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FROM MIAMI, WITH LOVE(0)
November 30, 2011 —
December 1st through 4th: It’s time for the nation’s hottest art fair, Art Basel Miami, Beach, which draws artists, gallerists, collectors, and others from around the world to a balmy, frenetic art-overdose. Darin White provides an entertaining and detailed look at last year’s fair. Along with a number of other KC/Lawrence artists, he’s there again for 2011.
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THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
Third Friday brings a new exhibition at Plug Projects, graffiti-inspired photographs at The Trap, the ArtsKC Fall Happy Hour, a talk at Kemper Museum (including Barry Anderson), and more. Don’t forget that BREAD! KC celebrates a year of micro-granting this Saturday with a special Thanksgiving Gala. It’s also lecture day at City Arts Project and opening night for “The Voice That Reaches You IV” at Cara and Cabezas Contemporary.
FINAL FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, OCTOBER 2011
Updated for November 3rd events; look for new listings for First Friday, November 4 soon.
THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, OCTOBER 2011
Third Friday brings two new group exhibitions full of large, local and even international talent: “LOVE RUST” at The Trap Gallery in Columbus Park and “Celestial Terrestrials” at Greenlease Gallery on the Rockhurst University campus, curated by Dan Freuh and Elisabeth Kirsch, respectively. It is also Third Friday at The Kansas City Club, and tomorrow evening is the highly anticipated annual benefit auction exhibition for The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, “Beyond Bounds: BRILLIANT.”
SECOND FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, OCTOBER 2011
New work at the H&R Block Artspace by KCAI faculty opens tonight, while the first-ever Second Friday Troost Art Hop goes on a few blocks to the east; Paul Flinders has a new solo exhibition of work opening in Lawrence at Wink, and it’s the final Mission Art Walk of the season. Monsters of Design is presenting all that’s new and cutting-edge from the younger set of our local design community, tonight, too. Saturday is “Urban/Suburban,” and Sunday is BreadKC! and a closing picnic and talk at the “IOU/USA” sculpture by John Salvest.
FIRST FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, OCTOBER 2011
First Friday brings new work at Spraybooth, Windhorse, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Plenum, Kemper in the Crossroads, VALA, Hilliard, and more. Red Star Studios and Belger Arts Center present a new expansive exhibition of Richard Notkin’s ceramics. Saturday events are listed together; galleries are in alphabetical order. See you out there!
FOURTH FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, SEPTEMBER 2011
Tonight, the first exhibition at Plug Projects and “The Big Reveal” at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. It’s Plaza Art Fair weekend, where museums and organizations like ArtsKC have booths; come down and see Heinrich Toh and other local favorites. Saturday, the Wichita Art Museum is part of Smithsonian Day, and Sunday, BREAD! comes to City Arts, home of la Cucaracha Press.
THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, SEPTEMBER 2011
Join Nicole Emanuel for an opening of her work at the UMKC Dean’s Gallery Wednesday, come learn about PLUG Projects at the Nerman’s Third Thursday lecture, and prepare for Third Friday in Columbus Park, downtown at the Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project Space and Paragraph Gallery, at the Kansas City Club, and at Images in Johnson County.
OF PATTERNED COLOR AND LIGHT
The work of Leo Villareal is transformational. The artist alters harsh electronic lights into soft, spellbinding luminosities, computer code into organic forms, and pulses of electricity into exhilarating environments. The first major museum survey of his work from the past decade (an exhibition originating at the San Jose Museum of Art) is on view at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art through September 18.
SECOND FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, SEPTEMBER 2011
New tonight: Cara and Cabezas Contemporary (photography reflecting Cuba), the Nerman Museum (Charlotte Street awards), Corridor Art Space (George Rousis), The Studios Inc (Marcie Miller Gross), and Kemper Museum (June Ahrens). Tomorrow, the Dolphin opens two solo exhibitions (Jim Leedy and Philip Heying), the Spencer Museum starts one of two companion exhibitions about Native America, and workshops and artists’ talks continue.
FIRST FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, SEPTEMBER 2011
Even though it’s a holiday weekend, Kansas City’s galleries are not taking a break for First Friday: besides Salvest’s “New Cornucopia / IOU” installations through Grand Arts, there is a big solo exhibition by Jun Kaneko at Sherry Leedy, three new solo exhibitions at KCAC, the first CSF Biennial of Regional BFA/MFA candidates at la Esquina, Michael Allen Lowe in from CA at Leedy-Voulkos, the next installment of Rocket Grant-funded “Johnny America” at Hammerpress, an open house at City Arts, and much more.
FOURTH/FINAL FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST, AUGUST 2011
Lawrence Final Friday celebrates its first anniversary tonight, with a special addition of a KU campus art walk and a Mobile Gallery Project convening at the Spencer Museum of Art between 4 and 6 p.m. Walk, bike, or cruise down Ninth Street to the galleries along Mass. and New Hampshire streets afterward. In KC, Greenlease opens its “Between Thee & Me,” and on Saturday, the benefit for Joplin artists is on at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center; come “Twist & Shout” at a great auction that reclaims tornado debris for a good cause.
‘ARTE Y OAXACA’
In April, two Kansas City exhibitions of drawings by Francisco Toledo brought Mexico City gallerists Armando Colina and Victor Acuña to the Kansas City Public Library for a discussion about Mexican art and Toledo’s work, hosted by Julián Zugazagoitia of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The exchange was a privilege, bringing awareness of contemporary art from Mexcio to Kansas City. Toledo’s Oaxaca base is a city alive with new work and draws Kansas City artists there for inspiration.
Creative Consciousness: Stephanie Gray
Stephanie Gray’s “Casting Circles” is art with a heart … a soul … a mind … and a gentle, supportive spirit.