By
Jodie Baehre
Piece description from the artist
Buffalo's architecture is diverse in style, with a collection of buildings the 19th and 20th centuries. Most structures and works are still standing, such as the country's largest intact parks system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. At the end of the 19th century, the Guaranty Building—constructed by Louis Sullivan—was a prominent example of an early high-rise skyscraper. The 20th century saw works such as the Art Deco-style Buffalo City Hall and Buffalo Central Terminal, Electric Tower, the Richardson Olmsted Complex, and the Rand Building. In this painting you can see the Am&A's building on the left – Adam, Meldrum & Anderson Company (AM&A's) was a chain of department stores based in Buffalo, New York. It was an institution to generations of shoppers in the Buffalo area and remained family owned until its sale to The Bon-Ton in 1995. Also on the left side of the piece you can see the Hotel Lafayette. It is a seven story steel frame and concrete building designed in the French Renaissance style. The original building was designed by the firm of Bethune, Bethune & Fuchs, including noted architect Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856–1913), and built between 1902 and 1911. In its prime, the Lafayette Hotel was considered one of the 15 finest hotels in the country. Besides elevators, every room featured hot and cold water and a telephone. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
Jodie Baehre is an acrylic urban landscape painter in Dorchester, Massachusetts. She has been in several exhibitions in Boston including "Ambassadors 2" at Boston City Hall and "The Big Picture" at Atlantic Wharf Gallery in Boston. Her work is on permanent reserve at the Boston Public Library, permanent exhibit at Factory 63, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and she has three works in State Street Bank's permanent art collection. Jodie has been featured in Boston Magazine, The Weekly Dig, Daily Artspace, Bezar, The Boston Globe, Apartment Therapy, among other noted publications. In 2015, Jodie was nominated for the prestigious Brother Thomas Fellowship through the Boston Foundation. In 2018 (and again in 2019), Jodie was honored by The City of Boston as a Fay Chandler Emerging Artist. In 2019, she participated in an artist residency in Epsom, New Hampshire as awarded through Getaway. In 2021, Jodie was nominated by the St. Botolph Club, Boston for an emerging artist grant and she was featured online by the Edward Hopper House in Nyack, NY. In 2022, Jodie was awarded "The People's Choice Award" for the National art competition, "Emptiness" for her painting titled "Last Call". Also in 2022 Jodie was awarded a curatorialship from the Fort Points Art Community and participating artist for "There Once Was Parking I" that was funded in part by The City of Boston. This exhibition was on view at the Assemblage Gallery in The Envoy Hotel, Boston, MA. Designer Ray Trotta from Castle Island Brewing Company created a limited edition beer label for the gallery exhibition featuring Jodie's painting "Last Call." Later in 2022, Jodie received a second grant from The Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture to produce another series of creative events in Dorchester, MA under the title "There Once Was Parking II". This month-long series of creative events was free and open to the public.
Jodie is a member of the Fort Point Arts Community, The National Guild for Community Arts Education, The Edward Hopper House Artists' Members in Nyack, NY, TurningArt, and The American Iris Society. She studied Industrial Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology, received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Boston, and a Masters of Science in Art Administration from Boston University. Jodie also works part-time at the non-profit music organization, Project STEP.
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