Albright
Knox
Fletcher
Benton: The Alphabet
July 30, 2009-July 5, 2010 Ingrid
Calame: Step on a Crack
September 25, 2009-February 28, 2010 ROBERT
MANGOLD Beyond the Line: Paintings and Project 20002008
October
23, 2009January 31, 2010 Topographies
November 13, 2009February 28, 2010 Fifty
Works for Fifty States: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
January 22–May 9, 2010 Guillermo
Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper, 19802008
February 19May 30, 2010 The
Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 19411960
March 19May 30,
2010 Beyond/In
Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents
September 24, 2010–January
16, 2011
Albright
Knox Art Gallery
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, New York
716.882.8700 UB
Anderson Gallery Enrique
Chagoya
Adventures and Misadventures, Prints and Multiples 2002-2008
Mar
6 - Apr 26 2009 Chagoya's
satirical prints offer wry commentaries on war, presidential power, colonialism,
corporate culture, and Disney. The show features approximately 15 works published
by different presses, including ULAE, Sharks Ink, Segura, Magnolia Press, Hui
Press and Trillium. The exhibition begins in 2002 with Chagoya's "Enlightened
Savage," a set of 10 "soup cans" published by Trillium Press. Mimicking
Campbell's labels, Chagoya's offerings include "Critic's Tongue," "Cream
of Dealer," and "Museum Director's Tripe." Andrew
Engl: Passing Moments
Mar 21 - Apr 12 2009 The
paintings and drawings in Passing Moments are drawn from Engl's living and teaching
abroad in Russia during the summers of 2007 and 2008. The artist spent most of
his time on the streets of the small city he was in, taking photographs of the
daily life of the people. These images became the point of departure for his drawings
and paintings. Engl's drawings and paintings reveal individuals in the quiet,
passing moments of existence, shifting in and out of their spiritual and physical
natures. They display, simultaneously, corporeality and ethereality. They exist
in stark, decontextualized environments, without the burdens and trappings of
the physical world, forcing the viewer to contemplate the infinite within. Engl
is a native of Buffalo, New York. Wall
Buildings
Mar 21 - Apr 12 2009 120
first year undergraduate students in the University at Buffalo's Department of
Architecture concentrated on the conception of form and space through a set of
built and environmental parameters. The students were asked to program and design
a 20' cube, elevating a viewer at least 10' above ground level onto two lookout
stations that provide views along a cliff side. The site includes a monolithic
vertical plane, which intersects the cliff edge. The students were to take into
consideration the dynamics of circulation and the inherent expressive potential
of their proposed structure. The original cube had to be registered in the final
outcome and implied in architectural terms. David
Munson: Too Big to Fail
Mar 21 - Apr 26 2009 Too
Big to Fail is a show about the economy, where we are and how we got here. All
economies are expressions of ideologies and in times of crisis and failure it's
usually a good time to stand back and reflect on the ideologies that have brought
us to the brink, and what we must change so that we can avoid this again. Munson
reminds us that we are here because of a string of causalities that began with
basic assumptions on the nature of man. Gallery
admission is free. UB
Anderson Gallery
One Martha Jackson Place
Buffalo, NY 14214
716-829-3754 Art
Gallery of Hamilton
Inspirational:
The Collection of H.S. Southam
Through
May 3, 2009
Newspaper publisher Harry Stevenson
Southam (1875-1954) was recognized as one of Canada's foremost collectors of art
in the 1930s and 1940s. His home in Ottawa was filled with modern European and
Canadian paintings that were often requested for major exhibitions. As Chairman
of the National Gallery of Canada Board of Trustees for almost twenty years, he
helped shape the national collection and foster an appreciation of new Canadian
art. Southam's generosity extended across the country during this critical collection-building
period, but he gave more to Hamilton, where he grew up, than to any other city.
As AGH director at the time T.R. MacDonald stated, Southam's gifts made clear
"not only the extent and importance of his support (given partly, as he said,
in order to encourage others), but also what a perceptive and knowledgeable collector
he was, for these pictures had been gathered for his own pleasure."
For the first time in decades, Inspirational reassembles major works from
Southam's collection, at the core of which were the Canadian paintings, his true
passion. The exhibition moves from impressive canvases of the Group of Seven,
to the highly charged period of the 1930s, including works by many women artists,
such as Emily Carr, Prudence Heward, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Sarah Robertson, Anne
Savage, and Lilias Torrance Newton. It ends with Southam's later taste for such
rising Quebec artists as Louis Muhlstock, Jacques de Tonnancour, and Paul-mile
Borduas. A sample of Southam's European collection reveals not only how his early
aesthetic interests shaped his later Canadian choices, but also how international
movements inspired Canadian art. Visual
Poetry: The Collection of Pierre Karch and Mariel O'Neill Karch
Though May 3, 2009
Visual Poetry
represents a very special instalment of the Gallery's Collectors Exhibition Series,
featuring thirty-three stellar works acquired through the years by Toronto collectors
Pierre Karch and Mariel O'Neill-Karch, and then generously donated by the couple
to the AGH at the end of 2007 - the most significant gift to the Gallery since
the donation of The Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Collection in 2002. The Karches are
not only avid collectors and steady supporters of the Gallery, but have also taught
French language and literature for many years, and published numerous writings,
including mutual collaborations and critical essays on the visual arts.
The works in Visual Poetry range from historical European and Canadian
art to contemporary pieces, the three key collecting strengths of the Art Gallery
of Hamilton. Contextualizing the Karch donation within the larger AGH holdings,
the exhibition presents additional works by the same artists from the Gallery's
pre-existing permanent collections. Among the artists included are Eugne Delacroix
and Puvis de Chavannes, two major French masters from the beginning and end of
the nineteenth century; leading French Surrealist Andr Masson; Marc-Aurle de
Foy Suzor-Cot and Jean Paul Lemieux, central figures respectively in the history
of Quebec sculpture and painting; and Louis de Niverville and Jennifer Dickson,
two foremost contemporary Canadian artists. The title of the exhibition - Visual
Poetry - relates on more than one level to the Karch works, many of which
either reveal whimsical graphic qualities of materials and technique, or offer
juxtapositions of abstract pictorial forms that encourage us to unlock their unique
significations. Jean-Pierre
Gauthier: Machines at Play
Through May
18, 2009
Montreal artist Jean-Pierre Gauthier has been active
on the contemporary art scene since the mid-1990s, when he quickly gained recognition
for the inventiveness of his work. The kinetic installations that have emerged
from his exploration of the acoustic and metaphorical potential of the found object
combine humour and poetry in a highly rigorous investigative approach. With an
ingenuity seldom seen, they bring together the notions of order and chaos, permanence
and fragility, performance and gratuitousness.
Born in Matane, Jean-Pierre
Gauthier lives and works in Montreal. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions,
in Quebec and the rest of Canada, in the United States and in Europe. In 2004
he was the winner of the prestigious Sobey Art Award, and in 2005 he received
the Victor-Martyn-Lynch-Staunton Award, presented by the Canada Council for the
Arts to an artist in mid-career.
Hours:
Tuesday
& Wednesday: 12:00 noon - 7:00 pm
Thursday & Friday: 12:00 noon -
9:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday: 12:00 noon - 5:00 pm Art
Gallery of Hamilton
123 King St
West Hamilton, ON L8P 4S8
905-527-6610
Artspace
Gallery NYFA
MARK @ Artspace
Through April 26 Works
by NYFA MARK 2008 participants Dennis Bertram, Kara Daving, Lukia Costello, Jax
Deluca, Val Dunne, Connlith Keogh, Kevin Kegler, and Iris Kirkwood Artspace
Gallery
1219 Main Street
Buffalo, NY
803-6205 Buffalo
Arts Studio
Michael Beitz: General Assembly
April
4 - May 22, 2009 Michael
Beitz is a Buffalo-based interdisciplinary artist whose indoor and outdoor works
use architecture, design, and sculpture in a playful manner to blur the boundaries
of functionality and to engage the viewer with objects that relate back to everyday
life. Recognizing that our mental states of being are directly influenced by
our environment, his work is both a reflection and subversion of the homogeneity
that exists as a result of modern technology and mass production. Letha
Wilson: Lost Horizons
April 4 - May 22, 2009 Letha
Wilson is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist whose works combine imagery from
the natural environment with architectural and sculptural elements to explore
the relationships between indoor and outdoor spaces. In Lost Horizons, through
the employment of a range of materials and techniques, issues related to travel,
conservation, natural materials, and modern architecture and design are touched
upon in works that invite the viewer to participate in the journey. Buffalo
Arts Studio
Tri-Main Center
2495 Main Street, Suite 500
Buffalo, NY
14214
(716) 833-4450
Burchfield-Penney
Art Center
Charles
E. Burchfield: The Song of the Telegraph
The Charles E. Burchfield Rotunda
March 14 - June 14, 2009
Charles E. Burchfield had a predilection for enjoying nature's myriad sounds-wind,
water, birds, insects, frogs-and in 1917 he devised what I termed "audiocryptograms"
to symbolize each distinctive sound resonance, beginning with such works as The
Song of the Katydids on an August Morning and The Insect Chorus. In addition to
these insect paintings, Burchfield also painted the inanimate Telegraph Music
on March 4, 1917. 20,000
Crickets
March 14 - July 29, 2009 Foundation
Artist Tom Kostusiak and mixed media artist Jeff Proctor create an environment
to enhance the visual and listening experience by providing a cricket's perspective
of what is happening around them. The timing of the piece shifts as the images
and sound continuously loop throughout the day creating an ever changing dynamic
in what is seen and heard. Gateway:
Space, Place and the Transformative
Nov. 21, 2008 - April 19, 2009 The
exhibition will feature contemporary work from the Burchfield Penney's collection,
including: sculpture, representational and non-representational painting, photography,
drawings, prints, video and mixed media installations. Featured works by Cindy
Sherman, Robert Longo, John Pfahl, Russell Drisch, and Robert Hirsch. Gallery
Hours:
Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday, & Saturday: 10 am - 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am - 9 pm
Sunday:
1 pm - 5 pm
Closed Mondays Admission:
Buffalo State College Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
Children (age 5
& under): FREE
Students (age 6 - 18): $4
Seniors: $4
Adults: $7 Burchfield-Penney
Art Center
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, New York 14222
716
878 6011
burchfld@buffalostate.edu
Castellani
Art Museum
Amy
Greenan: Nothing Was About to Happen February
1 - May 17, 2009
Amy
Greenan studied painting and drawing at the State University
of New York, Purchase and earned an MFA from the University at Buffalo. She currently
resides in Niagara Falls, New York, where she maintains an active studio. As an
unwavering advocate of the Do-It-Yourself movement, Greenan has been
making zines, self-published, photocopied magazines, as an alternate art form
for over a decade. She is a member of the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative
and has participated in the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair and Canzine in Toronto,
Canada. Greenan has exhibited her paintings, drawings, prints, books, and
zines locally and nationally. Her work is included in private collections
in the United States and Canada. Kara
Walker: The Emancipation Approximation February
15 - May 31, 2009 An
exhibition of prints by Kara Walker, a prominent African American artist, at the
Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, is scheduled for February 15 –
May 31, 2009. The "The Emancipation Approximation" consists of
twenty-six 34"; x 44" prints, done in the style of cut-out silhouettes.
The title references Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in
the later stages of the Civil War. The prints will be loaned to the Castellani
from the Albright Knox Art Gallery, which owns the series. Freedom
Crossing: The Underground Railroad in Greater Niagara
Did you know that Harriet Tubman led groups of people escaping slavery across
our own Suspension Bridge in Niagara Falls, New York, to freedom in Canada? A
new exhibition at the Castellani Art Museum will reveal the people, places, and
stories of the Underground Railroad on the Niagara Frontier through video, historic
and contemporary photography, artifacts, and audio installations. This permanent
exhibition and information center are supported by New York State's Underground
Railroad Heritage Trail Grant Program. A special teacher's packet, available on
our website, will include writing exercises, a bibliography of children's literature,
and links to websites with lesson plans
Hours:
Wed-Sat 11am-5pm; Sun 1-5pm.
Niagara University
286.8200
CEPA
Gallery Interstices
through
April 25 Exhibition
by first year graduate students from the University at Buffalo Visual Studies
Program CEPA
Gallery is located in the historic Market Arcade building in Buffalo's downtown
Theater District. Upper
Gallery and Underground
Monday - Friday 10:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday 12:00
- 4:00pm Passageway
and Public Art Spaces
Monday - Friday 7:00am - 10:00pm
Saturday 8:00am
- 5:00pm
Sunday 9:00am - 3:00pm CEPA
Gallery
617 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
856-2717 Hallwalls
Contemporary Arts Center
Nathaniel Freeman: Killing Rolando
March 7-April 11,
2009 Killing
Rolando is an immersive video installation that utilizes contemporary and archival
footage to explore disparate constructions of masculinity across generations,
as well as the decline of personal and political power that comes with age. The
project is inspired by a family history that has produced both military generals
and wards of the state within the same generation. Suspended between these two
sides of his past, Freeman looks at the overlap between a seemingly organized
mental state and pure bedlam, and the way these two conditions are not opposites
so much as the transitory manifestation of a cultural need. Alfonso
Volo: Thrifting For Beauty
May 2-Jun. 5, 2009 In
this solo exhibition of predominantly new work, Alfonso Volo demonstrate the perpetually
elastic and exploratory boundaries of his art practice in works that include paintings,
drawings, watercolors, found object sculptures, and extremely low-fi animated
videos. Utilizing the entire gallery space, Volo's work will range from intimate
to gargantuan in an aesthetic that adopts under-utilized devices and tropes as
a means to exploring ideas with subtlety and grace. However, Volo's apparent whimsy
masks the deeper, darker undercurrents in the work, in which questions of personal
identity and one's relationship to the world are continually underscored. The
works arrive drench in equal parts good natured nonchalance and trembling anxiety
and perhaps exist most fully in the space between these two spheres of being.
Volo's poetic and allusive titling of work accentuates this tension-Ugly Duckling,
My Little Vestigial Light, "Ghosty hare, Why Am I The Saddest Sack?",
Some Paradises, and Compost Cosmos. Often working with components that could be
seen as slight-knitwork, thrift shop knick knacks, watercolors, partially-traced
drawings-Volo's choice of methods is a purposeful contrivance, amplifying meaning
in unanticipated directions and from unassuming components. Hallwalls
Contemporary Arts Center
341 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14202
716-854-1694
The
Kenan Center 24th
Annual All-High Photo Show
Through April 19 Work
by area high school students Kenan
house
433 Locust Street
Lockport, New York
716-433-2617
www.kenancenter.org
Rodman
Hall Arts Centre
in[cube]eight
Brock
University Department of Visual Arts Honours Exhibition
April 3 - 26, 2009
Featuring
the work of Dario Ayala, Evelyn Bialasik, Sonya De Lazzer, Nijah Emery, Jessica
Hay, Meighan Healey, Anthony Perri andAlana Schultz. The third floor studios
of Rodman Hall have been a veritable incubator for creativity and experimentation
over the past eight months. Working with faculty mentorsJeanBridgeandDuncan
MacDonald, the students in the Brock University Department of Visual Arts Honours
Studio program have developed diverse artistic practices that reflect a wide range
of explorations in contemporary art and culture. Scott
Waters: It's Great to be a Man in Times Like These
January 10 - April
26, 2009 A
former infantryman, Scott Waters returned to the military in 2006 through the
Canadian Forces Artist Program and documented the soldiers of India Company, Second
Battalion of The Royal Canadian Regiment as they trained for deployment to Afghanistan.
In contrast to what he describes as the 'boredom and deviance' of his own Post-Cold
War era service, Waters found a renewed sense of purpose in the military - and
the army that he had hoped for as a teenager. Juxtaposing images that represent
the myths and realities of military life, these paintings reflect the two sides
of Waters' engagement with his subject, as his analysis of the infantry as a social
system merges with a personal attempt to reconcile his service with the Canadian
Army as it exists today. Rodman
Hall is open to the public:
September through June:
Monday - Thursday:
12 noon to 9 p.m.;
Friday, Saturday & Sunday: 12 noon to 5 p.m. July
& August and Holiday Hours (2nd week of December through the 2nd week of January):
Monday - Sunday 12 noon to 5 p.m.
Closed All Statutory Holidays Rodman
Hall Arts Centre
109 St. Paul Crescent
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
L2S 1M3
905.684.2925 UB
Art Gallery
Saya
Woolfalk: No Place
Feb 26 - May 9 2009 New
York-based artist Saya Woolfalk will be in residence for six weeks working on
an installment of her ongoing investigations into No Place, a Technicolor society
of lush abundance that Woolfalk depicts in performance, video, and sculptural
installations. Her alchemical process transforms detritus of our consumer civilization
into polychromatic totems and bodysuits sprouting bulbous forms that blend with
the vibrant landscape of her invention. She invites us to make a journey to No
Place and witness its androgynous inhabitants enact empathetic explorations of
self and other as a form of creative expression. Woolfalk will be in residence
February 26 through April 15, 2009 working on another chapter of No Place. She
will transform the UB Art Gallery into a stage and studio where the public can
attend dress rehearsals and participate in artist-led workshops at scheduled times.
Ani
Hoover: Up Down Around
Feb 26 - Jun 20 2009
Ani
Hoover's lyrical repetition of circles in varying sizes and palettes in her abstract
paintings produces fleeting impressions as lustrous pop colors buoyantly dance
across the surface, bumping against or overlaid by circles that appear time-worn,
reminiscent of urban decay or geological processes. Her Lightwell Project features
a commanding series of vertical paintings thirty-feet high by five feet wide inspired
by natural cycles of varying lengths-a day, a year, perhaps a millennium-cascading
from ceiling to floor. Since 2002, Hoover has made her home in Buffalo, NewYork,
where her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Buffalo Arts Studio, and Burchfield
Penney Art Center, as well as other galleries across Western New York and nationally.
Hoover's paintings are in numerous private, corporate, and public collections,
including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Burchfield Penney Art Center.
Gallery
admission is free. UB
Art Gallery
201 A Center for the Arts
Buffalo, NY 14260-6000
716-645-6912 | 
