This year’s Upstate NY Art Weekend, that took place from July 21-24, certainly was an exciting event, with galleries and pop-up venues opening their doors, and giving us quite a bit of wonderful art to see. My next series of reviews will highlight some of the art that particularly struck my eye, focusing first on the shows that still remain on view. Closing on July 30, The Lockwood Gallery’s exhibition, Built: Architecture in Art and Design, consists of 16 artists whose work directly – for instance a large stone tile from Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1924 Ennis House – or indirectly relates to architecture, buildings or construction. A certain elegance permeates the installation, as proportion, line and movement are fine-tuned in most of the work, from the perspectival dances made by delicate lines, parallelograms, and photographic transparencies in paintings by Jeanette Fintz, to the whimsical lines outlining houses in Rebecca Welz's sculptures, from the condense overlapping metal grids of the sculpture by Susan Spencer Crowe, to the negative-space folded constructions of Margaret Saliske. Even the solid sculpture, built from sectioned parts, of David Kucera, Richard Bottwin and Kurt Steger display an elegance of movement, with lines and forms twisting through space and air. And if you want actual buildings, the collage paintings of Mike Cockrill that depict an invented rhythm of suburban sprawl, or the little houses made of illuminated acrylic sheets and steel by Tom Fruin might be just your thing. Also on view are works by Shelley Parriott, Sara Murphy, Karlos Carcamo, Harry Wilks, Jean Feinberg, and Nic Goldsmith. The exhibition is curated by Alan Goolman.