Paul Sharits (1943-1993)

ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY

FOR IMMEDIATE USE

PAUL SHARITS: DREAM DISPLACEMENT AND OTHER PROJECTS

ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY

SEPTEMBER 28- OCTOBER 31, 1976          

                BUFFALO, N.Y.—Paul Sharits: Dream Displacement and Other Projects—an exhibition featuring the work of one of the leading filmmakers in the country—opens at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Tuesday, September 28. 1976. A Member’s Preview is scheduled for the previous day, Monday, September 27, at 8:30 p.m.

                Paul Sharits, who was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1943, has lived in Buffalo, where he is Associate Professor of Art at the Center for Media Study of SUNYAB, since 1973. His interest and involvement in experimental film date from 1962, when he founded the Denver Experimental Film Society. Since then, he has produced over twenty films and a body of related works, which place him among the most significant avant-garde filmmakers in the country. Rosalind Krauss, critic and historian, says in her essay on Sharits in the exhibition catalogue: “The films of Paul Sharits…connect to the relatively brief history of American Independent Cinema. Yet they emerge from that tradition in a way which challenges and extends some of its presuppositions. And so, for a whole, they have the quality of being suspended in one’s consciousness—a visual fact, surrounded by questions: why those choices and not others, why those self-determined limitations; why the expansions in that direction, now? And then, the pieces fall into place. One realizes that one is not only looking at work of obvious filmic interest, but one is also in the presence of an extraordinary achievement of cinematic art.”

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