Brenda Molloy – Brooklyn, NY Honors

VICTOR SHANCHUK, CHEMICAL LIGHT On View Friday, April 12–Sunday, July 28, 2019 BSA member Victor Shanchuck, Jr. brings a deep commitment to experimentation and production and connects This exhibition includes several works that haven’t been exhibited, including liquid-like observational figure drawings from the 1970s that were made using various photographic chemicals in place of traditional drawing materials. Also included are his Polarization slide-projector installations from the 1980s and 1990s that contain hand-made slides of collaged and manipulated plastic sheeting sandwiched between transparent polarizing material. Bursting with abstract form and color, the Polarizations are perhaps his most original and significant moment as an artist. Opening Reception: Friday, April 12, 2019, 5:30–7:30 pm SPECIAL EVENT | MEMBERS ONLY PREVIEW Thursday, April 11, 2019, 6:30–8 pm Members of…

Firehouse, Mark Lavatelli Verdant: Recent Work by Mark Lavatelli Indigo Art 47 Allen St., Buffalo opening this Friday, October 6th from 6 to 9 PM and continuing through November 5th Gallery talk by Lavatelli on Saturday, October 14th at 1 PM The exhibition consists of recent encaustic paintings and encaustic monotypes, many of which were done during an artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in March. Gallery website ARTIST STATEMENT My recent encaustic paintings combine tree images with color shapes. Stripes of varying widths and lengths merge with and overlap trunk and branch structures. Often emphasizing negative spaces, the dynamic diagonal compositions echo areas of deadfall timber in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico that were seminal subjects during graduate school in the late…

The first summer BSA Open Studio visit after our required COVID break was held at Sally Treanor’s home studio on Saturday, June 3rd. Sally provided an overview of the build-out of the space from unheated/uncooled attic to a modern, up-to-date, purpose-built work space. Visitors saw slide-in painting storage and shelving for acid-free boxes and teaching materials. A flat file provides a framing station. The area is super-insulated with a Mitsubishi unit providing heating and cooling. Finally, color corrected, full-spectrum lighting was chosen over skylights and the whole space was rewired. Sally gave two demonstrations illustrating some of the special joys of watercolor. The first was a mini video (4.5 minutes) demo of surf and rocks. The second demo was a paint-along that Sally calls “The…