Past Exhibitions
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Artworks in the Knox (Education Exhibition)
April 16–May 12, 2013
Artworks in the Knox features works by students from all twelve schools in the West Seneca Central School District. Approximately three hundred works created by students in kindergarten through grade twelve are featured.
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Agnes Martin: The New York–Taos Connection (1947–1957)
January 26–May 12, 2013
This exhibition features rarely seen paintings and drawings created by Agnes Martin in Taos, New Mexico, from 1947, the year of her first exhibition, to 1957, the year she returned to New York.
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Dennis Maher: House of Collective Repair (2012–2013 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition)
January 26–May 12, 2013
For his Artist-in-Residence project, House of Collective Repair, Dennis Maher invited local tradespeople into his home, shared his process with them, and asked them to create small sculptures using the materials of their trade.
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Beauty, Life, and Spirit: A Celebration of Greek Culture
July 27, 2012–April 21, 2013
This exhibition—presented in celebration of the Gallery's 150th anniversary—is the third in a series organized in partnership with the Buffalo Museum of Science that incorporates work from both museums’ collections.
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Engage, Exchange, Expand (Education Exhibition)
March 15–April 7, 2013
Engage, Exchange, Expand is an exhibition of artwork created by participants in the Gallery’s Access AK: Creative Connection program, which serves a wide range of visitors of different ages and needs with tours and artmaking sessions.
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Houses of Collective Embroidery (Education Exhibition)
January 8–February 3, 2013
These portraits of houses—inspired by Artist-in-Residence Dennis Maher and his exhibition House of Collective Repair—were made through layering by artists from Starlight Studio and Art Gallery.
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DECADE: Contemporary Collecting 2002–2012
August 21, 2012–January 6, 2013
This major exhibition will explore the Albright-Knox’s recent collecting history, featuring key acquisitions from the past ten years and highlighting the continuing growth and dynamism of the Gallery’s Collection.
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Universals Albright-Knox 150
December 4–December 30, 2012
In honor of its 150th anniversary, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery commissioned the artists Eric and Heather ChanSchatz to create a unique work of art that will be on view starting December 4, 2012, to celebrate the Gallery’s Founders’ Week.
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Color 150 (Education Exhibition)
December 4–December 30, 2012
Throughout the course of the Albright-Knox’s 150th anniversary this year, we invited Gallery friends of all ages to get creative with our PARTICIPATE coloring cards. This exhibition is the result.
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Grover L. Priess Primary School (Education Exhibition)
November 13–November 30, 2012
Ms. Mary Ellen Bossert, an art teacher from Grover L. Priess Primary School, presents the artwork of her talented kindergarten, first, and second graders.
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Celebrate Differences: Disability Awareness (Education Exhibition)
October 2–October 28, 2012
Local artists showcase their remarkable abilities and talents in this third annual disability awareness exhibition, on view in the Education Exhibition Hallway in recognition of Disability History Month.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery Staff Show 2012 (Education Exhibition)
August 7–September 9, 2012
Stop by the Education Exhibition Corridor to see artworks created by the dynamic team working behind-the-scenes at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
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The Experience of Process, Creativity, and Choice (Education Exhibition)
June 13–July 29, 2012
The artwork in this exhibition was created by Artisans Unlimited participants from the Opportunities Unlimited of Niagara day habilitation program.
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Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970s
March 30–July 8, 2012
Wish You Were Here explores a creative ecology that flourished in Buffalo in the 1970s comprising collaborative pockets of artistic communities in the visual arts, film, video, performance, literature, and music.
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Art’scool "Inspired"
May 10–June 17, 2012
K–12 teachers from throughout Western New York entered our Art'scool "Inspired" contest, presented by BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York. This exhibition of selected entries will be on view in Clifton Hall.
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Calloused (2012 Future Curators Exhibition)
May 3–June 17, 2012
This exhibition is organized by the 2012 Future Curators and features artwork created by local high school students. It is composed of pieces that show both vulnerability and the internal strength we acquire through time.
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Art'scool "Inspired" Online Exhibition
April 25–June 17, 2012
K–12 teachers from throughout Western New York entered our Art'scool "Inspired" contest. All entries are now on view in an online gallery. An exhibition of selected entries is on view at the Gallery through Sunday, June 17.
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Arts Work for Autistic Services: Selected Education Program Work, Past and Present (Education Exhibition)
April 24–June 3, 2012
This year, the Arts Work Program at Autistic Services, Inc. celebrates its 10th anniversary. The program was created in the fall of 2002. The Arts Work mission is to give people with autism the opportunity to get involved in the visual and performing arts.
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Artworks 2012: Inside the Knox (Education Exhibition)
March 20–April 15, 2012
This exhibition by West Seneca Schools students in grades K–12 features artwork in a variety of media.
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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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Hands Up! (Education Exhibition)
February 17–March 11, 2012
Hands Up! is an exhibition of artwork created by participants in the Gallery’s Matter at Hand program, which serves a wide range of visitors of different ages and needs with tours and artmaking sessions.
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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.
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Arts Work for Autistic Services (Education Exhibition)
September 1–September 28, 2011
The mission of the Arts Work Program at Autistic Services, Inc. is to give people with autism the opportunity to get involved in the visual and performing arts.
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SANGHA
An Installation by Kathryn WalkerJuly 22–September 25, 2011
Kathryn Walker’s installation SANGHA—made up of nearly one thousand miniature pots embellished by the artist—will be on view in the Gallery for Small Sculpture.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery Staff Show 2011 (Education Exhibition)
July 26–August 28, 2011
Discover the hidden talents of the people who work behind the scenes at the Albright-Knox. This year’s exhibition features work created by diversely skilled staff members, including accountants, educators, security guards, and curators.
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No Limitations (Education Exhibition)
June 28–July 20, 2011
No Limitations is a collection of artwork that represents the exploration and creative expression of the artists of People Inc. Arts Experience Day Habilitation.
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raw (2011 Future Curators Exhibition)
May 6–July 3, 2011
The artists whose works are featured in raw delve into a realm of introspection, rejecting the commonplace and the ordinary. The result is an exhibition with an atmosphere free of the pollution of technology—a sort of sanctuary from the mechanics of everyday life.
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A Portfolio: A Collection of Selected Artworks by Students at Amherst Central Schools (Education Exhibition)
May 31–June 19, 2011
This exhibition features artwork made by students in the Amherst Central School District. It will be on view in the Education Hallway through Sunday, June 19, 2011.
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Surveyor
February 18–June 5, 2011
Surveyor is a Collection-based exhibition presenting modern and contemporary artists whose works are rooted in the exploration, observation, construct, and perception of landscape.
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Spotlight on the Collection
Artists in Depth: Picasso, Braque, Léger, DelaunayJanuary 21–June 5, 2011
Presented by The Buffalo News
The Gallery returns to its modernist roots with a complete display of all works in the Collection—more than seventy-five objects—by four masters: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, and Sonia Delaunay.
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Pipilotti Rist: Dwelling (within)
March 18–June 4, 2011
This exhibition will center on the recent acquisition of All or Nothing (alles oder nichts), 2010, an intimately scaled video sculpture by the Swiss-born artist Pipilotti Rist and the first work by the artist to be acquired by the Albright-Knox.
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Artworks 2011: Inside the Knox (Education Exhibition)
May 3–May 22, 2011
The West Seneca Schools’ exhibition, Artworks 2011: Inside the Knox, celebrates student artists. It includes artwork in a variety of media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, and photography.
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Visions from Lake Shore (Education Exhibition)
April 1–April 24, 2011
Lake Shore Central students in grades K–12 have created works that respond to their Gallery visits and lessons based on the Gallery’s Collection.
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Telling Tales
July 30, 2010–April 17, 2011
Telling Tales features a selection of small sculpture and other works that tell stories. Some of the stories are about spiritual beliefs, including those of Tahiti, Russia, and ancient Egypt.
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Color.Explore.Express (Education Exhibition)
February 18–March 20, 2011
Color.Explore.Express is an exhibition of artwork created by participants in the Gallery’s Matter at Hand program, which serves a wide range of visitors of different ages and needs with tours and artmaking sessions.
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Paul Pfeiffer: In the Zone
November 7, 2010–March 6, 2011
This exhibition presents three newly acquired sculptural-based video works by Pfeiffer that focus on the history of sports culture and spectatorship.
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REMIX: Sol LeWitt
August 7, 2010–February 27, 2011
Although wall drawings represent the foundation of his practice, Sol LeWitt’s works on paper, sculptures, artist's books, and writings on Conceptual art were equally important to his oeuvre.
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Making a Connection: Language and Imagery (Education Exhibition)
January 15–February 9, 2011
The Exploring the Arts program at Shea’s Performing Arts Center introduced students to a number of art forms, including the visual, literary, and performing arts. The theme of this exhibition is writing inspired by visual art.
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Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents
September 24, 2010–January 16, 2011
This international contemporary art exhibition—the product of a unique curatorial collaboration between twelve of Western New York’s museums and galleries—showcases the work of more than 100 extraordinary artists from the region and beyond.
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Art, Through the Eyes of Young Children (Education Exhibition)
December 8, 2010–January 12, 2011
This exhibition features original works of art by infants and school-aged children from the Buffalo State Child Care Center. The children have used different materials and techniques to create distinctive works, both individually and as a group.
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Forty: The Sabres in the NHL
November 7, 2010–January 9, 2011
Forty: The Sabres in the NHL—featuring more than two hundred photographs by Ron Moscati, Robert Shaver, and Bill Wippert—celebrates forty illustrious years of the National Hockey League in Buffalo.
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Celebrating Disability History Week
October 1–December 6, 2010
Artists from The Arts Experience, Starlight Studio and Art Gallery, St. Mary's School for the Deaf, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Matter at Hand program come together to celebrate Disability History Week.
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ECHO: Sampling Visual Culture
June 25–October 10, 2010
ECHO: Sampling Visual Culture will explore a selection of contemporary artists from the Gallery's Permanent Collection who incorporate humor and appropriation into their artmaking.
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Clyfford Still
June 25–August 29, 2010
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery owns the largest public collection of paintings by the American Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still—an ensemble of thirty-three abstract works that span the most critical developments of his career from 1937 to 1963.
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Fletcher Benton: The Alphabet
July 30, 2009–July 5, 2010
Renowned American sculptor Fletcher Benton is best known for cutting, folding, and realigning two-dimensional sheets of steel into three-dimensional objects that seem to defy gravity.
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Spectrum: Daydreams of Reality (2010 Future Curators Exhibition)
May 21–July 3, 2010
Fourteen exemplary students were invited to participate in the 2010 Future Curators program. Their exhibition Spectrum: Daydreams of Reality was on view at the Gallery from May 21 through July 3, 2010.
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Photography by Women Artists
May 28–June 27, 2010
Photography by Women Artists, focused entirely on photographs created by women, is designed to challenge our notion of the female perspective.
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The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941–1960
March 19–May 30, 2010
Guest curated by Roald Nasgaard, Professor of Art History at Florida State University, this exhibition includes sixty works of art, as well as photographs, books, and other ephemera documenting the history of the Automatiste, Canada’s first truly avant-garde art movement.
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Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980–2008
February 19–May 30, 2010
Guillermo Kuitca’s prolific career encompasses a diverse body of work and a familiar yet thought-provoking range of imagery. The paintings and works on paper in Everything inspire viewers not only to contemplate their relationship to the piece in front of them, but also their place within personal spaces and the larger world.
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Fifty Works for Fifty States: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
January 22–May 9, 2010
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel story is not your typical love story. Civil servants by day and voracious collectors by night and weekend, Dorothy and Herbert Vogel built a world-class collection through modest means.
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Topographies
November 13, 2009–February 28, 2010
Topography, the practice of creating detailed maps or charts that define the terrestrial characteristics of a singular locality, was originally conceived by ancient cultures as simply “the study of place.
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Ingrid Calame: Step on a Crack . . .
September 25, 2009–February 28, 2010
Ingrid Calame is the inaugural artist in the Albright-Knox’s Artist-in-Residence program. Calame and her local team made hundreds of square feet of tracings, which the artist transformed into the drawings and paintings that make up this exhibition.
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ROBERT MANGOLD Beyond the Line: Paintings and Project 2000–2008
October 23, 2009–January 31, 2010
Organized by Albright-Knox Chief Curator Douglas Dreishpoon, this exhibition honors the outstanding career of Robert Mangold, an artist whose native roots are in Buffalo and who has been a major figure in the investigation of geometric abstraction since the 1960s.
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In Good Company: Figurative Drawings from the Collection
October 2, 2009–January 3, 2010
This exhibition will feature works by Graham Nickson, Pablo Picasso, Ben Shahn, Peggy Preheim, Albert Gleizes, Paul Klee, Robert Longo, and others.
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WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha
July 24–October 25, 2009
The premise of this exhibition can be defined simply as an artist and his sphere of influence. WALL ROCKETS takes its title from a work by Ed Ruscha of the same title depicting a majestic mountain range of snow-capped peaks amidst a deep blue atmosphere.
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Bad Habits
July 10–October 4, 2009
A meditation on vice and naughtiness in contemporary art, Bad Habits presents a selection of the more subversive objects in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.
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Strange Brew: The 1960s
May 29–September 20, 2009
This selection of works from the Gallery’s Permanent Collection focuses the art that sprang from the 1960s counterculture, which fuses elements of surrealism and pop art with swirling patterns, neon colors, repeated motifs, and bizarre iconography.
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Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray
May 8–July 5, 2009
Forty-seven exquisite color and black-and-white photographs of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo by the American photographer Nickolas Muray are featured in this exhibition organized and circulated by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services.
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Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976
February 13–June 14, 2009
Organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in collaboration with The Jewish Museum, New York, and the Saint Louis Art Museum, this special exhibition revisits the watershed period of American art from 1940 to 1976 through the writings of its two primary critics: Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg.
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The Brave Buffalo: Abstract Expressionism and the City
February 13–June 10, 2009
This installation of original letters, photographs, publications, and other documents drawn from the Gallery’s archives and library collections tells the story of how the Albright-Knox became one of the first art museums in the United States to exhibit and actively amass the new art of the 1950s.
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Bruce Jackson: Cummins Wide
January 23–May 10, 2009
This exhibition features fifty-three extraordinary Widelux images of Cummins Prison Farm, taken more than twenty-five years ago by Buffalo-based photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist Bruce Jackson.
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From Tusk to Tail: Animals and Art
August 29, 2008–January 30, 2009
From Tusk to Tails: Animals and Art represents a cross-section of birds and beasts from around the world and is the second exhibition organized in partnership with the Buffalo Museum of Science.
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Op Art Revisited: Selections from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
July 18, 2008–January 25, 2009
Op art, also know as “Optical art,” refers to the work of a group of abstract painters in the early 1960s who—under the direction of artists Richard Anuszkiewicz, Bridget Riley, Julian Stanczak, and Victor Vasarely—utilized parallel lines, concentric circles, and electric colors to create works that give the visual effect of afterimages and illusion of movement.
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Works on Paper: The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection
August 15–November 30, 2008
This exhibition is the first time Natalie and Irving Forman's brilliant collection of works on paper has been exhibited en masse. It reflects the remarkable evolution of the Forman Collection, which today comprises wonderfully unique and, at times, experimental abstract works.
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REMIX: Recent Acquisitions, Works on Paper
May 1–August 1, 2008
The expression “works on paper” corresponds to a completely different set of rules for making art, which extends beyond traditional media and abolishes the assumption that art made on or of paper occupies merely a complementary role to painting and sculpture. For decades now, artists have defied the simplistic notion of basic drawing by utilizing multiple techniques and diverse media to create works on paper.
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REMIX: Recent Acquisitions
April 11–July 28, 2008
An active approach to collecting is at the heart of any museum whose mission and vision is to acquire and exhibit contemporary art. Since its original inception as the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy in 1862, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery has consistently been dedicated to collecting the “art of our time,” and the Permanent Collection has continued to grow in significant ways. Remix Recent Acquisitions presents an overview of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s collecting habits over the course of the past five years.
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Jennifer Steinkamp
March 14–June 29, 2008
Jennifer Steinkamp, a nationally touring retrospective exhibition organized and circulated by the San Jose Museum of Art, offers a comprehensive view of one of the most important and prolific female video and new media artists of our time. Steinkamp creates stunning 3-D installations that explore architectural space, motion, and the phenomenon of human perception.
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REMIX: Color and Light
December 21, 2007–May 4, 2008
Color is powerful, yet quixotic. As a result, it boasts a fascinating history that is constantly being rewritten to reflect the specific concerns and ideologies of the day. In large part the most insightful thoughts on color come from artists themselves. Not only are these ideas expressed in their art but also in their writings.
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In the City: Works on Paper from the Collection
January 18–April 6, 2008
Artistic interpretations of “the city” entail a fascination with architecture, industry, and the vibrancy of metropolitan life. This selection of works on paper offers a unique portrait of modern civilization by revealing facets of urban living through an exploration of anonymity, industry, commerce, and life in the steel jungle.
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Figuratively Speaking: Sculpture from the Collection
November 30, 2007–March 2, 2008
This exhibition brings together works from both the Gallery’s Permanent Collection and the Buffalo Museum of Science, exploring a multitude of approaches to the sculpted human form.
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The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light
November 16, 2007–February 24, 2008
The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light will include more than seventy works of art from the Panza Collection, which is now dispersed in Varese, Lugano, New York, and Los Angeles. In consultation with Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, whose vision has guided the project from the start, Gallery Director Louis Grachos and Chief Curator Douglas Dreishpoon have selected the objects and artists to be featured.
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Drawing Architecture: The L.J. Cella Collection
September 27, 2007–January 6, 2008
An important part of the creative process for architects is sketching. The sketch, or plan, is the way architects express their ideas and develop their concepts, whether they begin as ink squiggles on napkins, colorful pastels on paper, or beautifully rendered graphite on vellum. Drawing Architecture showcases the work of mid-century and contemporary architects, landscape architects, artists, and designers who are represented in the collection of San Francisco Bay Area resident L.J. Cella.
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A New Installation by James Turrell
January 1–December 31, 2007
James Turrell isolates a central component of everyday experience - light. His installations grow out of a radically simple goal - to let the viewer experience light as directly as possible. In indoor installations such as Gap from the “Tiny Town” series, 2001/2006, he lets light take on its own otherworldly quality, creating a contemplative space where one experiences a single plane of illuminated color.
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REMIX The Collection
November 10, 2006–November 25, 2007
The latest installation of REMIX The Collection continues to offer Gallery visitors new and exciting ways to experience the Gallery's permanent collection. This thematic exploration of beloved favorites, as well as some new and exciting additions, reinforces the vast depths and relevance of art. One of the themes highlighted is “Pop Post Pop,” which explores the Gallery’s pop art collection and the movement's renaissance during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Beyond/In Western New York 2007
August 17–October 28, 2007
This exciting invitational exhibition featured the work of artists from Western New York, Central New York, Southern Ontario, Northeastern Ohio, and Northwestern Pennsylvania.
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Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint 9
June 27–October 21, 2007
Matthew Barney is heralded as the most influential American artist of his generation for his epic, ravishing, eccentric, and all-consuming work. His films and the sculpture and photographic series that derive from them are biological, mythological, and historical. Drawing Restraint 9 follows his Cremaster Cycle, which was screened, in part, at the Gallery in February 2004, by looking back to a central tenet of his creative vision, an idea that grew out of Barney’s early experience as a athlete: form emerges through struggle with resistance.
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Ken Heyman: Pop Portraits
June 15–August 26, 2007
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.
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Francis Bacon: Paintings from the 1950s
May 4–July 29, 2007
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.
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Collective Identity: Expressionism to Realism and the Art of Printmaking in Germany
February 21–May 27, 2007
Albrecht Dürer, who is considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time, produced both woodcuts and engravings with a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed. Dürer, among other German printmakers of the sixteenth century, was an enormous influence on early-twentieth-century German artists who were concerned with such issues as the atrocities of war, death, the difficulty of city life, and man's relationship with nature during a period of social upheaval and uncertainty in pre- and post-World War I Germany.
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Surface Matter: Collage from the Collection
November 17, 2006–February 11, 2007
While many artists have worked solely in the medium, collage has failed to rise to the popularity of drawing, painting, and sculpture. Surface Matter reveals nearly one hundred years of collage and exemplifies how it infiltrated a century of art making and continues to relate to the artistic expressions of the twenty-first century.
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Andrea Zittel: Critical Space
October 6, 2006–January 7, 2007
Andrea Zittel is one of the most exciting and influential artists of our time because she makes art about the questions that nag us everyday: what to wear in the morning, what to fix again for dinner, how to deal with all the clutter, and how to escape the tyranny of the clock. Part philosopher, part scientist, part designer, part artist, Zittel has made her own life an experiment about the best way to live.
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Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967–2005
July 21–October 22, 2006
Celebrated as one of the most influential artists of our time, Chuck Close has retained his vitality by continuously reinventing portraiture, a genre often underrecognized in contemporary art. Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967 – 2005 focused exclusively on the artist’s self-portraits, consisting of more than eighty works in a broad range of media — painting, drawing, photography, collage, and printmaking — that trace the evolution of his process and self-examination from 1967 to the present.
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Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin
June 9–September 10, 2006
Combining both figurative and abstract traditions and deploying a diverse range of materials, Petah Coyne’s sculptures constitute a complex language. This comprehensive nineteen-year survey was organized by Albright-Knox Art Gallery Senior Curator Douglas Dreishpoon and included a selection of Coyne’s organic concretions from the late eighties; metallic black sand works from the early nineties; wax chandeliers and intricate hair weavings from the same decade; more recent, figure-based wax personages; and a suite of eight large-format photographs from the years 1992 to 2001.
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Formal Exchange: Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Latin America
February 17–July 2, 2006
Formal Exchange: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Latin America will examine Latin American abstraction from the 1960s and early ‘70s, and pay homage to the Gallery’s commitment to aquiring modern and contemporary art from all over the world.
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Karin Davie: Dangerous Curves
February 24–May 14, 2006
Karin Davie is the first solo exhibition of the artist’s paintings, sculptures, and drawings; a survey that tracks the evolution of Davie’s visual vocabulary. A true innovator, Davie redefines the modernist convention of stripe painting by inserting gesture and the artist’s hand back into optical, hard-edged, geometric convention.
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The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art
October 21, 2005–January 29, 2006
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art is came to Buffalo in October 2005. Organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the University at Buffalo Art Galleries in collaboration with the Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, The Wall was the largest exhibition of contemporary Chinese art to travel beyond China. It also marked the first collaboration between American art museums and a major Chinese art institution focusing on contemporary Chinese art.
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On View: Stellar Works from the Collection
February 1–January 7, 2006
On View: Stellar Works from the Collection is an exciting reinstallation of the Gallery’s permanent collection, featuring well-known masterworks from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. This exhibition is in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the collection’s first home - the magnificent building designed by Edward B. Green in 1905.
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A New Installation by Robert Therrien
January 1, 2006
Los Angeles-based artist Robert Therrien has been making sculpture for more than three decades, transforming ordinary objects and forms into extraordinary works of art. More than simply an enlarged replica, this work of art combines the abstract sculptural forms of the furniture with the novelty and magic of experiencing these everyday objects from a new perspective.
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A New Installation by Paul Pfeiffer
January 1, 2006
In recognition of the Stanley Cup’s visit to Buffalo on April 24, 2006, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery presents Pfeiffer’s work, honoring hockey’s Holy Grail. In Caryatid, Pfeiffer presents video footage of the Cup, as it is held up above the heads of players of winning hockey teams; but by erasing the players, Pfeiffer alters our perception of hockey’s highest symbol of achievement.
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A New Installation by Rachel Whiteread
January 1, 2006
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is pleased to present Untitled (Domestic) as part of an ongoing series of large-scale sculptural installations in the Gallery’s impressive Sculpture Court. British-born artist Rachel Whiteread has received critical acclaim for her unique body of work, in which she transforms ordinary domestic items and proverbial spaces into discretely poignant objects that subvert the viewer’s sense of traditional function, form, and space.
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A New Installation by Jim Hodges
January 1, 2006
Jim Hodges - a highly respected artist who transforms ordinary objects into poetic spectacles – brings his largest work to date to the Gallery’s Sculpture Garden this summer. This sculpture entitled look and see is an eleven-and-one-half-foot, twisting plane of stainless steel, with a surface that has been cut with a laser, polished, and painted black and white to create a stylized camouflage pattern, which includes reflective areas, through which one can see the surrounding architecture.
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Franz West: Recent Sculptures
October 21, 2004–October 16, 2005
Franz West is one of Austria’s most highly regarded artists. He has spent his career rethinking the ways in which art is experienced and encourages viewers of his work to become active participants. For West, art is not about perfect form, but about finding a way to get around convention and articulate the psychological and physical sensibilities that make us uniquely human.
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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.