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.
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.
Poster design by Jade Valkwitch
More on the Chrysalis exhibition.
Hours
The following hours are applicable during open dates of an exhibition, while class is in session. There is a 1-2 week closure period between shows.
- Mondays: 10AM-7PM
- Tuesdays: 10AM-7PM
- Wednesdays: 10AM-7PM
- Thursdays: 10AM-7PM
- Fridays: 10AM-7PM
- Saturdays: 10AM-7PM
- Sundays: CLOSED
The above hours are dependent on the continued availability of our student worker gallery attendants. If you arrive at the Lower Gallery during advertised open hours and it is not open, please visit the Dept. Office in CFA 202, or the Art Resource Manager in CFA 129.
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
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
Western New York Regional High School Students Art Exhibition
- Mon. 1/27 through Wed. 2/19/2025
Evelyn Rumsey Lord Travel Award Exhibition
- Show Dates: Th. 3/6 through Sat. 4/5/2025
- Reception: Th. 3/6/25, 5-7PM
- Featuring work by the 2024 Winners: Brianna Tejeda, TJ Xu, Manya Jain, and and 2025 Award Applicants: Gardner Astalos, Sydney Jackson, Aedan Peters, Eric Ruettimann, Kara Siurano, Laura Valkwitch, Tristan Walbesser
- Participating students, application information Part I, Part II
- For more information on the Evelyn Rumsey Lord Award competition and process, see here.
Department of Art's BFA Senior Thesis group exhibition, Chrysalis
- Show Dates: Tues. 4/22 through Tues. 5/6/2025
- Reception: Tues. 4/29, 5-7PM, during "Spring Into Art"..
See our Exhibitions Archive for more information.
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