Archive for December, 2010
Sending out Dedications: Aaron Marable
There’s not a hint of irony in Aaron Marable’s “Heavy Rotation”; this is a straightforward dedication to the music Marable loves, and to those who made it.
PETER WARREN: CROSSING
Peter Warren brings New York and new Norway experience to Kansas City, which he has called home for the past three years. A Review Studios resident added in 2010, Warren often collaborates with performers and other artists. His works are sophisticated conglomerates of carefully assembled objects he’s collected and scavenged. This profile by Janell Meador includes a video interview with Warren in his studio.
Small Intimacies: Cyndi West
Rather than making viewers feel like intruders, Cyndi West’s works feel like invitations to observation.
Unsettling Charm: Rachel Stuart-Haas
Rachel Stuart-Haas has created work which mines familiar veins … but at the same time, she has put her own stamp on subject matter that whispers invitations and warnings in the same breath.
FINAL FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, DECEMBER 2010
The year 2010 is almost closed, and a few Lawrence, Kansas, galleries are celebrating with the usual Final Friday art walk on New Year’s Eve; check out new exhibitions opening then or stop by the preview of “100″ Tuesday, December 28 at Teller’s Third Floor Gallery, where you will find more than 30 works priced at $100 or less by 19 local artists. We’ve also included some January previews — the first First Friday of 2011 will be here before you know it!
Seasons and Cycles: Laura Nugent
Many of the pieces in Laura Nugent’s current show are ideally suited to the onset of winter: spare, dark grids, the browns and grays of hibernating fields seen from above. There’s also something quiltlike — and therefore, also seasonal — to those paintings.
It Depends What “Mean” Means: Kenneth M. Morton
Whatever its underlying meaning, and in any language, Kenneth M. Morton’s show is both haunting and compelling.
SIGN OF CONFIDENCE
Archie Scott Gobber’s latest large canvases included in “Super Power” at the Dolphin Gallery show his growing development as a painter and commentator; in this solo exhibition that continues through January 8, the expected word-based paintings reward the viewer with new subtleties and sincerity, both in craft and concept.
Seasoned with Color: Bruce Mayfield
Art served up as an accompaniment to food and drink should be like a well-composed dish: appealing to the eyes, carefully balanced, stimulating but not overwhelming. Bruce Mayfield’s abstract paintings fill that order nicely.
Steeling Fire: Reilly Hoffman
Reilly Hoffman’s powerfully graceful (and vice versa) three-dimensional work has much to do with the fourth dimension as well … and not merely because there’s something of the sundial’s gnomon in its shape.
Simple Portraits of a Complex Star: Clinton Ricketts
Clinton Ricketts’ drawings of the late Dennis Hopper are fitting tributes to their complex subject. They’re possessed of the same taut, edgy grace, the same barely controlled and clearly dangerous energy, that made Hopper a pop/countercultural icon.
Painting the Praises of Famous Men: Bill Griffiths
In another time, Bill Griffiths might have been a painter of icons, a printer of holy cards or a sculptor of saints. The objects of reverence he depicts draw (or drew) devotees to temples of a different sort … the houses of sports and rock ‘n’ roll.
When “Out of Context” is a Good Thing: Richard Lotman Brown
Richard Lotman Brown sees patterns, textures and images most miss, and has a gift for capturing and presenting them.
Faces on the Wall: Jeff Schwenk
Jeff Schwenk’s portraiture ranges from convivial to pensive, making it an ideal fit for its current venue.
SEASONAL NOSTALGIA
Brett Grill and Jo Stealey integrate nostalgia with the wisdom of natural cycles in the Perlow-Stevens Gallery’s “Fall Exhibit 2010,” on view in Columbia, Missouri, through December 30. Subdued tones and themes of domestic moments and the passage of time join these two MU faculty members’ work into a complementary exhibition.
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