BUFFALO, NY.- The Albright-Knox Gallery of Art presents the exhibit Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin through September 10. Petah Coyne combines both figurative and abstract traditions to poetically communicate themes of contradiction in human experience — beauty and decay, life and death. She transforms otherwise neutral spaces into palpable environments by deploying a diverse range of materials, including wax, wire, car parts, religious statues, taxidermy, hair, pigment, and found objects. This traveling exhibition, surveying the last eighteen years of her career, positions Coyne as a contemporary artist of note whose work continues to evolve and surprise.

Petah Coyne, an internationally known sculptor, has been included in solo and group exhibitions, including those at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Galerie Lelong in New York, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Kansas City Art Institute and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among many others. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including those from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pollack-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, a Japan Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Coyne’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and in other museums throughout the United States.

This exhibition is organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, and is made possible through the generous support of an anonymous donor and Judge and Mrs. John T. Elfvin, with additional funding from Mr. and Mrs. Charles Balbach, Columbus McKinnon Corporation, and Toby Devan Lewis.