Buffalo Arts Studio

We are just TWO DAYS away from the opening reception of Deborah Stewart's "Propagation and Endurance." Please join us on Friday, June 26, from 5 - 8 pm to help us celebrate this artist and exhibition!

Seed pods are the protective casing on plants that enable natural propagation: the protecting, maturing, and dispersing of seeds that can grow into new plants. This structure allows delicate flora to reproduce, endure, and continue into the future despite intense environmental, climate, and other external forces. For Propagation and Endurance, robust clay seed pods are complemented by minimal steel and wire structural forms, blurring the line between what appears fragile and what appears formidable. By pairing the vulnerability of clay with the rigid strength of metal, Stewart encourages respect and acknowledgement of the enduring power of fragile things.

Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at the Tri-Main Center.

NEXT FRIDAY! Please join us on Friday, June 26, from 5 - 8 pm for the opening reception of Deb Stewart's "Propagation and Endurance." Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at the Tri-Main Center.

Stewart’s interest in seed pods is rooted in the problem-solving ability of plants, which have devised a great variety of different solutions to one core question: how do we survive? Whether a hard outer shell, a multi-chamber structure, delicate winged pods, or innumerable other forms, the natural world is filled with different strategies for propagation. Stewart finds great beauty not only in the diverse forms of their protective casing, but in their embodiment of the dual nature of plants: simultaneously vulnerable and resilient.