Tag Archive for ‘Kansas City’
A “FAIR” REPORT
Bigger is not always better, and “Artropolis” in Chicago earlier this month provided some proof that the Midwest is an art frontier with a rising profile on the national and international scene. Kansas City artists, galleries, and curators featured there included Cara and Cabezas Contemporary, Jan Schall, Barry Anderson, and Andrzej Zielinski.
CLARITY FROM THE CHAOS
Seven alumni of the Arts Incubator’s artist residency program display sculptures, paintings, and other media in this exhibition recently held in Kansas City’s Cocoon Gallery. Though each artist displays his or her own definitive style, the exhibition as a whole is conceptual, allowing viewers to use their imaginations.
(ARTKC365) A Carefully Nurtured Love of Nature: Kevin Sink
Sink has spent a lot of time collaborating with the outside world; his photography career began when he was ten years old and wanted to augment his birdwatching activities. You could say, too, that Sink’s appreciation for nature — and for structure — goes all the way down to the microscopic level.
WINGS FROM FAITH
Amanda Marie Monson’s drawings expose her gift to shape and spawn fabulous beasts from the taxonomy of her own imagination with fine precision.
CAMOFLAGED OPERA DRAWINGS
Jackson Pollock, the Big Daddy of Abstract Expressionism, took spontaneous thoughts and feeling to a canvas, creating works of visible energy. Conversely, Kansas City artist Russell Ferguson generates electricity from drawings referencing opera and its high-season melodrama. As the title implies, this intensity and subterfuge is clearly visible in his current solo exhibition at the small gallery on Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri.
IRONIC TAKE ON EXCESS
Ricky Allman’s paintings fit nicely into the slightly cool off-white austerity of the University of Kansas Art Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas. One can also imagine them looking equally at home on the walls of an Industrial Lights and Magic-designed 23rd-century outer space fortress heavily inspired by the Doge’s Palace in Venice, Italy.
MOVIE SEEK AND FIND
A review of Amanda Smith’s Threshold Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Kansas City, Missouri September 5 – 30, 2008 by Steve Brisendine Looking at the paintings in Amanda Smith’s Threshold is a bit like trying to get one’s bearings in a dream. There is a simultaneous sense of “I know this place” and “Okay, where in the [...]
BODY IS THE TEXT
A review of Carlyle Raine’s Landscape of the Figure Pi Art Gallery Kansas City, Missouri October 3 – 25, 2008 by John Hastings Carlyle Raine’s new work is a heady triangulation of paintings, small landscapes, and ab-ex collage charting the nomadic abjectivity of the body. Raine reaffirms and valorizes the primacy of the human figure [...]
PAINTING: BREATHING
An Architect Finds Creative Renewal in Art Line is a key quality in any work of art. Drawn or implied sight directors play off of each other, create space, and define forms to present balance and add movement to a composition. Pure lines, sections of theoretical points aiming infinitely in a single direction, can stand [...]
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