Lower Art Gallery - B45 CFA

"Great Expectations: Western New York Regional High School Art Exhibition" - Lower Art Gallery Exhibition, Feb. 2024.

"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.

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.

Current Exhibition

The Lower Gallery is currently closed for the summer. Check back for Fall exhibtiion details!

Gallery Info

Hours

Fall Hours to be announced!
During the academic semester there will be regularly scheduled open hours of the gallery, as well as "by request"* access to enter and view during business hours. To request viewing access between 9AM and 5PM, Monday-Friday, visit the Department of Art office in room 202 of the Center for the Arts.
 
*Access requested in the Department Office is subject to availability of staff.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

The University at Buffalo strives to create an environment in which diverse opinions can be peacefully expressed and heard, regardless of whether others may disagree with those expressions.

- Department of Art Lower Art Gallery

Fall 2025 Exhibitions

Don’t _____ Me, I ______ For _____

  • Show Dates: August 25 - October 17, 2025
  • Reception: TBA
  • 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

[Social Minimalism]

  • Show Dates: October 30 - December 17, 2025
  • Reception: TBA
  • A group exhibition curated by Professor Theo. Triandos

Previous Exhibitions

See our Exhibitions Archive for more information.

Sample Images of the Lower Gallery Layouts

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

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