Author: Linda Link

2018 Student Art Exhibition

2018 UMKC Student Exhibition

Thursday, April 26 – Thursday, July 27, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday April 26, 2018, 5—7PM
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, levels 5 & 6

The UMKC Gallery of Art announces the 2018 UMKC Student Art Exhibition, which runs Thursday, April 26 – Thursday, July 27. It features the work of 28 graduate and undergraduate artists. All currently enrolled students at UMKC were eligible to submit work across a variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, graphic design, and video. An opening reception will be from 5 – 7 p.m., Thursday April 26. Scholarship awards will be presented during the opening reception at 6 p.m.

Amy Kligman served as the juror for the 2018 UMKC Art Exhibition. Kligman is the Executive/Artistic Director at the Charlotte Street Foundation, and co-founded/ co-directed a collaborative artist-run exhibition space, called Plug Projects.

WE ALL COME FROM SOMETHING

Image Courtesy of Judith G. Levy

 WE ALL COME FROM SOMETHING

Thursday, March 8 – Friday, April 6, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday March 8, 2018, 5—7PM
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, level 5

Judith G. Levy’s current exhibition explores history, culture and identity. In WE ALL COME FROM SOMETHING the artist reconstructs historical narratives and family stories to show that American culture is complicated and filled with expressions of commonality and contradiction. Levy’s work is animated by images, text and ideological references to explore how perceptions, definitions and concepts are shaped. Levy’s exhibition encompasses mediums ranging from photography and video to neon works and outdoor installations that surround the Fine Arts building on UMKC campus. Also included in this exhibition is the Memory Cloud, pictured above.

Levy, a native New Yorker, has lived in the Midwest for the past nineteen years, and worked for many years in public mental health. She has presented solo exhibitions of her work at venues including The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana University, Big Car Gallery in Indianapolis, Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, and Navta Schulz Gallery in Chicago. Levy’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Chicago; Memorial Art Gallery Museum in Rochester, NY; Bridge Art Fair, Miami; Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; The Indianapolis Art Center; The Plains Art Museum, Fargo; and the Paragraph Gallery, La Esquina, Epsten Gallery, H & R Block Artspace, and Spyn Gallery in Kansas City.

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IMAGES FLASH

 

Image Courtesy of Diana Heise

 

Image Courtesy of James H. Rifenbark

IMAGESFLASH

Thursday, January 25 – Saturday, February 24, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday January 25, 2018, 5—7PM
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, levels 5 & 6

Images Flash juxtaposes two artists who consider the experience of war. The work of James H. Rifenbark and Diana Heise provide excellent examples of human expression made tangible through lens-based mediums.

The title of the exhibition, Images Flash, comes from the name of one of Rifenbark’s poems. This exhibition features images produced during the Vietnam War. The photographs by Rifenbark were produced for the Army as a means to document the war and surrounding events. Heise’s work draws from 35mm slides and 8mm film footage, which was shot by her uncle, William J Kayfus III, during his three tours as a crew chief/door gunner. Rifenbark took his photographs during one year of service from December of 1970 to November of 1971, while stationed in Long Binh and Pleiku. Rifenbark’s photographic documentation drifts away from the horrors of war and instead reflects on humanity, humor and perseverance in times of extreme violence.

Diana Heise’s work Eyeshot is a 20-minute visual essay that investigates the nature of fighting in combat. Through the process of looking at her uncle’s films, photographs, and objects and recording their conversations, this work resulted in a non-polemical exploration into the effects of war and violence upon an individual, their community and their country. Using the Vietnam-American conflict as a starting point, Eyeshot addresses our need to understand how armed conflict continues to impact us today. The exhibition also includes two companion pieces, Duration and September-December 1966. Each draw their influence from structural filmmaking to find methods to engage Bill Kayfus’ archive of images and use strategies other than linear narrative to elucidate the power and effect of war.

The exhibition is curated by Poppy Di Candeloro and Meghan Dohogne in conjunction with the UMKC Gallery of Art.

All photographs are for sale. Please inquire at the UMKC Gallery Front Desk. All proceeds have been graciously gifted to the UMKC Gallery of Art by the artist, James H. Rifenbark.

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Visage and Differentia

S/P by nildicit

Visage and Differentia 

Thursday, November 30 – Friday, December 15, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday November 30, 2017, 5—7PM
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, levels 5 & 6

Curated by UMKC Studio Art Senior Seminar classmates

 

This show will feature works from each artist that express a form of self reflection in multiple mediums. Visage and Differentia is a survey of a diverse group of individuals at this time and place who explore through many avenues of expression, what it means to be distingushed from one another.

Featured Artists: Craig Auge, Jordan Bixler, Vincent Fallis, Havilah Guenther, nildicit, Will Kuhlke, Sam Loveless, Ana Morales, Tien Phan, Zach Pietz, Meredith Power, and Reuben Ruhl

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Every Day Contains All of History

Untitled by Jared Thorne

Every Day Contains All of History 

Thursday, October 19 – Friday, November 17, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday October 19, 2017, 5—7PM
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, levels 5 & 6

Curated by: Davin Watne

As a black artist investigating the culture of his own people, Jared Thorne seeks to challenge hegemonic as well as self-imposed constructs of Black identity in America and beyond. This series continues his longstanding work exploring American cultural and structural responses to black bodies – blackness not as a construct or an idea but as a literal and physical presence in our national life. Specifically, how do reflections of black history shape our culture? How does the act of archiving that history inform how Black identity is perceived and received?  

Thorne will lecture about his current exhibit as well as his substantial body of work in Lens 2 at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art at 6 pm on Friday, October 13. 

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A Surrender Against Reality

Transformations -Images in Motion 2 by Kati Toivanen

A SURRENDER AGAINST REALITY in conjunction with Every Street is Charlotte Street

Thursday, September 7 – Friday, October 6, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday September 7, 2017, 5—7PM
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, levels 5 & 6

Featuring: Ricky Allman, Jorge García Almodóvar, Deanna Dikeman, Leo Esquivel, David Ford, Archie Scott Gobber, Elijah Gowin, Tom Gregg, Rashawn Griffin, Adolfo Martinez, Anne Austin Pearce, and Kati Toivanen

Curated by: Davin Watne

Throughout history, artists have utilized ingenious methods of manipulating materials and processes to manifest various perceptions of reality. And by extension, many artists from the marginalized to the mainstream have challenged the notions of truth and its tenuous relationship with reality. Today, with the loss of faith in institutions to provide a collective comprehension of truth while autocratic leaders espouse misconceptions and misinformation, citizens are left to forge their own understandings. In this exhibition the participating artists will explore the manipulation of reality and its tricky and fraught relationship with truth.

This exhibition is made up of former Charlotte Street Foundation awardees and is in conjunction with Every Street is Charlotte Street, celebrating their 20th anniversary.

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