Light, camera and architecture are on the billing when visiting Buffalo’s dedicated center for photography and visual arts. Located in the city’s Downtown district, CEPA Gallery is housed in the historic Market Arcade, modelled after London’s Burlington Arcade on Piccadilly. Built in 1892, the space offers an alternative art viewing experience between four galleries across three floors under its light-filled atrium.

Originally founded as the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art in 1974, the gallery has evolved to become one of the country’s oldest and largest not-for-profit centers committed to the lens-based medium through a history of early experimentation in Western New York to international contemporary practice of today.

A dynamic exhibition programme documents both analogue and digital processes with previous major surveys on the late avant-garde filmmaker and photographer Hollis Frampton to the psychological landscapes around everyday American life by Rachel Rampleman. Look out for events and multimedia installations at CEPA Gallery’s offsite location Big Orbit Project Space that caters for new media and sound works by emerging and established artists from Buffalo and New York State.

http://www.cepagallery.org/

CEPA Gallery Buffalo
617 Main St #201, Buffalo, NY 14203
(716) 856 2717

CEPA Gallery at the historic Market Arcade – Photo: CEPA Gallery

Photo: CEPA Gallery

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(Feature Photo: Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art – Photo: CEPA Gallery Buffalo)

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