Guided Tour of the Burchfield Penney Art Center

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The Burchfield Penney offers guided tours of the museum every Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

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Installation: Secret Spaces

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Kari Achatz and Nick Napierala, graduates from the Art Education Department, created the interactive installation Secret Spaces for the Useum. Follow their progress on the "Nick and Kari Say" blog.

Kari Achatz and Nick Napierala are art educators who have combined their art and teaching experiences with their own childhood memories to design Secret Spaces. The installation is derived from the belief in never losing the fresh, uninhibited childhood creativity that comes with imaginary play. As children, Kari and Nick remember dragging heavy chairs, gathering sheets and pillows, and arranging these components into carefully orchestrated blanket forts that served as their private escape. These magical secret spaces transformed the living room into another world.

Visitors entering the Useum find themselves in a fantastical bedroom scene where guests are encouraged to write on furniture and investigate the installation that reveals hidden blankets and props. Guests are also encouraged to build their own fort or spaceship and share a secret space with others by taking a photograph and adding it to the artist’s blog.

Exhibition: Unseen Burchfield

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Charles Burchfield’s adult life was spent living with his family in Gardenville, New York. During this time, many in our community acquired his paintings, prints, drawings, and doodles, either from his dealer, the Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery in New York, or, in the 1960s, the G Contemporary Gallery in Buffalo. A few friends and acquaintances were fortunate enough to visit his studio and receive a small gift for a special occasion. Many other people began collecting Burchfield’s work after his death in 1967. Today hundreds of individuals cherish his work in the privacy of their homes, tucked away from the public eye.

This exhibition provides the Burchfield Penney Art Center with an opportunity to present a variety of works from private collections of Western New Yorkers. From monochromatic sketches to large colorful landscapes, many of these works are being shown in a museum for the first time.

In 1964, Charles Burchfield expressed his feelings about “The Artist and The Collector” in a manuscript for the exhibition, Outstanding Art Collections of Greater Buffalo: Paintings and Sculptures of the Past Twenty Years, held in the Upton Gallery at the State University College at Buffalo (as they were then known). His thoughtful appreciation for the collectors who supported him - including those “without portfolio” who virtually collected his work by appreciating it and telling him how much they enjoyed it. For him, and the museum, Burchfield collectors will always be respected and applauded.

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Exhibition: Over the Porch Roof

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Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967) painted Over the Porch Roof (1933-37) from an upstairs bedroom window to preserve early glimmers of approaching spring: “A day in March when the first hint of green in the grass and ruddy color in the trees can be seen.” By grounding the view point from his own home, Burchfield presented not only a geometrically interesting composition and view to the outer world, but also suggests the sense of comfort that home represented for him. He started this technique of painting views from his home when he was maturing in Salem, Ohio, from 1916 through 1920.

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