Tag Archive for ‘Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art’
No Beige Here: Kent Michael Smith
Kent Michael Smith might be a self-described introvert, but his split-level constructions are not designed to blend into anyone’s beige subdivision.
It’s a Noble Gas, Gas, Gas: Willem Volkersz
Willem Volkersz blurs the lines between painting, sculpture, installation and collage in the same way that mid-20th century roadside culture blurred the lines between sculpture, advertising, architecture, kitsch and folk/outsider art.
New Age of Opulence : George Timock
Timock’s works fairly cry out for high ceilings, gilded woodwork and crystal chandeliers, for the sound of string quartets and carriage wheels and whispered palace intrigues. That said, they are perfectly lovely in their present surroundings.
The Building Blocks of Creativity : Cary Esser
It isn’t just the solidity of Esser’s pieces that gives them such a tactile quality. It’s the way in which they resemble puzzles, or construction blocks … or, perhaps, a combination of both.
POPULAR CULTURE PIECES TRANSFORMED
Placed in the same set of rooms, the latest work of Tom Huck and Jesse Small at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art are successful depictions of their generation’s concerns and touch deep cultural nerves, especially for those of a similar age-group. Both sets of work hold up under close inspection, offering the viewer intricate and symbolic details — political commentary and formal perfection.
Switching the Price Tags: Misty Gamble
The visual moments in this show all come from a previous generation. Gamble’s ceramic figures (including :”Chanel No. 5,” pictured above in detail) and hand-cast high-heeled pumps are all frozen in the mid-20th century. Hairstyles, color schemes, clothing … it’s all so very Camelot.
(ARTKC365) Piecework Memories : Tanya Hartman
Hartman’s chosen materials, media and techniques influence more than the purely visual parts of her art. They also reinforce the idea of life — and of the memories created over a lifetime —as fragile and alterable, things to be constructed and assembled bit by bit.
Sky Hooks: Jeff Aeling at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
Jeff Aeling Looking West 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art 2004 Baltimore Kansas City, MO 816.221.2626 Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Runs through: Jan. 2, 2010 Gallery site: http://www.sherryleedy.com Someone once told me that this part of the world “gives great sky”. The assessment was spot-on. From blazing sunsets, full of harvest dust, to [...]
Smaller and Stronger: Jun Kaneko at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
Jun Kaneko New Works 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art 2004 Baltimore Kansas City, MO 816.221.2626 Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Runs through: Aug. 22 Artist’s site: http://www.junkaneko.com Gallery site: http://www.sherryleedy.com Early into my lone formal foray into art history, my instructor said something quite interesting: When a culture begins to die, its art [...]
Nothing Gold(en) Can Stay: Michael Brisson at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
Michael Brisson Paradise Found 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art 2004 Baltimore Kansas City, MO 816.221.2626 Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Runs through: Aug. 22 Gallery site: http://www.sherryleedy.com The Garden of Eden. The Golden Age. The Krita Yuga. The idea of a long-distant Utopian past is worldwide, a harmonic half-memory spanning faiths and cultures. (It also [...]
Winning the Pack Rat Race: Jerry Kunkel at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
Jerry Kunkel Unpacked 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art 2004 Baltimore Kansas City, MO 816.221.2626 Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Runs through: Aug. 22 Gallery site: http://www.sherryleedy.com Jerry Kunkel is a collector of … well, stuff. All kinds of stuff: dartboards, vases, clutch purses, toys, pop-culture icons. Kitsch, to some. To Kunkel, it’s fuel [...]
The Bone Reflector: Marcus Cain at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
Marcus Cain Soft Bones Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art 2004 Baltimore Kansas City, MO 816.221.2626 Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Runs through: Aug. 22 Gallery site: http://www.sherryleedy.com Naming your show after a debilitating medical condition seems a risky proposition. Then again, there’s more than one way to bend a tibia. As any kid with a science [...]
Cool Quilts for a Warm Day: Bean Gilsdorf at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
Bean Gilsdorf Like Magic 4-7 p.m. (Special Surface Design Association conference hours) Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art 2004 Baltimore Kansas City, MO 816.221.2626 Regular hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Runs through: June 27 Artist’s site: http://www.beangilsdorf.com Gallery site: http://www.sherryleedy.com One of the rules of ARTKC365 is that an artist has to have significant ties to the [...]
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