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COMMUNITY-STUDIO INTEGRATION

Hugh Merrill’s 40 years of art-making have left impressions on communities he has worked with in doing so. “What began as a visual interest in spaces informed by architectural surroundings has moved full circle to involving much broader segments of the arts and local communities, including their architectural landmarks. The relationship between origin and fruition is extremely close in this work.”

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 world am I?”