On At The Galleries:

Albright Knox

Francis Bacon:
Paintings from the 1950s
May 4 - July 29

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is proud to host Francis Bacon: Paintings from the 1950s, an exhibition that focuses on what is perhaps the most creative period of Bacon's career. Curated by Michael Peppiatt, a personal friend of Bacon and author of the exhibition catalogue and a biography, this project is organized by the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

The exhibition is centered around a group of thirteen paintings from the collection of Sir Robert and Lisa Sainsbury, prominent art collectors, patrons, and friends of Bacon. The Sainsburys were immediately attracted to Bacon's treatment of the human form when they first encountered his work in the 1950s.

The Sainsbury paintings, which date from 1952-1965, include a portrait of Robert Sainsbury and two of Lisa Sainsbury, who sat for Bacon numerous times and was his first female subject. The Sainsburys' early and unwavering support of Bacon was a boon to his career. In addition to the thirteen Sainsbury paintings, there will be other works from public and private collections around the world as well as archival materials, some of which have rarely been on view to the public.

The Gallery's own Man with Dog, purchased in 1953 by Seymour H. Knox, Jr., the same year it was painted and exhibited at Bacon's first New York show, will also be included.

Ken Heyman: Pop Portraits
June 15 - August 26, 2007
in collaboration with CEPA Gallery

While Ken Heyman's name may not be instantly familiar to most, his body of photographic work is extensive and has penetrated printed media and popular culture for the past fifty years. As a photographer for Magnum Photos (an international photographic organization) Heyman shot more than 150 photojournalist assignments for Life magazine and is perhaps best known for his lengthy, twenty-year collaboration with well-known anthropologist Dr. Margaret Mead.

Heyman, who was a student of Mead's at Columbia College, submitted a photographic essay to fulfill a term paper assignment in one of her courses. Impressed by what she saw, Mead invited Heyman to accompany her on a trip to Bali after his graduation.

With Mead, Heyman traveled the world and documented it all through the lens of his camera. Together, they co-authored two books - Family,1965 and World Enough,1976 - both of which were nominated for Pulitzer Prizes. Their pioneering partnership helped define the course of visual anthropology and forever altered the public's perspective of the world and the people who inhabit it.

Remix The Collection
on view throughout the year

As the second of a series of ongoing installations featuring the Gallery's permanent collection, this exhibition offers an inspired juxtaposition of historical and contemporary works, and devotes three spaces to recent acquisitions of important, new sculpture.

"American Seen" brings together images of everyday life and artistic representations of sentiments that reflect an inherently national iconography. This grouping of artwork explores the way in which artists have represented American culture throughout time. Where early American works by Winslow Homer and Thomas LeClear capture an anecdotal romantic view of the nineteenth century, contemporary artists such as Alec Soth present an incisive image of banality with photographs of forlorn motel facades.

"The Resonant Muse" groups art that has been inspired by music. Some artists, such as Raoul Dufy, hailed from musical families, which fueled their interest in the subject. Dufy's Homage to Mozart, 1915, reflects his affinity for the composer to whom he paid tribute in various forms throughout his lifetime. Wassily Kandinsky's Fragment 2 for Composition VII, 1913, utilized music as an abstract, formal vocabulary to depict eschatological themes. Works by Thomas Eakins, William Harnett, and Henri Matisse, among others, will also be featured.

The theme "Purity" will highlight an unassuming selection of art that assemble to form a pristine uniformity, void of color, but laden with texture and subtle variations. Although completely monochromatic in nature, Robert Ryman's State, 1978, offers irrefutable insight into the painterly process. In this space, one can abandon the familiar and focus on the ephemeral, yet penetrating, nature of the viewing experience.

"Minimal Narratives" is a space that highlights Mona Hautom's + and -, 1994-2004, an unusual "sundial" with a motorized rotating arm that marks into and erases a bed of sand. The sculpture's hypnotic and continual grooving and smoothing of sand, at a rate of five rotations per minute, evokes polarities of building and destroying, existence and disappearance, displacement and migration. Works by Robert Gober, Ann Hamilton, Doris Salcedo, and Anna Gaskell, among others, will draw you in with their elegance as they tell stories related to political and social issues.

"Robert Therrien" highlights Robert Therrien's new ten-foot-high replica of a standard folding card table and chairs. Therrien transforms objects from everyday life into sculptures that take on the timeless character of myths and folktales. His objects have the power to inspire child-like awe. Therrien's will select work from the Gallery's permanent collection to accompany this sculpture, No Title, 2006.

"Remix Non-Place Place" focuses on the industrial and post-industrial landscape. Sites of meaning in the contemporary landscape are often those places that seem to have no grounding, as they are disconnected from one another. The shopping mall, the office park, the big box retailer demand our presence as the new industrial centers, yet offer little sense of community. Artists Liam Gillick, Brian Alfred, Kathy Prendergast, Tim Hyde, and Jeff Wall, among others, highlight the "placelessness" of post-industrial design and document locations of anonymous significance.

Albright Knox Art Gallery
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, New York
716.882.8700

UB Anderson Gallery

Selections from the Permanent Collection:
Featuring work by Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, Michael Goldberg, and Antoni Tapies. Show runs through the beginning of August.

Beyond/In Western New York 2007:
Opening 9/12/07

Featuring work by Brendan Fernandes, Jason Lee, and Paul Walde. A reception for the artists during the Beyond/In weekend event will be held at the UB Anderson Gallery on Saturday September 15, 7:00-10:00PM.

Gallery Hours
Wednesday - Saturday 11 am -5 pm, and Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm

The UB Anderson Gallery is closed on all major holidays including Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.

Gallery admission is free.

UB Anderson Gallery
One Martha Jackson Place
Buffalo, NY 14214
716-829-3754

Art Gallery of Hamilton

Domestic Poetry
On view from March 3 to September 30, 2007

The traditionally humble still life rose to fresh prominence in 19th-century Europe, when newly empowered middle-class patrons provided a substantial market for the genre and still lifes became increasingly accepted by official exhibition juries. By the early 20th century, European modernists such as the Fauves and Cubists embraced still life as a suitable vehicle for the exploration of new concepts of pictorial structure and design. This exhibition features a substantial selection of the galleryÕs many beautiful still lifes from the 19th century and earlier and later periods, including still lifes by artists like the 19th-century Realists ThŽodule Ribot and Antoine Vollon, the Symbolist FŽlix Vallotton, and the 20th-century Fauvist AndrŽ Derain and Cubist pioneer Georges Braque.

Free admission courtesy of Orlick Industries.

Wild Nature: George McLean and Chris Bacon
from the Collection of Mr. David Braley
April 28 to December 2, 2007

In addition to being a principal supporter of the AGH and its programmes, David Braley has for several years assembled an impressive collection of the art of two leading contemporary wildlife paintersÑthe Canadians George McLean and Chris Bacon. Wild Nature continues the GalleryÕs commitment to share with the public significant private regional collections. Mr. BraleyÕs focused interest on the work of McLean and Bacon has resulted in an important collection of the best work of two artists whose distinctive personal views complement and contrast with each other, creating a meaningful dialogue within the Braley collection, and illustrating the range that wildlife painting can offer. Each artistÕs work is based on consummate technical skill and close observation of nature, yet McLean and Bacon possess distinct viewpoints. While Bacon specializes in avian painting, frequently silhouetting his birds against minimalist natural backgrounds and rendering them in delicate watercolour, McLean represents his animals immersed and sometimes camouflaged within a verdant natural world filled with meticulously rendered details of foliage.

Free admission courtesy of Orlick Industries.

Hours:
Tuesday & Wednesday: 12:00 noon - 7:00 pm
Thursday & Friday: 12:00 noon - 9:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday: 12:00 noon - 5:00 pm

Art Gallery of Hamilton
123 King St
West Hamilton, ON L8P 4S8
905-527-6610

Buffalo Arts Studio

Buffalo Society of Artists Spring Exhibition
May 12 - July 14, 2007

Buffalo Arts Studio
Tri-Main Center
2495 Main Street, Suite 500
Buffalo, NY 14214
(716) 833-4450

Burchfield-Penney Art Center

Charles Burchfield Center 40th Anniversary Exhibition
Thru June 24, 2007

The Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the only museum devoted to the art and vision of Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967), celebrates its 40th anniversary in December 2006. It is a little known fact that at first Burchfield declined the offer to have a museum dedicated in his name. Friendly, yet persistent persuasion convinced him to accept the honor. The inaugural exhibition of eighteen masterworks opened December 9, 1966 with Burchfield cutting the ribbon himself. This special anniversary exhibition will include selected works from the premier with historic documentation of the dedication ceremony. As well, it will represent examples from key Burchfield holdings in the collection and archives acquired primarily through generous donations over the past four decades.

2:2 featuring Brendan Bannon and Carl Lee
May 11 - July 8, 2007 The final installment of 2:2 features work by media artist Carl Lee and photographer Brendan Bannon. Carl Lee

A Life in the Arts: John Mielcarek
May 11 - July 8, 2007

Selections from the Annette Cravens Modern Ceramics Collection
January 19 - July 22, 2007

Annette Cravens's Twentieth-Century Ceramics Collection consists of approximately 244 artworks and continues to grow. Carefully assembled by Annette Cravens, Buffalo collector, the collection represents the work of artists from over 15 countries with objects principally from the United States and Europe. The outstanding quality of these works of art reflects upon Ms. Cravens's discerning eye as a collector and is a testament to the expressive power of the clay medium as seen in functional and sculptural objects. The exhibition will be curated by Bryan Hopkins, a practicing ceramic artist who has exhibited extensively both locally and nationally.

Hours:
Tue-Sat 10-5pm; Sun 1-5 pm.

Buffalo State College - Rockwell Hall
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
878-6011

Castellani Art Museum

Milton Rogovin:
Native American Series, 1963-2002
March 2 - June 24, 2007

Milton RogovinÕs work has been collected by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, among others. We are proud to host the very first exhibition of the artistÕs important Native American Series, a thirty-nine year project. Rogovin began photographing Iroquois communities in upstate New York and Canada as well as Native families who made their homes on the Lower West Side of Buffalo at a time when they were mainly invisible in mainstream culture.

A major goal, with this show, is to create an oral history based on the portraits included. The projectÕs curatorial team includes Dr. Cynthia Conides, Acting Executive Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society; Allan Jamieson, Director of Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe; and Mark Rogovin, who coordinates the Rogovin Collection. Support came from the New York State Council on the Arts. Co-sponsors are the Museum Studies Program at Buffalo State College, Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe, and the Rogovin Collection, LLC.

Robert Lynch:
Drink Orange Juice and Hang Out with the Horses
May 4 - September 16, 2007

Niagara Falls native Robert Lynch has appropriated imagery from an endless array of Google searches for this TopSpin show. His paintings read like tableaus of contemporary pop and kitsch. Even the title of the exhibition, ÒDrink Orange Juice and Hang Out with the Horses,Ó comes from a friendÕs internet blog and reflects his serendipitous approach to the visual arts!

Freedom Crossing: The Underground Railroad in Greater Niagara

Did you know that Harriet Tubman led groups of people escaping slavery across our own Suspension Bridge in Niagara Falls, New York, to freedom in Canada? A new exhibition at the Castellani Art Museum will reveal the people, places, and stories of the Underground Railroad on the Niagara Frontier through video, historic and contemporary photography, artifacts, and audio installations. This permanent exhibition and information center are supported by New York State's Underground Railroad Heritage Trail Grant Program. A special teacher's packet, available on our website, will include writing exercises, a bibliography of children's literature, and links to websites with lesson plans

Niagara University's 150th Anniversary Exhibition
September 15, 2006 - May 13, 2007

In conjunction with the university-wide celebration of 150 years ofexcellence in education, the Castellani will exhibit various archivaltreasures: paintings, photographs, and artifacts.

Hours:
Wed-Sat 11am-5pm; Sun 1-5pm.

Niagara University
286.8200

CEPA Gallery

Remains To Be Seen
March 31 - May 26, 2007

CEPA Gallery with Roberta and Michael Joseph is pleased to present, with major support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Remains To Be Seen, a retrospective examination of the artistic output of Carolee Schneemann that surveys the breadth and depth of her expansive contribution to contemporary art. The exhibition will open with a reception for the artist and the public, Saturday, March 31, 2007 from 7 - 10 p.m. The artist and the exhibition's curator, Photios Giovanis, will be present.

"Remains to be Seen" is a retrospective exhibition that surveys the career of Carolee Schneemann, one of the most significant artists of the post war era. While Carolee began as a painter, certain aesthetic and political concerns catapulted her work into the burgeoning fields of performance and body art. Some of her earliest performance works evolved out of collaborations with seminal artists of the period. However, Schneemann's contribution transformed the definition of art, especially in regards to discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. Her work questions the exclusivity of traditional Western categories by creating a space of complementarily, mutuality, and integration. Schneemann's often risky projects wrested pleasure from suppressive taboos and placed the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body. This comprehensive exhibition is divided into four sections, often eschewing chronology but addressing overriding themes central to Schneemann's oeuvre. Each section will be housed in a distinct space within CEPA Gallery. The sections are: "War," "Erotics" and "Felines." Facets of each theme tie into other parts of the exhibition, making the show a dynamic interconnected whole. This will be the first time that Schneemann's work will be organized by theme for the purposes of an exhibition.

CEPA Gallery is located in the historic Market Arcade building in Buffalo's downtown Theater District.

Upper Gallery and Underground
Monday - Friday 10:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday 12:00 - 4:00pm

Passageway and Public Art Spaces
Monday - Friday 7:00am - 10:00pm
Saturday 8:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday 9:00am - 3:00pm

CEPA Gallery
617 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
856-2717

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Kirsten Reynolds The Other Last Moment
June 9 - July 14, 2007

An architecturally-reactive installation, The Other Last Moment continues Reynolds ongoing exploration of the intersections of language, architecture, and the body. The installation will be comprised of architectural structures, faux lumber, actual building materials, and individually-carved comedic, biomorphic creatures. The use of humor and the grotesque combine into an absurd play that ceaselessly questions the systems of thought that formed the original architectural space.

Movement of and within structure will also be evident, with work that appears suspended between precarious balance and utter collapse, a continual destruction and recreation of the architecture of self.

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
341 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14202
716-854-1694

The Kenan Center

100 American Craftsmen
"Celebrating the art of craft"
June 1-3, 2007
Fri, 6-9 pm, Sat, 10 am-6 pm, Sun, 11 am-5 pm

100 American Craftsmen is an annual festival held at the Kenan Arena on the historic Kenan Center campus in Lockport, New York--just a short drive from Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Rochester and southern Ontario. The juried show is Buffalo Niagara's only, and longest-running, festival dedicated to contemporary craft art and features leather, glass, metal, clay, wood, basketry, fiber, paper and mixed media.

All proceeds from admissions and exhibitors fees are used to cover festival expenses and support our 25-acre campus which is the largest regional community arts, education and recreation center in Eastern Niagara, serving 43,000 plus individuals each year through more than fifty programs.

Many of our craftsmen return year after year because they enjoy the friendly, intimate atmosphere that encourages plenty of one-on-one with shoppers. Our visitors enjoy the wide aisles that allow for leisurely browsing--and wheelchair accessibility--the free raffle ticket for an original craft given with every admission ticket, and a separate, monitored "children's artspace" where kids can doodle and dabble safely.

Gallery viewing hours are: Monday-Friday, noon to 5pm; Saturday and Sunday, 2:00-5:00 p.m.

The Kenan Center House Gallery is free of charge and is located inside the

Kenan house
433 Locust Street
Lockport, New York
716-433-2617
www.kenancenter.org

Rodman Hall Arts Centre

Ed Pien: Tracing Night
October 8, 2006 - December 30, 2007

Tracing Night is a veil of suspended glassine paper 45 feet wide by 12 feet high that cuts across the gallery in a gentle curve. Pien's large-scale ink drawings on the glassine depict a girl asleep, accompanied by images that appear from her dream. A fan causes the entire veil to undulate gently. Beyond this suspended work, a large-scale installation in the form of an elongated figure-eight is laid out on a slight diagonal along the length of the gallery. The outer layer of this work progresses from light to dark blue, evoking the passage of day into night. Pien has overlaid silhouetted images of winged, part-human creatures on the blue-tinted surfaces. Their numbers multiply in a dense swarm as they gather towards the darkened end of the structure. Sound is used to enhance the spatial quality of the installation by activating the entire gallery space.

Ed Pien draws on sources both Eastern and Western to create his fantastic figures, including Asian ghost stories, hell scrolls and calligraphic traditions. The work, says Pien, "is initiated by the childhood wonder and fear of night. In darkness, details are lost and solid forms seem to give way to ephemeral, hard-to-define shapes. In this state, the senses appear to sharpen; yet physical perceptions succumb to wild imagination." Click here for a short tour of the work with the artist during his exhibition at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland.

Katharine Harvey: Waterfall
Niche Project 2006/2007

Toronto-based artist Katharine Harvey has had two significant themes running through her work in recent years: Water and the Store Window. More than any other painter Harvey has sought and achieved a material presence in the representation of water through her unusual application of acrylic medium. Her Store Window series of paintings were initially inspired by her interest in the quirky and sometimes bizarre displays of kitsch merchandise in small store windows. But the Store Window paintings also recall an underwater world of reflections and floating objects. A painting by the artist, Underwater Storefront (2001), brought together in her work the two seemingly disparate themes, conjuring a surreal image of objects shimmering back and forth as if reflected through rippling water.

For an exhibition of her paintings in Calgary in 2001, Harvey created a storefront display. After searching the city's second-hand and dollar-stores, she assembled a site-specific installation for the gallery window, filling the shelves with a stream-of-consciousness assortment of wares selected for their bright and sparkling surfaces. Later that year she constructed To the Depths Part I, for Solo Exhibition in Toronto and arranged items of similar colour on six successive shelves in a manner that evoked different layers of water. And at YYZ Artists Outlet in Toronto she created Seasick - a collection of transparent blue, green and marine related objects jumbled together on floating glass shelves suggesting a topsy turvy seascape - the reflective surfaces dissolving into spatial and psychological fragments and revealed moments of exotic transport.

Harvey's Rodman Hall installation Waterfall fills the spaces of the house's former rear bay windows with an assemblage of blue, green and transparent dollar-store objects that appear to tumble down like waterfalls. During the process of making the piece, the objects are glued together with industrial strength glue but they invariably fall down and smash as they are piled up. The complex interconnection of the commodities and their sculptural construction and de-construction becomes an integral part of the piece. Waterfall brings together the two major themes in Harvey's work, recalling the local natural and unnatural phenomenon that is Niagara Falls - famous for its spectacular cascade, as well as for its iconic souvenirs.

Forty-Five Years of Collecting
Selections from the Permanent Collection

Fall/Winter 2006/2007

One hundred and six of the finest works in the collection of Rodman Hall Arts Centre - from the most iconic and best-loved, to new pieces on view in the gallery for the first time - are now on view in the parlour of the historic home and on the second floor.

Since the earliest donations and purchases, Rodman Hall's permanent collection has grown to include more than 850 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. Curated by Assistant Curator Marcie Bronson, this exhibition features historical and modern works from Rodman Hall's permanent collection.

Dramatically installed from floor to ceiling in the tradition of the French Salon, Forty-Five Years of Collecting: Selections from the Permanent Collection shows the breadth and the depth of collecting at Rodman Hall over the last half century.

Rodman Hall is open to the public:

September through June:
Monday - Thursday: 12 noon to 9 p.m.;
Friday, Saturday & Sunday: 12 noon to 5 p.m.

July & August and Holiday Hours (2nd week of December through the 2nd week of January):
Monday - Sunday 12 noon to 5 p.m.
Closed All Statutory Holidays

Rodman Hall Arts Centre
109 St. Paul Crescent
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada ÊL2S 1M3
905.684.2925

UB Art Gallery

Summer 2007: The UB Art Galleries will be closed for renovations this summer, June through August.

BEYOND/IN Western New York 2007:
9/11 - 11/10/0

Featuring work by Dorothea Braemer, Allyson Mitchell, Sarah Paul, Richard Price, Diane Schaefer, and Kate Wilson. A reception for the artists during the Beyond/In weekend event will be held at the UB Art Gallery on Saturday September 15, 4:00-7:00PM.

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 5 pm, Thursday 11 am - 7 pm

The UB Art Gallery is closed for installation between exhibitions and for major holidays including Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.

Gallery admission is free.

UB Art Gallery
201 A Center for the Arts
Buffalo, NY 14260-6000
716-645-6912