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Remembering Richard Hunt: An Interview
institutions 2024-12-16
Artist Richard Howard Hunt died one year ago today at the age of 88. The sculptor, famous for his metal abstractions, was a titan in the art world. He undertook the laborious work of shaping and welding metal for seven decades up until just about the day he died. One of Hunt’s sculptures is currently on view in the Wilmers Building, but he’s had a long history with the Buffalo AKG. Several of Hunt
A Letter to Steina Vasulka: How We Got Evicted, Moved to the Country, and Built a Life-Long Friendship
institutions 2025-06-09
Ralph and I first met you and Woody, your filmmaker husband, in 1971 in New York.  We were investigating this new medium of video, along with a small group of other artists.  To set the cultural stage: Happenings, kinetic art, light shows, experimental music, conceptual art, mixed media performances, avant-garde film, process art, minimalism, materiality. All of the artists arrived
Electric Op Artists' Texts: "Generative Art"
institutions 2024-11-27
The following text is included in the catalogue for the special exhibition Electric Op, on view through January 26, 2025. The abstract painters Eduardo Mac Entyre and  Miguel Ángel Vidal inaugurated the Arte Generativo  (Generative Art) movement with this manifesto in 1960. They subsequently helped found the Grupo de Arte y Cibernética (Art and Cybernetics Group), an interdisciplinary co
Electric Op Is Generative
institutions 2024-10-14
I’m standing in front of Bridget Riley’s Polarity, 1964, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. My vision is haywire, lines on the canvas vibrate with energy, nothing is stable. It’s the strongest sense of visual interruption I’ve ever experienced standing in front of a painting. It’s intense. When I’m across the room, this image vibrates, but when I’m a few feet away, my entire visual system gl
Seeing Motherhood through the Centuries with the AKG's Collection
institutions 2024-05-12
From the serene and idealized depictions of the Madonna and Child in early Christian iconography to the raw and provocative representations in contemporary works, the portrayal of motherhood throughout art history has undergone a gradual shift—a shift that illuminates societal attitudes towards women and their ever-evolving roles. Nina Grenga, the AKG's Digital Content Manager reflects on thes
Paying Respects to the Matriarch: New Work in the Collection by Phyllis Thompson
institutions 2023-01-31
Phyllis Thompson (American, born 1946) is one of the leading matriarchs of artmaking in the region, earning wide respect in our community among colleagues, educators, makers, and appreciators alike. Thompson is soft-spoken and not a self-promoter by nature, preferring the studio environment to the bustle of art-world events. Luckily, the Buffalo AKG has no qualms about championing the work of incr