Work of WNY artist featured in current Art Gallery exhibit
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The work of a noted Western New York artist and educator will be on display at the State University of New York at Fredonia beginning Oct. 30.
“Continuum: The MacKrell Collage Archive” by Gerald Mead will be featured in the art gallery at Rockefeller Arts Center. The exhibit will open Friday, Oct. 30 with a reception in the art gallery lobby beginning at 7 p.m.
Mead, a noted artist and educator, is currently a professor in the Visual Studies Department at the University at Buffalo. He has received numerous awards for his work including first place at the Carnegie Art Center National Exhibition, a Fine arts Award from Creative Quarterly: The Journal of Art & Design, and gold, silver and bronze medals from the Buffalo Society of Artists’ Annual Exhibitions.
Currently the guest curator of the Charles E. Burchfield Nature & Art Center in West Seneca, Mead is a former longtime curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center located on the Buffalo State campus.
There, he organized many exhibitions for the museum, several of which toured nationally.
His highly-detailed small-scale collages/assemblages are in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, George Eastman House/International Museum of Film and Photography in Rochester, Castellani Art Museum in Lewiston, Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo and the Dowd Fine Art Gallery, among others.
The genesis of the Continuum project came when Marie MacKrell, an award-winning artist and art teacher, donated her large collection of images from magazines, newspapers, personal effects, books, posters to Mead.
Included in the collection were items ranging from New Yorker cartoons to old Christmas cards to personal documents such as birth announcements and papers for funeral arrangements. She passed away shortly after giving the collection to Mead. He used material from MacKrell’s collection to create Continuum and five other projects.
The exhibit runs through Dec. 6. Both the opening reception and the daily exhibit hours are open to the public at no charge. Gallery hours are 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 2 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
