UB Art Gallery to Present "Haunted Screens"

BUFFALO, N.Y. --The University at Buffalo Art Gallery will present "Haunted Screens," a group exhibition featuring local, national and international artists who are working to deconstruct cinematic technologies. Participating artists will include Zoe Beloff, Michael Bothsworth, Diane Landry, Ed Pien, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Simon Penny, Siebren Versteeg, and Kara Walker.

"Haunted Screens" will open with a public reception on March 29 at 5 p.m. in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Many of the artists will be in attendance.

The exhibition will be on view March 29-May 19. UB Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. with extended hours on Thursday until 7 p.m

In the spirit of proto-cinematic devices like magic lanterns and zoetropes, "Haunted Screens" features artwork that employs a variety of techniques -- from the hand-drawn to pixel disintegration -- to present a delirium of actual and implied movement.  The phantasmagorias, silhouettes, and projections in this exhibition borrow from mysticism and folklore, the legacy of the African slave trade and urban specters to conjure historical and magical apparitions that inhabit the contemporary mind.

"Haunted Screens" is co-curated by Sandra Firmin, curator of the UB Art Gallery, and Carolyn Tennant, media arts curator of Hallwalls. The UB Art Gallery is funded by the UB College of Arts and Sciences, the Visual Arts Building Fund, the Seymour H. Knox Foundation Fine Arts Fund and the Fine Arts Center Endowment.