Archive for June, 2011
Shadows and Suggestions: Kale Van Leeuwen
Kale Van Leeuwen’s current show continues his practice of providing slick, colorful, light-intensive visuals. But it also offers a new element of bittersweet poignancy … and several ways to approach it.
Bizarre Bites: Meg Dejmal
Meg Dejmal has crafted an exhibition which pushes all sorts of emotional (visceral, really) buttons but also resolves into a coherent and satisfying whole.
It’s a Dog’s Dream: John Hare
John Hare’s illustrations for “Dog Day Daydreams” are whimsical, colorful and engaging.
Views and Visions: Tony Peterson
Tony Peterson covers a wide range of subjects, but the nature of structures and the structures of nature are common threads in his photographic work.
Smokes and Vapors: Adam Finkelston
Adam Finkelston has created a show which not only hearkens back to the alchemists’ magickal/scientific search for truth, but to our own quests for meaning and insight.
FOURTH/FINAL FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, JUNE 2011
There is a new group exhibition of Dolphin-represented artists opening tonight, along with the first museum survey of the work of Leo Villareal at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; of course, it is also Final Friday in Lawrence and in Wichita, and there are lectures and other events (like the “Be a Doll” fundraiser at Leedy-Voulkos) to share your attention. Saturday opens a new 25-year retrospective at Albrecht-Kemper for Markus Pierson’s coyote series, and Art of the Car Concours at KCAI is Sunday, too.
WICHITA TALLGRASS: BEST SHORTS
CinemaKC and the Kansas Film Commission bring you a selection of the best short films from the Tallgrass Film Festival of Wichita, planning its ninth year in October. “Elijah Returns,” a comedic seven-minute film realizing the last script of the late festival director, Tim Gruber, directed by Tyler Emerson, is featured with nine other shorts Saturday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m. at Screenland Crown Center. Meet up with filmmakers and festival organizers ready to answer your questions.
Please Touch: J. Karl Lipscomb
J. Karl Lipscomb’s wooden work is made not merely to withstand contact, but to welcome and reward it.
A Shared Vision: Edmée Rodriguez and Ryan Hasler
Edmée Rodriguez and Ryan Hasler are so firmly on the same page that it’s almost — almost — as though one person were looking through two lenses.
Forward Movement: Clint Metcalf
If you think you know just what you’re going to see at Clint Metcalf’s most recent show … you’re only partially right.
Summer Heat: Kristin Ediger Goering
The warmth in each of Kristin Ediger Goering’s painting — the heat, even, in some of them — is almost palpable. That sensory richness carries over into other areas as well, for those who know the places (or those like them) which Goering depicts.
Design/Theory: Alan Detrich
Alan Detrich’s passions for paleontology and Intelligent Design meet in the work on display in downtown Lawrence.
Monumental Easy Chair: Wendell Castle
Wendell Castle’s bronze bench sculpture combines sweeping postmodern lines with the sort of feeling one gets looking at ancient megalithic constructions.
Honoring the Namesake: Kwan Wu
Kwan Wu’s statue of Na Nex Se, for whom Lenexa is named, is both inspirational and educational.
THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, JUNE 2011
Third Friday is open studios and galleries for Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project; a new exhibition at the Trap Gallery; a closing reception and talk at BNIM for John Raux’s “Wholes;” The Kansas City Club’s Third Friday; and this weekend, the Overland Park Clock Tower Art and Music Festival.
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