Buffalo Arts Studio is thrilled to present Home, a new body of work by ceramicist Bethany Krull, on view from August 28 through October 31, 2026. Home is an installation of ceramic and mixed media sculptures that investigates our complex relationship with the untamed natural world and the domestic spaces we build within it. An opening reception will be held on Friday, August 28, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm as part of M&T Fourth Friday at Tri-Main.

Our relationship with the rest of the natural world is complicated, messy, and often contradictory. Even as we try to control the environment for power, profit, pleasure, or preservation, we seek separation from it. We build and maintain home spaces that physically cut us off from a world that feels increasingly less habitable. Then we try to bring pieces of that world inside through potted plants, domesticated animals, and artificial representations. We desire protection from and connection with nature. This paradox lies at the heart of Bethany Krull’s newest exhibition, Home.  

Every tableau designed by Krull is a visual depiction of the tension between our sense of interior and exterior worlds. A living room chair sprouts grass in the echo of where someone once sat. A television lit with the crackling of wildfire flames is a portal to the volatile, unconstrained nature beyond the room. A dresser drawer shelters a litter of kittens resting in a pile of clothing. A soft, warm light shines through massive honeycombs in a ceiling light built as a wasp creates its nest.

Each section of the exhibition imagines a home environment that wanders between our curated order and an ever-present wildness. Together, they invite reflection on the home as a space safe from the unpredictability of nature—a nature that inevitably takes up residence on its own terms. 

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