Since graduating from Buffalo State College in 2007 with a degree in ceramic design, Buffalo-based artist Michael Joseph Hibbard has been hard at work. His large-scale sculptures have recently gone on view in an exhibition at a public park in Huntington, on Long Island. And starting today, an exhibition of eight of Hibbard’s sculptures will be on display at Griffis Sculpture Park in Ashford Hollow. The young sculptor’s towering, geometric metal sculptures, formed from sheet metal and often recycled materials like plastic bottles and rubber from old tires, are lively despite their bulk, and they seem to contain a sense of human movement about them. The exhibition provides a perfect opportunity for those who haven’t ventured down to Ashford Hollow— far off the beaten path of the normal Western New York gallery scene, south of Springville—to check out the impressive collection of sculptures and hiking trails offered by the institution. The park is part of the Ashford Hollow foundation, which also runs the Essex Art Center on Buffalo’s West Side, among other ventures. For more information about Hibbard’s exhibition and the Griffis Sculpture Park, call 667-2808 or visit

www.griffispark.org

. —Colin Dabkowski