Lower Art Gallery - B45 CFA
"Great Expectations: Western New York Regional High School Art Exhibition" - Lower Art Gallery Exhibition, Feb. 2024
The Department of Art’s Lower Art Gallery, located in B45 Center for the Arts, is dedicated to showing Art student and alumnus works, as well as regional, national, and international works.
NOTE: These exhibitions are co-displayed in the Lower Gallery
May 14-21, 2026
- Prints and paintings by Sophia Litterio
May 14-28, 2026
Nude Figure Drawing Competition
- Sponsored by the AANR Educational Foundation
- Including works by 49 artists from local 6 organizations that offer nude figure drawing programs.
Hours
Subject to availability, access to view this gallery may be requested during business hours (9AM-5PM, Mon-Fri.) in the Department Office, Center for the Arts Room 202, or with Print Media Technician, Jeff Sherven, in Center for the Arts Room B33
Regularly scheduled hours will resume in Fall 2026
Location
B45 Center for the Arts
University at Buffalo, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260
Floor Plans
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
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- Department of Art Lower Art Gallery
Western New York Regional High School Students Art Exhibition
- Show Dates: January 26 - February 20, 2026
Evelyn Rumsey Lord Travel Award Competition Exhibition
- Show Dates: March 2 - April 3, 2026
- Featuring work by the 2025 Winners: Laura Valkwitch, Gardner Astalos, and Aedan Peters;, and 2026 Award Applicants.
- Participating students, application information Part I, Part II
- For more information on the Evelyn Rumsey Lord Award, see here.
- Department of Art's BFA Senior Thesis group exhibition, featuring 24 artists
- Show Dates: Arpil 21 - May 5, 2026
Don’t _____ Me, I ______ For _____
- Show Dates: August 25 - October 17, 2025
- Reception: Tuesday, September 16, 5-7PM
- A solo exhibition of works by visiting artist Alex Lukas
- This exhibition was awards to Alex Lukas as the result of a competitive Open Call, reveiwed by the Department's Gallery Committee.
- Alex will be presenting in the Department's Visiting Artist Speaker Series on Monday, September 15, 2025
- Show Dates: November 6 - December 17, 2025
- Preview: Thursday, October 30, 5-8PM, during Art in the Open
- Reception: Thursday, November 6, 5-8PM
- A group exhibition curated by Professor Theo. Triandos
See our Exhibitions Archive for more information on past exhibitions.
Fall 2024, during the exhibition "Circulation Issues: Photography by MFA Alumni Hope Mora and Jeremiah Ariaz".
Left: mobile wall, displaying "The Kansas Mirror" by Ariaz.
Back: Portion view of 23'8" wall, displaying work from the series "Pecos" by Mora.
Right: Portion view of 48'6" wall, displaying work by Ariaz and Mora.
Image Credit: Misael Hernandez
Fall 2023, during the exhibition "Try Harder: Works from Frederick Wright Jones, An Homage to Location in Space and Time"
Left: Jones' work installed along 22'6" recessed wall, that is along the same wall as the entrances to the gallery.
Back: Portion view of 23'8" wall, displaying work by Jones.
Right: Portion view of center of gallery, featuring the oversized wood work "The Devil's in the Details". (At rear right, the back is blocked from view by the mobile wall, which was positioned parallel to the back 23'8" wall, abutting the 48'6" wall on the right.)
Image Credit: Misael Hernandez
Spring 2024, during the exhibition "Supreme: BFA Senior Thesis"
Wide lens group portrait of the BFA Senior cohort, with P rofessor Ilona Gaynor. Facing the long wall of the gallery on which both entrances are located, with the mobile wall abutting the 22'6" recessed wall, perpendicularly.
Image Credit: Whitney Kehl
Fall 2023, during the exhibition "Try Harder: Works from Frederick Wright Jones, An Homage to Location in Space and Time"
Left: Portion view of center of gallery, featuring the oversized wood work "The Devil's in the Details".
Back/Right: Sculptures by Jones in front of mobile wall, which was positioned parallel to the back 23'8" wall, abutting the 48'6" wall on the right.
Image Credit: Misael Hernandez
Spring 2024, during the exhibition "Great Expectations: Western New York High School Art Exhibition"
Left: Portion view of gallery wall with 22'6" recessed wall, between entrances.
Center: Mobile wall arranged in center of gallery, receding 12'2" into the distance, with a gap, before the 23'8" back wall.
Right Portion view of 48'6" wall.
Image Credit: Whitney Kehl
The main purpose of the Lower Gallery is to exhibit current Art student work, and to at times showcase distinctive Art Alumni, local artists, and visiting artists, for the benefit of our students and the larger UB and Buffalo communities.
The exhibition schedule is set by the Art Resource Manager in coordination with Faculty on the Department's Gallery Committee.
The Lower Gallery at times offers opportunities to Art Faculty and Graduate students to curate a distinctive show. In the past these exhibitions have included the works of the Guerrilla Girls, Regina José Galindo, Future Death Toll, Lynn Hershman Leeson and Clement Valla among others, and themes have ranged from politics, biology, religion, racism, science, and art movements. Guest-curated exhibition request may be received by the Art Resource Manager, and should be received a year in advance of desired exhibition dates.
We welcome requests for private events to be hosted in the Lower Gallery. Availability is subject to the compatibility of art installation layout and dates, with event needs. Contact the Art Resource Manager for pricing and availability.