Photography 
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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Light Play: Genevieve Boyle
Genevieve Boyle knows how to present familiar subjects in fresh ways and lesser-known places in an eye-catching, inviting manner.
Comfortable in His Skin: Kent Van Dusseldorp
For all the appreciation of the female nude, male full frontalism does tend to draw more askance glances, and Kent Van Dusseldorp’s show is a straightforward, if good-natured, confrontation of that outlook.
Dances with Light: Orval Hixon
The show of Orval Hixon’s dance portraiture is both art exhibition and history lesson, and it excels on both fronts.
Beauty in Brief: Anne Nye
Anne Nye’s photographs are simple in composition and subject, but loaded with all sorts of visual subtext.
Backyard Beauty: Wes Cromer
Wes Cromer’s photographic explorations are centered around the area where he lives, and he finds beauty in things many people might overlook.
Conspicuous Consumption: Ryan Waggoner
Ryan Waggoner’s “An Appetite for Energy” is more than a show of attractively composed images; it’s an indictment of Americans’ energy-consumption habits.
Apocalyptic Beauty: Jeff Olschki
Jeff Olschki’s new work continues his run of striking, beautifully edgy (and vice versa) images.
The Fine, Strong Ties that Bind: Jessica Simorte
Small though Jessica Simorte’s pieces might be, there’s a strength in them which resists any efforts to pat them on the head and dismiss them with an indulgent “Awwww …”
Inside the Loop: Andrea Clark
Clark’s show offers an excellent reason to get inside the Downtown Loop tonight, either before or after hitting the Crossroads … to make it an and evening rather than either/or.
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.
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.
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.
Beauty, Composed: Larry Wolfe
Larry Wolfe’s photos are of beautiful things, cropped and composed and highlighted to show off the subjects’ best qualities … and at the same time, to evoke deeper feelings: serenity (again, see above), joy, inspiration.