through September 30

Contact:
Sandra Q. Firmin
Curator, UB Art Galleries
716.645.0570
sfirmin@buffalo.edu

UB Anderson Gallery is pleased to present Fifty at Fifty: Select Artists 
from the Gerald Mead Collection

Opening Public Reception:
Saturday, August 18, 6-8 pm

The exhibition is free and open to the public and will be on view 
through September 30, 2012.

Fifty at Fifty: Select Artists from the Gerald Mead Collection is a 
survey exhibition featuring 86 works in all media by 50 of the most 
significant historical and contemporary artists associated with Western 
New York. The selection by the collector was guided by the artists’ art 
historical imprint as measured by the inclusion of their artwork in 
several major museum collections worldwide such as the Whitney Museum of 
American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art 
Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Tate 
Gallery, and the Centre Georges Pompidiou, among others.

The exhibition has been organized on the occasion of noted collector and 
UB alumnus Gerald Mead’s 50th birthday. Since he began collecting in 
1987, Mead has researched and assembled an art collection of more than 
670 works by over 600 artists who were born or have lived in the Western 
New York region. His intent is to form an encyclopedic collection of 
noteworthy artists affiliated with organizations such as the Buffalo 
Society of Artists, Patteran Society, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts 
Center, CEPA, and Big Orbit Gallery. He also collects the work of 
educators and alumni of the Art Institute of Buffalo, University at 
Buffalo, and Buffalo State College.

The artists included in this exhibition are: Laylah Ali, Robert Blair, 
Donald Blumberg, Harvey Breverman, Charles Burchfield, Philip Burke, 
Lawrence Calcagno, Ellen Carey, Wendell Castle, Charles Clough, Ralston 
Crawford, Virginia Cuthbert, Allan D’Arcangelo, Seymour Drumlevitch, 
Nancy Dwyer, Frank Eckmair, Hollis Frampton, A P Gorny, Duayne Hatchett, 
Adele Henderson, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Les Krims, Bruce Kurland, 
Justine Kurland, Julius J. Lankes, Alexander Levy, Robert Longo, Nathan 
Lyons, Robert Mangold, John McQueen, Albert Paley, John Pfahl, Joseph 
Piccillo, Ad Reinhardt, Alberto Rey, Milton Rogovin, Susan Rothenberg, 
Christy Rupp, Paul Sharits, Cindy Sherman, Clara Sipprell, Isaac Soyer, 
Eugene Speicher, Evan Summer, Michael Taylor, Neil Tetkowski, Andrew 
Topolski, Martha Visser’t Hooft, John Wood and Michael Zwack

The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated brochure with an 
introduction by Sandra Olsen, Ph.D., Director of the UB Art Galleries 
and statements by Molly Donovan, Associate Curator of Modern and 
Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Louis 
Grachos, Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; and 
Kate Koperski, Director of the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara 
University, Lewiston, NY.

To coincide with Gerald Mead’s 50th birthday, the Poetry Collection of 
the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, has commissioned a 
limited edition broadside featuring a poem by Pulitzer Prize winning 
poet Carl Dennis and an illustration of a print by SUNY Distinguished 
Professor Harvey Breverman that is included in the Gerald Mead Collection.

Public Programs:

Thursday, August 30, 7 to 8pm
Gerald Mead will lead a tour of the exhibition

Thursday, September 13, 7 to 8:30pm
Assembling Art and Caring for an Art Collection
This panel discussion will feature Gerald Mead and Robert Scalise, 
Registrar and Assistant Director for Exhibitions and Collections, UB Art 
Galleries.

Thursday, September 27, 7 to 8:30pm
The Albright-Knox Collects Buffalo
Holly E. Hughes, Curator for the Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 
will discuss the work of artists in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s 
collection that have a Buffalo connection and the history behind this 
longstanding tradition.

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UB Anderson Gallery is located at One Martha Jackson Place near 
Englewood and Kenmore avenues.

Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11am to 5pm; Sunday 1 to 5pm. For 
more information call 716-829-3754.
UB Anderson Gallery is supported with funds from the College of Arts and 
Sciences, the Anderson Gallery Program Fund, and UB Collection Care and 
Management Endowment Funds.

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Sandra Q. Firmin
Curator, UB Art Galleries
201 Center for the Arts
Buffalo, NY 14260

Tel: 716.645.0570
Cell: 917.940.0560

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