OLEAN — The Tri-County Arts Council presents the exhibit “Buck Up Buttercup,” featuring 2023 Southern Tier Biennial Best in show winner, Tammy Renée Brackett, through Saturday in the Peg Bothner Gallery at the Tri-County Arts Council, 110 W. State St.
The Southern Tier Biennial is held every other year and includes visual artists ages 18 and older from the nine counties of the Southern Tier: Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Steuben, Schuyler, Tioga and Tompkins. Of the more than 400 entries in the 2023 biennial, only 51 pieces were selected for survey show.
TCAC is featuring pieces from “Buck Up Buttercup” by Tammy Renée Brackett, on view in the Peg Bothner Gallery — these two pieces involve the same subject. The deer skull was found on the artist’s property in a hollow where stray balloons collect. The semi-inflated balloon represents a deer heart, all of the others are broken.
Artwork from the show is available for purchase. Please contact the TCAC for information or stop in for price list and availability.
Founded in 2005 to make a measurable and positive difference for rural artists, the Southern Tier Biennial affords artists an opportunity to take part in the process of a professional art competition and be rewarded for those efforts. This project is produced by the Tri-County Arts Council, the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, and made possible by an endowment from the estate of F. Donald Kenney. To learn more, visit www.southerntierbiennial.com.
Each biennial is juried by new jurors and, therefore, the shows they create are different in tone and scope, yet equally true to the definition of “a regional survey of visual art.”
The 2023 jurors were Andrea Alvarez, associate curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, where she has worked since she joined as a Curatorial Fellow in 2017; Judy Barie, a fine artist and curator — she splits her time between Pittsburgh and Chautauqua Institution, where she has served for the past 16 years as the director of the Chautauqua Visual Arts Galleries; and Tullis Johnson, curator and manager of exhibitions and collections at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo.