the entrance to Mass MoCA in the building with the clock tower; the buildings through the front gate also house business, shops and a restaurant.

 It took two days to plow through the galleries. I’ll just touch on some of the work.

Art in the lot: SuttonBeresCuller: Big Top Grand Stand

the fascinating interior of the building, original beams and posts

The building is a conglomerate of huge spaces that have been divided into smaller units. Above, looking through the main level, with back to gallery entrance (that expands to three floors) toward the shop and café beyond. To the left is the entrance, to the right are the outdoor venues.

The weather reminded me of that in Copenhagen: one minute the sun was shining and the next it was pouring; a good day to be in exploring. Mouse-over photos to see captions, or click on them to enlarge.

one of the inner courtyards used for performances

here comes the rain again

sun: from the area of the café

sun: from the area of the café

sun: from the area of the café

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Clifford Ross’ (b. 1952, NYC)

Clifford Ross: huge spaces in several places

Works are monumental and span two buildings. He constructed his own camera to take massive photographs. The main exhibit hall displays an inconceivably large negative-like photo of trees printed on wood (as seen behind the trio on the left). To further illustrate the size of the photographic work, the following were taken from an upper gallery, looking down:

Large photograph to left

Enormous wall-gallary

the changing colors of the prints

The exhibit continues in another building with large photographs of oceans. First the building’s structure:

How the old building is held up

the original floor

Digital Hurricane
Clifford Ross

Every color, every dot, a glowing light, ever changing.