I have spent the last couple of years trying to paint my way out of a corner. I seem to think that if I paint something I need—for instance, Freedom—paint Freedom and understand Freedom, then Freedom will become mine. Stuff like that. Sometimes I’m not so desperate, just interested—sometimes. And, of course, there is also ...
Includes work by Victor Babu, Robert Kushner, Betty Woodman, Jim Waid, and Hunt Slonem.
Analogon: A thing which is comparable with, resembles, or is equivalent to another. The artwork assembled in the lower galleries was selected and arranged to highlight analogous traits shared among disparate objects. Although the works represent varied aesthetic and conceptual points of view, there exist between them revealing affinities, echoes, and correspondences. A careful consideration ...
Includes work by Jun Kaneko, Peter Voulkos, Jim Leedy, Ken Ferguson, and Robert Sperry.
Cork Marcheschi is internationally known for his architecturally-scaled public light sculptures that feature soaring modernist forms and jewel-box colors. His earliest experiments with light-art, however, beginning in 1966, were more direct explorations of the intersection of art and electricity. Marcheschi combined his passion for avant-garde electronic music with an interest in the work of the ...
Kindred Virtuosities is an exhibition of diverse artworks by three artists whose studios are located in Kansas City—Miki Baird, Garry Noland, and Susan White. Although clearly individual, the exhibits by this group of three share a number of characteristics that mark them as compatible and complementary explorations. Among their common strategies is the embrace of ...
Miki Baird alternates between meticulously designed photographic assemblages of thousands of images and enormous accumulations of shredded junk mail, collected from the mailbox of one address. Both of her endeavors engage everyday phenomena by weaving together the designs and repetitions inherent in the quotidian. Kindred Virtuosities is an exhibition of diverse artworks by three artists ...
Garry Noland forges links between pattern, process, and transformation. His large-scale duct-tape collages engage the vocabulary of vintage domesticity—peeling layers of aged wallpaper or linoleum flooring or the controlled randomness of a crazy quilt. This embrace of the abject and found object continues in his series of Failed Monuments, where large nuggets of reclaimed dock ...
Susan White is engaged primarily with pyrography and “thorn works”—three-dimensional assemblages made from the thorns of the honey locust tree. Her pyrographs, large drawings on thick rag paper, are made with the use of a burning tool with which White creates drifting galaxies of many small marks that become poetic evocations of constellations of cells ...
