Seeing Red

Richard Anuszkiewicz and Al Held featured in Electric Op at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York.

Through January 27, 2025

In the 1960s, electronic media began reformatting the nature of images and how we see. Unlike static paintings or sculptures, video and digital images are dynamic and interactive, made of abstract patterns of information that are manipulated, stored, and shared as electronic signals or numerical bits of data.

Loretta Howard Gallery is pleased to present a group of 1960s oil paintings on paper by Shirley Goldfarb. These small format works were tipical of her studio practice, often used as studies for large scale paintings.

Following World War II, hundreds of artists from the United States flocked to the City of Light, which for centuries had been heralded as an artistic mecca and international cultural capital. Americans in Paris explores a vibrant community of expatriates who lived in France during the post war period.

In the 1960s, Gray was making increasingly loose, increasingly explosive, monumental paintings. This is evident especially in the Silver series of 1967. This sense of freedom is evident and deliberate in these charged canvases. Gray said “I thought I should do something untoward and without the rational guidance of my paintbrush. I had nothing to lose, and I wondered what would happen; I picked up a bucket of aluminum paint and threw it at the canvas lying on the floor.”