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Commandments to Self: Adriane Herman
Adriane Herman’s “Pick Me Up (a few things) explores the worlds of memory, listmaking, everyday activity … and the human propensity to break its own “Commandments to Self.”
GHOST-LIKE INTRIGUE IN DESIGN
Patterned-based images created through layering convey the idea of histories, layers of lives making their marks on building structures — marks that fade over time. These works form part of j.m.rees’s solo exhibition, which includes a large central sculpture and one digital media work, on view at the Epsten Gallery through June 27. Join the artist for a talk June 23 at 3 p.m. or on closing day for a visit.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Larry Thomas
Thomas, an instructor and chairman of the art department at Johnson County Community College, achieves his desired effect through a combination of painting, printing and collage. The final result (see “Under Cover,” today’s featured image) is hardly what leaps to mind as an example of camouflage: It’s intricate and it conceals, yes, but it’s also eye-grabbingly bright and bold.
BEYOND THE CAMOUFLAGE
What are the devices we use to survive? When confronted by danger, our options of “fight-or-flight” are not the only means of coping: Larry Thomas’s new paintings, which themselves are made through a layered process that reveals and hides images in their surroundings, show that staying still and blending in is only one way camouflage works. It can also be dynamic.
ABSURD LINKS TO PEOPLE
Mark Cowardin says he sees these nine sculptures as a reminder of the link between man and nature — they are absurd links to people, made of machined surfaces and making direct reference to industry.
Art is Where the Home is(n't): Mark Cowardin at Epsten Gallery
Cowardin’s work at the Epsten more than hints at the disconnect between humans and the natural world. GAS-O-LINE, the wooden sculpture pictured atop this post, might seem absurd at first. Who puts gas in wooden containers, after all? But the piece also has serious points to make about overconsumption of trees and fossil fuels — ways in which humanity burns down its own house, so to speak.
The Bone Reflector: Marcus Cain at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
Marcus Cain Soft Bones Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art 2004 Baltimore Kansas City, MO 816.221.2626 Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Runs through: Aug. 22 Gallery site: http://www.sherryleedy.com Naming your show after a debilitating medical condition seems a risky proposition. Then again, there’s more than one way to bend a tibia. As any kid with a science [...]
Doing the Jitterbug: Gerry Trilling at Epsten Gallery
Everything in Gerry Trilling’s portion of Evermore is based on the Jitterbug embroidery pattern. I wish I could show you a link, but I’ve only seen it in a book in her studio. It’s asymmetrical and borderless, and she highlights different aspects of the pattern in each piece, so the common thread — so to speak — isn’t immediately apparent.
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