University at Buffalo Art Galleries

We have appointments open tomorrow through Saturday, spend a rainy day at UB Anderson Gallery! Make an appointment to come by at the link in our bio. . Bruce Kurland, Turkey Carcass with Thorn Apples, 1974. 10 x 8 inches. Collection of Peter Breitstone. Courtesy of the artist estate. . Two Worlds: Illusion and Document features work by photographer Justine Kurland and her father, the late painter Bruce Kurland. Justine is widely known for her fantastical photographic tabl...eaus of American landscapes as inhabited by real and imagined communities of girls and women. Bruce was a classically trained painter of still life based in Buffalo until his death from cancer in 2013. The paintings on view reveal his unceasing fascination with common objects and what they can say about life and death. In response to her father’s paintings, Justine presents text-based gelatin silver prints. Like pages of a memoir, the prints capture Justine’s memories of Brucejoy and passion from his small victories as well as stinging pain from his illness and poverty. A formal departure from previous bodies of luscious, color photographs, this new work nonetheless continues Justine’s exploration of the sense of rootedness and belonging through a social unit, which, for all of us, begins with a family, in the widest and the most generous sense of the word. . @justine4good #BruceKurland #JustineKurland #ArtAtUB #ArtAsInquiry #WNYCulturalConnections #TeachingMuseum See more

Yesterday we trained our gallery assistants and guards on all the new check in and cleaning procedures we’re instituting, and today is the day we reopen the UB Anderson Gallery! We can’t wait to welcome people back and share our exhibitions. Make an appointment today! . #artatub #wnyculturalconnections #ubandersongallery

We are so thrilled to be opening for in-person visits because digital reproductions of Bruce Kurlands' paintings in Two Worlds: Illusion & Document don't quite do them justice. . The paintings in the exhibition are almost all from lenders outside of Buffalo and will likely be new to even some of his biggest fans. Justine Kurland's work is all new! . Make your appointment to see the exhibition at the link in our bio. ... This week we announced our fall exhibitions! This stunning show will open at the UB Anderson Gallery on the second floor. Make an appointment to visit starting next week at the link in our bio! . @justine4good #BruceKurland #JustineKurland #ArtAtUB #ArtAsInquiry #WNYCulturalConnections #TeachingMuseum #UBAndersonGallery See more

Here's what it looks like to install an exhibition virtually. Last week Dawit L. Petros worked with curator Liz Park and our preparators to determine where to place two large pieces over FaceTime. See what the pieces look like installed! Appointments start on Thursday at UB Anderson Gallery, link in bio. . @DawitLPetros @liz_sr_park #SpazioDisponibile #ArtAsInquiry #ItalianColonialism #AfricaOrientaleItaliana #ArtAtUB #WNYCulturalConnections #UBAndersonGallery

Opening this week at UB Anderson Gallery! Dawit L. Petros: Spazio Disponibile . Dawit L. Petros’s art stems from his research into the complex layers of colonial histories that connect East Africa and Europe. Spazio DisponibileItalian for Available Spaceis an exhibition of photo, video, and sound that scrutinizes historical gaps in memory, particularly that of modern Italy. Alluding to vacant advertising sections that appeared in Rivista Coloniale, a widely circulated e...arly twentieth-century magazine and the official organ of the Italian colonial project, the title is also a reference to the colonial gaze that viewed the lands of Africa as available space to occupy and exploit. . The exhibition is organized and circulated by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, sponsored by The TD Ready Commitment and supported by Lead Donor Lonti Ebers. Additional support for the tour is provided by Canada Council for the Arts and The Gilder. . @DawitLPetros #SpazioDisponibile #ArtAsInquiry #ItalianColonialism #AfricaOrientaleItaliana #ArtAtUB #WNYCulturalConnections @thepowerplantto // Dawit L. Petros, Untitled (Overlapping and intertwined territories that fall from view II), 2019. Archival color pigment print, 30 x 37 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the artist. See more

This week we announced our fall exhibitions! This stunning show will open at the UB Anderson Gallery on the second floor. Make an appointment to visit starting next week at the link in our bio! . Two Worlds: Illusion and Document features work by photographer Justine Kurland and her father, the late painter Bruce Kurland. Justine is widely known for her fantastical photographic tableaus of American landscapes as inhabited by real and imagined communities of girls and women.... Bruce was a classically trained painter of still life based in Buffalo until his death from cancer in 2013. The paintings on view reveal his unceasing fascination with common objects and what they can say about life and death. In response to her father’s paintings, Justine presents text-based gelatin silver prints. Like pages of a memoir, the prints capture Justine’s memories of Brucejoy and passion from his small victories as well as stinging pain from his illness and poverty. A formal departure from previous bodies of luscious, color photographs, this new work nonetheless continues Justine’s exploration of the sense of rootedness and belonging through a social unit, which, for all of us, begins with a family, in the widest and the most generous sense of the word. . @justine4good #BruceKurland #JustineKurland #ArtAtUB #ArtAsInquiry #WNYCulturalConnections #TeachingMuseum // Bruce Kurland, Oysters on the Half Shell with Lemon, 1979. Oil on panel, 8 x 10 inches. Collection of Christina Zuccari. Courtesy of the artist estate. See more

Tonight! 5:30 EST. See you there! You can register, or join the zoom directly from our website or the event page.

Anarchists, anti-anarchists and everyone between - make sure you register to this sure to be interesting virtual symposium we're hosting, led by Collective Question and centered around UB's own anarchist college, the Tolstoy College.

Photography in 2020 is not what photography promised to be when it was first invented in the 19th century, Park points out. Today, we encounter photography with such intensity and great variations in ways its inventors could not have imagined. This exhibit was an attempt to start addressing the contemporary realities of photography. UB Now covered our exhibition turned resource binder Thinking Through Photographs. Read the story and download the binder!

Along with the gallery change, this article announces the Elizabeth Murray survey we're planning for 2021. We're thrilled to be organizing this important exhibition!

Artist Karyn Olivier has been in the news recently, and this week she published this op-ed in the Washington Post. Her perspective on memories and monuments, and on the mural at the University of Kentucky specifically, point to the complexity of monuments, murals and public art in our communities. This fall at the Center for the Arts at UB, we’ll host the exhibition Karyn Olivier: Everything That’s Alive Moves, which opened at the ICA Philadelphia this spring. Stay tuned for more information about our reopening and exhibitions at both the Anderson Gallery and UB Art Gallery at CFA!

Sara Greenberger Rafferty in conversation with UB Art Galleries curator Liz Park. . Artist and educator Sara Greenberger Rafferty and UB Art Galleries Curator Liz Park discuss the importance of metadata embedded in digital images, including ways to obfuscate this information in public forums. They explore the qualities of representation during protest movements and how to think of new ways of documenting and picturing that are informative, poetic, and bear witness while res...isting cooption by the state. The full talk and following conversation can be watched on our youtube channel. . Sara Greenberger Rafferty, The Law, 2018. Fused glass with sandblasting and enamel. @lizsrpark @saraspar #thinkingthroughphotographs #teachingphotographs #ContemporaryPhotography #ArtAtUB #TeachingMuseum #AllAreWelcomeHere #UBuffalo #ArtsResearch #WNYCulturalConnections See more