Archive for October, 2010
Naked Truth: E. Spencer Schubert
E. Spencer Schubert’s “Wishing #5″ is full of empathetic understanding and a deep sense of authenticity of feeling.
Circular Reasoning, Arriving at Multiple Points : Bri Lauterbach
Bri Lauterbach’s “handmade existence” includes not only a sustainable, cooperative daily life, but also the simple, rhythmic drawings that make up her first solo show.
FIFTH/FINAL FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, OCTOBER 2010
New site-specific work by Miles Neidinger, Anne Lindberg, and Rachel Hayes opens tonight at the Nerman Musuem of Contemporary Art; out in Lawrence and Wichita, Kansas, the downtown districts are full of Final Friday openings and events, including new work at Wonder Fair, the b.a.l.m. flash space, and Lawrence Percolator.
Hall(oween) of Fame : Mike Hoffman
Mike Hoffman imagines dead pop (of their day, and some still of ours) culture figures as … well, undead, or Living Dead, if you will.
Small Smiling Faces: Vickie Hover
Vickie Hover’s handmade dolls, clad in hand-felted garb, are full of personality, life and good humor. They also carry a sense of the perseverance it took to produce them.
Serious Fun: Meredith Host
Meredith Host’s ceramic artwork displays the subtle but unmistakable influence of classic animation from the mid-20th century, mixing whimsy with nostalgia to produce work that’s good-humord, eye-catching and completely functional.
Concrete Contrast: Paul Keohan
For Paul Keohan to master concrete as an artistic medium (outside the conventional realm of large-scale sculpture) testifies to his technical skills as well as his creative gifts.
‘DANCES’ WITH ZOMBIES
The talents of Native American filmmaker Rod Pocowatchit and the spirit of the Wichita, Kansas, community came together to produce the writer/director’s third feature film. “The Dead Can’t Dance” screens in time for Halloween in his hometown, where he found strong support for helping him with his creation, and he hopes that audiences have fun with this character-driven journey that touches some larger themes about history, family, stereotypes, and identity.
A Different Sort of Digital: Tina Garrett
Tina Garrett’s pastel portraits are filled with a soft warmth that owes as much to emotion and affection as to her (literally) hands-on technique.
A Collector of Moments: Chelsea Herzberg
Chelsea Herzberg’s photographs are infused with a palpable antihurry, a purposeful and determined halting of time at just the right instant.
Here, There and Everywhere: William Spreadbury
William Spreadbury offers a world tour both sweeping and intimate, familiar and exotic.
The Artist’s Craft: Sonya Mikuls
Whether creating simple or more ornate pieces, Sonya Mikuls displays a talent for knowing what goes together and what can stand on its own.
FOURTH FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, OCTOBER 2010
Includes: Third Thursday lecture at The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, where later a new faculty-produced film about an outsider artist of Kansas debuts; also KCAI’s regular Current Perspectives lecture; and Friday, the final KCAI Electromediascope at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Tallgrass Film Festival opens in Wichita, and an installation-based collaborative performance begins at la Esquina. Other highlights: painting classes, Whoop Dee Doo Halloween, and the annual Urban/Suburban art auction at Epsten Gallery and Lawrence Artwalk festival (Saturday).
THE ‘GRASS’ GROWS IN WICHITA
The Tallgrass Film Festival — in Wichita October 22 through 24 — is in its eighth year and has expanded to include 124 films (41 features and 83 shorts). Thirty filmmakers and 18 guest artists are expected to attend, and some Friday screenings are even free. Read on to map out your way through the schedule of this “Films on the Fringe” 2010 event, which includes a number of features about artists, writers, and musicians: William Kentridge, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Stuart Mossman, William S. Burroughs, Bill Withers, and others.
STATE OF CONTEMPLATION
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art presents new acquisitions by Brooklyn-based Marc Swanson, at the Midtown museum and downtown (outside). Swanson enjoys playing with form and content, with the elusive quality of particular materials, to create deceptive works that seem to be sly comments on our modern predicaments with the earth; in viewing them, we are challenged to explore our own narratives and find where our appreciation of the natural world lies.
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