In a combined effort to launch an exhibition for public view, Erisha Erickson and Rick Hill located and rented a piece of a warehouse in the public market for the month of June. They say they chose the public market because of its accessibility and to encourage people to enjoy a new kind of experience in a familiar place. Their main objective is to share their work with others. The space is designed on a more contemporary setting, veering from the standard gallery space.

Erisha Erickson has studied at the Visual Studies Workshop, The San Francisco Art Institute and the Glasgow School of Art with exhibitions of her work in Rochester and San Francisco. She will present a collaboration in retrospect of the places she has traveled and her accomplishments as an artist thus far, showing a series of quiet and melancholic images taken during her travels and studies in Europe.

Rick S. Hill received his B.F.A. at the University of New Hampshire in 1997, and then his M.F.A. at the Visual Studies Workshop of SUNY Brockport. Rick S. Hill's work serves to explore desires and curiosities within himself. He will be exhibiting, "the static and the given ... " a series of installations dealing with the physical and psychological events occurring within a domestic space. The pieces, which function as evidences of these real and dream-like occurrences, aim to engage the viewer in a manner, which allows for them to subjectively define a narrative within themselves.

The opening party is June 8 from 7 to 11, 5-9 Public Market, Rochester (use North Union Street entrance).

Gallery hours are: Thursday and Friday, 3:30 to 7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The works will be on display through June 30.