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THE QUIET DOMESITC PAUSE

September 3, 2010 —

Jonah Criswell discusses his drawings and paintings of domestic interiors that make up a solo exhibition, “Reside,” opening at Cocoon Gallery today. Fellow artist Erica Mahinay writes, “Common associations with comfort and familiarity are inverted as spaces become charged with apparitions and traces of history and memory,” and explores these ideas further with him.

THE QUIET DOMESITC PAUSE

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Pixels and Ciphers: Matthew Huff

Huff has come up with an intriguing premise — blowing up cell phone photos and combining them with a graffiti-inspired code of his own divising — and made it work on both the visual and conceptual fronts.

Pixels and Ciphers: Matthew Huff
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FIRST FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, SEPTEMBER 2010

The Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City, Missouri, is full of new work tonight; don’t forget downtown, midtown, and Mission — or Saturday through Monday, over this holiday weekend, including the “UrbanSuburban 2010″ preview opening at Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art / Epsten Gallery on the 5th.

FIRST FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, SEPTEMBER 2010
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GOING FERAL

Lawrence, Kansas, based artist Molly Murphy may be best known for her portraits of sickly, sullen female faces, but her recent work pares down color to what graphite can provide and depicts simply a feature that represents the commonality of all humans as well as individual and collective memory: hair. Her growing expression of concern for environmental degradation in the world fits well with the mission of BNIM architects, whose 10@BNIM street-front gallery is hosting her work through September 17.

GOING FERAL
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AMC MAINSTREET PLAYS ‘FETCH’

Take a script that mixes horror and romance, a cast of talent from the coast, the coldest winter on record for Potter, Kansas, and you have the latest in a recent streak of locally produced thrillers to come out of our region. “Fetch” by C.M. Downs is getting lots of national attention and premieres on Tuesday, September 7 at the AMC Mainstreet 6 in downtown Kansas City’s Power and Light District.

AMC MAINSTREET PLAYS ‘FETCH’
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RELIEF

One of the many video works in the “2010 Kansas City Flatfiles” exhibition at H&R Block Artspace, “This Is Us Joey Grimm & Jordan Johnson understanding our relationship” presents a riveting non-narrated storyline, a metaphoric struggle played out with a pane of glass, two candles, and two cups of water. The entire exhibition, primarily works on paper, is on view through September 25, 2010.

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