{"id":245543,"date":"2026-01-22T04:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245543\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T04:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:46:08","slug":"jacob-rochester-input-output-plato-gallery-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245543\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Rochester &#8216;Input\/Output&#8217; Plato Gallery New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summary<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Rochester heads to Plato Gallery in New York to open Input\/Ouput, his latest solo exhibition<br \/>\nFeaturing a suite of new and recent oil paintings, the showcase explores music as a unifier, bridging generations and genres, eras and places<\/p>\n<p>Press play on your favorite song and, only a matter of measures in, you\u2019re already somewhere else \u2014 a different time or place, maybe surrounded by a sea of familiar faces. Music, and its immense, connective power, is a central for <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/jacob-rochester\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Rochester<\/a>, an artist who translates the warmth and intimacy of sound into a rich, canvas-based language.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles-based artist goes bicoastal with Input\/Output, his New York solo debut. Now on view at <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/plato-gallery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plato<\/a> through March 7, the show brings together a family of new and recent works that trace familial ties, everyday rituals and the subtle codes through which nostalgia is nurtured.\n<\/p>\n<p>Likened by Rochester as a deeply personal \u201cconversation between the past and the present,\u201d this suite draws heavily from his father\u2019s life as a reggae drummer in the late 1980s \u2014 tightly cropped hands adjusting stereo dials, fingers poised mid-song, old Polaroids of bandmates \u2014 sat beside more recent scenes from the artist\u2019s own life, with his partner and loved ones in LA. Jamaican reggae culture, 1990s hip-hop aesthetics flirt with the textures of the contemporary everyday.\n<\/p>\n<p>Technically, the work is built through accumulation, moving between sketching, gouache, digital manipulation and oil painting, Rochester employs a glazing process akin to Titian, when translucent veils of color are laid atop monochrome underpainting, making for compositions that imbues the bravado of Renaissance drapery with a cozy, domestic calm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe past will always inform my work in some way or another, whether it\u2019s conceptually or through technique,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe challenge of navigating that in a way that still feels contemporary is something I\u2019ve always been drawn to.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Much like music, Rochester\u2019s work has a way of folding memory, time and experience in on themselves, making for a nostalgia, in-flux and alive in speakers, clothing and the spaces and moments shared between one another.\n<\/p>\n<p>Head to Plato to experience Input\/Output\u00a0for yourself.\n<\/p>\n<p>Plato Gallery<br \/>202 Bowery,<br \/>New York, NY 10012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary Jacob Rochester heads to Plato Gallery in New York to open Input\/Ouput, his latest solo exhibition Featuring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-245543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}