The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to present Bits and Little Pieces, an exhibition curated by Conrad Guevara opening Friday, July 8th, 2022. Bits and Little Pieces is a continuation of BICA’s curatorial exchange program initiated in 2020 with Wedding of the Waters, curated by A. Will Brown, connects curators from outside of the region with artists in Western New York and puts their work into dialogue with an international art world. This exhibition includes works by Becky Brown (Buffalo), Phung-Tien Phan (Essen, Germany),  Larell Potter (Buffalo), Joseph Rayo (Brooklyn), Kathryn Shriver (Savannah), and Charlene Tan (San Francisco).

Bits and Little Pieces is inspired by inspiration itself or, perhaps, by boredom itself. It takes as its starting point those things which catch our eyes in the static, that make us gasp in the middle of an infinite scroll. Whether it’s the devotional handicraft of a small sculptural detail, an awkward moment of shared humanity, or a curiously indecipherable composition, the works in Bits and Little Pieces are “Saved to Collection,” they are the ones that make you think twice before you remove them forever from the prosthetic memory of your camera roll.