Members' Preview of Electric Op
Thursday, September 26, 2024
4 pm - 7 pm EDT
Museum visitor Carole E. Hardy with Karl Gerstner’s Lens Picture No. 15, 1964, at Art Today: Kinetic and Optic, March 1, 1965, held at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (now Buffalo AKG Art Museum), February 27–April 11, 1965. Artwork: Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum Digital Assets and Archives.
FREE for members
4–7 pm
Members' Preview | Gundlach Building, Floor 1
4:30 pm
Reception for members begins | Gundlach Building, Sculpture Terrace (Floor 2)
Drawing on the Buffalo AKG’s leading collection of dazzling Op art, Electric Op brings together more than one hundred artworks by nearly ninety artists to trace the six-decade relationship between geometric abstraction and electronic art and culture. Dynamic paintings, sculptures, and prints are placed into dialogue with analog videos and computer-generated images and experiences, demonstrating how Op became “Electric” and heralded the rise of the Information Age.
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Voices in Contemporary Art: Electric Op—Artists Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Casey Reas, and Laura Splan in Conversation with Curator Tina Rivers Ryan will immediately follow this event from 7 to 8 pm in the Lipsey Auditorium. Join us for a conversation between artists Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Casey Reas, and Laura Splan, and former Buffalo AKG curator Tina Rivers Ryan in celebration of Electric Op.
The talk is free and open to the public; no registration is required.
SPONSORS
Electric Op is made possible through the generosity of the Generative Art Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support provided by the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation.
Electric Op is made possible through the generosity of the Generative Art Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support provided by the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation.
Beverages generously provided by Schutte Hospitality Group and Britesmith Brewing.
