Past Exhibitions
Sarah Jane Barry, The Dragons in Our Lives
August 23 – October 11, 2024
Opening Reception, Friday, August 23, 2024, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Sarah Jane Barry is a mixed media artist working in Buffalo NY whose love of painting was born during the pandemic in 2020. Making artwork gives Barry a sense of purpose during this strange and confusing time. She believes painting can function as a meditative process, providing a break from the monotony of day-to-day life and a chance to relinquish control. Barry is inspired by Folk Art, dreams, and the spontaneity of the natural world. As a result, her artwork is fluid, ethereal, and playful.
Léwuga Tata Benson, Fueling Change: A Multimedia Exploration of Niger Delta’s Oil Crisis
July 26 – September 7, 2024
Opening Reception, Friday, July 26, 2024, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Buffalo Arts Studio presents Léwuga Tata Benson’s Fueling Change: A Multimedia Exploration of Niger Delta’s Oil Crisis. Benson’s immersive, multimedia exhibition will shed light on the harsh realities of oil extraction and its effects on the indigenous people of the Niger Delta in Western Nigeria, his homeland. Through a thought-provoking combination of artifacts, found footage, and sound, visitors will be transported into the lives of those most affected, raising awareness and fostering dialogue about the social, economic, and environmental consequences of unregulated oil extraction practices.
Part of Waterfront View Series, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Aitina Fareed-Cooke and Get Fokus’d Productions, Tales from the Porch, Part IV: Art is a Language
July 26 – September 7, 2024
Opening Reception, Friday, July 26, 2024, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Aitina Fareed-Cooke originally developed the Tales from the Porch project in 2019 as an opportunity to tell the stories and amplify the voices of members of the Buffalo, NY community. In 2024, the Tales from the Porch project will focus on five artists with ties to Buffalo Arts Studio.
Curated by Aitina Fareed-Cooke, Tales from the Porch IV; Art is a Language is an exploration of visual, performing and literary arts through a documentary film, multimedia arts exhibition, and live performance series. The film will be screened at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and the Burchfield Penney Art Center (dates TBD) and features artists Julia Bottoms, Bob Fleming, George Hughes, Phyllis Thompson, and Muhammad Zaman, all of whom share a deep connection with Buffalo Arts Studio. Buffalo Arts Studio will present the multimedia exhibition Tales from the Porch IV; Art is a Language, which will include work by each of the artists in conversation with Fareed-Cooke’s photography and poetry.
Colleen Ayson, Helen Beckley-Forest, Angela Guest, Kelly Schnurr, Layers
June 28 – August 9, 2024
Opening Reception, Friday, June 28, 2024, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Buffalo Arts Studio brings together four artists working at the intersection of art and craft to exhibit in the Community Space gallery. Colleen Ayson, Helen Beckley-Forest, Angela Guest, and Kelly Schnurr all combine traditional modes of artmaking, including drawing, painting, and photography, with innovative textile and collage practices. The resulting objects are dynamic expressions of personal, playful gestures.
Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge, As the hour turns blue
May 24 – June 28, 2024
Opening Reception, Friday, May 24, 2024, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge (Rochester, NY) will exhibit her multimedia project As the hour turns blue. As the hour turns blue explores how we wait and how the spaces we are waiting in alter the experience. The long-term project observes places of unexpected encounter where tension and boredom cohabit: waiting rooms. From doctor’s offices to airports to unmarked waiting lines and geographical terrains, this multimedia project documents and examines these space – real and/or restaged – as sets for fictional stories and actions inspired by actual events.
Multinational Illumination Art, 1,849 Millas: Al otro lado del charco; A Diaspora Journey
May 24 – June 28, 2024
Opening Reception, Friday, May 24, 2024, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Multinational Art Collective will present their Vejigante masks as part of 1849: Al otro lado del charco; A Diaspora Journey. This exhibition, performance, and workshop series is centered on the Vejigante masks of Loiza and brings to the forefront the Puerto Rican experience as a diasporic population of the Caribbean.
Bree Gilliam, INSPIRED
April 26 – June 7, 2024
Re-Opening Reception, Friday, April 26, 2024, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
INSPIRED is a series of portrait paintings celebrating black creatives and professionals that inspire artist Bree Gilliam. For the artist, these powerful people exemplify what it means to be a creative. These individuals have and will continue to make an impact in their fields!
This exhibition was originally installed at BOX Gallery in the Hostel Buffalo-Niagara. This exhibition was made possible in part by Arts Services Incorporated.
Live on Five 2024
March 22 – April 26, 2024
Free Exhibition Preview, Friday, March 22, 2024, 5:00 — 8:00 pm
Ticketed Auction Event, Saturday, April 13, 2024, 7:00 — 11:00 pm
Art Pick-Up and Volunteer Appreciation Party, Friday, April 26, 2024, 5:00 — 8:00 pm
THE BIG AUCTION OF SMALL ARTWORKS RETURNS. Join Buffalo’s creative community for Live on Five 2024—the beloved auction of hundreds of 5″ x 5″ pieces by coveted local artists, all starting at $25. All are invited to initially see the work in Buffalo Arts Studio’s galleries on the fifth floor of the Tri-Main Center at the free exhibition opening reception on Friday, March 22, part of M&T Fourth Fridays. The exhibition will be on view for almost a month, giving visitors a chance to study the hundreds of works, pick their favorites, and strategize their bidding plan. Gather your friends and join the Buffalo Arts Studio family for an in-person ticketed reception including cash bars, lively music, and light fare as we count down to the auction ending together on Saturday, April 13. Finally, join us for our free art pick-up and volunteer appreciation party on Friday, April 26, part of M&T Fourth Fridays.
Looking Up; Artists from the Hunt Gallery Residency Program
February 23 – March 30, 2024
Opening Reception, Friday, February 23, 2024, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Looking Up is an exhibition of four artists who were a part of the Hunt Gallery Residency program. The C. Stuart and Jane H. Hunt Art Gallery provides emerging WNY artists rent-free studio space for four to five months and encourages the selected artists to collaborate and network with one another. This residency allows emerging artists to enter a collaborative environment in partnership with the Buffalo Society of Artists (BSA) where they will have the opportunity to collaborate and exhibit work throughout the duration of their occupancy. Buffalo Arts Studio Curator Shirley Verrico and Hunt Gallery Manager Christina Buscarino will co-curate a collection of work by former Hunt Gallery Artists-in-Residence Kevin Burzynski, DJ Carr, Laura Valkwitch and Nicholas Wheeler.
Phyllis Thompson, Evolving Memories
January 26 – March 1, 2024
Opening Reception, Friday, January 26, 2024, 5:00—8:00 pm
Artist Talk & Closing Reception, Saturday, March 2, 2024, 1:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Phyllis Thompson’s new exhibition, Evolving Memories is a survey of work from the artist’s 50-year career as an artist and educator. Evolving Memories traces four aesthetic and conceptual threads rooted in the 1970s or 1980s and that run through much of Thompson’s work. The themes embedded in nearly five decades of work come from Thompson’s childhood memories, experiences with family and friends, and imagined histories with ancestors the artist has only met through photographs. Thompson’s memories are supported by artifacts she has collected, spaces she has lived in, and places she has visited.
Annual Studio Artist Show and Sale
November 18 – December 23, 2023
Artist Reception, Saturday, December 2, 2023, 5:00 — 9:00 pm
The Annual Studio Artist Show and Sale showcases the work of Buffalo Arts Studio’s 30 Studio Artists who actively maintain working studios on-site, many of which are open to the public during regular gallery hours. Each studio is unique and offers visitors a glimpse into the creative process central to making engaging artwork. The Annual Studio Artist Show and Sale features over 100 pieces of original artwork exhibited in the galleries and includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, jewelry, and more. Many of the studios will also have work on display and nearly all of it can all be purchased right off the wall and taken home with our guests. Original artwork makes the perfect gift! Gift certificates for classes and artwork are also available in the gift shop.
Muhammad Zaman, Morphing Essence
October 6 – November 11, 2023
Opening Reception, Friday, October 27, 2023, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Buffalo Arts Studio presents Morphing Essence, an exhibition of new work by urban artist Muhammad Z. Zaman. Zaman has combined gestural brush strokes and calligraphic markings with the energy of street art to create this dynamic set of smaller works. Morphing Essence is a series of calligraffiti paintings on wood created with iridescent new-generation paints. Zaman’s brand of calligraffiti is one of the most contemporary interpretations of Hurufiyya art, an aesthetic movement that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century amongst Muslim artists, who used their understanding of traditional Islamic calligraphy within the precepts of modern art. When iridescent colors are used on a flat surface, the microparticles contained in the color create a morphing effect from refractive angles of light that is very subtle when the viewer is still. The color shift is far more dramatic when one moves through the gallery and views the work from different angles. The effect is achieved by interfering with the reflection and refraction of light from the painted object’s surface.
Carl Lee, Unity Island
September 22 – November 3, 2023
Opening Reception, Friday, September 22, 2023, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Buffalo Arts Studio presents Carl Lee’s Unity Island, a film installation about a ¼ square mile piece of land in Buffalo, NY. Lee’s practice examines ideas of perception, memory, and the spatialization of time using simple formal means. Shot on 16mm film, Unity Island is a personal look at different aspects of the island that reveal the intersecting vectors at this site. The project is primarily a visual exploration consisting of multiple projections, audio interviews, and ambient sounds that hint at other histories and experiences.
Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio, Creativity in the Time of Covid-19
August 25 – September 30, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, August 25, 2023, 5:00–8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
In partnership with Michigan State University, Amatryx received a grant from the Mellon Foundation to document, exhibit, and highlight experiences of creativity during the pandemic, with particular attention to those most impacted by systemic discrimination. As the authors of the grant describe: “This project explores how individuals—particularly those hardest hit by the pandemic—are using creative outlets to cope with COVID-19 and challenge systemic discrimination to imagine a more just future. COVID-19 has called attention to the vast disparities in our society today, specifically how disproportionately minority populations are affected by this pandemic. The power of Black Lives Matter, the outrage over separation of immigrant and refugee families, and the harsh toll taken on racial and economic minorities, LGBTQ+, and disability communities all illustrate the importance of listening to the people whose lives have been most impacted; their creative practices illuminate new paths toward social justice. What has yet to be explored is how diverse individuals are using creative practices that resist injustice, foster healing, and push back against the systemic inequities of COVID-19.”
Bob Fleming, Kilter
July 28 – September 27, 2023
Artist Talk, Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 6:00 pm
Opening Reception, Friday, July 28, 2023, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Buffalo Arts Studio presents Kilter, an exhibition of large scale representational and figurative paintings by local Buffalo artist Bob Fleming. Fleming is a visual artist whose practice includes painting, printmaking and other media, including film. He is a co-founder of Mirabo Press, a printmaking studio and edition facility in Buffalo, New York. Fleming’s work is a reaction to the diminishment of our shared humanity. The images come from observing and absorbing material elements in both his small, personal universe and the wider world, including, consciously or not, the omnipresent media.
Erin Kearney, Living In and With
July 28 – September 1, 2023
Opening Reception, Friday, July 28, 2023, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Buffalo Arts Studio presents an exhibition of new work by Buffalo artist Erin Kearney. Living In and With utilizes sculptural installation, video projection, and performance through a variety of fiber-based mediums. Her research roots itself inside the architecture of her childhood home. Pulling from personal narrative, Kearney examines the daily happenings that expose the tensions and fleshy underbelly of domestic spaces. The resulting objects are both familiar and disarming.
This program is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Services Inc.
Bud Jacobs, Ink Works on Paper
July 14, 2023
Reception, Friday, July 14, 2023, 5:00—7:00 pm
In memory of WNY artist/designer Bud Jacobs who recently passed away. Bud taught at Niagara County Community College and his own work was informed by his background in graphic design as he incorporated drawing, calligraphy and painting.
Galen Cheney, Breathing Underwater
June 23 – July 28, 2023
Opening Reception, Friday, June 23, 2023, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Buffalo Arts Studio presents Breathing Underwater, an exhibition of new work by Massachusetts artist Galen Cheney. Cheney is completing the artwork during a two-week residency at David Fernan’s 321 Residence space in Buffalo. Cheney’s dynamic, abstract work addresses ideas of expansion and contraction, freedom and constraint, interiority and exteriority, and what is hidden and what is exposed. The works in Breathing Underwater are a blend of collage, painting, and weaving, reflecting today’s fragmented digital world while also nodding toward traditions of weaving and the handmade.
Jump Start Student Biennial Exhibition, Finding Ourselves
May 26 – June 30, 2023
Opening Reception, Friday, May 26, 2023, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Every two years, the Buffalo Arts Studio community comes together to celebrate the amazing students in our Jump Start program. This year’s Biennial Student Exhibition is titled, Finding Ourselves. Finding Ourselves will include nearly 200 artworks by current Jump Start students as well as college students and graduates who participate in our Jump Start Extension program. The title of the show was chosen by the students and speaks to the journey they have been on both personally and with their art. Work in a variety of media will be on display including drawing, painting, video, ceramics, and multimedia.
Jump Start works with middle and high school students who show a strong ability and deep interest in the visual arts and guides them along their college and career path. Jump Start is an essential part of Buffalo Arts Studio’s larger mission of cultural access, providing high-quality art instruction, professional development, portfolio preparation, exhibiting experience, and individual mentorship to students across Western New York, regardless of the ability to pay.
Aitina Fareed-Cooke, Tales from the Porch Extensions: Featuring Fokus’d Kreatives
April 28 – June 2, 2023
Opening Reception, Friday, April 28, 2023, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Tales from the Porch is an ongoing multimedia project that amplifies stories and the voices of members of the community including but not limited to minority-owned businesses, organizations, and emerging artists. In its second iteration, the project featured seven community leaders impacting the Buffalo, NY community despite the pandemic and the May 14 tragedy.
Over the course of 6 months, Aitina has guided a small cohort of emerging artists into the process of responding to the Tales from the Porch project and this exhibit will feature their artistic approach to the idea of the “Porch”.
This project was made possible, in part, by Creatives Rebuild New York’s Artist Employment Program, Buffalo Arts Studio, Get Fokus’d Productions, and the generous donors of A.I. The Anomaly’s Patreon members.
Sa’dia Rehman, The Falls
March 24 – May 4, 2023
Opening Reception, Friday, March 24, 2023, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Brooklyn artist Sa’dia Rehman will be in residency in March 2023 constructing a site-specific exhibition that will be on display through May 4, 2023. Rehman pulls apart and puts together images from family photographs, historical records, and mass media to explore how contemporary and historical visual culture communicate, consolidate, and contest ideas about race, power, and gender.
Part of the Displacement: Reclaiming Place, Space, and Memory Exhibition and Workshop Series, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Part of Buffalo Arts Studio’s Artist-in-Residence program.
George Hughes, Identity, Power, and Reconciliation
January 27 – March 1, 2023
Opening Reception, Friday, January 27, 2023, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Geoge Afedzi Hughes’s paintings explore shared narratives that cut across racial differences and highlight the connection of contemporary global conflicts to colonial history. Using humor and metaphor, Identity, Power, and Reconciliation juxtaposes personal narratives, historical tropes, and pop culture references in ways that address the complex and nuanced issue of racial reconciliation.
Part of the Displacement: Reclaiming Place, Space, and Memory Exhibition and Workshop Series, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Awarded Best Exhibit, Small Gallery in Buffalo Spree’s Best of WNY 2023.
Jodi Lynn Maracle, Where the Rust Meets the Land
January 27 – March 1, 2023
Opening Reception, Friday, January 27, 2023, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother, artist, craftswoman, and scholar-activist based in Buffalo, NY. Maracle blends traditional Haudenosaunee skills, symbols, forms and language with modern processes to articulate historical and contemporary relationships to place, land, and community.
Part of the Displacement: Reclaiming Place, Space, and Memory Exhibition and Workshop Series, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Annual Studio Artist Show and Sale
November 22 – December 22, 2022
Celebration and Extended Hours: Saturday, December 3, 2022, 5:00 – 9:00 pm
The Annual Studio Artist Show and Sale showcases the work of Buffalo Arts Studio’s 30 Studio Artists who actively maintain working studios on-site, many of which are open to the public during regular gallery hours. Each studio is unique and offers visitors a glimpse into the creative process central to making engaging artwork. The Annual Studio Artist Show and Sale features over 100 pieces of original artwork exhibited in the galleries and includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, jewelry, and more. Many of the studios will also have work on display and nearly all of it can all be purchased right off the wall and taken home with our guests. Original artwork makes the perfect gift! Gift certificates for classes and artwork are also available in the gift shop.
Matt Kenyon and Jason J. Ferguson, Homing
September 23 – November 4, 2022
Opening Reception, Friday, September 23, 2022, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Homing includes a variety of artworks that encourage gallery visitors to reconsider the notion of domesticity through a combination of ideas, metaphors, and objects that take as a starting point aspects and images of the home. In the nearly 10 years that Kenyon and Ferguson have worked together around this theme, the world has undergone a social and political unraveling forcing many to turn inward to reflect and re-evaluate what is truly meaningful in their lives. Homing addresses the heightened intimacy of home while challenging the invisible systems that govern day-to-day existence.
Part of the Displacement: Reclaiming Place, Space, and Memory Exhibition and Workshop Series, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mizin Shin, World Network Models
September 23 – November 4, 2022
Opening Reception, Friday, September 23, 2022, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Mizin Shin’s new project, World Network Models visualizes maps of transportation connections to expose the interdependent travel systems as networks of migratory movement. Since the onset of COVID-19, we have all experienced how deeply humankind is connected as individual economic and health decisions affect those around the world. Shin’s new series of prints, drawings, and installations show mapped data from travel patterns following historical trends in international mass transportation including air and ground travels—particularly rail in Europe. The work not only portrays the stages of technological evolution but also illustrates the continual increase of interconnectivity emphasizing the complexity and quantity of travel patterns. The collected transportation data is used to visualize historical travel information and, in turn, reveals anthropological networks of interactions through war, culture, trade, and economy.
Part of the Displacement: Reclaiming Place, Space, and Memory Exhibition and Workshop Series, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Projects for this exhibition were completed with funding from the AHL – Andrew & Barbara Choi Family Foundation Project Grant.
Los Artistas del Barrio Buffalo, De aquí, De allá
August 9 – August 26, 2022
Closing Reception, Friday, August 26, 2022, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Los Artistas Del Barrio Buffalo exhibits, promotes, and supports Latino/a/x artists of all genres located in and connected to Buffalo and Western New York. Los Artistas Del Barrio Buffalo’s mission is to function as an arts collective that highlights the talents and creativity of Latino/a/x artists of every discipline in our community. Featuring the work of Aileen Gonzalez Marti, Alexsandra López, Arayoán Tylec, Arnaldo Alvarado, Joseph de James Maldonado, Julio Montalvo Valentin, Maria Charito Roasario Seijo-Cala, Melinda Capeles, Michele Agosto, Vinny Alejandro, and William Rodriguez.
Photo by Michele Agosto.
Kyle Butler, Big Trash Day
July 22 – September 3, 2022
Opening Reception, Friday, July 22, 2022, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Kyle Butler shifts his process and materials from one series to the next, moving between image-based painting and process–based installation work. In much of the work, the built environment draws attention to the interplay of competing and cooperating systems as well as the limitations of those systems. For a brief time, a neighborhood lays out a series of pragmatic sculptures by the roadside to be picked up or picked through. The incidental aesthetic they form relates to another such aesthetic that has been an ongoing influence in Butler’s work: the happenstance assembly of elements often apparent on dead–end streets. Butler appreciates the sum total of the worn signage, warped fences, scattered debris, overgrowth, roads that dissipate into grass, and the variety of stones, posts, and other barriers to passage. Butler regards these environments as a form of municipal expression, a sour visual sentiment brought into being by the unwitting collaboration between residents, governing powers, and infrastructure. While the accidental aesthetics may be amusing, they are also an unflattering indicator of a built environment that is often oppressive and a governing system that disregards the well–being of select groups for the sake of capital.
Jim Morris, On the Nature of Things
June 24 – September 3, 2022
Opening Reception, Friday, June 24, 2022, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Jim Morris’s work explores how dynamic real-world events can be visualized to capture states of volatility, turbulence, and transformation. The title of the exhibition, On the Nature of Things, comes from a poem by Lucretius, a first-century Roman philosopher. Throughout the poem, Lucretius unfolds a narrative that testifies to humankind’s curiosity and search for knowledge and understanding of the world. According to Morris, Lucretius believed the world can be analyzed and best understood through inquiry and observation. The poet asserts there is no need to believe in magic, gods, demons, or participate in superstition — we are just a whole bunch of atoms combining and recombining in an infinite space.
Tommy Nguyen, new gods, old America
April 22—May 28, 2022
Opening Reception, Friday, April 22, 2022, 5:00—8:00 pm
Closing Reception, Friday, May 27, 2022, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Tommy Nguyen (Brooklyn, NY) will present new gods, old America, a full gallery installation that presents a new pantheon of gods that reflect all genders, ethnicities, rights, and powers made from reflective mylar. The gods float above visitors’ heads within the gallery filled with meditative, ambient sound to encourage mindfulness, prayer, meditation, introspection, and even play.
Part of Navigating Identity Exhibition and Workshop Series, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Awarded Best Exhibit at a Small Gallery in Buffalo Spree’s Best of WNY 2022.
Ashley Mercurio, Perfekt
May 5 – May 18, 2022
Opening Reception, Thursday, May 5, 2022, 5:00—7:00 pm
Ashley Mercurio’s work forefronts the haphazard process, where image contours are loosely structured and then fleshed out with a variety of collage, paint, and assemblage approaches. For Perfekt, Mercurio began with an origin work, a large-scale mixed-media work structured largely by a pattern of irregular fabric patches. From this work, she subdivided it into eight sections, traced the contours of each, and then made a series of eight companion works based on the contours of the original work. Additionally, she extended the collage and paint process to a set of irregularly shaped sculptures. Perfekt is a tongue-in-cheek reflection of an unwieldy and improvisatory process.
Maria Falanga, Attraverso il tempo
May 5 – May 18, 2022
Opening Reception, Thursday, May 5, 2022, 5:00—7:00 pm
Maria Falanga has developed a signature portraiture stylization involving hard-edged and intense color shapes with an irregular geometry and unpredictable color substitutions. The work in Attraverso il tempo involves a series of portrayals of three generations of Falanga’s family. The images shift from achromatic to full-color in line with their chronology. Additionally, Falanga makes allusions to her relatives’ survival of WWII through sculptural enlargements of candy, like that which was tossed to civilians during liberation festivities at the end of the war in Italy.
Crystal Z Campbell, VIEWFINDER
April 22—May 14, 2022
Opening Reception, Friday, April 22, 2022, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Screening, Crystal Z Campbell and Allan Jamieson, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, 7:00—8:30 pm
Journeys End Refugee Services Theater, Tri-Main Center, Suite 530
Crystal Z Campbell’s multidisciplinary practice centers on public secrets, or information known by many, but that is undertold and underspoken. Campbell’s film, VIEWFINDER, was shot entirely in the resort town of Varberg, Sweden and features recent migrants to Sweden. This immersive film installation takes cues from Swedish folktales, gestures, and movements to explore belonging, allyship, and living monuments. If our bodies are archives, what is the currency of place, of movement, of memory?
Part of Navigating Identity Exhibition and Workshop Series, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
In partnership with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.
CaldodeCultivo, Attica NOW
February 25 – April 8, 2022
Opening Reception, Friday, February 25, 2022, 5:00—8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center
Attica NOW is the culmination of CaldodeCultivo’s research of the 1971 Attica uprising and includes objects and images from recent political actions as well as time-based media projections based on evidence collected by NY State.
Part of Navigating Identity Exhibition and Workshop Series, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
This exhibition was made possible, in part, by the generous support of the University at Buffalo Department of Art.
Buffalo Arts Studio Exhibitions Archive
For over three decades Buffalo Arts Studio has been a leading exhibition space within the Western New York arts community. In that time, we have exhibited the work of hundreds of local, regional, and international artists. Please reference our year-by-year Exhibitions Archive below, and feel free to contact Buffalo Arts Studio’s Curator, Shirley Verrico (shirley@buffaloartsstudio.org), if you have any questions about past exhibitions.
*This archive is currently a work in progress, please excuse any omissions. Any corrections on artists, exhibition dates, or further insight is welcome and should be directed to lauren@buffaloartsstudio.org
2021
Julia Bottoms, Because We Should, September 25 – November 6, 2021
Jump Start Student Biennial Exhibition, Growth, September 25 – November 6, 2021
Kathleen Sherin, Stable Structures and Disruptive Forces, July 23 – September 3, 2021
Oreen Cohen, Darkest Dark, July 23 – September 3, 2021
Gareth Lichty, Warp and Weft, March 26 – June 4, 2021
Sara Zak, Cleave, May 1 – June 11, 2021
Buffalo Public School Art Educator Exhibition, Hindsight Teacher IS Artist, May 1 – June 11, 2021
Live on Five 2021, April 2 – April 24, 2021
Justina Dziama, A Millimeter of Space, January 26 – March 6, 2021
2020
Adele Henderson, Industry and Abundance, September 25 – November 3, 2020
Patrick Foran, Exploded View, September 25 – November 3, 2020
Edreys Wajed, Wish You Were Here, July 24 – September 5, 2020
Jump Start Student Biennial Exhibition, Postponed Due to Covid-19
Buffalo Public School Art Educator Exhibition, Optic Aberration, Postponed Due to COVID-19
Jay Carrier, We Took Things With Us; A Collection of Recent Work, January 24 – March 6, 2020
2019
Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, Understory, September 27 – November 2, 2019
Phyllis Thompson, Making Memories: Telling Visual Stories, September 27 – November 2, 2019
Stacey Robinson, Black Imaginings, July 26 – September 7, 2019
Black Kirby, Night Boy, July 26 – September 7, 2019
Reinhard Reitzenstein, WTF (Where’s the Forest), May 24 – June 28, 2019
Obsidian Bellis, Apothecary for Sis, April 6 – May 3, 2019
Annie Bielski, Joes & Anns, April 6 – May 3, 2019
2018
Kurt Treeby, Re-Model, September 28 – November 1, 2018
Jozef Bajus, Gold Rush, September 28 – November 1, 2018
Muhammad Z Zaman, Lux, July 27 – September 7, 2018
Jump Start Biennial, Fascination, May 25 – June 29, 2018
Buffalo Public School Art Educator Exhibit, Art is Why, May 25 – June 15, 2018
Mizin Shin, Feedback Loop, March 23 – May 5, 2018
Chuck Tingley, Stream, March 23 – May 5, 2018
George Hughes, The Politics of Identity, January 26 – March 3, 2018
2017
Kurt Von Voetsch, Stage Four, September 22 – November 3, 2017
Heather Layton, Allen Topolski, Coping Mechanisms, September 22 – November 3, 2017
Colleen McCubbin Stepanic, Current, June 23 – August 4, 2017
Laura Borneman, Varied Perspectives, June 23 – August 4, 2017
Van Tran Nguyen, Strange Agency, April 28 – June 2, 2017
Julia Bottoms, Tinted, April 28 – June 2, 2017
CollectX25: An Art Affair and Auction for All, March 25, 2017
2016
Ani Hoover, Art Craft Field Day, September 23 – November 7, 2016
Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, Five Buffalos, August 5 – September 2, 2016
Changzhou China Children’s Art Exhibit, July 11 – August 2, 2016
Art Therapy Buffalo, Art Therapy: Creative Healing, June 24 – July 16, 2016
Buffalo Public Schools Art Educators Exhibit, Play, May 27 – July 1, 2016
Jump Start Biennial, Emerge, May 27 – June 10, 2016
Dorothy Fitzgerald, Committed to Memory, March 25 – May 6, 2016
Tricia Butski, Semblance, March 25 – May 6, 2016
Buffalo State College Visual Arts Board Exhibition, Typical, February 26 – March 11, 2016
2015
Elizabeth Gemperlein, Fool’s Paradise, September 25 – November 6, 2015
Marissa Lehner, Anima Mundi, September 25 – November 6, 2015
Allan Hebeler, Human. Nature., July 24 – September 4, 2015
Maude White, You Were Wild Here, July 24 – September 4, 2015
Alicia Marvan, Auxiliary Constructions, Volume 1, May 22 – June 26, 2015
Barbara Buckman, New Works, May 22 – June 26, 2015
William Koch, Works on Paper, May 8 – June 5, 2015
Villa Maria College Senior BFA Graphic Design Exhibit, PRELUDE, April 24 – 29, 2015
Stacey Robinson, Binary Conscience, March 27 – May 2, 2015
Megan Conley, Assemblage, March 27 – May 2, 2015
Tommy Nguyen, Me PLUSH You Long Time, January 23 – March 6, 2015
2014
Jessica Warner, By the Waters…,September 26 – November 8, 2014
Barbara Murak, Healing Revelations,September 26 – November 8, 2014
Kate Gaudy, IconoClusterFoxtrot, September 26 – November 8, 2014
echo Art Fair, September 6 – 7, 2014
Alicia Malik, Husks, July 25 – September 13, 2014
Kristina Siegel and Jorg Schnier, Deserted Rooms & White Noise, July 25 – September 13, 2014
Buffalo Public Schools Art Educators Exhibit, May 2 – June 22, 2014
Jump Start Biennial, May 2 – June 22, 2014
Buffalo Arts Studio Annual Members Exhibition, February 28 – March 22, 2014
2013
Daniel Galas, Not Fade Away, September 14 – November 9, 2013
The Brew House Association Exchange Exhibition, June 8 – August 24, 2013
James A. Allen, Tears, and No Tears, April 13 – June 01, 2013
Adele Henderson, Good Question, Thanks for Asking, April 13 – June 1, 2013
Andrzej Maciejewski, Garden of Eden, January 26 – March 16, 2013
Lynn Richardson, Inter-Glacial Free Trade Agency, January 26 – March 16, 2013
2012
Marie-Claire Bozant, The Limits of Stability, September 22 – November 3, 2012
Lai-Chung Poon, Layers, September 22 – November 3, 2012
Allen C. Topolski, Once Familiar, Twice Removed, September 22 – November 3, 2012
Karine Giboulo, Village Démocratie, June 16 – August 24, 2012
Heather Layton, Living Room Churches and Outspoken Saints, June 16 – August 24, 2012
Jonathan Allen, THROUGH THE VANISHING POINT, April 7 – May 26, 2012
Timothy Scaffidi, Transactions, April 7 – May 26, 2012
Buffalo Public School Art Educators Exhibit, flipside, March 16 – 25, 2012
Megan Greene, January 7 – March 10, 2012
2011
Evolution | Revolution: The 20th Anniversary Exhibition, October 1 – December 23, 2011
Lin Price, Constellations, June 4 – July 30, 2011
Robert Booth, Figurations, June 4 – July 30, 2011
George Hughes, Fragments, March 26 – May 21, 2011
Craig LaRotonda, Lost Between Aberration and Absurdity, March 26 – May 21, 2011
Robert Lynch, Moth Repair, March 26 – May 21, 2011
Soheila Esfahani and Hye Yeon Nam, Somewhere In Between, January 15 – March 12, 2011
2010
Takashi Horisaki, Social Dress Buffalo: The Past Reflecting the Future, June 18 – August 07, 2010
Megan Michalak and Stephanie Rothenberg, World X Diagnostics, June 18 – August 07, 2010
James Paulsen, Transformation of the Public Sphere, June 18 – August 7, 2010
Dennis Maher, Pre-Post-Anew, April 17 – May 29, 2010
Kyle Butler, Aggregate, April 17 – May 29, 2010
2009
Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, Breaking News, September 12 – October 31, 2009
Charmaine Wheatley, RAWR, September 12 – October 31, 2009
Western New York Book Arts Collaborative Members Exhibition, September 12 – October 31, 2009
Amy Robinson Gendrou, Keeping the Thread, June 12 – August 8, 2009
William Koch, 5W30: Wastelands, June 12 – August 8, 2009
Kathleen Sherin and Rosemarie Bauer Sroka, Water Works, June 12 – August 8, 2009
Michael Beitz, General Assembly, April 4 – May 22, 2009
Letha Wilson, Lost Horizons, April 4 – May 22, 2009
John Aäsp, Eternal Now, January 17 – March 7, 2009
Kevin Charles Kline, DIG: excavations of information visualized, January 17 – March 7, 2009
2008
David Schirm, From Then Until Now, September 6 – November 1, 2008
Justin Thompson, maybe it runs in the family, September 6 – November 1, 2008
The Imaginary Line, May 17 – August 9, 2008
Vapor Trails, March 15 – April 25, 2008
Hendrickson, Houseknecht, Wachob, January 12 – February 22, 2008
2007
Beyond/In Western New York, September 14 – November 3, 2007
Buffalo Society of Artists Spring Show, May 12 – July 14, 2007
Marni Schindelman, Souveniers from Human, My Mammal, February 3 – March 30, 2007
Krista Birnbaum, The Loneliness of the Species, February 3 – March 30, 2007
2006
Annual Studio Artists Exhibit and Sale, November 18, 2006 – January 7, 2007
Joanna Angie, Two Years After Tibet, September 16 – October 16, 2006
Dan Baxter and Jeff Vincent, Land of the Dolls, September 9 – November 11, 2006
Tom Holt, My Glorified Hobby, September 9 – October 28, 2006
A Long Look Homeward, July 8 – September 30, 2006
So Far, June 10 – August 12, 2006
Jackie Felix, Second Look/Connections, April 8 – May 20, 2006
2005
Sandra Rechico, On-Site Installation, September 10 – October 29, 2005
Amanda Wojick, Works on Paper and Cliffs, September 10 – October 29, 2005
Beyond/In Western New York, April 23 – June 18, 2005
Amanda Besl, When Pink Turns, February 26 – April 1, 2005
Jessi Morris, Works by Jessi Morris, February 26 – April 1, 2005
2004
Isabelle Pelissier, Paintings and Sculpture, September 11 – November 6, 2004
David Derner, Reinventing Spindrift Dunton, July 10 – August 14, 2004
Frances Ferdinands, Embodied Ideals, July 10 – August 14, 2004
Dina Recanati, Passages, April 24 – June 26, 2004
Kathi Roussel, Siphon: Mother’s Milk Series #1, Febuary 28 – April 5, 2004
Meagan Shein, Trees After Bruegel Series, February 28 – April 5, 2004
2003
Neto Hatinakwa Onkwehowe, October 18 – November 15, 2003
Matthew Friday and Betty Kinder, Ruin (nation), September 6 – October 3, 2003
Robin Michals, Armed to the Teeth, September 6 – October 3, 2003
Jump Start Biennial, August 9-22, 2003
Catherine Linder Spencer, Scrap Cars, June 7 – August 2, 2003
Robert Lynch and Matthew Sagurney, The Solo Roths, June 7 – August 2, 2003
Ani Hoover, Paintings, May 3 – May 31, 2003
John Opera, Soup, May 3 – May 31, 2003
Robert A. Booth, Mixed Media, March 8 – April 19, 2003
Milton M. Weiser, Oil Paintings on Wood, January 11 – March 3, 2003
2002
Billie Grace Lynn, Innards, September 6 – November 2, 2002
Kate Wilson, Botanical Sci-fi, September 6 – November 2, 2002
Cody Kroll, Effigy, June 15 – June 27, 2002
Tim Merrick, Games & Traps, June 15 – July 27, 2002
Polly Little, paintings and works on paper, May 4 – June 8, 2002
Alberto Rey, Trout Encounters, March 9 – April 20, 2002
2001
Robert Barr, photographs, October 27 – November 23, 2001
Kathleen Sherin, prints, September 8 – October 20, 2001
Gerald Mead, assemblages, September 8 – October 20, 2001
Jump Start Biennial, August 21 – August 31, 2001
10th Anniversary Celebration: Buffalo Arts Studio at Kenan Center, June 29 – July 29, 2001
Masha Ryskin and Sandra Fernandez, May 4 – August 8, 2001
Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe presents Jeff Thomas, GERONIMO WAS HERE, May 4 – August 8, 2001
Margaret Stover, the other side of summer is best, April 10 – April 26, 2001
Mona Niculescu, gap, April 10 – April 26, 2001
Isabelle Pelissier and Catherine Shuman Miller, March 3 – April 21, 2001
2000
Judith Marquis, Skin, September 9 – October 14, 2000
Arthur Reif, Static, September 9 – October 14, 2000
Michael Morgulis, Riding the Bull Home, July 08 – August 20, 2000
Megan Greene and Christy Zucarelli, New Works, July 8 – August 20, 2000
A.J. Fries, Desire, May 20 – June 30, 2000
Alfonso Volo, PETS ARE US, May 20 – June 30, 2000
Jung-Sung Cho, Construction on Inside Body, April 21 – May 13, 2000
Julia Unruh, my name is julia, April 21 – May 13, 2000
Joanna Angie, Ting…Moving Towards Balance, March 25 – May 13, 2000
1999
Bryan Hopkins, Instruments, October 9 – November 13, 1999
Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe presents Shelley Niro, October 9 – November 13, 1999
Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe presents: Nobility Rising (On Healing Ground), September 1-30, 1999
William Y. Cooper, Visions/Visions/Cooper, September 1 – October 2, 1999
Calvert Maurer, The Calvert Show, July 1-29, 1999
Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe presents: The Women’s Dance, March 6 – April 18, 1999
1998
1997
Annual Studio Artist Exhibit and Sale, June 22 – July 31, 1997
Laura Snyder, Veiled Dissections, April 26 – May 18, 1997
Joel Varland, Thesis Exhibition, April 26 – May 18, 1997
Susan Budash, Games, March 22 – April 19, 1997
Western New York Women’s Forum Art Exhibition, March 1-31, 1997
James P. Purcell, Michael Straub, Ahmed Reffat Soliman, In & Out, February 8-28, 1997
1996
Let’s Go Bowling!, November 9 – November 30, 1996
Annual Studio Artist Exhibit and Sale, June 22 – July 31, 1996
The New Members Show, May 25 – June 15, 1996
Keith Broadhurst and Sharon Kalstek, Recombinant Figuration, April 27 – May 17, 1996
1995
Calvert Maurer, Ladewska, and Michael LaVollo, November 4 – November 30, 1995
Franklin Lavoie, Steve Gawoski, and Jeff Gonzalez, Happy Hour, July 8 – August 5, 1995
Paul Martin, M. Aleese Martin, and Peter Sowiski, Recent Works on Paper, June 10 – June 29, 1995
Bob Budin, Joanna Angie, and Jim Purcell, Duality & Balance, May 6 – May 27, 1995
1994
Norma Kassirer and Rena Margulis, Metro Retro: 2 from Buffalo, October 7 – October 28, 1994
Ivenia Bruckle, Craig Matis, and Peter Sramek, interior texteriors, June 4 – July 1, 1994
Hall Groat II, Snow Landscapes, May 6 – May 27, 1994
Linda Anderson, Inside a Painting, May 6 – May 27, 1994
Joel Varland, Recent Paintings, May 6 – May 27, 1994
Jamey Monroe Solecki and Julie Zabinski, Rock-Paper-Scissors, March 5 – March 26, 1994