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September 6 - November 1, 2008 David Schirm: From Then Until Now Justin Thompson: Maybe It Runs in the Family
May 17 - August 9, 2008 A multi-venue, collaborative exhibition that took place at Buffalo Arts Studio and El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera and featured screenings at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.
Buffalo Arts Studio May 17 - August 9, 2008 Featuring: Paula Braswell, Peter Dykhuis, Shelley Niro, and Leandro Soto
El Museo May 30 - July 22, 2008 Featuring: Border Film Project
Hallwalls Featuring: HARP Artist Jim Finn, The Juche Idea, May 15, 8 p.m. Videos by Guillermo Gómez-Peña , June 20, 8 p.m. Works by Ursula Biemann, July 25, 8 p.m. Love Canal Memorial Screening by Fereshteh Toosi, August 8, 8 p.m.
In the United States we have very significant, sometimes positive, sometimes troubled, border nation relationships with Mexico, Canada, Native American land, and Cuba. The physical borders define, differentiate, and ultimately separate one entity from the next, but in the quest for definition and identification, borders can change from innocuous to malevolent. These physical borders that delineate the landmasses of countless countries are sometimes benign locations separating two affable neighbors, while at other times they are the sites of catastrophic violence and hatred. Borders then are not just physical entities, but manifestations of the boundaries and fissures that exist within our own ideologies. Borders are in fact metaphorical locations were ones culture, ideals, and sense of self are either challenged or accepted, which can lead to a celebration of the diversity involved, or a clash of devastating intolerance. Artists pre-exisitng work was chosen or new work is being created to open up discussion of what borders, both physical and metaphorical, mean today in our exceedingly globalized world, in terms of cultural tolerance or intolerance, surveillance, government control of borders, trade, idea/cultural exchange, human rights issues, and loss of civil liberties. The artists and works were also chosen becasue of the individual, highly personal perspective they bring to the exhibtion. -Brooke Fitzpatrick, Curator
March 29, 2008
March 15 - April 25, 2008 Vapor Trails In conjunction with Trimania 3 held on Saturday, March 29, 2008. The early eighties brought widespread recognition to graffiti art with the expressive imagery of artists such as Keith Haring, J.M. Basquiat and Kenny Scharf. From Haring's socially conscious subway painting to Scharf's dreamlike scenarios, Graffiti sparked significant interest from the art world and found its way from the streets and subways into many New York galleries and ultimately into art historical vernacular, eventually designating it a legitimate art movement. From today's perspective Graffiti art is not at all a defunct movement or one that should be relegated to the confines of art history. The very qualities that make graffiti art what it is, art created with immediacy, spontaneity, and the need to indelibly sign his/her environment, render it a continuously relevant comment on contemporary urban experience. It exists as an influence for many contemporary artists today in regards to both style and content. Artists will create Graffiti style wall murals specifically for Buffalo Arts Studio’s gallery space. Artists who have had the past experiences of tagging and creating images in an unrestricted way, can then bring this understanding and awareness into the legal gallery project without loosing the improvisational experimentation of the street, helping us maintain Graffiti art's spirit and integrity within the gallery walls. -Brooke Fitzpatrick, Curator
January 12 - February 22, 2008 Hendrickson. Houseknecht. Wachob. Phillip Hendrickson uses various media to create his collage-like works, which depict “shuffled” parts of the human body and technological mechanisms. These re-contextualized images combine to become expansive narratives. Stephen Houseknecht will present a series of photographic diptychs of World War II bomber planes. The two juxtaposed photographs allow the viewer to simultaneously see two moments in time or two perspectives. Puns on WWII movies and patriotic metaphors abound. Amanda Wachob’s oil-on-canvas work is inspired by vintage magazines, particularly those of the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s. She questions ingrained societal notions of gender, class, and race by creating images that disorient the viewer and that distort these accepted ideas. The resulting exhibition shows technological advancement and the inferred cultural ramifications of such progress. Referencing world-altering events and their indisputable effect on society, Houseknecht’s work remembers the achievement of flight and at the same time creates a different reality than the hostile conflicts war bombers were engaged in, while Hendrickson's work questions industrial progress through the lens of our physical bodies and, ultimately, our humanity. Wachob’s vintage, postwar imagery addresses gender and race roles through decidedly familiar, yet unsettlingly domestic and feminine imagery. In viewing Housekenecht and Wachob’s work in succession, a historical progression unfolds, as one period in our societal history informs the next. Whereas Hendrickson’s work seems to encapsulate a timeless, continuing engagement with technology. -Brooke Fitzpatrick, Curator
November 17 - December 29, 2007 Annual Artist Exhibit and Sale '07
September 14 - November 3, 2007 Beyond/In Western New York 2007 Featuring: Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Shayne Dark, Kara Daving, Bryan Hopkins, and Laura Garofalo & Omar Khan.
May 12 - July 14 , 2007 Buffalo Society of Artists 2007 Spring Show AND small built works studio presenting renovation plans for Buffalo Arts Studio and also showing work from 15 South Putnam
February 3 - March 30, 2007 Marni Shindelman and Krista Birnbaum
November 18, 2006 - January 6, 2007 Annual Artists Exhibit and Sale '06 and Student Exhibition
September 9 - October 28, 2006 Tom Holt: My Glorified Hobby Dan Baxter, Thu Tran, and Jeffrey Vincent: Land of the Dolls
July 8 - October 31, 2006 A Long Look Homeward An exhibition presenting Tibet’s history and visions for its future through texts, photographs, videos, and installations. Curated by Kunchok Youdon.
September 16, 2006, 8:00pm Crazy Wisdom: Buddhism, Beat Literature, and American Poetics Presented by Just Buffalo Literary Center in celebration of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama's visit, in association with Buffalo Arts Studio and Community Outreach Group. For information regarding other events related to the Dalai Lama's visit: www.buffalo.edu/dalai_lama
April 8 - May 23, 2006 Jackie Felix: Second Look/ Connections
January 28 - March 25, 2006
November 19, 2005 - January 2006 Annual Artists Exhibit and Sale '05 A site-specific installation by Sandra Rechico
September 10 - October 29, 2005 Amanda Wojick: Works on Paper Cliffs
April 23 - June 18, 2005 Beyond/In Western New York 2005
February 26 - April 1, 2005
February 26 - April 1, 2005
November 20 - December 24, 2004 Annual Artists Small Works Exhibition '04
September 11 - November 6, 2004 Paintings and sculpture by Isabelle Pelissier Frances Ferdinands: Embodied Ideals Reinventing Spindrift Dunton An installation by David Derner
April 24-June 26,2004
February 28 - April 10, 2004 An installation by Meagan Shein Kathi Roussel: Mother's Milk Series
January 10 - February 14, 2004 Mark Lavatelli: Treescapes
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