Buffalo, New York – Experience the magic and beauty of the botanical world in an exhibition featuring new work by artist Colleen Ayson. In her first solo show, Curiosity & Wonder explores the mysterious alchemy of beauty in nature and the creatures that exist our world. Curiosity & Wonder is a must-see collection of work that mesmerizes audiences with its curious beauty and modern elegance.
Colleen Ayson’s Photographic Paintings, are inhabited with butterflies, beetles and a wide array of botanical flowers that create a cinematic still life that draws the viewer to an evocative and opulent world. Some of the works are breathtakingly quiet and simple, while others are dramatically seductive with their bold electric colors. Ayson’s Photographic Paintings are modern digital masters of botanical art.

Curiosity & Wonder will be on view now until January 5, 2019 at Vern Stein Art & Frame 5747 Main St. Williamsville, NY. Opened Monday – Saturday
Additional information and gallery hours can be found at http://vernsteinartandframe.com/

Colleen Ayson is a visual artist with a degree in Art & Design from Chelsea College of Arts, London. She moved to Buffalo, NY via Melbourne Australia in 2013. She was born and raised in California and now calls Buffalo, NY her home.

To find out what inspires her art follow on Instagram @colleenaysonstudio

Purrfect Cafe is excited to be hosting Santa Clause himself!

Jolly Old Saint Nick will be hosting a special holiday gathering on Fri. Dec. 21st from 4 PM – 6 PM and Sat. Dec. 22nd from 1 PM – 3 PM. He will be reading a very special Christmas Story to all the kids and will be available for photo ops! Parents are welcome to hang out and enjoy some refreshments. Santa even has a special gift for all the good boys and girls who come to visit!

Come visit Santa and our Cafe Cats for this Purrfect Christmas event! Only $20 per person. Milk, hot chocolate, and cookies will be provided! Skip the long lines and crowded malls and department stores. Spend a relaxing hour mixing and mingling with Kris Kringle himself. Children of all ages welcome – young and old!

We wish you a Purrfect Christmas!

Buffalo, New York – Experience the magic and beauty of the botanical world in an exhibition featuring new work by artist Colleen Ayson. In her first solo show, Curiosity & Wonder explores the mysterious alchemy of beauty in nature and the creatures that exist our world. Curiosity & Wonder is a must-see collection of work that mesmerizes audiences with its curious beauty and modern elegance.
Colleen Ayson’s Photographic Paintings, are inhabited with butterflies, beetles and a wide array of botanical flowers that create a cinematic still life that draws the viewer to an evocative and opulent world. Some of the works are breathtakingly quiet and simple, while others are dramatically seductive with their bold electric colors. Ayson’s Photographic Paintings are modern digital masters of botanical art.

Curiosity & Wonder will be on view now until January 5, 2019 at Vern Stein Art & Frame 5747 Main St. Williamsville, NY. Opened Monday – Saturday
Additional information and gallery hours can be found at http://vernsteinartandframe.com/

Colleen Ayson is a visual artist with a degree in Art & Design from Chelsea College of Arts, London. She moved to Buffalo, NY via Melbourne Australia in 2013. She was born and raised in California and now calls Buffalo, NY her home.

To find out what inspires her art follow on Instagram @colleenaysonstudio

Buffalo, New York – Experience the magic and beauty of the botanical world in an exhibition featuring new work by artist Colleen Ayson. In her first solo show, Curiosity & Wonder explores the mysterious alchemy of beauty in nature and the creatures that exist our world. Curiosity & Wonder is a must-see collection of work that mesmerizes audiences with its curious beauty and modern elegance.
Colleen Ayson’s Photographic Paintings, are inhabited with butterflies, beetles and a wide array of botanical flowers that create a cinematic still life that draws the viewer to an evocative and opulent world. Some of the works are breathtakingly quiet and simple, while others are dramatically seductive with their bold electric colors. Ayson’s Photographic Paintings are modern digital masters of botanical art.

Curiosity & Wonder will be on view now until January 5, 2019 at Vern Stein Art & Frame 5747 Main St. Williamsville, NY. Opened Monday – Saturday
Additional information and gallery hours can be found at http://vernsteinartandframe.com/

Colleen Ayson is a visual artist with a degree in Art & Design from Chelsea College of Arts, London. She moved to Buffalo, NY via Melbourne Australia in 2013. She was born and raised in California and now calls Buffalo, NY her home.

To find out what inspires her art follow on Instagram @colleenaysonstudio

Buffalo, New York – Experience the magic and beauty of the botanical world in an exhibition featuring new work by artist Colleen Ayson. In her first solo show, Curiosity & Wonder explores the mysterious alchemy of beauty in nature and the creatures that exist our world. Curiosity & Wonder is a must-see collection of work that mesmerizes audiences with its curious beauty and modern elegance.
Colleen Ayson’s Photographic Paintings, are inhabited with butterflies, beetles and a wide array of botanical flowers that create a cinematic still life that draws the viewer to an evocative and opulent world. Some of the works are breathtakingly quiet and simple, while others are dramatically seductive with their bold electric colors. Ayson’s Photographic Paintings are modern digital masters of botanical art.

Curiosity & Wonder will be on view now until January 5, 2019 at Vern Stein Art & Frame 5747 Main St. Williamsville, NY. Opened Monday – Saturday
Additional information and gallery hours can be found at http://vernsteinartandframe.com/

Colleen Ayson is a visual artist with a degree in Art & Design from Chelsea College of Arts, London. She moved to Buffalo, NY via Melbourne Australia in 2013. She was born and raised in California and now calls Buffalo, NY her home.

To find out what inspires her art follow on Instagram @colleenaysonstudio

Buffalo, New York – Experience the magic and beauty of the botanical world in an exhibition featuring new work by artist Colleen Ayson. In her first solo show, Curiosity & Wonder explores the mysterious alchemy of beauty in nature and the creatures that exist our world. Curiosity & Wonder is a must-see collection of work that mesmerizes audiences with its curious beauty and modern elegance.
Colleen Ayson’s Photographic Paintings, are inhabited with butterflies, beetles and a wide array of botanical flowers that create a cinematic still life that draws the viewer to an evocative and opulent world. Some of the works are breathtakingly quiet and simple, while others are dramatically seductive with their bold electric colors. Ayson’s Photographic Paintings are modern digital masters of botanical art.

Curiosity & Wonder will be on view now until January 5, 2019 at Vern Stein Art & Frame 5747 Main St. Williamsville, NY. Opened Monday – Saturday
Additional information and gallery hours can be found at http://vernsteinartandframe.com/

Colleen Ayson is a visual artist with a degree in Art & Design from Chelsea College of Arts, London. She moved to Buffalo, NY via Melbourne Australia in 2013. She was born and raised in California and now calls Buffalo, NY her home.

To find out what inspires her art follow on Instagram @colleenaysonstudio

Buffalo, New York – Experience the magic and beauty of the botanical world in an exhibition featuring new work by artist Colleen Ayson. In her first solo show, Curiosity & Wonder explores the mysterious alchemy of beauty in nature and the creatures that exist our world. Curiosity & Wonder is a must-see collection of work that mesmerizes audiences with its curious beauty and modern elegance.
Colleen Ayson’s Photographic Paintings, are inhabited with butterflies, beetles and a wide array of botanical flowers that create a cinematic still life that draws the viewer to an evocative and opulent world. Some of the works are breathtakingly quiet and simple, while others are dramatically seductive with their bold electric colors. Ayson’s Photographic Paintings are modern digital masters of botanical art.

Curiosity & Wonder will be on view now until January 5, 2019 at Vern Stein Art & Frame 5747 Main St. Williamsville, NY. Opened Monday – Saturday
Additional information and gallery hours can be found at http://vernsteinartandframe.com/

Colleen Ayson is a visual artist with a degree in Art & Design from Chelsea College of Arts, London. She moved to Buffalo, NY via Melbourne Australia in 2013. She was born and raised in California and now calls Buffalo, NY her home.

To find out what inspires her art follow on Instagram @colleenaysonstudio

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

MUHAMMAD Z. ZAMAN: INTEGRATION

Opening Reception: December 7, 2018, 6 – 9pm
On View December 7 – January 5, 2019
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 12:00-3:00 pm, or by appointment
Argus Gallery: 1896 Niagara St. Buffalo, NY 14207

Buffalo, NY – Argus Gallery is pleased to announce Integration, an exhibition of new paintings by Buffalo based artist Muhammad Z. Zaman. These works continue to embody a theme that has been evident in Zaman’s practice – combination.

The artist creates aggregates of language as well as categories and styles of art making. The text is the most stimulating example of this combination – Zaman has formed his own written language, a combination of his native Bengali, Arabic, and English. Graffiti meets fine art and Eastern alphabets meets Western alphabets. Each separate element merges to create stunning layered depths.

Zaman’s practice stems from a desire to bring different, and at times socially opposing, cultures together to highlight the beauty in each, and to call to attention a need for understanding. Oddly enough this is communicated via language that isn’t understandable, but that exact illegibility is what helps create a universal experience. Unable to read the text, the viewer is left to contemplate the intent of the artist and to glean meaning by focusing on the layers, both in the form of monochromatic and colorful applications of paint. There is room for both intellectual reads and more instinctive responses.

Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, December 7, 2018, 6-9pm. The Gallery will be open late on first Friday January 4th for a closing reception.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Muhammad Z. Zaman is a Buffalo-based painter specializing in calligraphy and is a resident artist at Buffalo Arts Studio. This year, Zaman was selected as the Open Buffalo Emerging Artist and was also awarded a New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Individual Artist Grant. Zaman has participated in many community-based initiatives, including Common Ground Connections, part of a nationwide interfaith campaign facilitating bringing communities together through the arts.

ABOUT ARGUS GALLERY:
Situated on Niagara Street in lower Black Rock, Argus Gallery supports emerging and underrepresented artists through exhibition and ontogeny. Argus Gallery seeks to provide opportunities for discourse and critical engagement in contemporary art within Buffalo and Western New York.

Argus Gallery is part of the Eleven Twenty Projects Group. http://eleventwentyprojects.com/

Genesee Country Village & Museum invites you to experience our Holiday Open House event. Come celebrate the traditions of the season with us and explore the winter wonders of the historic village.

Bring your family for self-guided tours through our historic homes that are warmed by fires and alive with holiday lights, candles, and traditional decorations. Experience music, sample foods, and enjoy a visit with St. Nick. Eight houses will be open to explore.

Smell the aroma of fresh-baked Christmas cookies and taste special holiday treats — light fare, snacks and drinks will be available for purchase in the Banquet Center. You may also find that special holiday gift at the Flint Hill Store (open all day).

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Finally, Santa is coming to town! Celebrate by dressing up, pouring up, and partying it up at NYBP’s craziest and most fun Holiday Event: #NYBPSantaCon

🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄

Dress up head to toe like Santa and join dozens of party loving St. Nicks as you travel throughout NYBP, searching for clues that will lead you to four tastings of our signature Christmas Brews: 8 Maids a Milkstout, Hibeernation Winter Warmer, Superfrost Cranberry Sour, and White Christmas Belgian Ale! Your Christmas Passport will help lead the way like Rudolph for you and your team as you visit four special stops around the brewery, ending up at the North Pole Party Bar where many more brews and our signature Christmas Cocktails list await!

$15 ticket includes admission, four Christmas beer tastings, signature NYBP tasting glass, Christmas tasting passport, and enough Holiday cheer to last you throughout the season!

Forget naughty, just be nice and have a blast at NYBP’s SantaCon 2018! 👉 https://bit.ly/2zKiCMa

The Cairns are an ever-evolving band from Buffalo, NY. Composed of main members Joe Mattimore, Tom Sullivan, and Hal Langfur, The Cairns bring a unique blend of rock, roots, and world music to stages across the Western New York region. Their songs and lyrics combine philosophy about life in the universe and personal stories to project good vibes and thought-provoking grooves.

With their third release, “Thrice Accord”, the band has built on a solid catalog of original songs. The Cairns are currently in their fourth year of a residency at the famous Tudor Lounge, presenting their Happiness Hour every third Friday of the month 5-7 pm (except July).

It’s the merriest sing-along in town! You’ll sing your favorite Christmas carols like “Joy to the World” “Silent Night”, “Jingle Bells” and many others. Join us for this casual, joyful event for the entire family featuring special musical performances including the Red Blazers, food trucks, basket raffle, bonfire, kids crafts, and a visit from Santa. Let us know you are coming by registering for tickets online, where you can also make a donation to help support Arlen Jenkins, a 22 month old in need of extensive medical testing and procedures. You can also bring non-perishables items to help stock the Little Free Pantry at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst.

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Rejuvenate your Mind, Body, and Soul with a peaceful guided meditation. Meditation provides scientifically proven benefits such as increased focus, reduced anxiety, stress and depression as well as many others. Give yourself this time to help release tensions and stress, while filling you with the love, support and wholeness you need for the week ahead!
Class will begin at 6:45. Meditation will conclude with the option for you to sit in your relaxed state and /or journal your experience. Followed by a short break where you can decide to stay and take a deeper dive into your meditation journey with like minded people, or depart to return back to your life feeling refreshed and rejuvenated!. $15 includes entire class. No experience necessary. Bring a yoga mat if you prefer it to a chair.
Instructors: Brenda E. Reading
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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Join Erie County 4-H for the National Science Experiment, Code Your World. Youth in grades 3 through 12 will learn basic animation and how to code dances like the Cupid Shuffle and the Chicken Dance! There will also be many other engaging Science, Engineering, and Technology activities for kids of all ages!

The 4-H National Youth Science Day aims to engage young people in one day of hands-on STEM activities. To register, please call 716-652-5400, or email: Teresa Tokasz, tmt63@cornell.edu, or Sara Jablonski, sej57@cornell.edu.

You can learn more about this year’s National Youth Science Day activity here: https://4-h.org/parents/national-youth-science-day/

Join us for our yearly Holiday Intuitive Development Class.
We will begin with a very special meditation that will allow you to completely relax, let go of anything it’s time to let go of and set an intention for the upcoming year.
Next will be do a healing alignment exercise that will help you feel good & help you stay aligned during the hustle and bustle of this time of year. Then we will move on to an Intuitive exercise and toy will receive a very special message about the upcoming New Year ahead.
Finally, we will end with a little holiday party. Bring a snack to share if desired. I’m looking forward to seeing you!!
$20

Register at grangie26@yahoo.com or call or text: 716-930-5011

Intuitive Development – intermediate will be held on the 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month for a 7 class series.
9/11, 9/25, 10/9, 10/23, 11/13, 11/27, 12/11,
Join us if you are ready to take the “Next Step” in your Intuitive Development.

You will learn how to connect to your intuition on a deeper level. You will learn to connect to loved ones who have crossed over. You will be able to get evidence to identify them & receive accurate messages. We will work with symbols & better understand the ways spirit guides communicate with us. It’s so important to see all the details in a message for accuracy. I’m really excited to teach this class. So many people have been asking for it.

If you pay for all 7 classes up front you will, receive one free.
Cost – $140 if paid in full OR $20 per class

Register at grangie26@yahoo.com OR call or text: 716-930-5011

Twice each Wednesday October-March preschool students and their caregivers participate in a program targeted to develop skills that are essential for success in Kindergarten. The program includes museum exploration, circle time, story time, fine/gross motor development lessons and a take home art project. In order to encourage caregivers and children reading together at home after the program, each participant receives a book list with suggested readings on the day’s topic. This program has limited attendance to ensure each child receives a high quality educational experience. Advance registration is required by calling 655-5131 ext. 14 and cost is $1 plus price of admission. This week’s theme: Graham Cracker House Building. (MUST pre-register by MONDAY 12/17 or we will not have supplies for them.)

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Twice each Wednesday October-March preschool students and their caregivers participate in a program targeted to develop skills that are essential for success in Kindergarten. The program includes museum exploration, circle time, story time, fine/gross motor development lessons and a take home art project. In order to encourage caregivers and children reading together at home after the program, each participant receives a book list with suggested readings on the day’s topic. This program has limited attendance to ensure each child receives a high quality educational experience. Advance registration is required by calling 655-5131 ext. 14 and cost is $1 plus price of admission. This week’s theme: Graham Cracker House Building. (MUST pre-register by MONDAY 12/17 or we will not have supplies for them.)

Come and enjoy music of the season performed by the region’s favorite caroling quartet, the American Caroling Company, Wednesday, December 19 at 12 Noon. The festive group performs traditional and contemporary Christmas classics while dressed in authentic Dickens attire. With a variety of musical Christmas entertainment to choose from, we are sure you’ll find Westminster’s midweek concert just what you’re looking for this season.

All are invited. Wednesdays@Westminster is designed to give friends and neighbors an uplifting moment in the day; to feed the spirit and the body; and to delight in the beauty of our historic Sanctuary.

We invite you to join us for the Opening Reception of Peculiar Buffalo: Historical Photography 1900-2012, a collection of local photographs curated by Alexandria Le Caer. The event will take place on Wednesday, 19 December 2018 from 6-9pm at Maison Le Caer, 1416 Hertel Ave, Buffalo, NY. This exhibition extends to the walls of our downtown location in the Market Arcade, 617 Main Street, Buffalo.

Live music by violinist Lena Pasqualetti, and as always, refreshments and dessert by Camille.

What started as an interest in the history of our space at 1416 Hertel Avenue, has unfolded into an exhibition not only of Buffalo’s architecture, but of other more peculiar images people don’t normally get to see in reference to Buffalo’s history. From storm-related floods, people taming Buffalo in efforts to save the species, a stolen car crash, and products of the racy Ginther photography studio, to personal and colorized photographs and postcards, this assortment seeks to bring a broader understanding of our past, physically and psychologically. Through humor, style, expressions, and the progressive notions of our Buffalonian ancestors, we find relationships to our current society and see the evolution of how Buffalo has become such a cool place to live.

I would like to extend a special merci to local Historian, Jim Mendola, for access to his extensive collection and knowledge, which make up the bulk of this exhibition. A gracious thank you to the following people and organizations whose collaboration also made this exhibition possible: North Park Theater, Olmsted Parks Conservancy, The North Buffalo Organization, Buffalo Canvas, Black Rock Historical Society, Buffalo History Museum, Buffalore, Sloan’s Antiques, Lauren Becker of Flat Hat Exhibits, for her parallel interests and shared expertise, and Caitlin Moriarty for her love of maps and comprehension of architectural history and the intent of constructed spaces versus their actual use.

Winter Solstice Celebration & Gallery Style Readings
December 20 (6:30-8:30pm)
With Angie Hewett-Abt and Cassandra Butler

Learn the astrological and overall meaning of the Solstice and how the energies will affect you from Cassandra. Angie will lead a ceremony that will include letting go of what no longer serves us, and setting our intentions for 2019. we will follow the solstice celebration with a Gallery Style Readings just like the readings given at The Stump in Lily Dale. Each person in attendance will receive a message from Angie or Cassandra. Suggested donation: $35

Register at grangie26@yahoo.com
OR call or text: 716-930-5011

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Thursday, December 20th – Buffalo Afrobeat Orchestra & Root Shock

-Doors: 8:00pm, Show: 9:00pm
-Tickets: $10 ADV/$13 DOS
-Ages: 18

About Buffalo Afrobeat Orchestra:
-Vocals: Preach Freedom, Zoe Scruggs, Sara Rodriguez
-Drum Kit: Reggie Evans
-Bass: Rodney Chamberlain
-Keys: Steve Davis

Guitars:
-Tenor: Ed Handman
-Rhythm: Dan Mylotte
-Rhythm: John Victor

Horn Section:
-Baritone Sax: Steve Baczkowski
-Tenor/Alto Sax: Ellen Pieroni
-Trombone: Naheem Shabazz
-Trumpet: Emilio Virella

Percussion:
-Congas: Ringo Brill
-Djembe/Congo: Franck Desire,
-Shekere/Auxillary Percussion: Matt Downey

DJ: Amilcar Hill (DJ Milk Buffalo)
______________________________________

About Root Shock:
Root Shock was formed in winter of 2012 with veteran musicians whose love of reggae music flows deep. Blending roots reggae, dancehall, heavy drum & bass and soulful vocals with conscious lyrics into positive dance music will make you want to move!

Root Shock has been surprising and delighting crowds across the Central New York region, bringing their unique high-energy style spearheaded by the stunning vocals of Jessica Brown to a wide range of settings. The band’s dedication to spreading music with a positive message has paid off in entertaining, elevating, and energizing music lovers of all walks of life!

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Come visit one of Buffalo’s must-see treasures: The Guaranty Building! Originally built in 1896, this Adler & Sullivan designed structure is a highlight of Buffalo’s downtown architecture. Come see the beautiful terra cotta tiles on the exterior, the incredible mosaic work on the interior, and learn the history of this building, including what makes it a great preservation story. Preservation Buffalo Niagara is the exclusive provider of tours of the Guaranty Building.

Pre-registration is required for this tour. Walks on are not permitted, due to the limited capacity on this tour. Online registrants will receive a confirmation email. If you prefer to register over the phone, please call (716) 852-3300. If you have any questions, please contact Olivia at (716) 852-3300.

Tours of the Guaranty Building are on Fridays at 2 pm and Saturdays at 11 am.

Stop out after work and join us downtown at the Market Arcade for a free Happy Hour reception on Friday, 21 December, 5-8pm, to celebrate the opening of “Peculiar Buffalo: Historical Photography 1900-2012,” a collection of local photographs curated by Alexandria Le Caer extended from the North Buffalo location at 1416 Hertel Ave (which opens Wednesday, 19th, 6-9pm).

Each exhibition features works related to the surrounding community. As usual, refreshments and dessert by Camille will be served.

The exhibitions feature images of a more peculiar variety that people don’t normally get to see in reference to Buffalo’s history. From storm-related floods, people taming Buffalo in efforts to save the species, a stolen car crash, and products of the racy Ginther photography studio, to personal and colorized photographs and postcards, this assortment seeks to bring a broader understanding of our past, physically and psychologically. Through humor, style, expressions, and the progressive notions of our Buffalonian ancestors, we find relationships to our current society and see the evolution of how Buffalo has become such a cool place to live.

A special merci to local Historian, Jim Mendola, for access to his extensive collection and knowledge, which make up the bulk of this exhibition. A gracious thank you to the following people and organizations whose collaboration also made this exhibition possible: North Park Theater, Olmsted Parks Conservancy, The North Buffalo Organization, Buffalo Canvas, Black Rock Historical Society, Buffalo History Museum, Buffalore, Sloan’s Antiques, Lauren Becker of Flat Hat Exhibits, for her parallel interests and shared expertise, and Caitlin Moriarty for her love of maps and comprehension of architectural history and the intent of constructed spaces versus their actual use.

FTMP Events presents:

Doyle (legendary ex-guitarist of The Misfits)
w/ Exham Priory, Optic Oppression, The Barksdales, & A.C. Anton

Friday, December 21st
Doors at 6:00 pm
$15 Presale, $20 at the door
Ages 18 (ID Required / Strictly Enforced)

Tickets: http://www.purplepass.com/DOYLE122118

at: Buffalo Iron Works
49 Illinois St
Buffalo, NY 14203

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Legendary Ex-Misfits guitarist Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein has broken new ground with his solo project, “DOYLE”. A horror based hardrock/metal band of epic proportions. Still grinding out heavy riffs is the hulking monster himself, Doyle of Misfits fame,and Alex Story from ‘Cancerslug provides vocals filled with misanthropic rage, while still capturing the beauty of the dark side. Solidifying the quartet is Graham (ex-Graves, ex-Let It Burn) on bass, unifying the skull crushing sound that is the machine Doyle himself has put together. DOYLE cranks out music as scary as the Misfits, as doom laden as Black Sabbath, and has the same hard-hitting in your face style of metal as Motorhead or Slayer.

Mark your calendars, because this isn’t your mother’s poetry night….

Green Buffalo Productions’ monthly Poetry Mic Night is here to get you off your butt and writing again with a monthly poet’s challenge, traditional poetry readings and an opportunity to connect with writers in the Buffalo community. There’s no pressure, only friendly faces and encouragement to read your work and share ideas!
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We will have a rotation of readers with open slots for newcomers. At the top of the night, we will introduce our “Poet’s Challenge,” a mini writing exercise to keep you on your feet.

Bring those wallets! Delicious coffee, snacks, crafts and promotional items will also be for sale.

Come if you dare…but don’t come alone!! Our Haunted Hayride, and phylotec have been scaring the “yell” out of unsuspecting victims for some time now . It has become a Halloween tradition, so bring your friends and family, Scouts or sports groups – as many people as you can to protect you from the strange happenings and eerie encounters that go on in the Becker Farms forests after dark.

Phylotec: Biogenetic Testing Station

In our quest to bring you the best in farming technology we have been experimenting using the latest in genetic research. But something has gone wrong! When used incorrectly the very technology that can make the best tasting fruits and vegetables will create terrifying man eating monsters! Make your way through twisting passages of terror and try to survive the biogenetic disaster area that is phylotec.

Tickets include both the Haunted Hayride and Phylotec
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Single tickets are $10.00
A group rate (20 or more people) is only $9 a person

Don’t miss this annual Christmas tradition in Buffalo. The public is invited to a Concert featuring Christmas music, new and old, in the iconic 160-year-old sanctuary of the Westminster Presbyterian Church.

The Westminster Choirs, its Handbell Choir, its historic Aeolian-skinner pipe organ, and the Buffalo Brass Octet join to offer a stunning array of Christmas classics. The free concert on December 21 at 7:30 pm will be held in the Sanctuary at Westminster Presbyterian Church located at 724 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo.

Highlights this year include K. Lee Scott’s The Incarnation, Herbert Howells’ A Spotless Rose, John Gardner’s Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, and John Rutter’s What Sweeter Music. The audience is warmly invited to join in singing favorite Christmas carols, led by the choirs under the direction of Garrett Martin, Organist and Choirmaster.

Raíces Theatre Company presents the English language premiere of Barceló on the Rocks by Marco Antonio Rodríguez. After receiving unexpected news, Nino Antonio Cruz, a Dominican man living in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood with his two sons, is forced to confront his mortality and the dark secrets that have plagued his family for generations which are intrinsically tied to the Caribbean island’s political history. Directed by Victoria Pérez and starring Alejandro Gabriel Gómez, Rolando Martín Gómez, Jake Hayes, Victor Morales, Dewel Pérez and Jordan Rosas. At the Manny Fried Playhouse, 255 Great Arrow Ave., third floor, Buffalo, 14207. $25 general admission, $20 students/seniors.

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

MUHAMMAD Z. ZAMAN: INTEGRATION

Opening Reception: December 7, 2018, 6 – 9pm
On View December 7 – January 5, 2019
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 12:00-3:00 pm, or by appointment
Argus Gallery: 1896 Niagara St. Buffalo, NY 14207

Buffalo, NY – Argus Gallery is pleased to announce Integration, an exhibition of new paintings by Buffalo based artist Muhammad Z. Zaman. These works continue to embody a theme that has been evident in Zaman’s practice – combination.

The artist creates aggregates of language as well as categories and styles of art making. The text is the most stimulating example of this combination – Zaman has formed his own written language, a combination of his native Bengali, Arabic, and English. Graffiti meets fine art and Eastern alphabets meets Western alphabets. Each separate element merges to create stunning layered depths.

Zaman’s practice stems from a desire to bring different, and at times socially opposing, cultures together to highlight the beauty in each, and to call to attention a need for understanding. Oddly enough this is communicated via language that isn’t understandable, but that exact illegibility is what helps create a universal experience. Unable to read the text, the viewer is left to contemplate the intent of the artist and to glean meaning by focusing on the layers, both in the form of monochromatic and colorful applications of paint. There is room for both intellectual reads and more instinctive responses.

Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, December 7, 2018, 6-9pm. The Gallery will be open late on first Friday January 4th for a closing reception.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Muhammad Z. Zaman is a Buffalo-based painter specializing in calligraphy and is a resident artist at Buffalo Arts Studio. This year, Zaman was selected as the Open Buffalo Emerging Artist and was also awarded a New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Individual Artist Grant. Zaman has participated in many community-based initiatives, including Common Ground Connections, part of a nationwide interfaith campaign facilitating bringing communities together through the arts.

ABOUT ARGUS GALLERY:
Situated on Niagara Street in lower Black Rock, Argus Gallery supports emerging and underrepresented artists through exhibition and ontogeny. Argus Gallery seeks to provide opportunities for discourse and critical engagement in contemporary art within Buffalo and Western New York.

Argus Gallery is part of the Eleven Twenty Projects Group. http://eleventwentyprojects.com/

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.