Tag Archive for ‘Plenum Art Space’
Pixels and Ciphers: Matthew Huff
Huff has come up with an intriguing premise — blowing up cell phone photos and combining them with a graffiti-inspired code of his own divising — and made it work on both the visual and conceptual fronts.
Painting a Mystery : Jeanette Powers
Powers’ work is intense without bludgeoning, personal without bleeding all over the canvas and possessed of just enough mystery to make it intriguing rather than frustrating.
Pop Life: Tiffany Sappenfield
It’s clear that the self-taught Sappenfield has her Pop Art shoes laced up tight … and they look good on her.
A Fond Farewell: Hannah the Mott
Hannah Mott’s first solo show in Kansas City is also her last. It’s a bittersweet goodbye, offering a chance to meet the artist and see her work … creations and a creator who will be missed when she leaves for graduate school.
Rise of the Urborgs: Matt Kuhlman
Kuhlman creates his urban organisms out of photographs of building, placing them on penciled-in backgrounds. In several cases, the life in his work has progressed well beyond the single-celled.
Gritty Vulnerability: Drew Orrin-Brown
“Against the People.” Title notwithstanding, this exhibition seems more an argument for people … for the real people, presented as they are, in Orrin-Brown’s photographs. There’s a gritty vulnerability to her work, a feeling that her models are somehow simultaneously out of place and utterly at home in their falling-down surroundings.
Junkyard Love: Aaron Dougherty
On the surface, Dougherty’s interest in utilitarian steel and cinder block buildings, rusting fences and — let’s be blunt here — junk might seem more than a bit out of character. Obviously, it’s not … and that’s a good thing.
(ARTKC365) That which was, is; Those who were, are: Jason Sierra
Sierra’s predominant images are of the tiny casitas that are home to so many residents of Mexican border cities (Sierra grew up in El Paso and frequently crossed back and forth). He also makes reference to a Mexican holiday which, like the Celtic-rooted Hallowe’en, is less Christian than Christianized: “El Dia de los Muertos,” the Day of the Dead.
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