Tag Archive for ‘Downtown’
Humanity Revealed: J.T. Daniels
J.T. Daniels mixes more conventional media with everything from spray paint to house paint to colored pencil in his portraits, giving them a fresh, contemporary street-art feeling — while also hearkening back to the Regionalist school of the 20th century in Daniels’ straightforward depictions of his subjects’ humanity.
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.
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.
Entropy meets Enterprise: Chad Cogdill
Whether he’s juxtaposing past and present or shooting a close-up of a sound board or store window, Chad Cogdill works with a keen eye toward color, line and composition.
It Depends What “Mean” Means: Kenneth M. Morton
Whatever its underlying meaning, and in any language, Kenneth M. Morton’s show is both haunting and compelling.
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.
A Thing for Feet : Eric J. Persson
Eric J. Persson excecutes his “foot portraits” with bold brushstrokes, a clear affection for his subject matter and a vision of depicting personality rather than one of fetishistic depersonalization.
Stitched Symbolism: Kim Eichler-Messmer
A significant number of quilts hover on the border between abstraction and symbol, their construction giving them the feel of religious art. Some suggest liturgical banners, with the circles becoming halos and the diagonal lines the outlines of robes or angelic wings, while others evoke various cultures’ ritual depictions of the rayed sun.
Meticulous: Cory Imig
Artists often get stereotyped as an intuitive lot, adding or subtracting from their works based on gut feelings. Not so with Cory Imig. She plans her works and works her plans … and while every work begins with a spark of creativity, the process always takes over.
Menacing Protection: Joel Sager
But where there is protection, there’s also separation. And as any viewer of suspense cinema knows, there are few things holding quite so much promise of Bad Stuff About to Happen.
A Chilled Garden of Verse: Clare Doveton
… the land lies wind-whipped, Winter-dusted, stark, cold, serene, dead still …
Junkyard Love: Aaron Dougherty
On the surface, Dougherty’s interest in utilitarian steel and cinder block buildings, rusting fences and — let’s be blunt here — junk might seem more than a bit out of character. Obviously, it’s not … and that’s a good thing.
(ARTKC365) City of Love: Kristopher Saim
“Kansas City: My Life and Love” isn’t just a collection of images, hung on a wall in a real estate office-turned-artspace. It’s a roomful of ardent postcards to Saim’s adopted home, featuring such iconic images as the Western Auto Building, the Downtown skyline and the Country Club Plaza.
The Time of Spans: William Lobdell at H&R Block World Headquarters
William Lobdell Confluence 8 a.m.-7 p.m. H&R Block 1 H&R Block Way (13th and Main) Kansas City, MO 816.854.3000 Hours: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Friday Runs through: Permanent installation. Artist’s site: http://www.williamlobdellartsite.com Gallery site: http://www.hrblock.com Do not adjust your computer. There is nothing wrong with this post. There’s no art at the top, true. It’s been [...]
The Good News in the Bad News: Angela Lopez at Urban Culture Project Space
Angela Lopez On the Up Side 6-9 p.m. (Third Friday Opening) Urban Culture Project Space 21 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours after Third Friday: Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays Runs through: Feb. 12 Gallery site: http://www.urbancultureproject.org Let’s see: There’s a war on. The outgoing occupant of the White House has an awful approval [...]
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