Archive for May, 2011
Performance/Art: Jim Ryon
Jim Ryon’s style comes across as visually jazzy, with impressionistic strokes over a representational framework.
Bluejacket in Bronze: Charles Goslin
Charles Goslin’s sculpture offers a chance to learn not only a chapter in local and state history, but more about a man who shaped that time.
Fire Above, Fire Below: Clare Doveton
“Vast” and “small” are antonyms, most times and places. Clare Doveton has reconciled those opposites into her new series of oils on paper.
BLUE CHIPS AND BIG TRUCKS
It’s now then-and-gone for “America: Now and Here,” which honored KC with being its first national venue on what is hoped to be a years-long project journey. It provided a month’s-worth of discussions, of music, film, poetry, and theatre events to inspire — from Eric Fischl’s colleague “blue chip” artists and our equally brilliant pool of local talent.
By Any Name: Gail Hiebert
No matter what name she signs to her work, Gail displays a gift for deft, subtle use of color and serene depictions of nature.
SAN ANTONIO, MEET LAWRENCE; LAWRENCE, MEET …
“The New Old San Antonio: Tales from the Little Big Town” showcases works by 33 artists who have strong ties to the city of San Antonio. They vary in theme, approach, and level of experience — but the pieces selected pieces work together as a whole. The resulting exhibition, which showed in San Antonio last month and is at the Lawrence Arts Center through June 17, is a mix of work that paints the city as a diverse and vibrant arts community.
Faces of Home: T.J. Harrison
There’s a definite warmth and intimacy to T.J. Harrison’s photography, a feeling that Harrison is recording not only artistic images but the faces of those for whom she cares deeply.
VISUAL MUSIC: JAZZ IN PAINT, WORDS
It is jazz with paint: so describes Harold Smith’s latest exhibition, at the American Jazz Museum Changing Gallery — and these paintings are enhanced and reflected off of Glenn North’s poetry, jazz with words. “Colors of Jazz” is the latest in a strong series of exhibitions at this venue that elucidate and document the symbiotic and long-standing relationship between artists of many disciplines — and the universal nature of jazz.
Jewelesque: Mariana Abadie
Mariana Abadie’s paintings — whether abstract or representational — are both stimulating and serene, with a lovely mix of cool blues and earth tones beneath the shine.
FOURTH/FINAL FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, MAY 2011
“America: Now and Here” is wrapping up and getting ready to hit the road for Detroit; Final Friday is exploding in Lawrence, Kansas, this week, and, before Memorial Day, the Epsten Gallery opens up a new exhibition by Jason Pollen that “considers the physical and emotional vulnerability inherent within the human condition and the miraculours and intentional journey toward healing, understanding, and adaptation.” The H&R Block Artspace hosts a First Friday reception for its summer exhibition, too.
Two Halves to Every Whole: John Raux
John Raux’s current show is decidedly meditative — in part because the circle is itself a steadying shape, and in part because Raux has filled his paintings with soothing, sweeping, flowing combinations of color and form.
A Welcome Return: Ed Lesyk
The stories Ed Lesyk tells through his lens are both spare and nuanced … and like his drawings, accessible and haunting at the same time.
Artful Chronicles: Megan True
Megan True is a freelance photojournalist by profession, a traveler by passion, and an artist by a well-crafted blending of the two.
With a Bright Bang: Orion VonOntjes
Orion VonOntjes mixes painting and screenprinting techniques to produce work that’s colorful, striking and as likely to produce bouts of deep thinking as they are to induce smiles and chuckles.
THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, MAY 2011
Highlights: A brand-new retrospective of the late Jules Olitski’s work spanning five decades opens May 20 at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, while nearby, Eric Fischl has a conversation with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Director Julián Zugazagoitia about “America: Now and Here.” (“AN&H” events continue through next week.) The Kansas City Club and Columbus Park’s and the Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project galleries host new work opening for Third Friday, as does Pi Art Barn. The University of Kansas Architecture school has a one-time exhibition tonight (in KC), and at KU itself, Saturday is an opening for BFA students’ work.
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