M&T Fourth Friday Opening Reception: Davana Robedee, "Biformity"

Please join us for the opening reception of Davana Robedee's "Biformity," on Friday, August 22, from 5:00-8:00pm, as part of M&T Bank’s Fourth Friday at Tri-Main Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Buffalo Arts Studio is pleased to announce "Biformity," a solo exhibition by Syracuse-based artist Davana Robedee, on view from August 22 through November 7, 2025.

"Biformity" explores the layered relationship between body and spirit, a recurring theme in Robedee’s work. Through large-scale textile pieces created using stitch-resist shibori techniques and indigo dye, Robedee delves into the dualities that shape human existence. The title of the exhibition refers to "double form," a concept that permeates the show through works addressing physical limitation and spiritual expansiveness.

Robedee’s practice is deeply tied to labor and process. She grows her own indigo plants, harvesting and extracting the pigment before using it in a slow, methodical process of image-making. The resulting works are visual metaphors that bridge the waking world and dream state, matter and thought, science and mysticism. By guiding the indigo through boundaries and resist techniques, the artist facilitates rather than controls the emergence of form. The dye itself, with its transformation from green to blue, functions as both a symbolic and material representation of duality and change.

Part of M&T Fourth Fridays at Tri-Main Center. For more information about Buffalo Arts Studio, please visit www.buffaloartsstudio.org

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