Current Exhibitions

Bartow + Metzgar + Werberig, Terrakwa: An investigation of the Erie Canal Across Time and Geography

January 24 – March 8, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, January 24, 2025, 5:00—8:00 pm

Part of M&T Fourth Friday at Tri-Main

The collaborative team Bartow+Metzgar+Werberig conducted a multi-year experimental drawing project to investigate the expression of time through a human-nonhuman drawing collaboration with trees. Their investigative process began in 2016 with a simple question — what is a nonhuman expression of time as it relates to the Erie Canal? The outcome produced 40 tree drawings (drawings made by trees) created with a simple drawing apparatus used to record atmospheric forces affecting a tree across time for a specific place. The artist team selected trees along the banks of the Erie Canal and its connected waterways. No two drawings are alike but when viewed as a collective offer a legibility that is provocative and speculative, and best perceived as perturbations rather than abstractions.

New York State’s Erie Canal is 351 miles long and runs from Albany, NY to Buffalo, NY. The canal is, in large part, a public space. It offers an ideal condition of the “commons,” a space where the artist team could conduct their work without the hindrance of land ownership, accessibility, or trespass to land.

Part of Waterfront View Series, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Jay Carrier, Niagara it’s Great to be Here.

January 24 – April 5, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, January 24, 2025, 5:00—8:00 pm

Part of M&T Fourth Friday at Tri-Main

Jay Carrier is a visual artist born on Six Nations to Onondaga and Tuscarora parents, who currently lives and works in Niagara Falls, NY and holds a B.F.A. from the University of Illinois-Champlain. Carrier studied painting at The College of Santa Fe, New Mexico and in the MFA program from the University of Illinois. Carrier has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and Canada, including Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, the Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, NY, Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Fenimore House Museum, Cooperstown, New York, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York, Woodland Cultural Center Museum, Brantford, Ontario, Canada, Chautauqua Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Chautauqua, New York and the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York.

Part of Waterfront View Series, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.