Buffalo Prescott at EXPO Chicago 2026
Booth #123, Focus Section
Thursday, April 9
– Sunday, April 12, 2026
Navy Pier
Chicago, IL
From April 9–12, Buffalo Prescott will be presenting work by resident artists Cyrah Dardas and Sara Nickleson as part of EXPO Chicago’s Focus section, curated by Katie A. Pfohl, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Working across different materials and scales, both artists explore intuition, transformation, and alternative ways of imagining the worlds we live in.
For the presentation, Nickleson will show a group of oil paintings installed across two walls of the booth. Dardas will present works on paper alongside a suspended aluminum sculpture positioned above a sand drawing composed with ores from northern Michigan. One wall of the booth will also incorporate pigments produced by Dardas, extending the artists’ shared material language into the exhibition space.
EXPO Chicago’s Focus section highlights emerging galleries and artistic practices from around the world. The 2026 edition, titled Gathering of Waters, explores themes of landscape, migration, and adaptive practices of craft and care.
Bringing artists from the community into moments like this is an important part of what Buffalo Prescott does as well as connecting Detroit’s contemporary art ecosystem to broader national and international conversations.
Buffalo Prescott will be exhibiting in the fair's Focus section, booth #123.
Working across different materials and scales, both artists explore intuition, transformation, and alternative ways of imagining the worlds we live in.
For the presentation, Nickleson will show a group of oil paintings installed across two walls of the booth. Dardas will present works on paper alongside a suspended aluminum sculpture positioned above a sand drawing composed with ores from northern Michigan. One wall of the booth will also incorporate pigments produced by Dardas, extending the artists’ shared material language into the exhibition space.
EXPO Chicago’s Focus section highlights emerging galleries and artistic practices from around the world. The 2026 edition, titled Gathering of Waters, explores themes of landscape, migration, and adaptive practices of craft and care.
Bringing artists from the community into moments like this is an important part of what Buffalo Prescott does as well as connecting Detroit’s contemporary art ecosystem to broader national and international conversations.
Buffalo Prescott will be exhibiting in the fair's Focus section, booth #123.
Image: EXPO CHICAGO 2025. Photo by Casey Kelbaugh Associates. Courtesy of EXPO Chicago.
Meet the Artists
Sara Nickleson creates layered oil paintings that move between figuration and mythmaking. Through vibrant color, thick texture, and imagined landscapes, her works explore shifting emotional states and the fluid nature of the body and mind.
Cyrah Dardas works through material research and place-based practice, creating pigments from natural minerals and sources that inform their drawings, sculptures, and installations. Their work reflects cycles of land, memory, care, and interdependence.