Friday, May 10, 2024 — Friday, June 28, 2024
FREE
Opening Reception
Friday, May 10, 2024, 7 to 10 pm
On View: May 10 to June 28, 2024
Artist's Talk
Friday, May 10, 2024, 7 pm
In advance of the beginning of its 50th year, Hallwalls will present a selected survey of work by Biff Henrich, a Buffalo-based artist and photographer whose history stretches back to Hallwalls\' earliest days during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Henrich was at that time heavily involved with CEPA, a sister organization with whom Hallwalls shared office space at the 30 Essex Street location. He plays guitar for The Vores, who performed many times at Hallwalls/CEPA (and continue to do so to this day, and he built his artistic practice adjacent to his professional work documenting artists\' works and exhibitions (which he continues to do today, for Hallwalls.).
Throughout, Henrich's artistic career has followed numerous paths. Henrich has frequently utilized in-camera processes to capture an image—whether the subject is object, landscape, or architecture, Henrich is persistent in his trust of the lens. What it can capture, what he can make it capture, and how this affects the ultimate iteration of the image. The technical and the aesthetic are tightly connected in Henrich's work—there is the deep knowledge of the photographer who knows their craft and the confidence of the artist who trusts the image and can intuit what may be most compelling.
The exhibition will aspire to represent the path of Henrich's image across the decades in an effort to delineate the through-lines and ideas that persist within an individual whose career has been intimately connected to images and their making.
Biff Henrich has exhibited extensively at a variety of Galleries and Museums including Artist Space, The Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, The Visual Studies Workshop, The California Museum of Photography and the Albright Knox Art Gallery. His work is part of many collections including the Albright Knox Art Gallery, The Burchfield Penney Art Center, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Light Work Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Castellani Art Museum. His work has earned him two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He is currently co-owner of IMG_INK in Buffalo, a commercial photography and print graphics company.
Download the exhibition catalog, which includes essay by curator John Massier.
