THIRD FRIDAY
Contemporary visual arts in Kansas City metro area
"A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950–2000" opens tomorrow at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas, and includes more than 60 works from the collection of Chu-tsing Li, one of the University of Kansas' most distinguished retired faculty members. This scroll is one of the works in the exhibition: Liu Guosong, born 1932, China, "Wintry Mountains Covered with Snow," 1964, hanging scroll; ink on fibrous paper. Collection of Chu-tsing Li
It may still feel like winter, but it's a hot night for art in the Kansas City metro area. The Kansas City Artist Coalition is hosting its annual auction tonight with more than 200 works of art waiting for a new home. Auction revenue allows the Coalition to produce exhibitions and programs that engage local artists and the art-loving community. A new exhibition opens at the downtown Kansas City, Missouri, Urban Culture Project spaces to show off the work of resident studio artists in a way that is "an immersive, cohesive installation and a site for creative transformation, performance, and demonstration."
Grand Arts is wrapping up its spurse project, and at la Esquina, the Coppelia Project performances and installations are in their final days. Heidi Van and Susan White's work is not to be missed. Below, Review highlights other lectures and openings found in its ongoing online calendar and wraps up with a list of exhibitions that end with the month.
Friday & Weekend: Auction, Openings, Performances
Grand Arts
1819 Grand Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
816-421-6887
Thursday & Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and by appointment
Deep Time + Rapid Time
A new project by spurse artists collective
Through March 21
February 21-24 Temporalities Clothing Temporalities A workshop with Erin Manning and Spurse + Brian Massumi discussant and part of the research project Deep Time + Rapid Time, to rethink clothing in relation to temporality. "We will focus on the transversal linkages between topology and topography through the active shaping and sewing of fabric toward the creation of a clothing system that moves between the body and mobile architecture. This work will develop and continue the ideas developed by Erin Manning in the project: Folds to Infinity and the spurse research project on Clothing Temporalities at KCAI 2008." For more information, schedule, or to register (in advance, required), please contact Grand Arts Artistic Director Stacy Switzer by e-mail or phone.
Kansas City Artists Coalition
201 Wyandotte Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-421-5222
26th Annual Benefit Art Auction
February 21, 6 p.m.
(Auction party doors open; bidding closes on silent auction at 7:45 p.m. before live auction begins. Tickets are $20 at the door.)
la Esquina
1000 West 25th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-5115
"Mind Games" by Susan White is a video installation at la Esquina and being shown as part of the Coppelia Project through February 23. Look for a review of White's work, as it was presented at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art's Bemis UNDERGROUND gallery with Corrie Van Sice, at review-magazine.org soon. Image of installation courtesy of Charlotte Street Foundation
THE COPPELIA PROJECT: A Clown Ballet in Three Acts by Heidi Van + Mindgames: a video installation by Susan White
Performances: Friday-Monday, 8 p.m.
Read more about The Coppelia Project and get a detailed schedule of performances
Through February 23
Paragraph and Urban Culture Project Space
21-23 East 12th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-221-5115
Thursday & Saturday, noon-5 p.m.
Eyes of the World: UCP Studio Residents Focus Exhibition
curated by Heather Lustfeldt and includes Audra Brandt, Heather Brown, Brent Cox, Justin Farkas, Rachelle Gardner, Robert Heishman, Erica Leohner, Jessica Owings, Lee Piechocki, Julie Potratz, Allan Winkler, Graham Zuelke, Urban Culture Project Studio Residency Program artists
Third Friday opening reception: February 20, 6-9 p.m.
February 20 - April 4
February 28, noon The Exchange Discussion with critique about artists' individual processes and their work in the show, audience participation encouraged
March 20, 6-9 p.m. Third Friday live performance, music, and a few surprises by participating artists and others
Spencer Museum of Art
The University of Kansas
1301 Mississippi Street
785-864-4710
Tuesday-Wednesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, noon-4 p.m.
A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Ink Paintings from the Chu-Tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000
February 21 - May 24, 2009
Open house, lectures, openings and receptions next week
Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
Usual events contact: 816-802-3423
Open House at The Kansas City Art Institute’s Northland Campus for Special Programs, 1801 N.W. Platte Road, #275, in Riverside, Missouri; the public is invited to tour the new facility, meet instructors and enter a drawing to win a free class.
February 21, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
The Kansas City Museum
3218 Gladstone Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
816-483-8300
Community Curator Program
Historians and history educators share perspectives on artifacts they choose from the Museum collection, providing fresh insight about artifacts and collections of Kansas City Museum and Union Station. Community Curator lectures are presented the fourth Tuesday of each month and include presentation of actual artifacts.
Elizabeth Kirsch: Kansas City Museum Dyer Collection of Native American Artifacts; held at Town Hall, Union Station Kansas City, 30 West Pershing Road, Kansas City, Missouri; RSVP for free program to museum.
February 24, 6 p.m.
Imagio Dei Arts Center
730 Armstrong Avenue
Kansas City, Kansas
913-233-0266
Tuesday-Thursday, 1-5 p.m.
Kansas City Kansas Art Network Reception for Ed Dwight
February 26, 3:30-5 p.m.
Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
Usual events contact: 816-802-3423
Current Perspectives
Lecture series in Epperson Auditorium in Vanderslice Hall on the KCAI campus
Jennifer Woodin Artist, designer, and educator working in the field of ceramics, Woodin is currently a visiting professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. She received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from California State University, Chico in 1996. For eight years, Woodin pursued a career in both mechanical and civil engineering before earning a master's degree in fine art from the University of Oregon and starting a second career in the arts. Her research and practice combine aspects of the two careers, forming a unique line of inquiry. Her current works explore the empathic connection between the vocabulary of industrial plumbing and human anatomy through the use of mass-produced porcelain objects.
February 26, 7 p.m.
Review Studios Exhibition Space
1708 Campbell Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-471-2343
Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., First Fridays, 6-9 p.m., Saturday, noon-4 p.m.
Gut#5: Witness
A participatory performance by Diana Heise
February 27, 6 p.m.
YWCA 6th Street Gallery
1017 North 6th Street
Kansas City, Kansas
913-371-1105
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., second Friday Artwalk until 8 p.m.
Ed Dwight
(Kansas City, Kansas, native, sculptor, and first African-American U.S. astronaut)
Civic dialog and reception
February 27, 7:30 p.m.
Closing soon
Art & Design Gallery
3rd Floor, School of Fine Arts
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
785-864-4401
Monday-Wednesday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday, 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; Sunday: 1-4:30 p.m. Closed March 15 - 21 and May 6 - 15
Graduate Student Exhibition
Through February 27
Byron Cohen Gallery
2020 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-421-5665
Thursday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., First Fridays 7-9 p.m., and by appointment
Grant Miller, Linnea Spransy, Ricky Allman
Through February 28
DotDotDot Artspace
1910 Haskell Avenue
Lawrence, Kansas
785-766-2932 or 918-261-9451
Hours: Thursday & Friday 2-8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
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Art by Yuri Zupancic
Through February 28
Halls on the Plaza
211 Nichols Road
Kansas City, Missouri
Artists contact: 816-682-6652
Nerdbots: Nicholas and Angela Snyder
Through February 21
Hilliard Gallery
404 East 18th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-561-2956
Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., First Friday, 6-9 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Burton Morris
Through February 28
Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
Usual events contact: 816-802-3423
Alumni Gallery in Vanderslice Hall
Windows and Visions: Contemporary Quilts of NedRa Bonds
Curated by Pearlie Johnson
Closing reception: February 27, 5-7 p.m.
Vanderslice Reception Rooms in Vanderslice Hall on the KCAI campus
Through February 28
Kansas City Kansas Public Library
West Wyandotte Branch
1737 North 82nd Street
Kansas City, Kansas
913-596-5800
Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday, 1-5 p.m.
Elaine Mills
(watercolors, mixed media: Alaska)
Through February 28
Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities
Kaw Valley Arts Gallery
756 Armstrong
Kansas City, Kansas
913-371-0024
WHO AM I?: Through the Eyes of Fifth Graders
A photographic project by Steve Curtis with photos by Douglass Elementary School students
Through February 27
Mercy Seat Studio
210 East 16th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-421-4833
Truth + Magical Love = Freedom
New Work by Ashley Lande
Through Februray 28
MCC-Longview Cultural Arts Center
500 Southwest Longview Road
Lee’s Summit, Missouri
Tuesday-Saturday, noon-4 p.m.
Betwixt & Between
Andrew Cimelli, Jonathan Dankenbring, Sarrita Hunn, Tex Jernigan, Jane Sheldon, Maranda Stebbins, Ryan Thayer, and Brian Zimmerman
Through February 28
Pi Art Gallery
419 East 18th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-210-6534
Monday-Sunday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Jesse Reno
&
Stan Silverman
Through February 28
Plenum Space
504 E. 18th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
913-731-6402
First Fridays, 7-10 p.m. and by appointment
Wet Paint by Cory Imig
Through February 27
Red Door Gallery
1734 Walnut Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
First Fridays and by by appointment
Salty Dogs
Including work by Alicia Kelly, Sammy Owen, Anson the Ornery, Clinton Ricketts, Mari LaCure, Andrew Burkitt, Danielle Peters, Angela Kerner, George De Moura, Matt Kuhlman, Andrew Jilka, Thayer Bray, Travis Ball, Erin Bratzler, Neal Julian, Katherine Mingle, Katerina Tovmenko, Cassidy Creek (and more)
Through February 26
Red-Light
323 Southwest Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri
816-421-1484
First Friday, 6-9 p.m., Saturday, noon-5 p.m., and by appointment
Untitled Drawings by Caleb Harman
Presented by Kenneth Gentry
Through February 27
Thornhill Gallery
Avila University
11901 Wornall Road
Kansas City, Missouri
816-501-2443
Open Tuesday-Friday, noon-3 p.m. and by appointment
Lynne Hodgman: Lynneguistics
Through February 20
Unit 5 Gallery
1920 Wyandotte Avenue, #5
Kansas City, Missouri
816-841-5500
Thursday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., First Fridays, 6-9 p.m., and by appointment
Unit 5 Group Show
Debra Di Blasi, Lloyd DuPont, Richard Mattsson, Anne Austin Pearce
Through February 28
UMKC Gallery of Art
The Department of Art and Art History
205C Fine Arts Building, University of Missouri - Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, Missouri
816-235-1505
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Julie Little-Finger: Krew of Katrina
a mixed media installation
Through February 20
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