2024 Members’ Show Artist Talks Happening October 10th

2024 Members’ Show Artist Talks Happening October 10th

Buffalo, NY, – October 2, 2024 – Buffalo, NY, – October 2, 2024 – On Thursday, October 10th, from 6-7pm, we will be hosting an evening of artist talks from four of our members exhibiting work in this years members show curated by Sophie Barner.

Join us in person or join the live stream to hear our members, Laura Chenault, Biljana Petreska, Cheryl Gorski and Brandon Oleksy talk about their works in the exhibition in addition to their practices as working artists and photographers.

Biljana Petreska, an innovative Roycroft photographer who combines science and art experimentation, is primarily a self-portrait conceptual artist. Pushing the boundaries of traditional photography, her work explores the profound layers of human experience and interaction.

Cheryl Gorski is a New York-based photographer known for her imagery style of the fashion industry, photographing backstage, front row, riser, and afterparties. She specializes in event, portraiture, and concert photography. She fully embraced the art of photography as a student attending Buffalo Academy for the Visual & Performing Arts. She apprenticed under a master photographer in her first portrait studio job and still uses the techniques today.

Brandon Oleksy was born in Arlington Heights, IL, raised in San Marcos, CA and is now working and residing in Buffalo, NY. Their photographs are a celebration and documentation of the people creating underground music while challenging gender normativity. It is within these scenes and spaces that operate outside of societal norms that people are able to express and rehearse who they truly want to be.

Laura Chenault is an interdisciplinary artist creating art from a queer, feminist, and post-modernist perspective who believes concept and content must work hand-in-hand with presentation and display. Medium, scale, and delivery are critical components of every project. She has a BFA in photography from the University of Illinois and works in photography, collage, book arts, installation art, performance, printmaking, and film making. Her love of alternative processes spans decades after being exposed to them by Bea Nettles and Barbara DeGenevieve as an undergrad. In addition to making art, she is passionate about building communities, sharing skills, mentoring, and teaching.

Curtis Kreutter
Curtis@cepagallery.org