Big Orbit
Jan 24, 2008
The West Side’s underexposed Gallery, Big Orbit, is harvesting work from its current members for a Members only exhibition to be held this Saturday night.
Big Orbit serves as a laboratory for installations that cannot be manifested in other spaces. They stick to their philosophy of, if the artist can imagine it and work it out, we will show it. The adventurous gallery once housed a horse that an Alfred State College student propped as a piece in her “where I am from” show. Big Orbit’s staff maintains a sense of humor regarding the more unusual and unexpected pieces because they care to stay on the same page as the artist’s vision.
Big Orbit could be called the stepchild of UB, in that it was envisioned, founded and run by its graduates. But the space on Essex already had a rich history in sheltering alternative mediums. Hallwalls originally inhabited the same space and was also born from the idea of a few Buffalo State College students. When Hallwalls determined that they were in need of a larger, more public space, they relocated to Delaware (1991). Heartstrings were tugged, sale of property papers were set in motion and before anyone was the wiser, a smooth transition had been made.
Most college graduates ’round here are lucky to make minimum wage, let alone in the Fine Arts field, never mind own their own gallery. Because of their foresight into funding the gallery, the new owners set out to gather grants; thanks to WNY colleges, students are well versed in acquiring financial aide. The Andy Warhol Foundation caught wind of these efforts and invited Big Orbit to be a part of the Foundation. This meant for Big Orbit, that it would be granted the money necessary to exist, as long as it never lost site of its philosophy.
They do stick to the rulebook. The artwork mounted must be new or emerging and the artist must have lived or currently live in Western New York. This Saturday, we’re gonna go down and have a glass of wine, on their tab.
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