Past Exhibitions: 2011
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Spotlight on the Collection
Artists in Depth: Arp, Miró, CalderMarch 25, 2011–April 15, 2012
Presented by The Buffalo News
Featuring a comprehensive array of works in all media by Jean (Hans) Arp, Joan Miró, and Alexander Calder, this exhibition will highlight the Gallery’s extensive collection of the work of these three modern masters, who pushed color, line, and form beyond convention.
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The Impermanent Collection: The Room of Contemporary Art, 1939–1971
November 4, 2011–March 4, 2012
This installation of original letters, photographs, publications, and other documents from the Gallery Archives tells the story of the Gallery's Room of Contemporary Art, which was conceived in 1939.
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The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
November 4, 2011–March 4, 2012
The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery highlights the history of the Albright-Knox’s extraordinary Collection by focusing on the pioneering benefactors and museum professionals who made it possible.
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Living Art:
A. Conger Goodyear and SculptureNovember 4, 2011–March 4, 2012
This exhibition presents thirty-five sculptures and works on paper by nineteen artists, gifted or bequested to the Gallery by A. Conger Goodyear between 1926 and 1970. It will also feature a selection of archival material from the G. Robert Strauss, Jr. Memorial Library and Gallery Archives.
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Virocode: A Disappearance of the Source
October 21, 2011–January 29, 2012
Virocode: A Disappearance of the Source will feature new works related to the artists' “Evolving Moisture” series, including static photo-sculptures, video projections, and a new experimental strategy that uses micro-loops of video/digital photographs that shimmer within framed LCD screens.
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Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape
October 21, 2011–January 22, 2012
Victoria Sambunaris's photographs capture the expansive American landscape and the natural and fabricated adaptations that appear throughout it. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, features approximately forty photographs from Sambunaris’s body of work.
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Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland
October 21, 2011–January 22, 2012
Photographs by Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, and Others
This exhibition will feature a selection of rarely seen color photographs from the Library of Congress’ Farm Security Administration (FSA) photography collection.
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Sewing the Seeds of Creativity: Southeast Artists’ First Showing (Education Exhibition)
December 20, 2011–January 17, 2012
Artists from Southeast Works have come together to create artworks that showcase their many talents.
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Celebrate Differences: Disability Awareness (Education Exhibition)
October 4–November 6, 2011
Local artists showcase their remarkable abilities and talents in this second annual disability awareness exhibition, on view in the Education Corridor.
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Videosphere: A New Generation
July 1–October 9, 2011
Videosphere: A New Generation is the first-ever exhibition of works in new media drawn exclusively from the Gallery’s Collection. Featuring twenty-six works by twenty-four artists, it highlights the Gallery’s recent acquisition of new media works with various styles and approaches.
Today
Support for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Collection-based exhibitions and installations is generously provided, in part, by the late Peggy Pierce Elfvin; The Seymour H. Knox Foundation, Inc.; The John R. Oishei Foundation; and The Margaret L. Wendt Foundation.
