Exhibitions > Burchfield Penney Art Center

Pun Intended:

January 28–April 9, 1995
Word as Image: Works from the Collection

March 16–June 2, 1996
Tenth Anniversary Selections from the Charles Rand Penney Collection of Western New York Art

October 27, 2001–January 20, 2002
In Context: Art and Text

October 25, 2003–February 8, 2004
The Artists Among Us II: The Burchfield Penney's Members' Exhibition

May 11–August 26, 2012

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Burchfield's archives reveal his studied fascination with symbolism, which he used to capture the countless emotions, sounds and other invisible elements that spoke to his senses. As he wrote, "An artist must paint not what he sees in nature, but what is there."