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SUMMARY:John Wood: The System is Alive
DESCRIPTION:John Wood: The System is Alive \nOct 13\, 2023 – Apr 28\, 2024\nJohn C. Wood (1922-2012) was an educator and artist whose practice transcended divisions of media. Wood taught with distinction at Alfred University from 1954 to 1987 where he developed the photo\, graphic design\, book arts\, printmaking\, and foundation programs in the School of Art & Design. Wood was a revered and influential professor who described his aesthetic practice as “being in the state of drawing” and grounded in his personalized forms of “System Drawing.” These philosophies\, prominent throughout this exhibition\, are the connective tissue for his life’s work.  \nThe exhibition focuses on the relationship between Wood’s visual scholarship and its expression through diverse media\, extending through more than 25 different forms and variants. Among the media are drawings on various substrates\, including a range of papers\, rocks\, and sand\, and an equivalent variety of print media\, including intaglio\, etching\, lithographs\, woodcuts\, silkscreen\, and photography. The photographic works are themselves in a range of formats\, from cyanotypes to multi-media collages. Many of the works seen here have never been exhibited before. In his work\, Wood did not offer answers to questions\, instead presenting pathways for consideration. His work took on a range of subjects\, but ultimately\, they were platforms for conversation on topics of environmental\, political\, and social concerns.  \nNearly all Wood’s notes\, writings on art\, and preparatory works have been held and archived by members of his family. This record of achievement and discovery stretching from 1948 into the new millennium has not previously been studied.  John Wood: The System is Alive represents an in-depth examination of close to 400 of Wood’s notebooks\, sketchbooks\, one-of-a-kind experimental artist’s books\, and unframed preliminary drawings bringing forth a profound reinterpretation and radically new appreciation of the depth and breadth of an artist generally remembered as master photographer and educator.   \nWood’s artwork is in collections nationally. These include Baltimore Museum of Art\, Center for Creative Photography\, George Eastman House\, J. Paul Getty Museum\, Los Angeles County Museum\, The Museum of Modern Art\, The National Gallery of Canada\, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery\, and many others. This exhibition\, curated by Joseph Scheer and organized with help from the supportive team at the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University is presented with support from the Tower Family Fund\, and the Wendt Foundation\, Thanks to Carol Wood and family for all of their great work and Anthony Bannon\, PhD for his review and advice on the broad spectrum of the artist’s career.
URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/john-wood-the-system-is-alive/
LOCATION:Burchfield Penney Art Center\, 1300 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Event,Buffalo Event
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SUMMARY:Doug An Inter-Media Enjambment
DESCRIPTION:Doug\nAn Inter-Media Enjambment \nNov 10\, 2023 – Apr 28\, 2024\nDoug is a Video and Sound Installation by Bufffluxus\, an ensemble composed of musicians\, vocalists and artists focused on exploring and developing the ideas and long and short forms proposed by the New Music\, Fluxus and Dada art movements. Doug can best be described as an Inter-Media Enjambment (in literature a continuation of a sentence or idea without interruption) that was created using various methods of Indeterminacy (the act of relying on elements of chance and interpretation where aspects of the work are left open to the interpreter’s free choice.)  \nThe story of Doug is a nostalgic fantasy concerning a pet rodent that was purchased by well-meaning parents to teach their children how to be responsible and care for others. As often happens\, there is a break in communication and Doug’s cage is left open. Being of the age where curiosity makes one less aware of their environment\, Doug wanders in search of comfort in matters of the heart. He quickly learns his pursuits are best served by relying on indeterminacy and an enjambment of ideas and disciplines. His attraction to chance\, abstraction and aspirational thought lead to a variety of emotional adventures that can be thought of as both provocative and ridiculous at the same time. Doug finds himself in a world of inter-media where indeterminacy and predetermined destination has led him to a nostalgic fantasy where he discovers aliens living in Target stores. Surviving on milkshakes and treacherous plants Doug lives in a world of thought whose story of abstraction are indiscernible to the audience. \nText for Doug is by Michael Basinski\, with video and animations by Andrew Deutsch and music by Don Metz. Collaborators created work independently which was jammed together during an editing process. Performers include violinist David Adamczyk\, guitarist Sonny Baker\, vocalist Michael Basinski \, bassist David Benders\, guitarist Don Metz\, percussionist John Smigielski and vocalists Kristen Smigielski and Kevin Thurston.
URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/doug-an-inter-media-enjambment/
LOCATION:Burchfield Penney Art Center\, 1300 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Event,Buffalo Event
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SUMMARY:Textile Curiosities
DESCRIPTION:Textile Curiosities\nStep into a world where art and nature converge in a display of faux-taxidermy moth and butterfly sculptures. Aleah Ford\, known as “Moth On The Wall\,” invites you to experience the enchanting realm of these ephemeral creatures through her meticulously crafted works. In this exhibition\, Aleah’s sculptures come to life using textiles\, wire\, faux fur\, clay\, and flocking. The sculptures are presented within shadow boxes\, reminiscent of Victorian curiosity cabinets\, inviting viewers to step back in time to an era of exploration and discovery. Each box offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of the Lepidoptera.
URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/textile-curiosities/
LOCATION:Botanical Gardens\, 2655 South Park Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14218-1526\, United States
CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Speaker,Workshop
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SUMMARY:CROWNS
DESCRIPTION:CROWNS\nApr 17 — May 19\, 2024\nTicket Price: $55; Students: $20; “Under 30”: $30\nA moving and celebratory musical in which hats become a springboard for an exploration of history and identity as seen through the eyes of a young Black woman who has come down South to stay with her aunt after her brother is killed in Brooklyn. Hats are everywhere\, in exquisite variety\, and the characters use the hats to tell tales concerning everything from the etiquette of hats to their historical and contemporary social functioning. There is a hat for every occasion\, from flirting to churchgoing to funerals to baptisms\, and the tradition of hats is traced back to African rituals and forward to current fashion!\nPerformance times are:\nWed/Thu at 7pm\nFri at 7:30pm\nSat at 3:30pm & 7:30pm\nSun at 2pm
URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/crowns-2/
LOCATION:MusicalFare Theatre\, 4380 Main Street\, Suite 123\, Amherst\, NY\, 14226\, United States
CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Theater
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SUMMARY:The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence\nby Madeleine George \nApril 18 – May 19 \nDirected by Katie Mallinson\nStarring Dave Hayes\, Brendan Didio and Emily Yancey \nDr. Watson\, Sherlock Holmes’ trusty companion; Thomas A. Watson\, assistant to Alexander Graham Bell; Watson\, the unstoppable supercomputer Jeopardy! champ; and Watson\, a Dweeb Team everyman. Four Watsons in three centuries unite to tell one tale in this playful\, time-traveling drama about the foibles and frustrations of the human heart and the technology on which it increasingly relies.
URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/the-curious-case-of-the-watson-intelligence/
LOCATION:Road Less Traveled Theater\, 465 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T200000
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SUMMARY:BABEL | Kiese Laymon
DESCRIPTION:BABEL | Kiese Laymon\nJust Buffalo Literary Center presents\nBABEL featuring Kiese Laymon\nThursday\, April 25\, 2024\n8:00 pm\nDoors open & VIP Patron Reception at 7:00 p.m. \nFeatured Book: Heavy: An American Memoir \nJoin Just Buffalo Literary Center for an evening with award-winning author Kiese Laymon whose urgent message will bring the audience to both tears and laughter as he reflects on his book\, Heavy: An American Memoir. \nSeason Subscriptions include a ticket for all (4) of Just Buffalo Literary Center’s BABEL 2023-24 events. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKIESE LAYMON is a Black southern writer from Jackson\, Mississippi. In his observant\, often hilarious work\, Laymon does battle with the personal and the political: race and family\, body and shame\, poverty and place. His savage humor and clear-eyed perceptiveness have earned him comparisons to Ta-Nehisi Coates\, Alice Walker\, and Mark Twain. He is the author of the award-winning memoir Heavy\, the groundbreaking essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and the genre-defying novel Long Division. \nLaymon’s memoir Heavy won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and was named one of the Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. A personal narrative that illuminates national failures\, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable—an insightful\, often comical exploration of weight\, identity\, art\, friendship\, and family. \nABOUT THE BOOK  \n*Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times\, Publishers Weekly\, NPR\, Broadly\, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction)\, The Undefeated\, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs)\, The Washington Post (Nonfiction)\, Southern Living (Southern)\, Entertainment Weekly\, and The New York Times Critics* \nIn this powerful\, provocative\, and universally lauded memoir—winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prize—genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon “provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man\, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot” (Entertainment Weekly). \nIn Heavy\, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson\, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence\, to his suspension from college\, to time in New York as a college professor\, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother\, grandmother\, anorexia\, obesity\, sex\, writing\, and ultimately gambling. Heavy is a “gorgeous\, gutting…generous” (The New York Times) memoir that combines personal stories with piercing intellect to reflect both on the strife of American society and on Laymon’s experiences with abuse. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding\, he asks us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love\, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free.
URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/babel-kiese-laymon/
LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Speaker
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