Lower Art Gallery - B45 CFA
"Ill At Ease" - Lower Art Gallery Exhibition
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.
The Lower Gallery at times offers opportunities to 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 and science. Guest-curated exhibition request may be received by the Art Resource Manager. See contact below.
Try Harder will be on display from Th. 8/31/23 to Sun. 1/7/24.
Join us Th. 8/31/23, 5-8PM for the opening reception of Try Harder, a solo exhibition of Frederick Wright Jones, a 2010 MFA alumni of the UB Department of Art.
The reception will take place in the Department of Art's Lower Gallery, in room B45 of the Center for the Arts on UB North Campus, in the space where this exhibition is installed.
This work, compiled over the last 6 years, is an homage to location in Place and Time. Playing off Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the Chronotope in Literature. Jones places sculpture, as language, into conversation with this linguistic tool to speak about our current condition. In this work Jones does a personal analysis of navigation in general, moving across the Atlantic, being both with his family and apart from them, the role of teaching, and the issues of access highlighted by the Covid 19 pandemic. Aesthetically, it is a look at mapping, technological evolutions, tools of violence and survival, and the nuance of visibility and invisibility. Jones contrasts the notion of the “Ritual and the Sacred” and their location between private and public as they travel through Walter Benjamin’s “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” into bell hook’s “Art on my Mind.”
Frederick Wright Jones will be presenting for the Department's Visiting Artist Speaker Series, on Mon. 9/11/23, at 6:30PM in CFA 112 (the Center for the Arts Screening Room). Open to the public, with seating first come first serve after students registered in the Speaker Series course have been seated.
Spring 2024 Exhibition News Coming Soon!
Hours
- Mondays: 11AM - 1:30PM
- Tuesdays: 10AM - 7PM
- Wednesdays: 10AM - 7PM
- Thursdays: 10AM - 7PM
- Fridays: 10AM - 7PM
- Saturdays: 1PM - 7PM
- Sundays: CLOSED
Additional Lower Gallery open hours for Fall 2023 will be announced soon. Appointments may be requested by writing to whitneyk@buffalo.edu.
Location
B45 Center for the Arts
University at Buffalo, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260
Floor Plans
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