Joe Bradley and Sterling Ruby in Clyfford Still: A Legacy for Buffalo
3 August 2023—11 March 2024
Group exhibition at Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY, USA
The AKG Art Museum is now fully open to the public. Visitors can experience Clyfford Still: A Legacy for Buffalo, which includes all thirty-three works by the artist in the Museum's collection, as well as a stunning exhibition of artworks in dialogue with or influenced by Still’s practice by artists like Jo Baer, Joe Bradley, Richard Diebenkorn, Sterling Ruby, and Stanley Whitney.
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In 1957, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (then known as Albright-Knox Gallery) acquired its first painting by Clyfford Still (American, 1904–1980). In the years that followed, then-Director Gordon Smith and Chairman of the Board, Seymour H. Knox, Jr. developed a unique relationship with the visionary artist whose early innovations in abstraction had helped pave the way for the Abstract Expressionist movement. This exhibition includes all thirty-three of the museum’s paintings by Still alongside documentation of his relationship with Buffalo from the museum’s archives. After this exhibition, a smaller selection of the artist's works will always be found in the context of the museum’s permanent collection in a dedicated gallery.