Tag Archive for ‘Roeland Park’
A Living Journal: Blake Owings
Blake Owings’ body of work (which includes paintings on skateboards as well as on canvas) is raw and bold, sometimes to the point of confrontation. It’s also possessed of an underlying subtlety.
Secrets Concealed: John Tegeler
John Tegeler’s boxes are challenging (in good ways) to their creator … and to those who make use of them.
Play the Game: Kenneth Andrew
Kenneth Andrew’s sculpted creations stimulate the eye, the mind … and the muscles that control smiling.
Insectophile: Robert Melville Stone
Robert Melville Stone has taken an image from the natural world, made it his own … and created a sculpture capable of grabbing a viewer’s eye for more than one look.
A View from the Outside: Jim Needham
Jim Needham likes to paint cars: big, classic cars like the one in today’s featured piece. He also likes to paint women: women with big smiles and big curves. So he does. Lots of both.
Naked Truth: E. Spencer Schubert
E. Spencer Schubert’s “Wishing #5″ is full of empathetic understanding and a deep sense of authenticity of feeling.
Passing on the Power: Jakki Cafarelli
Jakki Cafarelli creates depictions of fanciful creatures out of folklore, fairy tale, science fiction … and science textbook.
Posterrific: Luke Rocha
Nothing about Luke Rocha’s site-specific poster exhibition screams “ART SHOW HERE!” … and isn’t that the ultimate proof of art fitting seamlessly into its surroundings?
Edgy Elegance: Elizabeth Post
Post favors images of brick buildings (often in the West Bottoms) and bridges; the timeless appeal is obvious, while the edge comes from the grafitti marking many of the surfaces — a sort of tattooing of the brick, if you will.
Goddess in the Median: Angelica Sandoval
Sandoval’s work is not from the realm of esoterica but from that of, “Come on, you should know this.” At the same time, it is neither rip-off nor rehash.
Memor Matris : Reda Carr
Carr’s work, which stands in the median of Roe Boulevard just south of Interstate 35, is both severe and haunting. It was born of the sculptor’s own grief, but should hold personal resonance for anyone who has ever lost a protector, mentor and anchor.
Painted Playgrounds for the Mind: David Newsome
Newsome’s approach to his art involves a good deal of thought, planning and conceptualizing … and it shows. Hiwork is lively, engaging and, as he intends, full of implied motion.
(ARTKC365) Reworking Man: Ben Hawkins
Stylistically, Hawkins’ work is straight out of the mid-20th century … not only the era of advertising clip art and Tex Avery cartoons (echoes of both show up in his pieces), but also the time when many of his salvaged objects first came into being. These pieces don’t just recall vintage items … they are vintage items.
(ARTKC365) Young Man with a Brush: Tommy Creach
Tommy Creach is a junior at Shawnee Mission North High School, making him one of the youngest artists ever featured here. But Creach, whose show of paintings and drawings opens tonight at OneVillage a Community Church in Roeland Park, has already figured out that art doesn’t have to be self-referential to be deeply personal.
(ARTKC365) Into the Woodwork: Todd Baker
Both sculptures, part of the current season of Art in R Park, represent significant departures from Baker’s previous large-scale work. That centered on Easter Island-style heads, which Baker produced by taking chainsaws to tree trunks salvaged from his tree service business.
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