Tag Archive for ‘Text’
Commandments to Self: Adriane Herman
Adriane Herman’s “Pick Me Up (a few things) explores the worlds of memory, listmaking, everyday activity … and the human propensity to break its own “Commandments to Self.”
Open Eyes, Engage Brain: Doug Schwietert
Doug Schwietert’s blends of text and imagery are engaging to the brain … and often to the heart as well.
Expressions of Faith: Faith Bilyeu
Faith Bilyeu incorporates text into her work — sometimes as punctuation, sometimes as exhortation, sometimes as heartfelt praise, and always as a key visual element.
Thoughts on Thought: Amanda Turnbull
Largely bypassing organic factors in human behavior and perception, the provinces of neurology and psychiatry, Turnbull (who does touch on the physical effects of laughter in one piece) concentrates on the conceptual: Ideas, memory, personality and the like.
Like the Skin of the Earth was Stretching or the Continents were Adrift : Garry Noland
So where do all of Noland’s maps lead? That’s up to the viewer. Few, if any, will interpret Noland’s language in exactly the same way, meaning most are likely to wind up at different destinations … but one of the great joys of travel is not in the arriving, but in the going-to.
Greeting Each Day with Fun: Karen Kay
This being a brand new day, Kay will have yet another creative project in the works … and another tomorrow, and one the day after that, and so on. But if the works in this show are any indication, she will continue to meet that challenge with a few well-chosen words and a smile.
(ARTKC365) She’s Got a Not-So-Little List: Lisa Lala
Lisa Lala’s paintings are the clear stars of “Lists,” her current show at Blue Gallery. That’s as it should be; her work is bold, thought-provoking and utterly her own in style. But if you were to make a list of the number of people involved in the exhibition, you’d be writing for a while.
(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.
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 [...]
Wordplay in Wax: Daniella Woolf at Blue Gallery
Daniela Woolf Away with Words 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Blue Gallery 118 Southwest Boulevard Kansas City, MO 816.527.0823 Hours: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Runs through: June 23. Artist’s site: http://www.daniellawoolf.com Gallery site: http://www.bluegalleryonline.com The title of Daniella Woolf’s show at Blue Gallery appears, at first read, to be more than a little misleading. First read of [...]
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