Current Exhibitions
Rachel Shelton, Slow Looking
May 22 – August 1, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, May 22, 2026, 5:00–8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Friday
Rachel Shelton (Buffalo, NY) will exhibit Slow Looking, a new body of work that challenges the negativity so often associated with decay, uncertainty, and precarity. When things shed the weight of their past lives, there is also hope, potential, and relief. New connections and contexts, once thought impossible, become real. With installation work and a series of repeated and reiterated prints of rock forms, Shelton reminds us that it is the nature of things not only to fall apart, but to begin again.
Warren Quigley, Erratic
May 22 – August 1, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, May 22, 2026, 5:00–8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Friday
Warren Quigley (Ontario, Canada) will present Erratic, an installation of 37 carved wooden spheres in varying scales that challenge anthropocentric worldviews and reveal the paradox: the more we learn in our pursuit of control over our environment, the more we become aware of our own vulnerability. Warren Quigley has exhibited across Canada, the U.S., China, and in France, Brazil, and Japan. He has realized a number of permanent public art commissions, and his work is in private and public collections in Canada, the U.S.A., and Europe. He has taught at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, China, and is a lecturer in the Department of Art at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Quigley is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto.
Deborah Stewart, Propagation and Endurance
June 26 – August 1, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, June 26, 2026, 5:00–8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Friday
Buffalo ceramicist Deborah Stewart creates sculptural works that explore the interconnections between nature, movement, and form. Her lifelong engagement with hiking, camping, and gardening informs a deep physical and sensory relationship to the natural world, while her background as a modern dancer shapes her understanding of movement, energy, and breath. These influences converge in her ceramic practice, where she approaches clay as both a responsive partner and an expressive medium. Deborah Stewart is a sculptor primarily working in clay. Her main interests are the experience of nature and movement, and their transformation into clay forms. As a sculptor who has in the past also been a studio potter, a biologist, a modern dancer and choreographer, she interweaves sensibilities from each of these areas into her work. She has a BFA in Ceramics and an MFA in Visual Art/ Sculpture. Her work has been exhibited locally and nationally and is in public and private collections.
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