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 ...
This exhibition focuses on recent ceramic still-life tableaus by New York City-based artist Christopher Russell. Russell is known for his intricate and realistic depictions of the natural world, including plants, bees and birds, along with fragments of their natural habitats—honeycomb hives and leafy branches. The artist employs hand-built, white terra cotta with a monochromatic yellow-ochre ...
Daum Museum’s permanent collection of 160 contemporary ceramics offers a survey of work by many of the best-known American practitioners of the last 50 years (although most examples date from the 1990s forward). The collection focuses on large-scale sculptural forms that are primarily medium driven, although there is a fair representation of artists interested in ...
After the Golden Age is an installation of allegorical ceramic still lifes inspired by both vanitas motifs and luxury objects from the 16th and 17th centuries. Russell's tableaus explore the notions of artifice and material value, a study that is enhanced by the artist's keen attention to verisimilitude. Birds of prey hunt among objets de ...
Christopher Russell will lead a gallery talk at 3 p.m., Saturday, March 19, in the Scott Gallery, at Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. Following the talk, there will be a reception and Mr. Russell will be available to sign the exhibition catalog, available at the museum desk.
The annual student exhibition, a State Fair Community College tradition dating back to the late 1960s, is open to all students currently taking studio art classes at the college. Interested student-artists collaborate with art department faculty to select work that best represents them. Each year, some 50 students exhibit close to 100 artworks in a ...
