Conversation with the Artist: Barnaby Furnas
Friday, April 1, 2011
8 pm EDT
Barnaby Furnas (American, born 1973). Flood, 2007. Urethane on linen, 84 x 140 inches (213.3 x 355.6 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund, 2010 (2010:12). © 2007 Barnaby Furnas.
$5 general admission
FREE for Members
Auditorium
Join us for a conversation with Albright-Knox Curator Heather Pesanti and the New York–based artist Barnaby Furnas. They will discuss the Albright-Knox’s recent acquisition of Furnas’s Flood, 2007, as well as the artist’s connections to Expressionism and abstraction, the performative nature of his work, and his interest in epic themes and non-traditional materials.
Barnaby Furnas’s Flood is on view in the special exhibition Surveyor, February 18–June 5, 2011.
Part of M&T FIRST FRIDAYS @ THE GALLERY
On the First Friday of every month—from 10 am to 10 pm—admission to the museum's collection, and to most events and performances, is free for everyone.
