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 and organizations. Her work has been published by the New York Times and NPR, and her photography has been exhibited at galleries such as Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, PA, Galerie Amu in Prague, and The Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver.
Anxiety of Amnesia is sponsored by Arts Services Inc., New York State Council on the Arts, and Erie County.
