Wednesday, 4 April 2012

"Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde Survey"

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 09:32 PM PDT
artwork: Charles Clough (American, 1951-), "Eyes 2", 1975 - Enamel of gelatin silver prints on cardboard. 30 x 40 inches. - Collection Sally & George Hezel. Image courtesy of the artist and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery - On exhibition March 30th–July 8th.

BUFFALO, NY.- Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970's surveys a creative ecology that flourished in Buffalo in the 1970s comprising a loosely organized group of collaborative, interdisciplinary artistic communities spanning the visual arts, film, video, performance, literature, and music. Looking back on the art and ideas these groups propagated, one might argue that aspects of postmodern and contemporary art were seeded during this time, and that Buffalo was one of a group of geographic pockets that provided fertile ground for these concepts and methodologies to take hold. Wish You Were Here identifies some of these concepts and examines the various threads of connectivity and collaboration that made Buffalo a site of radical creativity. On exhibition March 30th–July 8th at the 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

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