Curated by Julia Bottoms, On the Rise II; Emerging Artists of Color

February 28 – April 6, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, February 28, 2025, 5:00—8:00 pm

Part of M&T Fourth Friday at Tri-Main

On the Rise II is a group show featuring emerging artists of color curated by Studio Artist Julia Bottoms. 

Jump Start Biennial Exhibition

May 23 – June 14, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, May 23, 2025, 5:00—8:00 pm

Part of M&T Fourth Friday at Tri-Main

Every two years, the Buffalo Arts Studio community comes together to celebrate the amazing students in our Jump Start program. 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.

Buffalo Public School Art Educator Exhibition

May 23 – June 14, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, May 23, 2025, 5:00—8:00 pm

Part of M&T Fourth Friday at Tri-Main

Buffalo Arts Studio will host a Buffalo Public Schools Arts Teachers’ Exhibition curated by Michele Agosto, Director of Arts, Buffalo Public Schools. This exhibition features over 20 original works in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, fiber, and digital design. The community is invited to see the talented individuals who are shaping our future artists.

David Buck, Recollect

June 27 – August 8, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, June 27, 2025, 5:00—8:00 pm

Part of M&T Fourth Friday at Tri-Main

David Buck has been a Studio Artist with Buffalo Arts Studio since 2006, working primarily in oil.

He works from photographs, concentrating on gesture and emotion rather than detail. Buck has used the idyllic aspects of his own rural adolescence as a catalyst. Buck’s paintings feature everyday activities such as picnics, yard work, or road trips. By recapturing and reinterpreting these fleeting moments, his works explore the way memory filters experience.

Frani Evedon, Into Madness

July 25 – September 5, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, July 25, 2025, 5:00—8:00 pm

Part of M&T Fourth Friday at Tri-Main

Into Madness is a series of twenty photographic works that address the artist’s experience with heroin addiction, Hepatitis C and the “cure” that almost killed her. Although Evedon’s heroin addiction lasted only a few years, its consequences persisted for 40 years. Evedon believes it is essential that she translate this experience into works that communicate the trap of sweet dreams and the ensuing nightmare that the “cure” activated.

Sam Modder, Solo Exhibition

August 22 – November 15, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, August 22, 2025, 5:00—8:00 pm

Part of M&T Fourth Friday at Tri-Main

Sam Modder (Tampa, FL), is a Nigerian-Sri Lankan artist who works figuratively in pen, collage, and digital media to portray larger-than-life Black, female characters taking up space in real and imagined worlds. Modder positions the work within the speculative practice of the Black imaginary—centering Black dreams and fantasies to create alternate spaces of both comfort and confrontation. The spaces she creates are less utopia and more speculative test lab, decentering broken realities and focusing instead on the imaginary to help understand and rethink oppressive structures.

Part of Unruly Spaces, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Davana Robedee, Biformity

August 22 – November 15, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, August 22 2025, 5:00—8:00 pm

Formal Artist Talk, Friday, September 26, 2025 5:00 – 8:00 pm.

Part of M&T Fourth Friday at Tri-Main

Davana Robedee (Syracuse, NY) will present large-scale textile works that use stitch-resist shibori techniques and indigo dye as a method of drawing. Each work is planned and executed over many months as Robedee grows and extracts the pigments from plants she cultivates.

Davana Robedee will give a formal artist talk on indigo dyeing to accompany her exhibition.

Part of Unruly Spaces, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Jozef Bajus, Everything Stays

September 26 – November 8, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, September 26, 2025, 5:00—8:00 pm

Part of M&T Fourth Friday at Tri-Main

Jozef Bajus is an eco-activist artist who believes that art can and should change the environment for the better. Everything Stays is a series of new works utilizing materials Bajus has collected for various projects over the past 20 years. Bajus embraces the aesthetic potential in discarded materials, transforming them and breathing new life into these objects using the physics of light and gravity. This allows visitors movements to interact with the artwork as their presence impacts the artwork literally. The aim of Everything Stays, as with Bajus’ other work, is that when audiences recognizes the ways they can interact differently with these familiar items, they will be inspired to see the need to reduce, the power of reuse, and the potential of recycling in their everyday life.