Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way explores contemporary Latinx artists’ innovations and interventions within established traditions of painting, inviting discussion on a variety of themes and revealing the diversity and expansiveness present within the field.

Given his deep interest in art history, the Buffalo AKG has invited Ali Banisadr to participate in the first-ever artist collection intervention. In addition to the installation in the Hemicycle Gallery, a focused selection of Banisadr’s work will be installed throughout the Robert and Elisabeth Wilmers Building, among the dreamlike imaginings of the Surrealists and the unbridled energy of the Abstract Expressionists.

Natvar Bhavsar: Free Yourself surveys fifty years of the artist’s expressive abstractions, inviting viewers to meditate on the power of pure color. Simultaneously presented at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, the exhibitions respectively feature works on paper and monumental paintings spanning each decade of his career. This exhibition also celebrates the debut of the AKG’s two acquisitions by the artist RITI-YAA (1969) and KE-RAA (1971). 

Seen together, the works in Politics of the Obvious describe a world in which aspiration and anxiety are tightly bound, with the quest for stability, beauty, love, and rest shadowed by a persistent sense of precarity. By confronting familiar images throughout the exhibition—of love, masculinity, leisure, and power—Kjartansson reveals their underlying instability and invites us to dwell in what often remains hidden in plain sight.