Current and Upcoming Exhibitions     

Faculty Artist Spotlight: Toby Buonagurio & Martin Levine

The Zuccaire Gallery’s second Faculty Artist Spotlight features the work of longtime Stony Brook University Art Department faculty members Toby Buonagurio and Martin Levine. A ceramicist, Professor Buonagurio has been teaching at Stony Brook for 50 years. Embracing whimsy and popular culture, her vibrant ceramic sculpture has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, Taiwan, and Macao, and has been  acquired by several important collections. Professor Martin Levine, recently retired after teaching for 39 years and now a Toll Professor, creates intricate prints, primarily in etching and lithography, depicting realistically rendered cityscapes. His work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions and is in numerous significant public and private collections.

Images: Martin Levine, The Guardians, 2005 (detail); color aquatint etching, 8 ½ X 4 ½; Toby Buonagurio, Winged Tiger Robot, 199o. 33 x 26 x 10” Unique, handmade glazed, lustered and painted ceramic with a variety of complex surfaces

MFA Thesis Exhibition 2026

The Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition 2026 features the work of Art Department graduate student artist Becca Osborn. Combining glaze-fired ceramic sculpture with natural elements, Becca Osborn creates an earthy world where hand-crafted rock formations, moss, and fallen branches, all made of ceramics, invite contemplation about life cycles and the natural world.

Image: Becca Osborn, Split, 2025, Ceramic, approx. 11" x 8" x 13"