Review

August 26 — 29, 2010

Sighn is the art moniker of multi-identitied artist Matthew Hoffman, whose work is part of a solo exhibition opening at Wonder Fair during Lawrence, Kansas's inagural Final Friday art walk August 27. Image: courtesy of the gallery

August seems to be the fastest month; back to school vibes push it forward, and Labor Day looms as the official "end of summer," no matter what the thermometer says. Chalk it up to some collective love of alliteration, but there are two new Final Friday communities getting their art scenes organized for the specific day of the month known as Final Friday.

The Downtown Fine Arts League in Lawrence, Kansas, is promoting about 30 open venues on the 27th; a full list is here, courtesy of their organization, and we've listed the places that we have (and usually do!) heard from directly. This map link (sent through Facebook by Lawrence friends) has things in alphabetical order and shows the general clustering.

Out in Wichita, Kansas, Final Fridays are a longer-standing tradition, and most of our listings come courtesy of musician/artist Wade Hampton, who acts as an information-funnel for lots of the artists and venues out there — however, there are too many for us to keep up with lately, and so we provide this PDF map and list from the Wichita Arts Council and Downtown Wichita Development Corporation and will be filling in details about whose work is where later, from the main calendar.

Closer to Review Publishing's home base (or at least within the one-hour-drive range), Parkville, Missouri, is hosting its own Final Fridays events, while ARTichokes puts on a usual Friday open studios and a couple of Kansas City, Missouri, galleries launch their seasons (such as Greenlease and Pi).

*Review was remiss not to include the Gallery of Art & Design at University of Central Missouri, as well as the Salina Art Center (Kansas), earlier — which both hosted exhibition events on Thursday (their usual days). Scroll down to "recently opened" for more information.

Fourth/Final Friday, Kansas City Metro Area, August 27 and including the weekend (Saturday, August 28 and Sunday, August 29):

All Souls Universalist Church
4501 Walnut Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-531-2131

New Work by Jason Sierra
Opening reception: August 29, noon-3 p.m.
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ARTichokes Gallery
10557 Mission Road
Leawood, Kansas
913-322-9481
Tuesday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-3 p.m., and Sunday and Monday by appointment

August 27, 1-9 p.m. Friday Open Studio Come and meet Allan Chow and watch him paint from 6 to 9 p.m. at ARTichokes open studios, with music by Mason Pashia from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
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Cara and Cabezas Contemporary
218 Delaware, Suite 208
Kansas City, Missouri
816-332-6239
Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., receptions, open house dates, and by appointment; host of Kansas City Limited Editions prints

August 28, 8 p.m. Bird of Paradise in Slow Time A special screening of Christina McPhee's new video work, as a preview to a solo exhibition of her work at Cara and Cabezas in 2011. McPhee is from Los Angeles, studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and received her MFA in painting from Boston University. She works across mediums, including drawing, video, and photomontage, often using a hybrid of them, and has described her work as "psychogenerative" in how landscapes emerge through her assemblage of site-specific work. Read more and see a still here on the gallery's site.
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Greenlease Gallery
Rockhurst University
1100 Rockhurst Road
(Gallery is between Van Ackeren and Sedgewick Halls; entrance to campus parking lot at 5400 Troost Avenue)
Kansas City, Missouri
816-501-4407
Thursday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m., reception Friday until 9 p.m., and by appointment (during academic year)

ART-TEST
Curated by Sean Kelley and including Scott George Beattie, Brock DeBoer, Jocelyn Himes, and Lynus Young, who are each presenting work that is a prototype to inform future solo exhibitions
Fourth Friday opening reception: August 27, 7-9 p.m., with a gallery talk by Sean Kelley at 6:30 p.m.
Additional gallery talk: August 28, 2 p.m. with the curator and artists
August 27 — October 2
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August 27, 5-10 p.m. Parkville Final Fridays Parkville, Missiouri's downtown shops and space along Main Street are open from 5 to 7 p.m. and feature artwork including by Tina Amaro, J.T. Daniels, Erin Shea O'Hern, and Libby Youmans; the Power Plant at 2 Main Street is showing work by artists including Harmony Eccles, Santiago Vasquez, Alison Vorma, and Brie Wright and screening the short film, Pickpocket, by Eric Atwood from 5 to 8 p.m., when the Suneaters take to the stage for a concert (all free of charge). Follow the artists to an afterparty at Cafe Cedar at 9 p.m., then on to Dluxe Lounge and Cigar Bar at 10 p.m.
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Pi Art Barn
(new location/rendition of Pi gallery formerly in the Crossroads)
3030 McGee Street (in the barn in back)
Kansas City, Missouri
816-210-6534

Susan Taber Avila (California fiber artist)
&
Laura Setchfield (St. Louis-based ceramicist)
&
others "hometown favorites"
Fourth Friday opening reception: August 27, 6-9 p.m.
Additional gallery hours: August 28 & 29, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
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Thornhill Art Gallery
by Dallavis Center, Avila University
11901 Wornall Road
Kansas City, Missouri
816-501-2443
Open Tuesday-Friday, noon-3 p.m. and by appointment, during school semesters

Mitchell Johnson: Selected Paintings: 1990-2010
Closing (Thursday) reception: September 23, 5-8 p.m.
August 27 — September 23

Sunday, August 29, Salina, Kansas:

Salina Art Center
242 South Santa Fe
Salina, Kansas
785-827-1431
Gallery: Wednesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m., Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

August 29, 4 p.m. Living in Emergency Join Dr. Charles Livingston for a conversation at the art center / open dialogue about the issues raised in the film, Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, which is showing at the Salina Art Center Cinema August 27 through September 2.

Final Friday, August 27, Lawrence, Kansas:

The Bourgeois Pig
6 East 9th Street
Lawrence, Kansas
785-843-1001
Open 7 a.m.-2 a.m. daily
Wine bar and coffee shop; hosts artwork. Contact for art exhibitions: Molly Murphy at 785-979-2625

Baby Heads 02: Wayne Propst
Photographic exploration of the Lawrence homeless by Julianne Kueffer
Final Friday opening reception: August 27, 5-8 p.m., with free hot dogs
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'Flash Space'
739 Massachusetts Street (corrected)
Lawrence, Kansas
Receptions and by appointment

TRANS•parent TRANS•lucent
Presented by b.a.l.m. and including the work of Leah Busch, Jon Cowan, Christina Dostaler, TR Ericsson, Matthew Farley, Tyson Gough, Rex Hausmann, Vincent Leandro, Keith Lemley, David Parker, Andy Norquist, Debra Seeger,
Linnea Spransy, Shannon White, and Marc Wiegand; curated by Darin M. White
Final Friday opening reception: August 27, 5-8 p.m.
August 27 — September 17
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Invisible Hand Gallery
801 1/2 Massachusetts Street
Lawrence, Kansas
785-813-1803
Wednesday-Sunday, noon-7 p.m. and by appointment

Jeromy Morris, from "Masked Portraits." Image: courtesy of the gallery

Jeromy Morris: Masked Portraits
Final Friday closing reception: August 27, 5-8 p.m.
August 6 — 28
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Lawrence Arts Center
940 New Hampshire Street
Lawrence, Kansas
785-843-2787
Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and Final Friday hours

Stan Herd
Photographs, paintings, and sketches from Countryside, which is featured in earthwork
&
Simon Cordova
Photographs from the set of earthwork
August 27 — September 26
&
Jennifer Jarnot: Reconstructing the Paint-by-Number
August 27 — October 1
Final Friday opening reception: August 27, 5-8 p.m.
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Lawrence Percolator
913 Rhode Island Street
(Under the green awnings in the alley behind Lawrence Arts Center)
Lawrence, Kansas
785-840-5508
Saturday-Sunday, noon-6 p.m. and by appointment, and Final Friday hours

You Can't Scare Me, I'm a Teacher
Teachers of Lawrence: Studio 497
Final Friday opening reception: August 27, 6-8 p.m.
August 27 — September 19
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Wonder Fair: Art Gallery, Shoppe & Studio
803 1/2 Massachusetts Street
Lawrence, Kansas
785-393-8525
Wednesday-Sunday, noon-7 p.m., and by appointment

Artist statement: "Matthew Hoffman, who works under the moniker Sighn, speaks of the vulnerability of emotions and materializes via text-based objects, hoping to connect us as humans. He states that “the pieces tend to deliver a hug, a pat on the back, or a chuckle.” By using immediate and fleeting phrases, one is able to absorb the stream of consciousness continuously running through his work. His phrases are melancholic and elegiac, while simultaneously leaving the viewers feeling therapeutically better about themselves." Image and quoted text: courtesy of the gallery

No One Knows How Deep This Goes
Featuring the work of Sighn
Final Friday opening reception: August 27, 7-10 p.m.
August 27 — September 19

Recently opened:

Gallery of Art & Design
University of Central Missouri
217 Clark Street, Art Center Building
Warrensburg, Missouri
660-543-4498
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (until 8 p.m. on Thursdays), Saturday, noon-4 p.m., and by appointment

Christina Willey, "Storm," acrylic, 12" x 6". Image: courtesy of the gallery

Annual Department of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition
&
Flight: The Defiance of Gravity
Melanie Walker
Opening reception: August 26, 4-6 p.m.
August 26 — September 17
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Salina Art Center
242 South Santa Fe
Salina, Kansas
785-827-1431
Gallery: Wednesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m., Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

Artist Exchange
Featuring the work of six Kansas artists: Shin-hee Chin, Priti Cox, Matthew Hilyard, Michael Krueger, Michelle Meade, and Debbie Wagner, this exhibition is the culmination of the Salina Art Center's Artist Exchange program
Artist Performance: September 12, 4 p.m., with Michelle Meade, a free, public puppet show in conjunction with her multi-media installation Arden's Garden
Member Mixer: September 30, 5:30 p.m.
August 27 — October 10

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