BUFFALO, NY.- This fall, the University at Buffalo Art Galleries presents Martha Jackson in Paris, an exhibition that brings new focus to one of the most visionary figures in postwar American art. On view from September 4, 2025 through May 17, 2026 at the UB Center for the Arts Gallery, the exhibition explores how Buffalo native and trailblazing gallerist Martha Jackson (1907–1969) reshaped the art world—not only through the artists she supported, but through the relationships she nurtured across continents.

A champion of abstraction, Op Art, and installation-based practices, Jackson cultivated an international network of artists whose work defined the postwar era. Her regular travel to France, financial support of artists, and investment in her son David Anderson’s Paris-based Gallerie Anderson-Mayer made her a central connector in a Paris-New York art axis that remains underexamined.

“Martha Jackson in Paris shifts the dominant narrative that centers New York as the lone postwar art capital,” says Anna Wager, Curator of Exhibitions at UB Art Galleries. “It reveals Paris as a powerful site of artistic exchange, where Jackson’s artists found inspiration, community, and each other.”

Artists featured in the exhibition—including Joan Mitchell, Paul Jenkins, Sam Francis, Claire Falkenstein, Norman Bluhm, Antoni Tàpies, and Walasse Ting—are all part of Jackson’s dynamic roster. Their work, and the relationships they formed in Paris’s cafés and studios, reflect the influence of Jackson’s intentional internationalism.

“Martha Jackson had a unique kind of power,” adds Erik Huk, co-curator and Gallery Associate. “She was a connector—she didn’t just support artists, she introduced them, created networks, and cultivated friendships that had a profound impact on their work.”

Drawing from the UB Art Galleries Permanent Collection, Martha Jackson Gallery Archives and the Martha Jackson Oral History Project, both housed at UB Art Galleries, the exhibition offers new scholarship on Jackson’s global reach. It is also a cornerstone of UB Art Galleries’ 25th anniversary as a university art museum.

“This exhibition is a celebration of Martha Jackson’s vision and of UB Art Galleries commitment to supporting art as inquiry,” says Robert Scalise, Director of UB Art Galleries. “When David Anderson donated the Anderson Gallery building and his family’s collection to UB in 2000, it laid the foundation for a museum that is now a hub for research, teaching, and public engagement.”

Martha Jackson in Paris is organized by UB Art Galleries and co-curated by Anna Wager and Erik Huk. Exhibition-related programming throughout the academic year will further explore Jackson’s international vision and influence.