Artist Work
CEPA Gallery at Thirty

March 21 – May 15, 2005
Contact Sheet 131


This exhibition pays tribute to the directors and co-directors who have made the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA Gallery) in Buffalo, NY, a respected venue for artists for over thirty years.

CEPA is one of the few alternative spaces that has always had a working artist as its director. The dedication of these individuals as well as the many other artists who have helped the organization as curators, assistants, instructors, interns, volunteers, friends, and board members is what makes it unique and a cause for celebration.

Biff Henrich, Untitled, 2004

Robert Muffoletto, Milwaukee, 1977

Major exhibitions at Light Work are published in Contact Sheet. Exclusively from Light Work, this publication is available by subscription only.

Like many other alternative art spaces across the country, CEPA was formed in the early 1970s by a small group of artists with common goals. By combining activism with an entrepreneurial spirit, similar groups of like-minded artists sprang up all over the country to create an alternative to existing cultural institutions by placing the entire decision-making structure of the group in the hands of artists.

Ken Pelka. Bathtime, 2004

As a culture, the artists we have come to respect and admire are the ones who can interpret and describe with clarity their particular moment in history no matter where those questions lead or how far out of our comfort zone they take us. For the past thirty years CEPA has been led by artists with that same commitment and resolve. They have been visionaries, cultural workers, role models, rule breakers, deal makers, and agents of change—confirming that artists will always find innovative ways to work, and when artists run an organization, they truly do make a difference.

The artists on exhibition are Lawrence Brose,
Tom Damrauer, Biff Henrich, Kathy High, Robert Hirsch, Pierce Kamke, Robert Muffoletto, Gail Nicholson, Gary Nickard, Kevin Noble, and
Ken Pelka.

Newhouse Photography Annual

March 21 – May 15, 2005

Hallway Gallery
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
Gallery Hours: 12 – 6 pm, or by appointment

Each year Light Work hosts an exhibition of work by photography students in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. This exhibition features a diverse selection of work by nineteen undergraduate students majoring in photojournalism and illustration photography.