Opening of Three Exhibitions on August 9 at CEPA Gallery

Buffalo, NY, – July 22, 2024 –

CEPA Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of three exhibitions on August 9, 2024, the 2024 CEPA Members’ Show, Cole Pawlowski: All-Black Paintings, and Pickles & Concrete which is part of the ongoing project, Dirtball, by Kosmologym, an international art and game design collective made up of Walker Tufts, Greg Stewart, and Jo Dalsgaard. Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, August 9, 2024, from 5 – 8 PM. 

As CEPA prepares for our 50th Anniversary celebration, we are excited to continue one of our favorite traditions with the 2024 Members’ Show. Sophie Barner, CEPA’s Assistant Curator & Gallery Manager stated, “Each year, we look forward to seeing the hard work of both our returning and new members. This exhibition is always a great opportunity to check out what is new and exciting in the Buffalo photography community.” This year, one winner will be selected from the participants by the 2024 juror, Zack Boehler, Public Art Project Coordinator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The winner will receive a free solo exhibition to be held at CEPA Gallery in Fall 2025.

All-Black Paintings is an exhibition that features the work of Cole Pawlowski, winner of CEPA’s 2023 Big Orbit Members’ Show. Pawlowski stated, “The ‘All-Black Paintings’ are born out of my desire to privilege process over product.  These works represent a significant change in my chosen values as an artist… Through reflecting on how much I fixated on the future and how little attention I gave to experiencing the now, I decided to make more space for mindfulness in my day to day life and creative practice.”

Pickles & Concrete is a time-negotiating kitchen laboratory where visitors use bacteria to make pickles, grow and test bioconcrete, and preserve food. The project contrasts two human attempts to alter the flow of time, freezing, dehydrating, and pickling to remove food from its usual cycle of decay and the freezing and thawing of concrete to rapidly simulate the passage of entire seasons. Pickles & Concrete invites players to get tangled up in the time scales between food preservation, building materials, bacteria and geology in an attempt to re-story science. Artist Walker Tufts says, “I’m excited to bring bioart and the ways it can help us imagine a more playful, inclusive science to a broad audience through a collaboration with CEPA Gallery.”