Tag Archive for ‘Urban Culture Project’
THE PACHAMAMA KNOWS THE WAY
Maria Calderon, the cartographer of her own pueblita, has offered her viewers guidance through her enlarged or altered perception of Kansas City that blends contemporary local culture with Peruvian folk traditions using a variety of mediums and installation techniques. “Kansa Citta Pueblita” is on display at Urban Culture Project Space through November 6.
Scenes Real and Imagined: Judith G. Levy
Levy has cannibalized, digitized and recombined the real to create the fanciful, using images from real vintage postcards to create places that both exist and don’t, times and spaces both actual and imagined. And, in the process, she has opened the doors to all manner of dialogues about race, economy, history and culture.
LONELINESS, ONLY DE-FACTO ISOLATION?
Community turns up in unexpected places — perhaps not in the mobile, middle-class realm of mostly-young artists, but “Community + Loneliness” is well juxtaposed by the exhibition next door: “Troost, Troost, Troost: Student Work Exploring Realities, Possibilities, and Fantasies on Troost Avenue,” also presumably by the upcoming generation. Both work to demonstrate the idea of community as not only a collection of people who happen to live near one another, but of intentionally networked individuals who care and who understand that there is not just one culture at work in the United States.
Big Shots of the Big Apple: Jon Bidwell at Room 39
Jon Bidwell an exhibition of urban photography 7 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5:30-1 a.m. (Opening reception 10 p.m.-1 a.m.) Room 39 1719 W. 39th St. Kansas City, MO 816.753.3939 Hours: 7 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5:30-10 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Saturday, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5:30-midnight Thursday-Friday. Runs through: Artist’s site: http://www.jonbidwell.com Gallery Site: http://www.rm39.com Jon Bidwell covers [...]
Under the Tree of Knowledge: Ke-Sook Lee at Paragraph Gallery
Ke-Sook Lee Happy Tree Friends II (Group Show) Noon-5 p.m. Paragraph Gallery 23 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays Runs through: June 4 Artist’s site: http://www.ke-sooklee.com Gallery Site: http://www.charlottestreet.org Even those of us who style ourselves open-minded and culturally sensitive can’t help but see things through the prisms of [...]
Roots Unbound : B.J. Vogt at Paragraph Gallery
B.J. Vogt Root (Part of Happy Tree Friends II Group Show) Noon-5 p.m. Paragraph Gallery 23 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays Runs through: June 4 Artist’s site: http://bjvogt.blogspot.com Gallery Site: http://www.charlottestreet.org Tell someone to draw a tree, and chances are you’ll get only a partial picture. People tend [...]
Stored in the Rings: Sarah Vandersall at Paragraph Gallery
Sarah Vandersall Finite Radius: Our Ra Half-Life 1600 Tree Recorder (Part of Happy Tree Friends II Group Show) Noon-5 p.m. Paragraph Gallery 23 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays Runs through: June 4 Gallery Site: http://www.charlottestreet.org For anyone who knows how to interpret them, a tree’s rings are its [...]
Shots in the E-Dark: Paul Shortt at Urban Culture Project Space
Paul Shortt Missed Connections: Kansas City 6-9 p.m. Urban Culture Project Space 21 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours: Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays, 6-9 p.m. on Third Fridays Runs through: June 4 Artist’s site: http://www.paulshortt.com Gallery site: http://www.charlottestreet.org Here’s the scenario: You’re out somewhere: the supermarket, the gym … maybe even an art [...]
Skin, Deep: Teri Frame at Urban Culture Project Space
Teri Frame Beautymarks Noon-5 p.m. Urban Culture Project Space 21 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours: Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays, 6-9 p.m. on Third Fridays Runs through: June 4 Artist’s site: http://www.teriframe.com Gallery site: http://www.charlottestreet.org Teri Frame’s show at the Urban Culture Project Space is divided into two segments, each of them both [...]
Will Work for Progress: Justin Farkas at Paragraph Gallery
Justin Farkas Work in Progress (Part of Eyes of the World group show) Noon-5 p.m. Paragraph Gallery 23 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays Runs through: April 4 Gallery Site: http://www.charlottestreet.org By show of hands: How many of you ever blew off a project until the last minute, then [...]
Atlas Snoozed: Allan Winkler at Urban Culture Project Space
Allan Winkler The Earth Sleeps (Part of Eyes of the World group exhibition) Noon-5 p.m. Urban Culture Project Space 21 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours: Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays, 6-9 p.m. on Third Fridays Runs through: April 4 Artist’s site: http://www.winklerart.com Gallery site: http://www.charlottestreet.org For thousands of years, humans have looked up [...]
Rough Piece, Its Hour Come Round at Last: Rachelle Gardner at Paragraph Gallery
Rachelle Gardner False Idols (Part of Eyes of the World group show) 6-9 p.m. Paragraph Gallery/Urban Culture Project Space 21-23 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours after Third Friday: Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays Runs through: April 4 Artist’s site: http://www.rmgardner.com Gallery site: http://www.urbancultureproject.org All good artists take pains with their work. Rachelle [...]
The Good News in the Bad News: Angela Lopez at Urban Culture Project Space
Angela Lopez On the Up Side 6-9 p.m. (Third Friday Opening) Urban Culture Project Space 21 E. 12th Kansas City, MO 816.221.5115 Hours after Third Friday: Noon-5 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays Runs through: Feb. 12 Gallery site: http://www.urbancultureproject.org Let’s see: There’s a war on. The outgoing occupant of the White House has an awful approval [...]
THIRD FRIDAY
Third Friday visual arts events, openings, and receptions This weekend, Kansas City, Missouri, hosts both the Plaza Art Fair and its alternative, the Un-Plaza Art Fair, but it also starts with a “third Friday” and plenty of non-fair contemporary visual art opportunities: The Dolphin’s new location is having its first exhibition, the Leopold hosts a [...]
ONE-TIME PERFORMANCE OF THE NEAR-FAR
Fourteen artists from 12 cities present collaboration born through e-mail How well can you know someone you’ve never met in person? Internet dating services have brought that question to popular culture, and it’s becoming common for musicians to use e-mail and sites like eJamming to share music without driving or sending tracks through the mail. [...]
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