Buffalo —The popular biennial, multi-venue regional art exhibition Beyond/In Western New York will continue to grow in 2010. For the first time, Beyond/In Western New York will present art by an invited selection of non-regional artists from the United States and abroad. Work from both regional and non-regional artists will be shown at eleven collaborating arts venues spanning Erie and Niagara Counties and at additional venues and public sites throughout the region.
Opening at all venues on September 24, 2010, and running through mid-December 2010, the exhibition will explore the regionally relevant theme Alternating Currents and its implications of power and energy. The expanded scope of the 2010 exhibition is expected to increase visitation and arts participation to well more than 60,000, the number of visitors to Beyond/In Western New York in 2007.
The potential to expand and grow the project from its 2005 and 2007 successes was readily identified by Bruce W. Ferguson, an international expert and consultant to the project. “I have worked with many cities and arts communities across the globe, from Santa Fe to Istanbul, and it is unusual for a region to have this much talent and the collaborative spirit to bring it all together as a major exhibition that has such tremendous potential.”
Ferguson was hired to bring a global perspective to the opportunity for Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents to focus a world spotlight on the rich, vibrant regional arts scene that exists in Western New York and beyond. His participation in the project has been supported by a feasibility study grant from New York State through the Empire State Development Corporation.
An independent curator and critic, Ferguson has worked internationally for more than thirty years. His recent projects include conceptualizing and directing a new institute for media, arts, and culture at Arizona State University-F.A.R. (Future Art Research) @ ASU. Ferguson previously served as the Dean, School of Arts, at Columbia University; President and Executive Director of the New York Academy of Art; and is the founding Director and first biennial curator of SITE Santa Fe, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
For the first component of the 2010 exhibition, more than seventy artists (twenty more than the number who participated in the 2007 exhibition) from Western and Central New York, Southern Ontario, Cleveland, and Northern Pennsylvania were selected by a group of curators from each collaborating venue. The selected artists are:
ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY
Marshall Scheuttle
Tom Hughes
Victoria Bradbury
Joan Linder
Mark Shepard
Sheldon Berlyn
Joshua Reiman
Richard Huntington
Randall Tiedman
James Carl
Penelope Stewart
Ken Cosgrove
Sarah Paul
Daniel Borins & Jennifer Marman
Micah Lexier
UB ANDERSON GALLERY
Kurt Von Voetsch
Rodney Taylor
Barbara Lattanzi
Elinor Whidden
UB NORTH GALLERY
Related exhibition
BIG ORBIT
John Dickson
BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER
Carl Lee
Joe Bochynski
Dennis Maher
Michael Beitz
Kyle Butler
James Carl
Jean-Michel Reed
Julian Montague
Karen Brummund
Buffalo Sound Painting Ensemble
Jamie O'Neil
BUFFALO ARTS STUDIO
Phil Hastings
Yasser Aggour
Adam Weekley
Ivan Jurakic, Tor Lukasic-Foss, Dave Hind and Simon Frank
Megan Ehrhart
CARNEGIE ART CENTER
Gary Nickard
Lisa Neighbour
Michael Beitz
CASTELLANI ART MUSEUM
Adam Weekley
David Mitchell
Jennifer Lefort
Elizabeth Gemperlein
CEPA
Virocode
Stefan Petranek
EL MUSEO
Ying Miao
Michelle Gay
HALLWALLS
Daniel Young & Christian Giroux
Ben Van Dyke
Virocode
Jason Bernagozzi
Jamie O'Neil
Tom Sherman
SQUEAKY WHEEL
Geoffrey Alan Rhodes
Barbara Lattanzi
Jessica Thompson
OFF-SITE
(Hi-Temp Fabrication, 79 Perry Street, beside HSBC)
JT Rinker
Bill Sack
Michael Bosworth
OFF-SITE
(WNY Book Arts Center)
Joel Brenden
Scott McCarney
Warren Quigley
OFF-SITE, to be sited
Millie Chen
Nina Leo
Reinhard Reitzenstein
Stephanie Rothenberg
Bruce Adams
Blake Carrington
Jamie O'Neil
Jeremy Bailey
Reactionary Ensemble
Tom Sherman
Jody Hanson
Alex Young
The invitational process for the non-regional artists who will make up the second component of the expanded project is now underway, with announcements of final curatorial selections expected by the end of 2009.
"We are very excited about the scope and caliber of the work of our regional artists," said John Massier, the 2010 Project Director. "Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents is the gateway for local, regional, and national audiences to experience all that this region offers, not just in art, but architecture and culture as well."
Visit
www.beyondinwny.org for more information and updates as the project progresses.
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Staff
