Review

Andrzej Zielinski, "Satellite Deployed," mixed media on panel, 120" x 105", 2009. Zielinski is one of this year's Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artists award winners. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002 and his MFA from Yale University in 2004. Zielinski has had solo exhibitions at Nicole Klagsburn Gallery (New York), Marc Selwyn Fine Art (Los Angeles) and Dolphin Gallery (Kansas City) and his work has been included in several other exhibitions in New York and Kansas City. Information: courtesy of the Charlotte Street Foundation; image: courtesy of the Kansas City Art Institute

Jaimie Warren, "Untitled (Self Portrait, Dinosaur Mouth)," color photograph, 30" x 40" 2009. Warren is the second of three 2009 CSF Visual Artists awards winners. Warren attended the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions around the country, and her photographs have been published nationally and internationally, including in “Don’t You Feel Better,” a book of her self-portraits published by Aperture in 2008. Information: courtesy of the Charlotte Street Foundation; image, courtesy of the artist and Higher Pictures, via the Kansas City Art Institute

Dylan Mortimer, "God Hooks My Ass Up," cardboard, glitter, Christmas lights, 2009. Mortimer is the third CSF Visual Artists award winner whose work is on display at the H&R Block Artspace. He holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the School of Visual Art (New York). "His work questions how expressions of private faith function in the public sphere, and explores the boundaries of what types of faith expressions are permitted versus prohibited. Employing a range of formal, cultural, and conceptual languages, Mortimer has most recently merged the iconographies and vocabularies of Christianity and Hip Hop culture in a continued investigation of how religious belief, popular culture, and social norms do and do not comfortably relate." Image and information/quoted: courtesy of the Charlotte Street Foundation

Marydorsey Wanless, "Renewal," tintype photograph. Wanless is one of three artists whose new work opens for exhibition November 13 at the Kansas City Artists Coalition (along with Kale Van Leeuwen and Luke Firle). "Wanless works with photography to document the process of ageing. 'Ageing,' the British spelling, refers to physical, psychological social changes in an organism over time." Image and quoted text: courtesy of the Kansas City Artists Coalition

Kale Van Leeuwen, "The Birthday Party," is part of "Nightlife," an exhibition of mixed media paintings at the Kansas City Artists Coalition. The artist asks the viewer to consider, "The question is asked, "What if mannequins came to life and were roaming the city?" Image and quoted text: courtesy of the Kansas City Artists Coalition

Luke Firle, untitled painting, from "Curves," opening at the Kansas City Artists Coalition November 13. Firle's work is, "An exploration of shape and space through color, pattern, and the layering of paint." Image and quoted text: courtesy of the gallery

Archie Scott Gobber, "Painting Removed for Arts' Sake, "is part of the Review Studios group exhibition opening November 13 with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. at the studios' exhibition space (1708 Campbell Street, enter on 17th Street). Work by Gobber and each of the other resident artists — Barry Anderson, Andrea Flamini, Elijah Gowin, Marcie Miller Gross, Diana Heise, Beniah Leuschke, Lonnie Powell, Warren Rosser, Colby K. Smith, May Tveit, Davin Watne and James Woodfill – forms the Review Studios Corporate Collector Program. "Through this program, Review Studios makes available an exclusive collection consisting of one piece of work from each Review Studios resident artist. Review Studios is eager to begin promoting the Corporate Collector Program and help fuel corporate patronage of the visual art community, along with increasing exposure for Review Studios resident artists." Image: T. Abeln photo, courtesy of Review Studios; quoted text: Review Studios

May Tveit, detail of new work at Review Studios Exhibition Space, opening November 13, with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Image: T. Abeln photo, courtesy of Review Studios

"Steve," holding sign referring to Larry McAnany's exhibition of oil, graphite and varnish mixtures on canvas paintings, "Scratch," at The Writer's Place, which is hosting a reception November 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. He writes, "The relevance to the show is the human condition and how we are all scratcthing out a living. Ezra Pound was caged in the elements for months on end and was in many senses scratching to escape his cage and the loss of his mind." McAnany holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, and his work has been exhibited both locally and internationally; Scratch derives from Pound's "The Cantos," an incomplete poem about his incarceration after the Allies liberated Italy in 1945, and Pablo Neruda's, "I Explain a Few Things." Photo: Mary DeCamp (who, with the artist, has been supporting Steve for several years)

David Johnson, "David Rocks Goliath," woodcut print, is one of the featured works in the 2009 juried exhibition at Imago Dei in Kansas City, Kansas, open November 13 for Second Friday Art Walk. Image: courtesy of the artist

Aaron Sutton, "Spark," acrylic on canvas, is part of "As Above, So Below," opening November 13 a the YWCA's 6th Street Gallery with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. "Sutton is a 29 year old multi-disciplinary artist and co-founder of Kansas City's first hip-hop youth organization, The Hip Hop Academy of Kansas City. Sutton is versatile as a freelance artist, creating solo wall murals and collaborating with youth from the Kansas City Hip Hop Academy. The artist recently has focused on exhibiting his canvas and small drawings in gallery settings," while continuing his work with the KC musical duo Deep Thinkers (CD release party November 14), working as a public art instructor, creative writer and clothing designer. Image and quoted text: courtesy of the gallery

Roger Cisner, "Evening Red," photograph. Cisner's work, along with at least 20 other artists, is for sale November 13 only at the Jack Reardon Center in Kansas City, Kansas, as part of "The Art and Soul of the Community," sponsored by Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities and the United Way during the Kansa City, Kansas, Second Friday Art Walk. Image: courtesy of Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities