Kara Walker creates challenging artwork that confronts the legacy of slavery in American culture. Since the late 1990s, she has been creating satirically subversive renditions of the pre-Civil-War South that challenge viewers to wrestle with lingering racial and gender stereotypes, caricatures, and myths. Walker is especially renowned for her large-scale, cut-paper silhouettes and narrative tableaus. ...

Oklahoma-based artist Brandon Reese will exhibit a selection of new ceramic sculptures that well illustrate the artist’s decade-long exploration of monumental, open-worked forms. His ceramics refer to human-made, archetypal constructions: towers, shelters, and circular enclosures, among them. Reese works mostly with salt-fired stoneware, minimally colored. His practice embraces a hybrid aesthetic that makes clear connections ...

Members of the Sedalia Visual Arts Association will present “Shadows,” an artwork exhibit, from May 26 to Aug. 19 in the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art’s Goddard Gallery at State Fair Community College on the Sedalia campus. Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 1-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission ...

Blue . . . the color of harmony, spirituality, infinity, and sadness. Artists have used blue since the time of the Egyptians, when it was derived from minerals at great expense and difficulty. It is the favorite color of the half the people questioned in an international survey. In this permanent collection review, the color ...

As artist-in-residence at the 2017 Missouri State Fair, photographer Matt Rahner turned his lens not on the prize-winning livestock, baked good, or homegrown produce, but on a bumper-crop of fair attendees. Rahner states, “I am constantly seeking out found situations that possess an inherent psychological complexity.” Here he has compiled a series of candid portraits ...