Tag Archive for ‘Charlotte Street Foundation’
ROLL CALL FOR BOOKS’ ROLE
“Pages” marks our love affair with print culture in this age of digitized information and technological screens, with work from 43 artists and including a number of “please touch” libraries of handmade books, ‘zines, sketchbooks, and other creations. Curator Amy Kligman presents a compelling exhibition that serves as an ode to print culture.
Scenes Real and Imagined: Judith G. Levy
Levy has cannibalized, digitized and recombined the real to create the fanciful, using images from real vintage postcards to create places that both exist and don’t, times and spaces both actual and imagined. And, in the process, she has opened the doors to all manner of dialogues about race, economy, history and culture.
LARGER SIGNS, COMMUNITY SIGNING
The 2009 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Fellows, Jaimie Warren, Dylan Mortimer, and Andrzej Zielinski, when evaluated as a whole, present work that encourages the general population to look at our everyday surroundings, make connections with neighbors, bring spirituality back into the conversation, and find ways to look at the machine and make it flesh.
(ARTKC365) Bringin’ da Fun(k): James Trotter
The overall effect is childlike (rather than childish), a sense reinforced by Trotter’s passion for vintage toys and his use of those toys in art installations. Throw in his vintage musical tastes, and the pattern becomes clear: There’s a safety in the familiar, even when it’s skewed and jumbled.
CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2010 ARTIST AWARD WINNERS
The 2010 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Arts Awards Fellows were announced January 27; congratulations to Ari Fish, Sonié Ruffin and Caleb Taylor. The annual award for Kansas City artists is in its 13th year. Always an unrestricted grant and currently worth $10,000, the CSF Visual Artist Awards has provided $487,000 in grants to date.
(ARTKC365) Sofa, So Fun: Adolfo Gustavo Martinez
Other pieces riff on everything from Cubism to the Shroud of Turin — a wide range, granted, but Martinez pulls it off in every case. And if there’s a streak of fun-poking in this line of paintings (and there is), Martinez comes by it honestly. After all, the entire series was born in response to what Martinez saw as an absurd situation.
Let the Rivers Run: Jamie Burkart at Paragraph Gallery/Urban Culture Project Space
Jamie Burkart Great Accommodations with Jamie Burkart 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Paragraph Gallery 23 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday (special extended hours) Runs through: Oct. 3 Artist’s site: http://www.rivermarvel.com Gallery Site: http://www.charlottestreet.org How best to describe Jamie Burkart’s installation at Paragraph Gallery and the Urban Culture Project Space? Seriously? There [...]
Shared Strength with Fun to Spare: Emily Sall at Paragraph Gallery
Emily Sall Information is Incidental (Joint show) Noon-5 p.m. Paragraph Gallery 23 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays Runs through: Aug. 4 Artist’s site: http://www.emilysall.com Gallery Site: http://www.charlottestreet.org When two artists collaborate on an exhibition, but also show their solo work, it can be easy to focus too much [...]
Time, Encapsulated: Alexandra Robinson at Urban Culture Project Space
Alexandra Robinson Time Passes, Time Passes By Noon-5 p.m. Urban Culture Project Space 21 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours: Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays, 6-9 p.m. on Third Fridays Runs through: Aug. 8 Artist’s site: http://www.alexandrarobinsonart.com Gallery site: http://www.charlottestreet.org Some people bury time capsules in courthouse squares or stash them in the cornerstones [...]
Under the Tree of Knowledge: Ke-Sook Lee at Paragraph Gallery
Ke-Sook Lee Happy Tree Friends II (Group Show) Noon-5 p.m. Paragraph Gallery 23 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays Runs through: June 4 Artist’s site: http://www.ke-sooklee.com Gallery Site: http://www.charlottestreet.org Even those of us who style ourselves open-minded and culturally sensitive can’t help but see things through the prisms of [...]
Roots Unbound : B.J. Vogt at Paragraph Gallery
B.J. Vogt Root (Part of Happy Tree Friends II Group Show) Noon-5 p.m. Paragraph Gallery 23 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays Runs through: June 4 Artist’s site: http://bjvogt.blogspot.com Gallery Site: http://www.charlottestreet.org Tell someone to draw a tree, and chances are you’ll get only a partial picture. People tend [...]
Meet the Family: Adolfo Gustavo Martinez at Cara and Cabezas Contemporary
Adolfo Gustavo Martinez La Familia 7-10 p.m. Cara and Cabezas Contemporary 218 Delaware, Suite 208, Kansas City, MO 816.332.6289 Open house dates: Tonight, 7-10 p.m.; Saturday, April 25, 11 a.m-6 p.m; Friday, May 29, 7-10 p.m.; Saturday, May 30, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Other hours by appointment. Runs through: June 13 Artist’s site: http://www.adolfogustavomartinez.com Gallery site: [...]
Skin, Deep: Teri Frame at Urban Culture Project Space
Teri Frame Beautymarks Noon-5 p.m. Urban Culture Project Space 21 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours: Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays, 6-9 p.m. on Third Fridays Runs through: June 4 Artist’s site: http://www.teriframe.com Gallery site: http://www.charlottestreet.org Teri Frame’s show at the Urban Culture Project Space is divided into two segments, each of them both [...]
Will Work for Progress: Justin Farkas at Paragraph Gallery
Justin Farkas Work in Progress (Part of Eyes of the World group show) Noon-5 p.m. Paragraph Gallery 23 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays Runs through: April 4 Gallery Site: http://www.charlottestreet.org By show of hands: How many of you ever blew off a project until the last minute, then [...]
Whirled Records: Beniah Leuschke at the Nerman Museum for Contemporary Art
Beniah Leuschke Charlotte Street Foundation Fellows (Group Show) Noon-5 p.m. Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art Johnson County Community College 12345 College Blvd. Overland Park, KS 913.469.3000 Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Artist’s site: http://www.beniahleuschke.com Gallery site: http;//www.nermanmuseum.org Whatever Beniah Leuschke’s muse is serving, pour me a [...]
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