By Jimmy Keller
(Image above: Talia Ryan’s “If I Swallow Anything Evil l,” 2025)

Welcome to Hive Highlights; a weekly exhibits roundup from Buffalo Hive. This showcase is meant to point you to gallery openings, ongoing exhibits, closings, artist talks and happenings in the visual arts community of Western New York for the week/end ahead. These lists are not designed to be comprehensive, instead providing a keyhole into the creative hum of our region. 

1. Hunt Residencies VII, Body of Work, on view at Hunt Art Gallery
   OPENING, Friday, April 18, 2025, 5-9 p.m.
   Brisbane Building, 403 Main Street, St 105, Buffalo, NY 14203

Exciting exhibition featuring pieces by the Hunt Residency Artists, including works by Emeka Wajed, Akasya Crosier, Helen Beckley Forest, Soda, Sky Vance, Laike Palermo and Camille Buscemi. Check it out during the opening reception on Friday or through May 24. 

Learn More: https://huntartgallery.com/

2. Feel Your Way Through, Lou Lovisek & Talia Ryan, on view at WNY Book Arts Gallery
   CLOSING RECEPTION, Saturday, April 19, 2025, noon-2 p.m.
   468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203

This exhibition combines work by Book Art Residents Lou Lovisek (mixed media artist and printmaker) and Talia Ryan (2021 resident). Lovisek’s work focuses on the interest of children’s books and interactions and is a part of the entire book making process from binding to illustration. Ryan combines storytelling with fascinating movable parts and layers of both paper and narrative. This exhibition can be viewed today through the closing reception on Saturday. 

Learn More: https://wnybookarts.org/feel-your-way-through-main-gallery-exhibition/

3. Sculpted, on view at Burchfield Penney Arts Center
   ONGOING, Through September 24, 2025
   1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14222

While gallery walls are traditionally covered with two-dimensional works, and labeled as such, this exhibition highlights the dimensionality, textures and surfaces of walled artworks. Featured artists include Amanda Besl, Walter A. Prochownik, Amanda Maciuba, Charles Clough, Russell Ram, James G. Pappas, Evan Hawkins, Mark Lavatelli and Robert Scalise, all a part of the Burchfield Penney collection. This is a unique take on traditional works and presents them in a new light, with depth and perspective.

Learn More: https://burchfieldpenney.org/exhibitions/exhibition:sculpted/