Archive for March, 2011
Land Lover: Sara Cameli
Whichever moment most captures each viewer’s fancy, it’s clear that each was both significant to and deeply felt by the artist … and that Sara Cameli’s love for the relationship between sky, ground, water and growing things is as strong as ever.
Monstrous Fun: Joanna Underwood
Joanna Underwood’s creations range in impression from the cuddly to the creepy, proving that art can be fun, thoughtful, a tiny touch unsettling … and wearable, all at the same time.
The Cocoon Opens: Eugenia Ortiz
Eugenia Ortiz’s fiber sculpture installation serves as a visual reminder that while Nature has a fairly strict regimen for its emergences, the human growth experience is not always a smooth, uniform transition from dark to light, smaller to greater and closed to open.
Reviving a Bygone Era: Bob Luse
Bob Luse is a novelist as well as a self-taught (and unabashedly traditional) visual artist, and there’s a strong sense of narrative in each of his works.
Cutting Paper: Dave Loewenstein
There are no shades of gray in Dave Loewenstein’s tableaus, no third dimension to the characters in his works. There is only stark, clearly delineated black and white, heavy on visual metaphor.
FEMININE FANCIES: FARSTAD & FISHER
Dreams are said to be reflections of the subconscious mind at work. They are capable of revealing our subjugated fears and desires, hopes for the future, and muddled understanding of the past. In “Hardcore Painting,” the work of Julie Farstad and Jessie Fisher incandescently transfers the subliminal images of the female psyche to a two-dimensional plane.
Small Moments/Big Picture: Allison Hedgpeth
Allison Hedgpeth deals with the small moments that make up life’s big pictures.
Curve, Light and Shadow: Beth Cosner
Beth Cosner loads her jewelry with so much color, texture and creative structure that it grabs the attention (in a good way) from the first look, and then rewards repeated viewings.
FINAL FRIDAY, MARCH 2011
Final Friday is Lawrence’s Art Walk night (and Wichita and St. Louis galleries’, too), with a few closing receptions and other events going on in the Kansas City metro area. “WE!” performances have begun, and “The Dining Room Project” continues. It’s also the grand opening of Cara and Cabezas Contemporary at their new East Crossroads location, with drawings by Christina McPhee. Don’t miss a lecture Sunday by Anne Pearce at the Kansas City Central Library. Events for this and next Thursday, as well as a few April previews, are included.
Repeats Will Be Rewarded: Jake Marshall
Jake Marshall has a deft, subtle touch with watercolor; his work is both vibrant and serene, both in the fully representational pieces and with those (such as the one pictured above) which play with overlay and transparency, giving them the feel of dream and/or memory.
A View from the Outside: Jim Needham
Jim Needham likes to paint cars: big, classic cars like the one in today’s featured piece. He also likes to paint women: women with big smiles and big curves. So he does. Lots of both.
Strength in Diversity: Loreta Feeback
One common thread running through all of Loreta Feeback’s work — representational or abstract, flat or in the round — is her command of structure.
Line by Line: Ernest Wedoff
Like the lines that run from utility pole to utility pole, Ernest Wedoff’s work fairly pulses with energy.
Ongoing Explorations: Steve Rimmer
Steve Rimmer’s watery works feel almost three-dimensional, as though one could reach out and dip fingers into the paintings.
KC FILMS GET NEW WEEKLY TV SHOW
Local arts coverage is expanding in Kansas City with the premiere of a new weekly television show produced by CinemaKC. Starting March 26 (9:30 p.m. on KSMO-TV 62), CinemaKC brings films by area filmmakers to the airwaves, with interviews with directors, producers, and others working to increase Kansas City’s reputation as a great place to make award-winning films.
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