Monday, August 19, 2013

Burchfield Penney: Exhibition Opening

OPENING CELEBRATION  |  ART IN CRAFT MEDIA 2013

Saturday, October 12, 2013, 6–8 pm
Join Mrs. Sylvia L. Rosen and the Burchfield Penney Art Center for the opening of Art in Craft Media 2013.
Art in Craft Media 2013 features 75 works by 55 artists in wood, clay, fiber, glass and metal, all current or past residents of Western New York. The exhibition jurors for the 25th anniversary Art in Craft Media exhibition were Nancy Belfer, Sunhwa Kim, Stephen Saracino and Robert Wood.
Artists include:
Jozef Bajus
Diane Bond
Leeann Catanzaro
Linda Collignon
Norman Cramer
Missy Crowell
Josh Dewall
Laurie Dill-Kocher
Lynn Duggan
Hillary Fayle
Tom Ferrero
Marcelo Florencio
Nathaniel Hall
Allison Hoag
Kevin Kegler
Jeff Kell
Veronica Keymel
William Keyser
Christine Knoblauch
Bethany Krull
Temi Kucinski
Anthony Locane
Scott Losi
Ashley Lyon
Elizabeth Lyons
Gail McCarthy
Stephen Merritt
Mitchell Messina
Dan Mirer
Anne Mormile
Barbara Murak
Tara Nahabetian
Dennis Nahabetian
Lynn Northrop
Ginny O'Brien
Carol Ann Rice Rafferty
Shirley Rosenthal
Taeyoul Ryu
Fabiano Sarra
David Schnuckel
Leslie Schug
Betty Stephan
Colleen Toledano
Victor Trabucco
Lawrence T. Schopp
Myung Urso
Leonard Urso
Nancy Valle
Aric Verrastro
Tina Vu
Jesse Walp
Liaung Chung Yen
Gina Zetts
Chu Zhenwei
Craig Ziper

Burchfield Penney: Exhibition Opening

OPENING CELEBRATION  |  OPENING CELEBRATION FOR THREE EXHIBITIONS

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 5:30–7:30 pm

Hallwalls: Exhibition Opening/Artist Lecture

Clifton Childree

Niaga-Rag Follies

Clifton Childree - <em>Niaga-Rag Follies</em>
Clifton Childree - <em>Niaga-Rag Follies</em>
Clifton Childree - <em>Niaga-Rag Follies</em>
Clifton Childree - <em>Niaga-Rag Follies</em>
Hallwalls Artist In Residence Project

Opening Reception: Friday, September 13, 8-11 p.m.
Artist's Talk at 8:00 p.m.

Miami artist Clifton Childree has described himself as an analog artist in a digital age and for his residency project at Hallwalls, Childree has drawn upon specific tangents of Buffalo's regional landscape and cultural history. Springboarding from a venue still located in Niagara Falls, NY, Childree will recreate in the Hallwalls Gallery what appears to be a wax museum historical display that removes the conventional subject matter of the Falls and replaces that with an evocative history of QRS Music Rolls, a historical player piano roll company still located in Buffalo, NY. Waterfalls will be replaced by projected piano rolls, set amid a didactic mise en scènethat will also include recreated historical photos and news reels, and will replace the suicidal allure of the Falls with an adictive obsession for karaoke.
 
The creation of this new work and its exhibition in the gallery in fall 2013 are supported by a major grant for HARP from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

cliftonchildree.com
 

Albright-Knox: Lecture/Movie Screening

AK CONTEMPORARY: GREGORY CREWDSON

Friday, October 4, 2013, 7:30 pm
Gregory Crewdson’s Untitled (Ophelia) from the “Twilight” series, as featured in Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, a film by Ben Shapiro. A Zeitgeist Films release. Photo © Gregory Crewdson
FREE for Members
$5 for non-members
Auditorium 
7:30 pmLecture: “Gregory Crewdson: Constructed Realities”With Assistant Curator of Education Jessica DiPalma 
8 pmFilm: Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, 2012Acclaimed photographer and artist Gregory Crewdson doesn’t just “take” his images, he creates them, through weeks and months of elaborate invention, design, and setup. The creation of these movie-like images is both intensely personal and highly public, beginning in Crewdson’s deepest desires and childhood memories, and brought to life in public streets and on elaborate soundstages. 
Filmed with unprecedented access over a decade, beginning in 2000, Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters provides an unparalleled view of the creation of the works in the artist’s “Beneath the Roses” series. The film provides an intimate look at one of the most elaborate photo projects ever attempted: a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life—perfect renderings of a disturbing, imperfect world by one of the most renowned and influential artists of our time.