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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="27227" 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=""] Buffalo on Film II Opening Reception: June 19th, 5:00pm-8:00pm Join us on June 19th for the opening reception of Buffalo on Film II, a group exhibition of analog photography by members of the Buffalo Film Club and CEPA's community. The choice to deliberately take a slower and more meticulous approach to the medium underscores the photographers’ dedication to the material tradition of the photograph, celebrating the tactile and photochemical nature of analog photography. Featuring over 30 artists, all of the work in this show was made on film. Many of the artists develop, print, or scan their own work by hand, at home, at CEPA, or through other local resources such as Locust St Art and Delaware Camera. Buffalo on Film II is also supported by Cinestill, who help make analog photography more accessible through easy to use, affordable at home processing kits. With so many resources in the region, the analog photography scene in WNY is flourishing! The exhibition will be held at Cass Gallery, in the Spring St Lobby of 500 Seneca. It will

[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="27216" 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=""] Focus Residency Showcase: Desire Path by Faith Mikolajczyk Opening Reception: June 12th, 5:00pm-8:00pm Join us on June 12th for the opening reception of Desire Path, a showcase by Focus Resident Faith Mikolajczyk. Over the course of Faith’s residency, she has experimented with different alternative photographic printing processes, including Anthotypes, Cyanotypes, Lumen prints, and more. 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘩 is an accumulation of the results of these experiments. [/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=""] Location 617 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14203[/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=""] Date June 12th, 2026  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 css=""] Time 5:00 pm - 8:00pm[/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"][/vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column]

[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="27154" 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=""] Make & Take Day May 30th, 10:00am-5:00pm (stop in any time!) Make & Take Day is a community event centered around creativity, connection, and sharing. Come create something unique, leave it behind for someone else to enjoy, and take home a handmade piece created by another participant. All materials will be provided! [/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=""] Location 617 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14203[/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=""] Date May 30th, 2026  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 css=""] Time 10:00 am - 5:00pm[/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"][/vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column]

[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="27042" 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=""] Main Street By Diane Bush Opening Reception: May 1st, 5:00-8:00 PM Artist Statement:  "This project, shot in 1981, was my last black and white documentary photographic essay, created for my M.F.A. degree (University of Buffalo) in Fine Arts Photography. The final project was exhibited at Artist’s Gallery (later Big Orbit) on Essex Street. Later, WNED-TV used the images to create a five minute filler with collected sound and jazz, using a Ken Burn's style of panning, zooming, and fades. Since then, the work has been rarely seen, perhaps at the occasional CEPA art auction.   My original intent was to document Downtown Buffalo during the "Revitalization" that had engulfed the Theatre District. Buffalo was the last Rust Belt city to take advantage of these Federal dollars. It was 1980, but it looked as if some businesses were still in the 40s and 50s. All this was rather romantic to my mind. Conditions were challenging, as I was not allowed to use flash, or additional lighting, and I did not have any digital tools then.

[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="27033" 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=""] APPLEPEAR Work by Helen Lin UB MFA 2026 Opening Reception: May 1st, 5:00-8:00 PM On View: 05/01/26 - 05/30/26 APPLEPEAR brings together photography, drawing, video, and installation to explore how the body carries desire, collective memory, and cultural pressure. My work centers on elements that feel familiar and intimate such as hands, mouths, fruit, or jewelry—symbols that shift meaning through my staging and manipulation. I’m drawn to the ways we give meaning to these gestures and how they can appear erotic, violent, or sacred depending on the viewer’s gaze.  I believe trauma and desire often exist together and view them as inseparable. My images and video work speak to that overlap between pleasure and sorrow, yearning for something but holding feelings of hurt. Cultural and familial histories, my own and those of others, are stored in the body, shaping how we carry ourselves. For many people, the body can be both a site of longing and a place where harm has been stored. Objects like fruit serve as vessels to carry these ideas, as they

[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="27030" 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=""] Are You Bored Yet? Work by Hayley Martinez Buffalo State BFA 2026 Opening Reception: May 1st, 5:00-8:00 PM On View: 05/01/26 - 05/16/26 Are You Bored Yet? Is a visual commentary on escapism through nightlife and distracting oneself with drugs, promiscuity, and impulsivity. This exhibition includes a series of animations and motion graphics creating a nightlife atmosphere. Using 3D and 2D softwares to create energetic, conceptual, and intimate works. My name is Hayley Martinez; I am currently a student at Buffalo State College pursuing a BFA in graphic design and animation. My work is made with the intention to strike excitement, inspiration, and connection. Using 3D and 2D software, and traditional mediums, I am driven by my experiences, observations, and escapism. We get 24 hours in a day of a life that has no death date; how will we use that time? Is it having fun, living in the moment, or ruminating about the past? How do others affect me, and how do I affect others? My goal is to not just 'make artwork' but to create an

[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="26974" 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=""] re- Work by Doğa Ertekin UB MFA 2026 Opening Reception: April 10th, 5:00-8:00 PM On View: April 10, 2026 - April 25, 2026 The phenomenon of synesthesia defines the transposition between senses. This exhibition takes its inspiration from synesthetic relations of perception and questions how our understanding mechanism, therefore our meaning-creation mechanism, shifts according to the input. Would it be possible to comprehend the same content if the form and display were different? How do we create meaning? If form is altered, does identity change? My artistic practice evolves around these questions, and with this exhibition, I aim to explore the themes of the human way of meaning-creation and perception. This exhibition features a series of concrete installations combining video, sound, and sculpture, each translated into another medium. Through these transpositions, re- experiments with the dialogue between forms, inviting viewers to reflect on how their own processes of perception construct meaning. [/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 CEPA Project

[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="26731" 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=""] Face ID: A Surveil of Che-Wei Hsu Work by Che-Wei Hsu February 12, 2026 - April 10, 2026 Face ID: A Surveil of Che-Wei Hsu is a lens-based artistic investigation and experience into the nature of surveillance in modern society. Through performance, photography, and installation, Hsu’s work explores the dynamics between being watched and watching, questioning how surveillance influences human behavior and identity.  Surveillance as a topic of public discourse is growing and more relevant than ever. Hsu says, “I think about the behavior that people would not do in front of other people…for example, eating a sandwich on the ladder in front of the webcam.” Che-Wei Hsu’s playful work runs the gamut from videos of the artist lying down in the shoe section of a Marshalls to photographs documenting strangers painting his face in public. In total, his work addresses how digital and surveillance culture are forms of social control that diminish notions of individuality in public life. Hsu’s work asks, how are you changed by knowing you are observed? [/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"

[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