Michael Goldberg, Rout of San Romano, 1966, oil on canvas, 54 x 60 inches. University at Buffalo Collection, Gift of David Anderson.
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Opening Reception
Saturday, September 13, 7:00 p.m.
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Lyle Ashton Harris, Billie #14, 2002, monochromatic dye-diffusion transfer print (Polaroid), 20 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the artist and CRG Gallery, New York. @ Lyle Ashton Harris.
CONTINUUM: The MacKrell Collage Archive Project by Gerald Mead
For over 50 years, the late WNY artist Marie MacKrell assembled and categorized over 4,000 items of print ephemera. This exhibition consists of a highly structured presentation, authentication, classification and documentation of her idiosyncratic collage archive and a site-specific installation intended to illustrate the depth and range of the voluminous material it contains.
A COLLAGE SURVEY: COLLECTED WORKSThis exhibition of collage works drawn from public and private collections in Western New York was organized as a companion exhibition for CONTINUUM: The MacKrell Collage Archive Project by Gerald Mead. It briefly surveys various techniques and approaches that artists working in this media have used from the 1960's to the present, the period over which the MacKrell Collage Archive was assembled. These works, many of which combine paper and printed imagery with other media such as paint, range from the highly detailed compositions of longtime UB art professor, the late Seymour Drumlevitch, to the vibrant gestural forms of Charles Clough, an UB alumnus and one of the founders of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Considering scale, John Hultberg's Giant Collage, spanning over eight feet, and Lois Lane's Untitled #184, at nearly six feet wide, belie the common perception that collage is essentially a diminutive art form. Also included in the exhibition are collage works by Romare Bearden, Nancy Belfer, Larry Bell and Andrew Topolski.
Gerald Mead is a collage/assemblage artist who teaches at Buffalo State College, the University at Buffalo and Chautauqua Institution. His work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, George Eastman House/International Museum of Film and Photography, Castellani Art Museum, and Rochester Institute of Technology among others, and has been included in exhibitions throughout the U.S. and in Australia, Great Britain and Poland. Gerald's artwork is also published in two photography textbooks and he has received grants from the New York Foundation of the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. He is currently a surveyor for the American Association of Museums, an appointed member of the Buffalo Arts Commission, and serves on the boards of several arts organizations in the region.
