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★UB Anderson Gallery: 1 Martha Jackson Place Buffalo, NY 14214
Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 11 AM - 5 PM/Sunday 1- 5 PM
★CFA art gallery: 201 Center for the Arts, Buffalo, New York 14260
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 AM - 5 PM

10/12/2026

Looking for a quiet way to spend a few hours this fall? "Natvar Bhavsar: Free Yourself" is on view at UB Anderson Gallery. The exhibition gathers fifty years of Bhavsar's abstract paintings, which he builds by sifting dry pigment through handmade tools and fine mesh screens, up to eighty layers deep. Take a seat on the bench and let the color do its work.

Free and open to the public
Tuesday–Saturday, 11AM–5PM
UB Anderson Gallery, 1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo
Through April 3, 2027

Photo: Doug Lavere.

10/06/2026

This Saturday, join us for a dot mandala workshop led by Sowndharya Arumugam. ⁠
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Learn the history and symbolism of mandalas, then create your own using the meditative dot-painting technique. All materials provided; no experience necessary. ⁠
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Registration suggested: https://airtable.com/appkPYQPGbWtrmhGm/pag3fqSoKOq3ZdbCR/form
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This is part of a year-long series of programs curated by Contextual Programming Resident Gaitrie Subryan to enhance and provide context for our exhibitions. Learn more at buffalo.edu/art-galleries

10/05/2026

Spooky season is here, and Karle Norman's "Leather Prayers" has plenty of spook to go around. Horned figures in hand-stitched leather keep watch from above at UB CFA Gallery.⁠
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On Halloween, put on a costume and join Karle and Anna Wager, Curator of Exhibitions, for a tour of the show. ⁠
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Saturday, October 31 | 1PM⁠
UB CFA Gallery, Lightwell Gallery & Second Floor⁠
Free and open to the public. Link in bio.⁠
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Image: Karle Norman, "From Above," 2026. Hand-stitched leather, thread, and wood. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Nando Alvarez Perez.

09/14/2026

Natvar Bhavsar builds his color fields from nothing but pure, dry pigment — sifted grain by grain through handmade tools and mesh screens, sealed in layer after layer, sometimes up to eighty deep. Up close, the surface is granular, almost tactile. Step back, and the color seems to float free of the canvas, atmospheric, edgeless. "Color fills the universe," Bhavsar has said. "It has no periphery; it's like looking into space."⁠
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Trained among Abstract Expressionists Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, and Piero Dorazio, Bhavsar took their belief that color alone could carry a painting and pushed it somewhere singularly his own — informed as much by Holi's clouds of powdered pigment and the rangoli patterns of his Gujarati childhood as by anything he learned in an American classroom.⁠
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Natvar Bhavsar: Free Yourself opens September 18 at UB Anderson Gallery.

09/09/2026

Opening next Friday, September 18th! Natvar Bhavsar: Free Yourself surveys five decades of the artist's work centered on the power of pure color. Bhavsar builds his luminous surfaces from dry pigment, applied in up to eighty sealed layers through handmade tools and mesh screens, so that color fields seem to float and become atmospheric. His process draws on his Indian heritage, echoing the patterns of Holi and rangoli. Be among the first to see the exhibition at UB Art Galleries while enjoying a cash bar and catered appetizers.

UB Anderson Gallery, 1 Martha Jackson Place
Friday, September 18, 5–8 PM

Natvar Bhavsar: Free Yourself is organized by University at Buffalo Art Galleries and Buffalo AKG Art Museum, and curated by Robert Scalise, UB Art Galleries Director, and Katie O'Hara, Buffalo AKG Assistant Curator. Presenting sponsor: DAG. Additional support provided by Ashok G. Kaveeshwar PhD and Hariastuti Kaveeshwar, and President Emeritus Satish K. Tripathi through the President's Fund for Excellence.

08/06/2026

This fall we open three new exhibitions tied together by a question: how do the repeated actions we take—in a studio, during a ritual, or within a community—shape the beliefs we hold?

Natvar Bhavsar: Free Yourself — fifty years of color-field abstraction from a living legend of postwar American art. Sep 18, 2026–Apr 3, 2027 at UB Anderson Gallery. Presented jointly with the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Constructed Belief — four artists (Mara Baldwin, Ben Cowan, Nicki Green, Muhammad Z. Zaman) turn gesture into ritual, and ritual into art. Sep 24, 2026–Apr 24, 2027 @ UB CFA Gallery, First Floor.

Karle Norman: Leather Prayers — hand-stitched leather work exploring belief, control, and what it means to walk away. Sep 24, 2026–Apr 24, 2027 @ UB CFA Gallery, Second Floor.

📍 UB Anderson Gallery & UB CFA Gallery
🔗 Learn more: buffalo.edu/art-galleries

07/23/2026

One week left to experience Clayton Pond: A Retrospective at UB Anderson Gallery! To mark the closing, we've released a digital catalog featuring new essays on Pond's work and legacy.

Download it here:https://www.buffalo.edu/content/www/art-galleries/exhibitions/2025-26/clayton-pond-a-retrospective/_jcr_content/root/maincontent/par/colctrl/column1/download/file.res/2026_Clayton%20Pond_Catalog_Spreads.pdf

And don't miss your last chance to see the show before it closes July 31.

07/21/2026

What a day. ⁠
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Anderson Inside Out 2026 brought out so many new faces and familiar friends — for live music, food, Clayton Pond: A Retrospective, emerging artists, and neighbors connecting with neighbors.⁠
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Thank you to everyone who made it possible: our vendors, bands and musicians, community organizations, activity leaders, volunteers, and the incredible UB Art Galleries staff. We couldn't do it without you.⁠
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See you next year.

Photos: Douglas Levere

07/06/2026

🎨 Meet the rest of our Emerging Artist Showcase lineup for Anderson Inside Out!⁠
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We're so glad to welcome back Isabelle Swoboda, Soda, and Sunshine Orchard Designs — and thrilled to introduce seven first-timers to the bash: Angels Brook, Claire Carey Photography, Dehd Studios, Madeline Bartley, Nick Mass, Sophia Eugenia, and Prolific Pen LLC.⁠
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Early-career and student artists from across the Buffalo area, each bringing something new to share — and select works available for purchase.⁠
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Find them at Anderson Inside Out, Saturday, July 11, 1–6 PM. Free and all ages.

07/05/2026

🖨️ Screen printing is back at Anderson Inside Out — and WNY Book Arts Center is bringing it.⁠
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Last year, visitors printed their own shirts featuring our beautiful Anderson Gallery building. This year? You'll have to come and see — but we'll tell you this much: it's fun, it's colorful, and it's inspired by Clayton Pond: A Retrospective.⁠
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Bring your own shirt or grab one at the event. Either way, you're leaving with something you made yourself.⁠
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Free and all ages. Saturday, July 11, 1–6 PM · UB Anderson Gallery

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Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm

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