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DTSTART:20260924T110000Z
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SUMMARY:Constructed Belief &#8211\\; Art Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Four artists Mara Baldwin\\, Ben Cowan\\, Nicki Green\\, and 
 Muhammad Z. Zaman use gesture and repetition to explore how ritual builds
  and redefines faith and community.\\nA constructed object is created ove
 r time\\, through repetition. So\\, too\\, is belief. Repetitious actions
  ground us\\, whether in a faith tradition\\, a cultural organization\\, 
 a summer camp\\, or a friend group. Repetitious actions are often reliant
  upon gestures like saying the Rosary\\, cleansing in a Mikvah\\, cooking
  a family meal\\, facing towards Mecca\\, or weaving a friendship bracele
 t. The crafting of ritual is reliant on shared gesture\\, on collective r
 epetition. Constructed Belief exists at the intersection of ritual\\, r
 epetition\\, and gesture: how repetitious actions build meaning in creati
 ng artwork\\, and in renegotiating faith and community. The four artists 
 in this exhibition use gesture to speak to religious and cultural ritual 
 and redefine it for themselves.\\nMara Baldwin&#8216\\;s intricately draw
 n images of Girl Scout camp culture examine the ways friendship building 
 and ritual are combined\\, particularly in a proto-Utopian summer camp en
 vironment. These surreal and hyper-detailed works on paper are both playf
 ul and rewarded by close attention. Ben Cowan&#8217\\;s luminous paintin
 gs center details of hands\\, lips\\, organs\\, and plants from Renaissan
 ce religious paintings. They are painted within a frame to distill them d
 own to gesture. These gestural fragments\\, cast in aqua-resin\\, are par
 acosmic vignettes that craft a language through repetition. Nicki Green&
 #8216\\;s ceramic vessels examine Judaism through the lens of transness a
 nd ritual transformation. These vessels are at once objects of traditiona
 l practice\\, and sites of growth\\, accretion\\, permutation\\, and chan
 ge. Muhammad Z. Zaman&#8216\\;s calligraffiti paintings combine English\
 \, Arabic\\, and Bangla in a (re)negotiation of his Muslim faith and iden
 tity. The works\\, and his practice\\, are a meditation on grief and joy\
 \, contemplation and movement.\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united
 -states/buffalo/events/constructed-belief-8211-art-exhibit-2026-09-24
LOCATION:visitbuffalo.com
URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/buffalo/events/constructed-belief-8211-art-exhibit-2026-09-24
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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