Buffalo, NY – The Albright-Knox Art Gallery will begin the new year with exhibitions featuring three artists recently spotlighted in art and architecture publications. These artists include Joan Jonas, recently named one of artnet news’s “30 Most Exciting Artists in North America Right Now;” Erin Shirreff, one of Architectural Digest’s “8 Incredible Artists on the Rise;” and Torey Thornton, who was recently included in Artsy’s “16 Emerging Artists to Watch in 2016.”  

On Saturday, January 16, the museum will open Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning in its Gallery for New Media. The two works presented in the exhibition—Good Night Good Morning, 1976, and My New Theater VI, Good Night Good Morning '06, 2006—contemplate the passage of time, the process of ageing, and the artist’s self-identity. The exhibition will be on view until May 1.

On Saturday, January 23, the museum will open an exhibition of the work of Canadian artist Erin Shirreff. This exhibition, the first large-scale museum survey in the United States of Shirreff’s work, has been organized by the Albright-Knox and ICA/Boston, where it was on view from August 26 through November 29, 2015. At the Albright-Knox, Shirreff will supplement the exhibition of her work with a group of historical photographs from the museum’s archives dating from the early 1900s to the late 1960s. These document a wide range of possible interactions between museum visitors, employees, photographers, and sculptural objects in the museum setting.

The exhibition will be on view in the museum’s 1905 Building through May 8. It is also accompanied by a catalogue, which contains essays from the exhibition’s organizers. The artist will give a talk in the Albright-Knox Auditorium on Friday, January 22, at 7:15 pm, as part of the Emerging Voices in Contemporary Art lecture series.

On Saturday, February 27, the museum will open Torey Thornton: Sir Veil, in its 1905 Building. The artist’s purposely ambiguous imagery is nestled between abstraction and figuration. The result is a distinct visual tension that characterizes his pictorial spaces. This mini-survey exhibition considers Thornton’s process and the important role language, both graphic and visual, plays in his practice. The artist will speak in the Albright-Knox Auditorium on Friday, February 26, at 7:15 pm, as part of the Emerging Voices in Contemporary Art lecture series. The exhibition will remain on view until May 29.

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc. for its generous support of the Emerging Voices Lecture Series.

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