"782 Kg." -- UB Seniors Worth Their Weight in Art

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- "782 Kg.," the University at Buffalo Art Department senior thesis exhibition, will take place April 9-25 in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

The exhibition, whose name derives from the collective weight of all the pieces in show (1,724 lbs. or 782 kilograms) is free of charge and will be mounted in several sites in the center, all of which will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.

Sites include the second floor of the UB Art Gallery, the center atrium, rooms 208 and B13, the Art Department Gallery and the student lounge. A map of exhibition areas will be provided to visitors.

The show will open April 9 with a public reception in honor of the 35 exhibitors from 5-9 p.m. in the UB Art Gallery.

The general themes addressed by the artists are "Alienation and the Gendered Body," "Rupture and Family Memory," "Sex as Tool," "Transient Cultural Spheres" and "Institutional Power."

The media used range from oil (including Renaissance techniques using gold leaf inlay) to computer art, video projection, pop culture kitsch, photography, constructed "pseudo wonders" of the natural world and electronic soundscape.

Exhibitors are Sarah Banasiak, Nicole Jowsey, Catie Lanham, Liza C.S. Camhi, Kathryn Mary Cielewich and Lauren Scime of Buffalo; Vincent Buccitelli and Jennifer L. Hirtreiter of Tonawanda; Christopher Corbett, Chang Chiao-Hao, Nicholas Golebiewski and Michael J. Meier of Amherst, and Catherine Crouch of North Tonawanda.

Also Scott Allen Walker of Jamestown, Kate S. Parzych and Beth A. Stolzman of Akron, Megan Worthington of Batavia, Amy Farrell Chapman of Ithaca, Andrea Davison of Little Genesee, Paul Finochio of Syracuse, Kelly Grant of Fairport, Shannon Green of Alden, Colin Hargraves of Carmel and Paul Hemingway of Kinderbrook.

Also Hoiyee Ho of Brooklyn, Sean Kelley of Geneva, Cortney C. Keuther of West Seneca, Michael Lajewski of Blasdell, John Lee of Flushing, Karen Loria of Fairport, Joseph Marconi of Patterson, Sara Mulch of East Northport and Anne E. Silvernail of Oceanside.

Out-of-state student exhibitors are Bob Rodehorst of Ashaway, R.I., and Wesley Memphis of Beaumont, Texas.