“A moment moves in many directions, and there’s more complexity in understanding how we arrive at the interpretation of a moment than on the resolution of it,” sculptor Taft Green said, describing his sculpture at a recent Cerritos College Art Gallery reception.

The Art Gallery announced its current exhibition, “Taft Green – Sculpture,” in a two-hour reception last Tuesday at which faculty, students and Green himself discussed the two large-scale sculptures on display.

“Taft Green – Sculpture,” will be on view until Sept. 22, in room FA-50.

Guests enjoyed different types of refreshments, the viewing of the two sculptures, and a series of sketches and drawings from works-in-progress. Laura Cendejos, music major, said, “It was the first time I attended an exhibition where only two pieces are shown, and it was great, because it gave me more time to look at the sculptures, and it emphasized the importance of each one of them.”

Students enjoyed the position of all the materials, as well as how they all intertwine to construct different shapes.

“This is perhaps one of the best exhibitions held here, at Cerritos College Art Gallery,” Cheo Mendez, art major, said.

“The sculptures are very avant-garde, and speak to you.”

“I loved the colors, the illumination,” Mendez added, “and the orgy of figures in each one of them.”

“I also had a chance to talk to Taft Green himself, and he was very kind, and explained his works,” Mendez stated.

“‘Tense’ was my favorite,” Nadia Sanchez, business administration major, said.

Sanchez also stated that she was taken by the usage of color, shape, arrangement, and placement.

“I wanted to see more though, two pieces were not enough.”

The event was attended by various teachers from the art department, as well as by entire classes interested in seeing the works of Green, who is interested in the formation of things rather than on the completion of them.

“(The sculpture) ‘Lag,’ is completely based on interpretation itself,” Green explained, “the curvilinear and rectilinear figures in the sculpture are synthesized, and the residual of this product is integration and synthesis of new, different kinds.”

“I’m interested in the time it takes to attain new information.”

According to Green “Tense” is supposed to be a pun.

“I did a little of wordplay with the name of this piece. Tense is a word that refers to anxiety, concern, and desperation, but it also refers to the temporal tenses, and proximity: the past, the present and the future.”

“This work reflects how the future becomes conditioned to adjustments to the present based on the past,” he added.

“That’s why the chandelier is stretched, and baroque stairwells are accustomed to the modern foundation on which they stand; the past has been synthesized.”