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October 16, 2025

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image="26490" img_size="750x500" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""] Anxiety of Amnesia By Andrea Wenglowskyj Opening Reception: Friday, November 7, 2025, 5-8 PM November 7, 2025 - December 20, 2025 Anxiety of Amnesia merges text, original imagery, and found archival photographs by two photographers: Andrea Wenglowskyj and her father, Bohdan. The work spans over sixty years and explores themes of ownership, the power of vernacular photography, and the relationship between absence, presence, and loss. As a young Ukrainian immigrant, attorney, and father, he became a hobbyist photographer and left a trunk full of photos, negatives, and their packaging upon his death in 2000. Along with both of their photographs, Wenglowskyj’s original text is interspersed on the wall. This imagined narrative allows her to believe that for a brief moment, she and Bohdan are in a present-day conversation, both as adults and parents, but also as his daughter. Andrea Wenglowskyj is a photo-based artist and commercial/editorial photographer based in Buffalo, NY. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Grant in Ukraine, where she traveled the country and explored Ukrainian culture through its contemporary artists

October 14, 2025

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image="26472" img_size="750x500" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""] Public Reception: November 21st, 2025 5-8PM Private VIP Fundraiser Reception: November 14th, 2025 6-9PM CEPA is excited to partner with WNYCOSH and El Museo. WNYCOSH Working Lens 2025 is on view at El Museo from November 14, 2025 - January 17, 2026. El Museo is located at 91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202. For Tickets to the WNYCOSH Fundraiser, see the WNYCOSH event page. Working Lens 2025 marks the third collaboration between CEPA Gallery and WNYCOSH, further strengthening the relationship between the arts and the labor community. This unique exhibition brings together seven union workers who, over the course of eight weeks, have developed their photography skills under the mentorship of renowned photographer Martin Malicki. Throughout this creative journey, participants have explored the intersection of their personal and professional lives, using photography to document the complex realities of work, home, and family. Working Lens 2025 is not just an art exhibition—at a time when workers, worker protections, the right to organize, and even the right to have union contracts honored are under threat—it stands as a

August 21, 2025

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image="26210" img_size="full" css="" qode_css_animation="" el_class="mt-25"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""] CEPA is proud to announce our partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) for the latest iteration of its "Big Shot" photo series. On the night of Saturday, October 11, 2025, we will ask thousands of Bills fans to illuminate Highmark Stadium, the home of the Buffalo Bills, for a gigantic, one-of-a-kind photograph. The "Big Shot" photo will capture the Bills’ home of 52 years in spectacular, never-before-seen fashion before the team moves to a new home in 2026. Each year, for the last 36 years, students at RIT, considered one of the world’s leading photography schools, choose an architectural wonder to photograph for Big Shot (past Big Shots have featured Churchill Downs, the Alamo and the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid). Their goal: to make a work of fine art that attendees help create! At Orchard Park next month, Big Shot 37 will commemorate the final season for the Buffalo Bills in Highmark Stadium before its lights go out forever (1973–2025). The event is fully participatory for Bills fans. Attendance is free, but tickets are limited to 10,000. CEPA board

July 14, 2025

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image="25977" img_size="750x500" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""]Sweet Treats & Other Delights 2025 Mail Art Members’ Show Curatorial Statement by Sophie Barner Opening Reception: November 7th, 5:00-8:00pm There’s something inherently delightful about mail art: work created with the intention of giving it to someone else, putting it into the hands of the postal service, and accepting its fate as it travels to its destination. Receiving any kind of non-junk mail is a rare occurrence these days. Unsurprisingly, receiving dozens of letters and packages, all containing unique and personalized artworks, has been a daily delight for me these past few weeks.  Mail art has been practiced by artists for decades and celebrated as an egalitarian system for distributing art and connecting artists from anywhere in the world. This year, we received submissions from all over Western New York, the country, and even the world. CEPA is honored to have an expanding global network of members, and we are excited to present Sweet Treats & Other Delights to you.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" el_class="gray-border-top"][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="center" css_animation="" el_class="white"][vc_column_inner

July 1, 2025

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image="26023" img_size="750x500" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""] Opening Reception: September 5th, 2025 5-8PM Granville Carroll’s Black Serenity explores the ways in which blackness occupies space. Low-light and low-contrast, Carroll’s self-portraits command viewers to slow down, concentrate, and confront their perceptions of race and blackness. This immersive exhibition creates an environment for self-reflection; a sensorial experience that presents blackness not as a void or absence, but as endless possibility. As stated by Carroll, “Black Serenity is an exploration of the polarities within darkness as it relates to a primal sense of fear and a conscious mode of evolution and healing. This project explores my relationship to isolation and solitude and how one’s perspective shapes the world they live in. The darkness of space is empty, void and yet, it represents everything that is and can be. In the emptiness of this space is possibility. Through body language, movement, gesture, and expression I span the spectrum of darkness, operating within the polarities while existing within the liminal space.” Granville Carroll is a Phoenix-based artist and Afrofuturist. He earned his MFA in

June 3, 2025

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image="25621" img_size="750x500" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""] Opening Reception: July 12th from 5-8 PM About Portrait of Buffalo II: Satellite at Fitz: Portrait of Buffalo II: Satellite at Fitz is the second location for CEPA Gallery's Portrait of Buffalo II project. This exhibition features original work from six talented Buffalo-based photographers. To read the original project description, click here. Artist Names, Descriptors, Websites: Tiffany Gaines, Documenting Downtown/Elmwood/Allentown, @_itstiffanyyy DJ Carr, Documenting Masten/Ellicott, @djcarrr Pat Cray, Documenting Fillmore/Lovejoy, @yungpainkiller Jake Amadori, Documenting South Buffalo, @jake_amadori Andrea Wenglowskyj, Documenting North Buffalo, @andreawenglowskyj Tito Ruiz, Documenting the West Side, @thepeoplesphotographer Co-Curated by Sophie Barner and Robert George Portrait of Buffalo II is supported by the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, Erie County, and NCAComp, inc. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_single_image image="25452" img_size="large" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" el_class="gray-border-top"][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="center" css_animation="" el_class="white"][vc_column_inner width="1/3"][icons icon="fa-map-pin" size="fa-4x" type="normal" position="center" target="_self"][vc_column_text css=""] Exhibit Location Fitz+Waffles 1462 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14209[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/3"][icons icon="fa-calendar" size="fa-4x" type="normal" position="center" target="_self"][vc_column_text css=""] Exhibit Dates July 12, 2025 – August 31, 2025 Admission Free to the public[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/3"][icons icon="fa-clock-o" size="fa-4x" type="normal" position="center" target="_self"][vc_column_text] Exhibit Times Monday-Saturday 12:00 p.m.–6:00

February 24, 2025

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image="25025" img_size="750x500" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""]Sustained Echoes: Unearthing Our Shared Roots Featuring work by Jamie Hager, Dana Hunt-Locklear, Ashley Manigo, James Pardue, and Daphne Pugliese Opening Reception: Friday, March 7, 5:00–7:00 PM EST, Artist Talks at 6 PM Light refreshments will be served How do media artists confront the rising tides of automated technologies, biased algorithms, and data mining? How can we connect with each other, when the people in power depend on our division? How do we minimize distractions brought on by corporate media spectacles so that we can feel solidarity in our struggles? In Sustained Echoes, five multimedia artists come together to create a domestic living space in which they embody technology to unearth their shared roots in the CEPA underground gallery. Although each of the artists differs in their creative practices, their shared disillusionment with the postmodern condition is what unites them. In this interactive and multi-sensory group installation, material memories are revitalized and sustained through disempowering modern technology. This exhibition features a deconstructed CRT TV interactive system made by James Pardue in which visitors’ sounds will

February 19, 2025

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image="25246" img_size="750x500" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""] Sequence implies the order of related events. Likewise, first-year MFA students at the University at Buffalo have gone through similar experiences during year one. Despite this overlap, the works that they have created over the last few months are notably different. Here the diverse sequences of each individual artist’s life are important to consider. The Sequence exhibition is really a complex braid of sequences, with room for the viewer to discover links and breaks between artworks, as well as between artworks and their own lives

February 19, 2025

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image="25014" img_size="750x500" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""] Opening Reception: Friday, April 4th, 5:00–7:00 PM Frontera de carácter (Character Frontier) is a culmination of work rooted in photography, adobe, and Hernandez's Mexican, Northwest American upbringing. The exhibition hosts a physical archive of handmade tablets with embedded personal photographs and a collection of inkjet prints depicting constructed compositions representative of cognitive experiences aided by meticulously placed geographical and historical photographs. The two bodies of work clash, becoming an expression of labor, photographic deep time, and cross-cultural shared experiences. Join us at CEPA on April 19 from 12:30-4:00 PM for a free gallery talk and group critique led by Misael Hernandez. There are only 10 spots available for the critique portion of this event, so make sure to fill out the form linked below ASAP. If attending, please come prepared with a photography or photo-related series/project. Digital and physical submissions will be accepted. Sign up for the group critique here [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" el_class="gray-border-top"][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="center" css_animation="" el_class="white"][vc_column_inner width="1/3"][icons icon="fa-map-pin" size="fa-4x" type="normal" position="center" target="_self"][vc_column_text css=""] Exhibit Location Underground Gallery 617

January 7, 2025

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image="24856" img_size="750x500" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="pt-10" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""] Photography by Tafawa Hicks Guest Curated by Michelle D. Hare Starting in 1974, the former photojournalist for The Challenger, Arthur “Tafawa” Hicks spent 30 years in Buffalo capturing the essence of life in the East Side of Buffalo. Documenting Jefferson Avenue was integral to Hicks’s practice. Jim Bell Cleaners, Scottie’s Steak House, Pine Grill, and Henry’s Hamburgers formed the core of the preeminent hub, the soul, and the focal point for Black Buffalo during this time. From children who played hockey in a parking lot to the families who enjoyed the culture of Juneteenth celebrations to the civic leaders who fought tirelessly for justice and equality, Tafawa's camera was present. He captured the dichotomy of flourishing Black businesses, political mobility, and social unity versus a community plagued by intense segregation, and damaged neighborhoods, as well as social and economic disinvestments. His lens vividly captured the struggles, disparities, achievements, beauty, and resilience of Buffalo’s Black community. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" el_class="gray-border-top"][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="center" css_animation="" el_class="white"][vc_column_inner width="1/3"][icons icon="fa-map-pin" size="fa-4x"