19th Annual Members' Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: January 30, 2010 - March 6, 2010

New Hours: Friday - Monday 12-5pm

The Members' Exhibition is truly an exciting event as it reintroduces WNY artists and their art to the community each year. Big Orbit is very proud of the incredible level of creative talent in our region and it is always well represented in our Members' Exhibition.

Each year at the opening reception, an outside juror selects the exhibition’s Best in Show award winner. The winner receives a solo exhibition in the following exhibition season and we have never been anything but genuinely thrilled with the resulting exhibits. Past winners of the Best in Show award include Frederick Jones, Alex Young, Geoffrey Allan Rhodes, Andrew Hershey, Michael Bosworth, Barbara Rowe, Robert Hirsch, Jena Cumbo, Laura Odell, Andrew Johnson, Joshua Marks, Nancy Parisi, Reed Anderson, Jackie Felix, Martin Kruck, Al Volo, Kurt Von Voetsch, Patrick Robideau.

The Best in Show Winner of this year’s Members’ Exhibition chosen by juror Molly S. Hutton, is Shawn Roberts with his paintings using acrylic on wood. Honorable mentions include Kyle Butler, Alexander Contino, William Contino, Linda Gale, Denish Joseph, Shasti O’Leary-Soundant, James Paulsen, Fotini Renzoni, and Marlene Seidman.

For this year’s Members' Exhibition the "juror" was Molly S. Hutton. Molly is an independent curator now residing in Buffalo. Most recently she served as the consulting curator for the UB Anderson Gallery exhibition “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo Venture.” Hutton’s current projects include an exhibition for the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha of the paintings and drawings of the late Kent Bellows; she is also serving as co-curator for the UB Anderson Gallery’s 2012 retrospective of the works of Allan D’Arcangelo. Before moving to Buffalo in 2007, Hutton was director of the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College. She is also a former curator of the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Collection in the San Francisco Bay Area and holds a Ph.D. in American art from Stanford University.