Tag Archive for ‘Spencer Museum of Art’
LOST IN THE FIRE
July 29 is Final Friday art walk in Lawrence, Kansas, and Darin M. White brings on a preview of what to expect, along with highlights from June’s Final Friday. It has been hot outside seemingly forever, and thankfully, some June exhibitions are still on view, in case you melted out early last month.
THE SPENCER’S CLAIRVOYANT
Director of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Saralyn Reece Hardy has worked for the past five years to expand the museum’s reach and influence on regional, national, and international levels. She talks about community involvement and what’s ahead for the museum in 2011.
YOU’LL LAUGH UNTIL YOU FROWN
Humor lightens the serious nature of Dan Perjovschi’s artwork. Through the vocabulary of cartoons, the Romanian artist addresses subjects such as war, racism, government surveillance, and oil spills. His drawings and phrases are direct and approachable, presenting an often unsmiling reality veiled in a joking tone. See this site-specific installation in person before February 6, before it is painted over at the Spencer Museum of Art.
SPELLING OUT A LANDSCAPE
Some qualities in Kim Jongku’s “Mobile Landscape” at the Spencer Museum of Art compare to applying tone to a drawing page with vine charcoal dust or to child’s play in a sandbox. What fascinates is that the relief of the calligraphy also forms the hills of the fabricated landscape seen in the projection — and beyond what appears to be a rendition of a vast landscape are the moving feet of present gallery goers standing in the Electronic Media Gallery — in the same projected image.
AN INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE
Kim Jongku, of Seoul, South Korea, became the latest international artist-in-residence at the University of Kansas’ Spencer Museum of Art, which is making an effort to increase partnerships with artists. His installation will be on view at the museum through June 25, 2010.
Of College, Art and Science: Terry Evans at Spencer Museum of Art
Terry Evans A Greenland Glacier: The Scale of Climate Change Noon-4 p.m. Spencer Museum of Art University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 785.864.4710 Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m Friday-Saturday, noon-4 p.m. Sunday Runs through: Fall 2009 Artist’s site: http://www.terryevansphotography.com Gallery site: http://www.spencerart.ku.edu It’s been said that those wishing to [...]
BRANCHING OUT
A tree is a forked system: borne from a single trunk, its branches and twigs can extend in all directions, far from the root of its origins. The exhibition currently on view in the central court at the Spencer Museum of Art plays with this concept of growth systems in alternately scientific, profound, and humorous ways. Taking as its common beginning the form of the tree, the works in the show explore themes extending to the outer reaches of natural beauty and human knowledge.
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