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LOST IN THE FIRE
July 29 is Final Friday art walk in Lawrence, Kansas, and Darin M. White brings on a preview of what to expect, along with highlights from June’s Final Friday. It has been hot outside seemingly forever, and thankfully, some June exhibitions are still on view, in case you melted out early last month.
DESTINATION: GREECE
The large well-lit gallery of the Lawrence Arts Center became the perfect venue for a recent exceptional exhibition. In some exhibitions, paintings may relate to each other but collectively say nothing — or say the same thing over and over. This exhibition has cohesion. The paintings relate well to each other, and each one is unique. In order to pull together this incredible group of paintings, Margo Kren used two themes from her trip to Greece: Christian-inspired chapel boxes and ancient Greek mythology.
SAN ANTONIO, MEET LAWRENCE; LAWRENCE, MEET …
“The New Old San Antonio: Tales from the Little Big Town” showcases works by 33 artists who have strong ties to the city of San Antonio. They vary in theme, approach, and level of experience — but the pieces selected pieces work together as a whole. The resulting exhibition, which showed in San Antonio last month and is at the Lawrence Arts Center through June 17, is a mix of work that paints the city as a diverse and vibrant arts community.
A Reverence for Reverence: Margo Kren
Margo Kren’s show at the Lawrence Arts Center is as much an act of devotion as the structures which inspired it.
Poster Power: Patrick Giroux
Patrick Giroux favors simple color schemes and bold, blocky fonts, often mixing up typefaces and sizes, in his concert posters. Text is only half of the equation, though: The purely visual elements, many of them reminiscent of woodcuts, would stand just fine on their own merits as art prints.
Pictures from Camp: Roger Shimomura
The prints and paintings in Roger Shimomura’s “Shadows of Minidoka” are both vibrant and stark, tranquil and confrontational, heart-wrenching and inspirational.
LIFE DURING WARTIME
The latest Lawrence Report brings highlights from Final Friday’s exhibition openings in January, along with what’s been going on this month, including what not to miss for February 25th’s Final Friday art walk downtown, such as new work by Michael Krueger and Josh Adams.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF ‘CATS’
“The Cats of Mirikitani” is a humble and profound documentary by skilled story weaver Linda Hattendorf that has traveled the world earning accolades. It makes its way to local soil on February 28, with a screening at 7 p.m. at the Lawrence Arts Center, and is about the life of artist Jimmy Mirikitani. His work has been curated by Roger Shimomura and is on view at the LAC along with Shimomura’s “Shadows of Minidoka” through March 12.
PUTTING CREATIVITY FIRST
“Water, Paper, Paint” shows Lawrence-based artist Heather Smith Jones to be someone who finds joy in the act of creating things. Her new book and corresponding exhibition (on view at the Lawrence Arts Center through February 5) demonstrate that the creative process is as important as the so-called finished product; beauty can come from starting a project spontaneously.
Well-Readjusted: Rick Mitchell
Rick Mitchell’s explorations into the mysteries of digital photography have proved more than fruitful.
Invented Characters: Susan Grace
Susan Grace’s depictions of the human visage are less about personality and more about potential. Imagination, not image, is a key component.
Hard-Working and Good-Looking: Dilesh Fernando
Dilesh Fernando’s earth-toned works are as striking to look at (in a good way) as they are useful.
FACES AND PLACES DOWNTOWN LAWRENCE OCTOBER 2010
Catch up with what’s happening in the Lawrence, Kansas, art scene with Tom King and photographer Jamie Roper, who bring the latest “faces and places” Final Friday recap from October. See what you’ve been enjoying already, what you might have been missing by avoiding an easy car-ride, or what your community can hope to emulate to stimulate interest in contemporary visual art.
THE JOUVELT AFFAIR
Success in contemporary art is largely about marketing — personality, “buzz-factor,” and strategy — and one artist recently pushed the boundaries of the Lawrence, Kansas, art scene when his multi-gallery exhibition surprised curators who each thought they would be showing originals of his work exclusively. JOUVELT’s Final Friday experiment raises questions about contracts, ethics, and the options artists in today’s market have for engineering success.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FINAL FRIDAY RECAP, SEPTEMBER 2010
A Final Friday recap of some of the galleries and personalities of the Lawrence, Kansas, art community from September 24. Take another look and plan on visiting the current exhibitions — and plan on coming out on October 29, too.
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