Beyond/In Artists Who Engage in the Theme of Electricity and Alternating Currentsby Jack Foran |
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The nominal official theme of the Beyond/In Western New York exhibit—subtitled “Alternating Currents”—related to the development of commercial hydroelectrical power here a century or so ago. Which amounted to the invention and development of alternating current electricity by supergenius Nikola Tesla.
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Bruce Adams' Divine Beauty at Starlight Studio and Galleryby J. Tim Raymond |
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In a specially constructed exhibition space on the second floor above the Starlight Studio and Gallery (not incidentially celebrating its five-year anniversary), Buffalo educator, writer, and painter Bruce Adams presents his continuing ruminations of a “reformed Catholic,” Divine Beauty, a series of painted portraits examining the contravening spiritual/secular inversion from a cultural iconography of Biblical ethic to gilded bar-code materialism.
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