Tag: Beyond/In
monday october 15th 2007
Beyond/In Western New York: Dorothea Braemer
A recycled dollhouse and four films are the basis for Dorothea Braemer’s piece at UB Center for the Arts Gallery. This idealized symbol of a home is fraught with conflict as the four films capture the complex family dynamics that evolve over the selling of Braemer’s childhood home and her mother’s move to an assisted living facility. The tiny projections and screens inside the windows of the dollhouse make for an intimate melancholy, a metaphor for psychology.
Passive main characters inspire Braemer’s work; she uses documentary footage and fiction, where she casts people to create characters, and makes the most of mixing formats. Her video, also about her mother, will be screened as a part of the Beyond/In Western New York exhibit at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center on Saturday, November 3 at 8:00pm.
Buffalo Rising is taking the opportunity of the Beyond/In Western New York exhibition, an eve…
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monday october 8th 2007
Beyond/In: Chris Barr
Chris Barr’s Bureau of Workplace Interruptions doesn’t look like a traditional art exhibit. In fact it has a lot more in common with the aesthetics of the DMV than the typical installation at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, where it is currently installed as a part of the Beyond/In Western New York exhibit through October 28. While you may experience this piece online, you really should visit the gallery to visit his institution within an institution, and check out the rest of the show while it remains on view. Featuring 50 artists in 12 venues, Beyond/ In Western New York is a thorough look at the art of our extended region.
Because Barr’s work is uniquely non-visual in nature, but more idea and experience based, we share his project with you via pod cast, rather than a slideshow. Thi…
saturday september 15th 2007
Beyond/In: Jacqueline Welch
The Beyond/In Western New York exhibit is unfolding this weekend. Hallwalls Curator, John Massier explains the admirable process the arts venues went through in creating this exhibit that includes 50 artists in 12 venues, on his blog.
In this video, we visit Jacqueline Welch’s light filled home studio in South Buffalo. Welch’s paintings of animals, mostly dogs, as patron saints are odd and beautiful, painted with reverence for the Italian Renaissance. Painted with finesse, and accuracy these paintings are really nice to look at. She finds a lot of her sources online, noting Pet Finder.com as a source for imagery. The show opens tonight with several other Beyond/In venues, with a reception from 4…
This weekend is ripe with choices in the vastness of Buffalo’s arts community, and serves as a reminder of what we have to enjoy in our fine city. Last night, as I walked down Main Street with Toronto artist, Kate Wilson, included in the Beyond/In exhibit at UB Center for the Arts, and her friend Helen, I duly noted their surprise by what they found here. My guests were making pronouncements relating Buffalo to the finest cities in the world. It was a nice reminder of why I love it here. I must say, that these visitors transformed our city for me for a night.
We all scurried to bid on a few pieces at the Roswell Park Paint Box Art Auction held at Starlight Studios on Delaware, then a casual and fast dinner at Salsaritas with friends, before we hit the art trail. Chippewa was hopping with retro dance music. As we walked across Main Street to CEPA Helen proclaimed, “Wow,…
tuesday september 11th 2007
Beyond/In WNY: Roberley Bell
Beyond/In Western New York opens this weekend in 12 galleries across Buffalo Niagara, featuring the work of fifty artists who live and work within the Great Lakes region. Here we visit with Roberley Bell as she is installing her work at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. The reception at Hallwalls is this Friday, and Visual Arts Curator, John Massier, has put together a rocking mix of artists, that truly bring the space to life with delightful invention.
Roberley Bell has installed “Becoming Blurred,” a grouping of works made of colorful fiberglass original forms (she calls flower blobs) and molds of found objects, and colorful plastic decorative items, along with preserved butterflies. Bell’s recent work is primarily executed outside in site spec…
friday august 31st 2007
Beyond/In: Adam Weekley
In preparation for the Beyond/In Western New York exhibition we are introduciong you to the Buffalo artists who will be showing their work. Beyond/In is an event that brings twelve Buffalo Niagara region art spaces together to show the work of fifty artists who live and work within the Great Lakes region. We are visiting Buffalo artist’s studios to learn about their working process, their art, their studios, and how they live and work in Buffalo.
This time we visit Adam Weekley at his studio in his home on Buffalo’s west side. Weekley is putting the final touches on the individual pieces that will make up an installation at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in The Church at 341 Delaware Avenue. He talks about the process of creating this fairy tale like installation, which includes blue bear costume, a grouping of bee-hives, drawings of bees, golden colored birds, and…
monday august 27th 2007
Beyond/In: A.J. Fries & Ani Hoover Studio
Buffalo Rising is taking the opportunity of the Beyond/In Western New York exhibition, an event that brings twelve Buffalo Niagara region art spaces together to show the work of fifty artists who live and work within the Great Lakes region, to showcase Buffalo artists. We are visiting artist’s studios to learn about their working process, their art, their studios, and how they live and work in Buffalo.
In this episode, we visit the studio of A.J Fries and Ani Hoover in the Seneca Building, in South Buffalo, around the corner from the Larkin Building. This massive structure is the home to a number of artists’ studios, nestled between various small factories. The two artists moved into this studio a year ago, but have known each other for about five years. When interviewing them together, I was struck by their thoughtful considerat…
tuesday august 14th 2007
Beyond/In Western New York Preview
The Beyond/In Western New York exhibition is an event that brings twelve Buffalo/Niagara region art spaces together to show the work of fifty artists who live and work within the Great Lakes region. That region extends out to include Toronto, Syracuse and Cleveland. The momentous weekend of openings that dot the area is not until the weekend of September 14th and 15th, but this Friday, August 17, the Albright Knox Art Gallery opens their portion of the exhibit as a preview of the show.
Buffalo Rising is taking the opportunity of this biennial survey of artists to showcase the Buffalo artists who are included in the exhibition(s). We are visiting these artists studios to learn about their working process, their art, their studios, and how they live and work in Buffalo. Amanda Besl is the first artist we will fe…
