Short Reviews
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After Fatal Shooting, First Friday is at a Crossroads
After last month’s shooting during First Friday in the Crossroads, the local Crossroads Community Association (CCA) has made changes to this month’s festivities, albeit only temporarily.
Truth In Memory – Photographs by Lauren Whitacre
Melt showcases artists working in the realm of the in-between. The in-between relies on objects and sensations to unpack our understanding of home.
The Melancholic Journey: Misha Kligman’s Toward An Unknown Sky
The paintings of Misha Kligman are informed by his response to nature, family and his immigration from Russia at age 16, however, in this sixth solo show at the Studios, Inc his past personal exploration on the ineffable qualities of place and memory are now focused on a presentiment vision of the future.
In Reflection: Lizbeth Contreras and Diana Lerma in Bricolaje
‘Yo soy Mexicana y soy Americana. Pero soy, ninguno de los dos,’ Diana Lerma speaks these words in her video featured in Bricolaje at La Esquina.
Estamos Sin Fronteras: Mary Kuvet in Bricolaje
Mary Kuvet’s indigo resist dyed work is a consideration of both personal and cultural identity, an attempt to locate a mixed Mexican-American identity.
Polly Apfelbaum: Waiting for the UFOs
Polly Apfelbaum’s exhibition, Waiting for the UFOs, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art envelops visitors in a gleeful mood that is hard to avoid even if one lacks an affinity for strong colors.
May God Thy Gold Refine
Garry Noland makes himself known as a jolly scrimshander of trash, incising psychedelic patterns, maps, and portals into polystyrene, pieces of cardboard, and stacks of old magazines.
Finding Familiar Climates in Fellow Feeling
The work of Fidencio Fifield-Perez, Anna Wehrwein, and Nicole Shaver come together in Fellow Feeling at Kansas City’s Hanger Gallery. Fifield-Perez, Shaver and Wehrwein all knew one another at different points during under- and graduate schools.
Beautiful and Capricious: May Tveit at Greenlease Gallery
Drop Unit, May Tveit’s exhibition of monoprints and sculptural installations made from corrugated cardboard is trying to say something about the current culture’s hunger for immediate information
Patrick Jacob’s Fantastical World of Nocturnes
Patrick Jacobs’ work borders on the edge of fantasy and reality. Crafting dioramas that are rendered from a fixed point of view is his more recognizable medium, you would never know that his primary interest lies in lens-based media.
Volumes and Violent Joy
At first glance, Craig Deppen Auge’s work can look chaotic, even frenzied in its making. Folded paper is combined with collaged canvas on spray painted wood on metal rods, and on and on.
Kansas City’s Charlotte Street Foundation to Open New Campus
Charlotte Street Foundation (CSF) in Kansas City, Missouri, will be centralizing their artistic and administrative spaces into one 20,000 square foot campus, slated to open at the end of 2019.
Vistas of Decay in Mirror Eupepsia
The death drive was alive in Mirror Eupepsia, an exhibit about decay and transition. Monstrous portraits, deconstructed digital video, and haunting mythological symbols created an environment for the viewer to not only digest, but decompose, while held in the softness of collaboration.
Big Changes: A Letter from the Editors
Over the last six years, I have learned to love your arts community through deep and incredibly meaningful conversations
Wild Open Spaces and Structures for Futures Unseen
Open Spaces is still on our minds in Kansas City. The festival showcased work that embraced the city’s creative growth giving a preview of future potential.
The Speed of Color in Warren Rosser’s Unexpected Consequences
Warren Rosser’s prolific practice in the technology of paint is again realized for his recent exhibition, Unexpected Consequences at Haw Contemporary Crossroads.