Now Hear Me Out…:  Now Hear Me Out…
Don’t feel completely comfortable with contemporary art? Art is better with friends. Join Associate Curator Andrea Alvarez and local teacher and comedian Kevin Thomas, Jr. as they playfully discuss what they see, what they think they see, and what it all means.
Featured voices:
• Kevin Thomas, Jr., Comedian
• Andrea Alvarez, Associate Curator
![Sculpture made of plastic laminated wood shelf, seventeen red enameled cast iron pots, six plastic and metal digital clocks and four glass, metal and red colored oil - "Lava Lites"](/sites/default/files/2023-03/2019_004_a-bb_o2_1.jpeg)
Theaster Gates
American, born 1973
Civil Tapestry 5, 2012
Decommissioned fire hoses on oil cloth mounted on wood panel
58 x 104 x 4 inches (147.32 x 264.2 x 10.2 cm)
Bequest of Arthur B. Michael, by exchange, 2014
2014:3a-b
© Theaster Gates
![Long horizontal panel of firehoses sewed together with the a gradient of the yellow being brighter/cleaner from the left that slowly fades into darker/more weathered tones towards the right](/sites/default/files/2023-03/theastergates.jpeg)
Ed Clark
American, 1926-2019
Untitled (New York Series), 1991
Acrylic on canvas
81 1/2 x 74 inches (207.01 x 187.96 cm)
Gift of Mrs. George A. Forman, by exchange, 2018
2018:8
© Ed Clark
![Painted oval and semicircular forms and horizontal bands in different shades of pinks, greens and beige](/sites/default/files/2023-03/edclark.jpeg)
Haim Steinbach
American, born Israel, 1944
ultra red #1, 1986
Plastic laminated wood shelf, seventeen red enameled cast iron pots, six plastic and metal digital clocks and four glass, metal and red colored oil "Lava Lites"
2/2
65 x 76 x 19 inches (165.1 x 193 x 48.3 cm)
Purchased jointly by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum with funds provided by the Bequest of Arthur B. Michael, by exchange and Albert H. Tracy Fund, by exchange and by Carnegie Museum of Art with funds provided by the A.W. Mellon Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2019
2014:3a-b
© Haim Steinbach
![Sculpture featuring plastic laminated wood shelf, seventeen red enameled cast iron pots, six plastic and metal digital clocks and four glass, metal and red colored oil "Lava Lites" Edition:](/sites/default/files/2023-03/haim.jpeg)
Doris Salcedo
Colombian, born 1958
Untitled, 1998
Wood, cement, and metal
74 x 44 x 21 1/2 inches (188 x 111.8 x 54.6 cm)
Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund, 1999
1999:9
© Doris Salcedo
![A brown wooden cabinet that is partially stained and has unfinished work on the front top and bottom left cabinet](/sites/default/files/2023-03/untitled.jpeg)
Eva Hesse
American, born Germany, 1936-1970
[no title], 1970
Fiberglass over wire mesh, latex over cloth over wire
74 x 44 x 21 1/2 inches (188 x 111.8 x 54.6 cm)
Box: 12 x 9 x 4 1/2 inches (30.5 x 22.9 x 11.4 cm); Cord: 78 inches (198.1 cm)
Elisabeth H. Gates and Sherman S. Jewett Funds, 1978
1978:5
© Estate of Eva Hesse
![A beige fiberglass rectangle opening on a white wall with a red wire protruding from the center and reaching the cement floor.](/sites/default/files/2023-03/eva.jpeg)
Agnes Martin
American, born Canada, 1912-2004
The Tree, 1965
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (182.9 x 182.9 cm)
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1976
K1976:2
© Estate of Agnes Martin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
![Square canvas painted white with a barely visible thin grid throughout](/sites/default/files/2023-03/thetree.jpeg)
Mark Rothko
American, born Daugavpils, Russia (now Latvia), 1903-1970
Orange and Yellow, 1956
Oil on canvas
91 x 71 inches (231.1 x 180.3 cm)
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1956
K1956:8
© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York
![Painting with a lighter shade of orange as the background, a yellow horizontal rectangle at the top and a darker orange vertical rectangle below it](/sites/default/files/2023-03/orangyellow.jpeg)
Helen Frankenthaler
American, 1928-2011
Tutti-Fruitti, 1966
Acrylic on canvas
116 3/4 x 69 inches (296.6 x 175.3 cm)
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1976
K1976:8
© Estate of Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
![Organic shapes of thinned, vibrantly-shaded paint (including pink, yellow, blue, orange, green, and red) on a rectangular canvas](/sites/default/files/2023-03/tutti-fruitti.jpeg)
Chaim Soutine
Carcass of Beef, ca. 1925
Carcass of Beef, ca. 1925
Oil on canvas
51 9/16 x 38 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches (131 x 98.1 x 3.8 cm)
Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1939
RCA1939:13.2
![Oil painting of an opened/ bloody animal carcass with a blue background](/sites/default/files/2023-03/carcus.jpeg)