This is Part II of the short essay I wrote inspired by my visit to the Burchfield Penny Art Center in Buffalo, NY last Friday...
Charles Burchfield, whose 1959 “December Moonrise” is one of the highlights of the Phillips exhibition, is represented at the Smithsonian by the almost equally powerful “Night of the Equinox.”
Co-curators Stephen Vermette, Ph.D. and Tullis Johnson contributed to the article.
I visited it last Friday for the second time this year. It's a special place for me for two reasons. It has the largest collection of works by Charles Burchfield (Am. 1893 - 1967) one of the artists who has most influenced me. Secondly it sits literally a few hundred yards from the spot where 48 years ago I decided to become an artist.
An array of much-published and award-winning poets from throughout North America will descend on The Center to take part in the four-day festival of readings, interviews, music and dance.
The Burchfield Penney Art Center mourns the loss of a close friend, the SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus Edward O. Smith, Jr., Ph.D. who had been an important patron and advocate since the museum’s inception
Charles Burchfield has a painting for any weather event, and blizzards were a favorite. He has optimistic paintings of blizzards and pessimistic ones. This one strikes me as the latter.
Eco-political work by Christy Rupp was on display. A metal dinosaur skeleton, its bones imprinted with credit card solicitations, commanded the floor.
A Musical Feast's Charles Haupt is interviewed on WNED.
On April 9 and 10, Burchfield Penney Art Center will be hosting a two days of events featuring members of London-based POP-UP Adventure Play. These events will allow children of all ages to explore, transform, create, and share ideas about the value of free play.