By Jimmy Keller
(Image above: (detail) Abraham Ferraro, Directions, (2011-2025), recycled cardboard, tape, mailing stickers, postal service labels. Image courtesy of Abraham Ferraro.)

Welcome to Hive Highlights; a weekly exhibits roundup from Buffalo Hive. This showcase is meant to point people 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. Abraham Ferraro: New Directions ↗ Going Up, on view at Castellani Art Museum
   OPENING RECEPTION, Thursday, March 6, 5-7 p.m. 
   7 Varsity Drive, Niagara University, NY, 14109

As Abraham Ferraro takes over the floors and walls at CAM, you can enjoy refreshments and meet the artist during the opening reception on Thursday. Ferraro’s work interacts with some of CAM’s permanent collection pieces and also offers an additional site specific sculpture part of his Light Switch series. This is an energetic, immersive exhibition that plays with the meaning of what it means to be an artist and growth within the art world.

For More Information: https://castellaniartmuseum.org/exhibitions/abraham-ferraro-new-directions-going-up

2. Wilhelmina Godfrey: I am what I am, on view at Burchfield Penney Art Center
   ONGOING, Open through March 30.
   SUNY Buffalo State University, 1300 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222

Start off Women’s History Month by checking out Wilhelmina Godrfrey’s first major retrospective. Filled with everything from representational figuration to abstraction, she was expressing a powerful message within the art community as an African-American artist. Visit through March 30 to experience the last five decades of Buffalo-raised artist Wilhelmina Godfrey.

For More Information: https://burchfieldpenney.org/exhibitions/exhibition:wilhelmina-godfrey-i-am-what-i-am/

3. Christy Rupp: Runoff, on view until March 8 at UB Anderson Gallery
   LAST DAYS TO VIEW, Open through March 8. Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
   1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY, 14214

Artist and activist Christy Rupp takes over the Anderson Gallery for these few final days! Runoff features environmental sculptures and graphics that are even more relevant and much needed today as they were in the 1970s. This is a collaboration alongside the Buffalo Museum of Science, creating a symbiotic relationship between art and science, as well as an interaction between the community and these monumental works.

For more information: https://www.buffalo.edu/art-galleries/exhibitions/2024-25/christy-rupp.html