Archive for April, 2011
The Nature of Nurture: Linda Ganstrom
One doesn’t have to be familiar with Linda Ganstrom’s source inspirations to find her ceramic sculptures affecting and accessible … while still retaining an aura of mystery that makes them even more compelling.
Poster Power: Patrick Giroux
Patrick Giroux favors simple color schemes and bold, blocky fonts, often mixing up typefaces and sizes, in his concert posters. Text is only half of the equation, though: The purely visual elements, many of them reminiscent of woodcuts, would stand just fine on their own merits as art prints.
APPETITE FOR ART
Omaha, Nebraska, thrives with international injections such as that of German photographer Vera Mercer, who recently had her first solo gallery exhibition at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Her large-scale “Still Lifes” present her instinctive taste for global culture and a non-conformist, experimental approach to her art, placing her, in a word, at the head of the table.
BROKE GOVERNMENT: FUNDRED RUN DRY?
With the US government wrestling with unprecedented trade deficits and national debt, even to the point where items like the EPA’s funding for emissions regulation has been on the chopping block, what chance does an art project have? Last year, Mel Chin’s “Fundred Dollar Bill Project” came through our region asking for us to help add to the three million-participant goal. The art-capital is to be exchanged for real money to clean up lead-polluted soil in New Orleans … eventually. So how is the participation going?
Koura Khrysea : Katherine Gannan
There are no circlets and diadems in Katherine Gannan’s “Avant Greek,” on display through the end of this week at the Shawnee Mission North High School Patrons Gallery. Gannan took a more imaginative approach to her senior show, which focuses on multiple aspects of the feminine — from the soft to the severe and the benevolent to the bloodthirsty.
FIFTH/FINAL FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, APRIL 2011
Final Friday is art walk night in both Lawrence and Wichita, Kansas, and in Kansas City, the Greenlease and Dolphin galleries are opening new group exhibitions. Thursday offers two film screenings of note, including by KCAI students (at Screenland), and the KCAI Current Perspectives lecture, with Peregrine Honig. “Dining Room Project” events continue at Paragraph and the Epsten, and next Friday and weekend is packed with new art, including Eric Fischl’s “America Now & Here” project, and lots of student shows (and the sale!) from the KCAI Class of 2011.
Keeping the Past Alive: Daisy J. Muff
Daisy J. Muff’s hand-painted porcelain creations, many of them executed in 18th-century designs from her native Switzerland, are lovely, delicate and timeless.
TECHNICAL REPORT UPDATE
One of Review’s main computers has been off-line since Friday due to a hardware problem. A previous report indicated that a very large file may have caused the issue, but actually the file just exposed the fact that a hard drive’s failure was happening. No data has been lost, only time (file transferring and tech. [...]
Follow the Threads: Colette Stuebe Bangert
Colette Stuebe Bangert’s work is intricately constructed and detailed, both homey and exotic.
In Visible Ink: Alicia (Tweetie) Foster
Foster has a gift for using light and dark to showcase her subjects’ “canvases”, and the tattoo artists’ work upon them, to best effect.
Play the Game: Kenneth Andrew
Kenneth Andrew’s sculpted creations stimulate the eye, the mind … and the muscles that control smiling.
TECHNICAL REPORT
A received file (sent in email by someone completely trustworthy) apparently caused a system error in a primary Review computer while the usual Friday calendar digest was in progress, so I am sorry to report that it did not get published. A number of other works-in-progress Thursday/Friday (and planned for today/Sunday) were affected, too, so [...]
The Other Sides of the World: Lydia Katharine Boehr
Lydia K. Boehr’s “Trip” deals with the blend of familiarity and unfamiliarity that comes from spending time abroad in a culture which shares our language but not our customs.
Nature Preserver: Brigid Greene
Brigid Greene’s art makes use of leaves and other parts of plants … not so much as raw material to be processed into something else, but as visual elements to be arranged in a way that highlights their underlying structures, lines, curves and textures.
Insectophile: Robert Melville Stone
Robert Melville Stone has taken an image from the natural world, made it his own … and created a sculpture capable of grabbing a viewer’s eye for more than one look.
Entries(RSS)