WNY Artists Group - Karpeles Manuscript Library

The Western New York Artists Group presents:


at Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
220 North Street, Buffalo, NY
(at the corner of Elmwood and North)

Opening
Sunday, February 10, 2-4pm

For more information, call 716-885-2251

Hallwalls: Exhibition Opening

Friday, March 15 at 8:00 p.m.

Patrick Robideau

Opening Reception and Artist's Talk

Exhibition continues through May 3, 2013

The sculptural and installation work of Patrick Robideau uses architecture and space as devices through which to explore issues of memory and its emotional residue. Carefully and methodically constructed, Robedeau's forms often combine a seductive material allure that attracts the viewer with a physical construction that keeps the viewer at a certain distance. In this way, the work often replicates the process of a memory that draws us in but can only be partially accessed. And while his works often features architectural constructions, they are less specific locales and more like the terrain of half remembered dreams. For his project at Hallwalls, Robideau will be constructing a hallway through the space that leads to a balustrade constructed within a false ceiling. This new site-specific work will be combined with new smaller scale model sculptures. Read more ...

Hallwalls: Exhibition Opening

Friday, January 11 at 8:00 p.m.

Vascular Modes - Opening Reception

In a city where preservation issues have taken a front seat in our cultural and social thinking, particularly during the last decade, it's never insignificant to lionize the cultural past. At Hallwalls, we revere our own past and that of our community. Since January of 2006, Hallwalls has been the main tenant of Babeville, the refurbished Delaware Asbury Church in downtown Buffalo. At the same time, Hallwalls has always been about the present moment, about current artistic impulses, and about the creation of new works. To this end, 21 Buffalo artists have accepted the invitation to participate in an exhibition of new work whose point of departure is the recently completed Gates Vascular Institute in Buffalo's downtown medical corridor. Artists working in a diverse array of media have been invited to participate—drawing, painting, photography, filmmaking, and sculpture. Read more and see artists' images ...

 

Squeaky Wheel: Regional Artist Access Residency Premiere

REGIONAL ARTIST ACCESS RESIDENCY PREMIERE
FRI., APR. 26TH @ 7:00 PM       LOCATION: SQUEAKY WHEEL

Squeaky Wheel’s Regional Artist Access Residency (RAAR!) program annually provides equipment and facility access to emerging media artists in the Western New York region. Join this year's residency participants as they premiere brand new projects. This event is free and open to the public.
 
THE ARTISTS + THEIR PROJECTS:
 
Kyle Butler is a visual artist from Michigan who currently lives in Buffalo, New York. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a focus in painting from Central Michigan University in 2008 and received his Master's degree in Visual Studies from the University at Buffalo in the spring of 2010.
 
Shasti O'Leary Soudant has been a professional graphic designer and photographer for the last twenty-one years. She has one child, one spouse, one business and no pets. In her art practice, she employs a wide range of media, including photography, performance, sculpture, video, film, music, graphic design and mechanical engineering to explore and interrogate vanity, aging, sexuality and the ways in which we edit the self in reaction to culture, politics and emotion.
 
Through collaborative dual-channel video and performative sculpture, Kyle and Shastiwill stage a large scale, involuntary snail migration to illustrate the slow tensions between historical and existential dichotomies that often result in frustrating truncations of trajectory.
 
 
 
Lauren Rebecca Gay was born in beloved Buffalo. She went to the city’s public Montessori and City Honors School. Since graduating from Buffalo State college and receiving her certification to teach Secondary English she has been practicing the written word and art in the world at large. She frequents open mics in Buffalo and New Orleans. As a substitute teacher she has turned science classrooms into open mics. She invented POPPress in early 2012 as a self-publishing and creative endeavor specializing in hand-drawn, hand-bound goods; she strung eighty one books together.
 
Isaac Johnson went to UB for too long and learned too little. Residing in lovely Buffalo, he reads and writes and films and watches. He has performed and screened work all over Buffalo and gets lost very easily. Very interested in everything, fearing nothing really ever gets done, Isaac will continue trying.
 
Lauren and Isaac are working on an installation/video document that details the private lives of Lucy Tulip and Renaldo. They have been exploring what impact magic, love, and family play on the individual in the context of Buffalo, America, and the ethereal.
 
 
 
Emerging from the small but eclectic film scenes of Austin and Houston, Matthew Hardesty is a sometimes-resident of Buffalo, NY. A recent graduate of the Austin School of Film, he has been involved in dozens of short films and infamous features. Through working with budding artists like himself, he continues to shell out phenomenal expression in leagues of his own creativity while modestly waiting for the next big shot. 
 
Using the "Vow of Chastity" rules outlined by filmmaking group Dogme 95, Matthew is creating a short narrative video about two friends who convince a third friend to commit suicide.

Squeaky Wheel: Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier Premiere Screening

CHANNELS: STORIES FROM THE NIAGARA FRONTIER PREMIERE SCREENING
$1-10 sliding scale admission
THU., APR. 18TH @ 7:00 PM       LOCATION: MARKET ARCADE FILM + ARTS CENTER (639 MAIN ST.)

Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier is Squeaky Wheel’s production initiative that connects area filmmakers with activist and community groups to make short documentaries about social justice issues impacting our region. Come see the 4 new videos completed through this project in the 2012-13 year. After the screening, filmmakers and representatives from each participating group will be on hand to address audience questions and comments.
 
THE PROJECTS:
 
Buffalo First w/ Kyle Toth + Ryan Delmar - This film will present a true depiction of our city as a "local living economy": focusing on the importance of local and community ownership, diversity, place-making, environmental and social implications of our business and cultural practices, smart civic planning, and a strong community of local businesses serving the needs of the community.
 
Erie County Fair Housing Partnership w/ Brian Milbrand - How is it that Buffalo is one of the most segregated cities in the U.S.?  How did segregation even happen here--and in other Rust Belt cities far removed from the Jim Crow south--in the first place?  If Buffalo had segregation, did it also have civil rights activists like those in the south? This film will attempt to answer these questions by exploring Buffalo's history of racial segregation and its activist challengers through interviews with participants, and by using archival images and documents.  The ultimate goal is to show that segregation was created and sustained by human decisions and hard work, and it can be unmade the same way.
 
Mental Health PEER Connection w/ Sam Avery - NY State is struggling over the future of its involuntary outpatient psychiatric program, which forces community residents labeled with mental illness, by court order,  into a public treatment system with as many as 10,000 reported cases of abuse per year. What if involuntary treatment of this kind not only perpetuates existing discrimination and abuse towards people labeled with mental illness, but is also less effective at promoting recovery and more likely to engender lifelong disability and helplessness for the people it is intended to help? This video will examine the perspective of people affected by involuntary psychiatric treatment and enlighten audiences about more compassionate, hopeful and effective care that has demonstrated significantly higher recovery rates from serious mental illness.
 
New Directions Youth and Family Services w/ Jeff Maciejewski - This film will allow young people in foster care to voice their personal experiences, challenges, and triumphs while documenting the social injustices they must overcome within the educational, legal and economic systems including stigma, racial disparities, poverty, and conflicting value systems.
 
Learn more about the Channels program and the participating filmmakers here. This year's projects have been made possible with the generous support of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. 

Squeaky Wheel: Third Eye Laptop Orchestra Performance

THIRD EYE LAPTOP ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE
presented in collaboration w/ the Music Department + Digital Music Production Minor at Buffalo State
THU., APR. 4TH @ 7:30 PM       LOCATION: LOUIS P. CIMINELLI RECITAL HALL AT BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE

Hans Tammen’s Third Eye Laptop Orchestra uses Earle Brown’s open form composition idea as a starting point to create a large multi-movement piece, performed by an ensemble of laptop performers, analog synth players, circuit benders and other electronic musicians.

Tammen has presented the Third Eye Laptop Orchestra in Mexico, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, and throughout the US. In each place, he works with a new set of local musicians during a 4-hour masterclass, after which the group publicly premieres a score that is rearranged with each performance. Watch a video of a Laptop Orchestra performance in St. Petersburg, Russia.

This performance, presented in collaboration with the Music Department + the Digital Music Production Minor at Buffalo State College, is free and open to the public.

If you are an electronic musician who is interested in participating in the masterclass and performance, contact goda@squeaky.org or call 716-884-7172 for details. The workshop will be taking place on Thursday April 4 from 1-5 PM at the Louis P. Ciminelli Recital Hall. Workshop participation fee is $25 for Squeaky members/$30 non-members and spots are limited and must be reserved in advance.

Squeaky Wheel: Here + Now Media Artist Showcase

HERE + NOW MEDIA ARTIST SHOWCASE
presented in collaboration w/ Emerging Practices at UB
FRI., JAN. 25TH @ 7:00 PM       LOCATION: SQUEAKY WHEEL

 <- - - - - - image from work by You Qi

Join us for an evening with seven Western New York-based artists who incorporate media art into their practice. See their work and exchange ideas. Consider this a more in-depth take on Pecha Kucha Nights, featuring  10-minute art presentations by Alex Derwick, Bobby Gryznger, Eliseo Ortiz, Byron Rich + Heather Brand, Liz Rywelski, and You Qi. This event is free and open to the public.

This event is organized in part by Emerging Practices (EP) at the University at Buffalo, a joint research, theory, and critical initiative bridging graduate students in the departments of Media Study and Visual Studies to explore the technical, tactical, cultural and communicative potential of emerging technologies in such domains as interactive multi-media, robotics, simulation systems, computational media, biotechnology, and image synthesis.

Alex Derwick was raised in Olean, NY. He graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Printmaking and is currently an MFA candidate at University at Buffalo. His work investigates the development of kids growing up on television, video games, and Internet videos. Through animation and cinematic processes, Alex strives to bring attention to media and how it is analyzed and acted upon by minors. He will be presenting several animations.

Bobby Gryzynger is a multimedia artist whose practice has included video, animation and computer art. Originally from Madison, WI, he is currently an MFA student in the Visual Studies department at the University at Buffalo. Bobby will be presenting short-form video work, an arduino-programmed kinetic sculpture in collaboration with Mark Snyder, and an image programming project in collaboration with Byron Rich.

Eliseo Ortiz was born in Monterrey, Mexico. He received a B.A. in communication science from ITESM (2009) and an M.A. in visual studies at visual arts school UANL (2012). He was recently awarded with a Fulbright scholarship for MFA Studies and has created a body of artwork on film and video that explores the construction of memory and space. Eliseo will be presenting +, a two channel 8mm film.

Byron Rich was born in the city of Calgary on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in Western Canada. After graduation from The University of Calgary with a BFA in photography and new-media, he spent time working in the non-profit art sector in Canada and traveling before beginning his studies towards an MFA at UB. His presentation will examine the intersection of the biological sciences and technological interfaces, and the human connection to the environment that is arguably diluted or potentially enhanced. Byron will be presenting with collaborator Heather Brand.

Liz Rywelski is an artist from Long Island. She comes from art collectives including Space 1026 and Philadelphia Institute of Advanced Studies. She has worked in collaboration with Aaron Levy at Slought Foundation, the doom-wop band Man Man, filmmaker and performance artist Ryan Trecartin, and in the Lefty Lucy Cabaret as Bonnie Showcase. Her work was selected for Arcadia University's Works on Paper 2004 and Philadelphia Selections 5. She has exhibited in group shows internationally at Terran Biennial, Urban Edge at P4 Milan, 96 Gillespie, and nationally at Phillips de Pury gallery, Yerba Buena Art Center, ICA Philadelphia, BoB Pavilion at Columbia University, Workshop Collective in LIKEARTBASEL, Little Berlin, and most recently at Hallwalls Artists & Models event, SHOWOFFS. Liz obtained her BFA from Moore College of Art and Design in 2002 and is currently an MFA in Visual Studies at University at Buffalo. She is fascinated with the perverted and ironic ways people, herself included, seek to realize an inner most self in the act of consuming products designed for the masses. Her work investigates consumption models as performed in big-box store shopping, catalog shopping, online shopping, window shopping and more.

You Qi was born in Beijing, China. She studied design in Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) and currently is an MFA candidate in Electronic Integrated Arts at Alfred University. She will be presenting a recent multimedia project.

Albright-Knox: Film Screening

AK CONTEMPORARY: MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Friday, June 7, 2013, 7 pm

Poster for Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

FREE for Members
$5 for non-members
Auditorium

7 pmLecture: “The World of Marina Abramovic”With Assistant Curator of Education Jessica DiPalma 

7:30 pmFilm: Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, 2012Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramovic has been redefining what art is for nearly forty years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her limits—and at times risking her life in the process—she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us. Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art. To be given a retrospective at one of the world’s premier museums is the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Abramovic, it is far more—it is the chance to finally silence the question she has been hearing over and over again for four decades: “But why is this art?”

Albright-Knox: Science Fiction Festival

SCIENCE FICTION FILM FESTIVAL

IN CONJUNCTION WITH KELLY RICHARDSON: LEGION

Friday, March 1, 2013, 12 pm

FREE for Members / $5 for non-members (one ticket good for all films)
Auditorium

Among the major influences present in Kelly Richardson’s immersive installations are narrative devices used in science fiction and B-movie horror films. Richardson, along with Curator for the Collection Holly E. Hughes, has curated a selection of films that will be screened throughout the day and evening, in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition Kelly Richardson: Legion. Each film will feature an introduction by Hughes, who will discuss its relevance to the artist’s work.

Albright-Knox: 150 YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY ART LECTURE SERIES

ABOUT THE 150 YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY ART LECTURE SERIES

This lecture series, held every two years in conjunction with the Education Department’s docent training course, will cover the history of art from the mid-nineteenth century through 2012. Curator of Education Mariann Smith and Associate Curator of Education Nancy Spector will focus on works in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Collection as they cover both the art and the history of the past 150 years. The series continues through Saturday, March 16, 2013. Doors for all lectures open at 11 am. View Full Schedule

All lectures FREE for Members / FREE with Gallery admission for non-members

Location: Auditorium

PHYSICAL FACT/FLEETING IDEA: MINIMALISM AND CONCEPTUAL ART

WITH ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF EDUCATION NANCY SPECTOR

Saturday, January 19, 2013, 11:15 am

What can you eliminate from sculpture and painting and have it still be art? Is it possible for a work of art to refer to nothing but itself? Must an artist use his or her own hands to make an artwork? Which is more important: the object or the idea? Come and view the results of this debate through the work of artists such as Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Agnes Martin, and Robert Mangold, who pondered these very questions in the 1960s and 1970s.

PAINTING SINCE 1970, PART 1

WITH CURATOR OF EDUCATION MARIANN SMITH

Saturday, January 26, 2013, 11:15 am

The news of the death of painting in the 1960s was greatly exaggerated. Since then, painters have taken many paths, developing new approaches and adopting new materials. Artists of the 1970s came up with a variety of ways to reintroduce representational images into art; stories, imagination, and expression were all resurrected by artists such as Neil Jenney, Susan Rothenberg, Anselm Kiefer, and Julian Schnabel. Since then, painters have developed even more new approaches—many of them non-traditional—adopted new materials, and taken painting in many creative and fascinating directions.  

PAINTING SINCE 1970, PART 2

WITH CURATOR OF EDUCATION MARIANN SMITH

Saturday, February 2, 2013, 11:15 am

The news of the death of painting in the 1960s was greatly exaggerated. Since then, painters have taken many paths, developing new approaches and adopting new materials. Artists of the 1970s came up with a variety of ways to reintroduce representational images into art; stories, imagination, and expression were all resurrected by artists such as Neil Jenney, Susan Rothenberg, Anselm Kiefer, and Julian Schnabel. Since then, painters have developed even more new approaches—many of them non-traditional—adopted new materials, and taken painting in many creative and fascinating directions.

SCULPTURE SINCE 1970, PART 1

WITH CURATOR OF EDUCATION MARIANN SMITH

Saturday, February 9, 2013, 11:15 am

Sculpture has moved way beyond the traditional stone, wood, and metal of the past. In this lecture, you will learn about works made of unusual materials—including horsehair, taxidermy animals and eyes, television sets, furniture, rubber, and sardines—as well as works that take traditional materials and use them in new and unexpected ways.

SCULPTURE SINCE 1970, PART 2

WITH CURATOR OF EDUCATION MARIANN SMITH

Saturday, February 16, 2013, 11:15 am

Sculpture has moved way beyond the traditional stone, wood, and metal of the past. In this lecture, you will learn about works made of unusual materials—including horsehair, taxidermy animals and eyes, television sets, furniture, rubber, and sardines—as well as works that take traditional materials and use them in new and unexpected ways.

PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE 1970, PART 1

WITH CURATOR OF EDUCATION MARIANN SMITH

Saturday, February 23, 2013, 11:15 am

Although it took quite a while for photography to be considered art, the Gallery has supported the medium ever since its landmark exhibition of pictorial photography in 1910. Photography Since 1970, Parts 1 and 2 will consider the many different themes explored in contemporary photography and the wide variety of ways artists present them. These lectures will explore works featuring landscapes, urban scenes, interiors, images of individuals and groups, and political and social commentary.

PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE 1970, PART 2

WITH CURATOR OF EDUCATION MARIANN SMITH

Saturday, March 2, 2013, 11:15 am

Although it took quite a while for photography to be considered art, the Gallery has supported the medium ever since its landmark exhibition of pictorial photography in 1910. Photography Since 1970, Parts 1 and 2 will consider the many different themes explored in contemporary photography and the wide variety of ways artists present them. These lectures will explore works featuring landscapes, urban scenes, interiors, images of individuals and groups, and political and social commentary.

VIDEO SINCE 1970, PART 1

WITH ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF EDUCATION NANCY SPECTOR

Saturday, March 9, 2013, 11:15 am

Just as photography was an exciting new medium in the mid-nineteenth century, video was a new medium available to individual artists for the first time in the 1960s. Since then, artists have harnessed the flexibility of video to express the ideas of a new millennium brimming with technology. Many museums, including the Albright-Knox, are now vigorously collecting and exhibiting works in video and other new media.

VIDEO SINCE 1970, PART 2

Just as photography was an exciting new medium in the mid-nineteenth century, video was a new medium available to individual artists for the first time in the 1960s. Since then, artists have harnessed the flexibility of video to express the ideas of a new millennium brimming with technology. Many museums, including the Albright-Knox, are now vigorously collecting and exhibiting works in video and other new media.