Tag Archive for ‘Westport’
Travelin’ Man(nequin): Emily Morris
Emily Morris has taken what might have been a light, whimsical show and given it both shadows and weight.
Meditations and Explorations: Terri Rogers
Terri Rogers’ fiber art is entering, yet encouraging growth and external exploration.
Strangely Familiar: Michael Wade
Michael Wade’s subjects and locations take on an odd significance, a sense of “This is where it happened.”
The Permanence of Change: Eli Temchin
While there’s a meditative, present quality to Eli Temchin’s images, his approach also prompts viewers to imagine changes themselves.
Cities of Color: Denise DiPiazzo
Denise DiPiazzo’s colorful work bears evidence of meticulous planning , of being laid out on its white background as carefully as an urban planner would render a proposed development.
Energy Work (and Play): Eva Wojcik
Eva Wojcik’s pen-and-ink drawings are both dynamic and tranquil, each with an organic rhythm and interplay of visual elements.
Multiple Views through One Pair of Eyes: Darrin D. Dressler
There are two basic strains of nature photography: One which attempts to convey a sense of place and time, and one which makes those things secondary. Darrin D. Dressler’s is of the latter sort, although he doesn’t disregard season and geography entirely.
A Good Day for Illumination : Richard Heinze
Whether his subject is nature or the structures of Kansas City, Heinze is adept at capturing light both direct and reflected, bright and fading, natural and created.
Through the Brush of a Child: Marissa Hitt
Marissa Hitt’s adoptive parents have encouraged her, but never pushed her, to explore her Chinese heritage through art … and that shows in her work. It’s simple — and yes, childlike in the sense of being filled with wonder — but also possessed of thoughtful intent and a certain raw elegance.
Reconsider This: Joanne Schiller
In Schiller’s canvases, revolutionaries and proletarians, the intelligentsia and the bourgeoisie (all like as not to be painted in unnatural hues) find themselves in the same space as animals, scenes of destruction and scathing snippets of text. Is it protest art, a fist in the face of Big Business as usual and the advertising machine? Or is it a heaping helping of observational commentary, served up on dark wry?
Home on the Strange: Greg Daiker
Walls meet, roofs lean and windows and doors open at odd angles. Paths to those doors widen, rather than appearing to narrow, as they near the horizon. Think Mid-Century Modern architecture, shot through a Dadaist prism, with bright (and mismatched) paint schemes which alternately embrace and flout conventional color theory.
Taking the Wide View : Jim Mathis
Most of Mathis’ pictures are of locations familiar to Kansas City area residents: Westport, the Country Club Plaza, Union Station (the subject of today’s featured shot). The wide angle, though, provides a vista that’s closer to real life than the “cut-out” view afforded by conventional photography.
(ARTKC365) Big Ideas Writ Small: Michael Smith
When Smith, a senior at the Kansas City Art Institute, created the drawings that form the bulk of his show at Frame Gallery, he did so with a .03 mm mechanical pencil that he sharpened by rubbing the graphite against a blank note card. The result: Works of incredible complexity, detail and a neurosurgeon’s precision.
(ARTKC365) Underneath it All: Steve Rimmer
Rimmer, who is largely self-taught and didn’t take his first art class until age 50, calls his learning style a blessing and a curse … and is quick to give credit to another artist who helped him find his visual voice.
Texture in Context: eLLE at Boveri Realty Group
eLLE (Elle Eales) 6-9 p.m. (First Friday Reception) Boveri Realty Group 1819 Wyandotte Suite 200 Kansas City, MO 816.333.4545 Hours after First Friday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday Runs through: Oct. 31 Artist’s site: http://www.gallery-elle.com Gallery site: http://www.theurbanpulse.com One of the things that makes Mark Knopfler such an amazing guitarist is his ability to perfectly match [...]
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