Tag Archive for ‘Kansas City Art Institute’
The Basketball Tapes: Sean Thomas Blott
Sean Thomas Blott’s basketball drawings reflect his struggle to refine his influences and combine them with his own vision. They don’t look unified; in this, he succeeds in conveying the difficulty of finding one’s own way.
Tugging at the Strings:Yaina Kulp
Yaina Kulp’s work, while beautiful, contains a strong undercurrent of haunting (or, perhaps, haunted) introspection.
Intricate by Any Name: Murf
Murf’s acrylic paintings, currently on display at Next Space Gallery in the East Crossroads, are accessible without giving everything away in one quick viewing
In Visible Ink: Alicia (Tweetie) Foster
Foster has a gift for using light and dark to showcase her subjects’ “canvases”, and the tattoo artists’ work upon them, to best effect.
The Other Sides of the World: Lydia Katharine Boehr
Lydia K. Boehr’s “Trip” deals with the blend of familiarity and unfamiliarity that comes from spending time abroad in a culture which shares our language but not our customs.
FORTY YEARS UP
KCAI printmaking professor Hugh Merrill is celebrating a four-decade career with a new book, “Divergent Consistencies.” A release and signing party is April 21, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center. Janell Meador gives us an outline of Merrill’s motivations and trajectory, complete with a video interview produced by Ben Meade, in this profile of a diverse and dedicated artist who believes in not remaining a passive creator.
Digging for Gold: CJ Schrat
CJ Schrat’s gilded human figures, their faces turned away, hint not only at the power gold can hold over any of us but of the torments the pursuit of it — whether literal or otherwise — can inflict.
Being and Becoming: Daniel Reneau
Daniel Reneau’s “To Be An” combines installation, sculpture and paintings into a colorful, eye-catching exploration of creativity and the ongoing creation of identity.
Red/Blue Resolution: Nathan Mabry
Nathan Mabry makes a point that what we think we see, or know, isn’t always the truth.
Simple Portraits of a Complex Star: Clinton Ricketts
Clinton Ricketts’ drawings of the late Dennis Hopper are fitting tributes to their complex subject. They’re possessed of the same taut, edgy grace, the same barely controlled and clearly dangerous energy, that made Hopper a pop/countercultural icon.
It’s a Noble Gas, Gas, Gas: Willem Volkersz
Willem Volkersz blurs the lines between painting, sculpture, installation and collage in the same way that mid-20th century roadside culture blurred the lines between sculpture, advertising, architecture, kitsch and folk/outsider art.
Shapes, Structures and Shadows: Justin Teel
Justin Teel has an eye for structure not “beautiful” structure in the conventional sense, perhaps, but eye-catchingly angled, shadowed and arranged.
Interrupting Brightly: Miles Neidinger
Miles Neidinger has created a three-in-one structure in which each appendage has its own character but also merges with the others into a cohesive and satisfying whole which rewards repeated viewings from different angles.
Serious Fun: Meredith Host
Meredith Host’s ceramic artwork displays the subtle but unmistakable influence of classic animation from the mid-20th century, mixing whimsy with nostalgia to produce work that’s good-humord, eye-catching and completely functional.
Beautilitarian: Paul Donnelly
Donnelly’s clean-lined, carefully crafted work incorporates the visual, intellectual and emotional aspects of art … and adds to that a practicality which broadens its impact on those who go beyond viewing to becoming users of his pieces.
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