Susan Luss’s multidimensional and mixed-material installation “Things I Leave Behind” represents the artist’s desire to engage with the unknown as it was created just before she took a forced hiatus for medical reasons. The piece welcomed visitors to the new Port Chester-based art collective Ice Cream Social’s first exhibition on Saturday, Mar. 5.
Brooklyn resident Winnie Arzu stands along the cage integral to the exhibit as a whole to read a detailed description about a collection of pieces. On the other side of the chain link fencing hangs “The Haitian Queer Renaissance,” a multimedia photograph by Steven Baboun, and she is shadowed by “A Joyful Keening,” a lace display by Port Chester-based artist Patricia Miranda who uses textiles to explore history, grief and women’s labor.
With a combination of burlap, embroidery, found objects, wood and other resources, Jenn Cacciola’s piece “If I told You Once, I’ve Told You a Thousand Times” intensely contrasts with the gray cement wall it’s mounted on. Cacciola, a Port Chester native, is the Ice Cream Social program director.
Sipping on wine and snacking on sweets while surrounding themselves with the immersive collection, a diverse group of artists and visitors mingle in the open-space gallery on the second floor of 40 Merritt St.
