Artist Chrysanne Stathacos to give lecture and performance in UB Anderson Gallery

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- To conclude her recent exhibition Rose Mandala (of Three Reflections), which has been on view at the UB Anderson Gallery since September, Chrysanne Stathacos will present a free lecture and performance at 6 p.m. on Dec. 1 in the gallery's second floor atrium. The event is free and open to the public.

Rose Mandala (of Three Reflections) is one of five exhibitions hosted by the UB Art Galleries in conjunction with the recent visit by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

The lecture and performance coincide with a "Day With(out) Art," a national day of mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. Stathacos will speak to the significance of her work that explores the ephemeral process of change and mortality within transient time. The audience will be invited to participate.

Stathacos is a multi-media artist and educator whose art works and interactive public art projects have traveled to museums, public spaces and contemporary art galleries on four continents. Her art practice makes connections between ritual actions and contemporary performance/installation art to create cross-cultural hybrid works that directly engage the public.

UB Anderson Gallery, located at One Martha Jackson Place near Englewood and Kenmore, is open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1-5 p.m. UB Anderson Gallery is supported with funds from the Office of the Provost, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Anderson Gallery Program Fund and the UB Collection Care and Management Endowment Fund.