Different Perspectives
A Museum Studies Exhibition
Museums provide engaging exhibitions and programs that explore different themes and issues relevant to current world experiences. SUNY Buffalo State graduate and undergraduate students in museum studies co-curated Different Perspectives to research and interpret works in the museum’s collection that address contemporary issues through multi-disciplinary perspectives. They explore subjects such as identity and gender politics, our relationship with the land, literary and musical improvisation, and historical and current events.
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Timothy Frerichs: Navigation
Lake Erie—the Great Lakes
Artwork addresses environmental problems Timothy Frerichs has spent the past 25 years using his artwork to address the impact humans have on the environment. His current work addresses human activity as the dominant influence on the environmental problems plaguing Lake Erie and the Great Lakes system. Frerichs emphasizes sustainable processes and materials in creating his work.
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Charles E. Burchfield: Patterns Against the Sky
Presented with support from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation
Brings together patterns employed in Charles E. Burchfield’s art from the collection and archives of the Burchfield Penney along with three loans from private collections. It focuses on work created in the early part of his career, but also includes later iterations of some of the patterns seen in earlier work.
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Our Hearts are with the Community
We grieve for the ten people who were lost, those who were injured, their loved ones, and all of the members of Buffalo’s East Side community who were targeted in the racist mass shooting at Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue.
If you are able, please consider supporting organizations such as Buffalo Community Fridges, which are accepting volunteers and donations.
Welcome Artist Mike Glier
Artist-In-Residence 2022
The Burchfield Penney Art Center announced that artist and educator Mike Glier is its 2022 Artist-In-Residence. Glier kicked off his residency exploring the work of Charles E. Burchfield through the current exhibition, A Lifetime of Themes, along with a deep dive into the archives.
Glier has long shared the writings of Burchfield scholar and curator Nancy Weekly with his students at Williams College and cites Burchfield as an important influence on his painting and drawing. Although Glier's early work was politically focused, he has shifted to spend the last two decades exploring the human relationship with the land. Like Burchfield, his work demonstrates a love of painting, abstraction, and a reverence for nature...
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Let's Check In
The Let’s Check In series was launched just a couple of weeks into shelter-in-place as part of Burchfield Connects. It was one of its most highly viewed weekly social media posts spotlighting visual and performance artists invited to create 5–6-minute videos about their work and reflections of the moment. The first episode debuted April 4, 2020, featuring Bethany Krull, followed by A.J. Fries and Karen Eckert, Pat Foran and Tricia Butski, The Wajeds (Edreys Alexa, Emeka, and Eman), and Dennis Maher. Subsequently, the cavalcade of creativity grew with 30 more enlistments.
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