Tag Archive for ‘Light’
Museum Augmented: Rachel Hayes
The massive pair of panels at the heart of Rachel Hayes’ “All Most All Ways” grabs attention both for what they are and by what they do.
Simple, Never Plain: Krystal Anton
Krystal Anton creates both geometric and representational works which reward multiple changes in a viewer’s perspective.
A Good Day for Illumination : Richard Heinze
Whether his subject is nature or the structures of Kansas City, Heinze is adept at capturing light both direct and reflected, bright and fading, natural and created.
Light Show: Ann Grace
Ann Grace’s work is marked by a gift for interesting blurs and angles and a knack for capturing warm light.
The Light, Fantastic : Lauren Brunk
Lauren Brunk clearly has her visual choreography down, her well-placed white space giving the effect of light reflecting off a curved surface. That, combined with her eye for (and skill in depicting) rich detail, gives her works an almost three-dimensional quality.
Rising Action: Jorge Garcia Almodóvar
Jorge Garcia Almodóvar’s new sculpture conveys a strong sense not only of upward motion, but of contained forward motion.
Light of the Mountains: Michael Albrechtsen
Michael Albrechtsen’s depictions of the Mountain West are both rugged and elegant, conveying both the grace and power of the landscapes he depicts.
Petal and Blade, Leaf and Trunk: Brynn Burns
Brynn Burns invites viewers to see flowers, trees, and grasses not only as what they are, but also as collections of color and pattern and texture. Beyond that, though, she wants to provoke a response that runs deeper than the visual. Her photographs are at ARTichokes through August 8.
She Keeps ‘em Shiny Shiny: Sandra Schaffer
Schaffer isn’t content to settle for a single layer of reflection, however. The mirror-like surfaces of her painted automobiles often reflect (What else?) other cars.
Fragmentary Views: James Woodfill
Woodfill has created a significant, challenging and rewarding installation, one worth repeated visits if you can manage them — or at the very least, an extended single viewing.
Light Furnishings: Kale Van Leeuwen
The paintings in “Chairs” are, as with Van Leeuwen’s previous mixed-media pieces, uniformly slick, sleek and polished … the sort of thing Edward Hopper might have produced had he used furniture instead of faces as his props.
Sarah Considered: R. Scott Anderson
If there’s such a thing as a common fiber within a common thread, so to speak, it’s that the most powerful works in “All Things Sarah” match dramatic, insistent incidental light with subtle, unforced poses and motions. Those photographs unfold slowly, inviting repeated viewings.
A Love Story in Full Color: Lisa Cowan
Her paintings can be as light as the joy of licking the beater or as weighty as iron or a bull bison, weightless as a sunbeam or heavy as stone and history.
(ARTKC365) The Light of Her (Still) Life: Valda Robison
The attraction of the still life is twofold: the play of illumination on the objects being painted, and the elevation of the seemingly mundane to the realm of that which merits long viewing and invites contemplation. Robison clearly understands (and, more than that, embraces) both aspects.
(ARTKC365) Light Mettle: Lanna Gaines
Gaines, who shares the show with her husband, Robert, favors images of nature — oil landscapes and drawings of birds, like the “Purple Wren with Seed” pictured above. Her landscapes are suffused with light (n). Her fine, deft drawing technique gives volume to the birds’ feathers, making the creatures seem so light (adj.) that one can picture them perching on a finger and then taking flight.
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