Amy Meza Luraschi is a Buffalo native who was not only born and raised here, but also educated here. She received her BFA from the University at Buffalo, she then left the city to go to Colombia College in Chicago to earn her MAT, but she has already returned to pursue her MFA in the Visual Studies Department at the University at Buffalo. She lives right in the city and as she works for her MFA, she works as a Lead Teaching Artist for CEPA Gallery’s Education Programs. Big Orbit will be proud to present this true Buffalonian’s work in her exhibit “Apt. Noir.”
Luraschi’s work is a solo exhibition of photographs and will run through January 17th at the gallery. The images are meant to turn the camera inward to capture Luraschi’s self as the woman she wants to be instead of the girl she sees and the girl that society has manufactured. The images are a self-critique and an introspective psychological exploration into Luraschi’s very core, attempting to capture the true self through the photograph.
The opening reception for the artist will take place on December 6th from 8 until 11 PM. For more information, visit the website or send an e-mail here.
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