“In and Out” by Pam Glick is among the works featured in the exhibition “New Shapes from Old Tropes” at the Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery at the State University of New York at Fredonia.

The Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery at the State University of New York at Fredonia will host the exhibition “New Shapes from Old Tropes” through April 10.

The exhibition features paintings, sculptures, collages and drawings by artists from the Buffalo area. Participating artists are: Bruce Adams, Nando Alvarez-Perez, Julia Bottoms, Kyle Butler, A.J. Fries, Pam Glick, George Afedzi Hughes, Richard Huntington, Joan Linder, Margaret Schrecongost, virocode and Rebecca Wing.

The artists and exhibition guest curator John Massier will be present at a reception on Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

The exhibition title refers to the artists’ novel approach to landscape and figuration. Massier writes, “Yet, even when we might presume their absence, landscape and figuration are often there, layered unexpectedly within even the most contemporary artworks. They slyly and often emphatically resist the dustbin of art history, revealing themselves not merely as tropes against which newer ideas are contrasted but as the sustenance that lays a foundation for even the newest approaches to art making.”

Massier is the Visual Arts Curator at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo. He has been a curator and writer of contemporary art since 1988, during which he has worked with hundreds of national and international artists to present their work to the public through solo, group, and residency exhibitions.

The Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery is located on the main level of Rockefeller Arts Center on the Fredonia campus at 280 Central Ave. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday from noon to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. The exhibition will be open regular hours during the campus spring break from March 14 to 18.

Contact Marion Art Gallery Director Barbara Racker at barbara.racker@fredonia.edu or 716-673-4897 for more information, to schedule a group tour of the exhibition or to request a free exhibition catalog. Funding for “New Shapes from Old Tropes” is provided by the Fredonia College Foundation’s Cathy and Jesse Marion Endowment Fund and Friends of Rockefeller Arts Center.