Tag: exhibition

Hotrods & Handguns | Mr. Realistic

Shamus Clisset | Mr. Realistic

Chris Kienke | Hotrods & Handguns

Thursday, November 10 – Friday, December 9

Opening Reception: Thursday March 16, 5—7PM
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, levels 5 & 6

Artist Reception for Chris Kienke on Friday, April 7, 4-6pm

Shamus Clisset (aka FakeShamus) is a New York based artist working with 3D media, including modeling, rendering, and animation. His pictures reflect a mash-up of pop culture imagery, frontier iconography, objects and environments culled from American suburbia, and his own personal history and obsessions. Themes of violence, manifest destiny, and the contemporary wasteland are all refracted through the prism of digital culture.

Hotrods and Handguns co-opts the shiny veneer of American patriotism and Hollywood action films: the flag, fireworks, stars and stripes, red, white and blue, explosions, hot rods and handguns in a very literal manner. The “over the top” nature of this Hotrods and Handguns project is both a celebration of this great nation and a critique of nationalistic attitudes about patriotism, which influences current debates ranging from ideas about freedom and citizenship to how we as a society respond to gun violence.

*Images shown Above:  Bang Bang (detail), 2015 and Manifest Destinaut (detail) 2010

Transmissions / Signals

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Warren Rosser and James Woodfill: Transmissions / Signals

Opening Reception:
Thursday, September 3, 2015, 5—7PM
Free Parking in the Cherry St. garage, levels 5 & 6

Alt. Lecture KC:
Wednesday, September 16 from 7:00-9:00pm in the Gallery
Panelists: Warren Rosser, James Woodfill, David Cateforis, and Rebecca Dubay

Exhibition Dates:
Thursday, September 3 – Friday, October 16, 2015

The UMKC Gallery of Art presents Transmissions / Signals, the most recent work of Warren Rosser and James Woodfill. Built around a discussion of the extended medium of painting, this work brings focus to the expansive definition that both artists have of the discipline.

Transmissions / Signals has taken the form of not only this exhibition, but a book as well, scheduled for release in early September. Together, they examine the history of dialogue between these two artists, starting as a student – teacher relationship in the late 1970’s shortly after Rosser’s addition to the KCAI Faculty, and extending to present day where both teach in the Painting Department at the Kansas City Art Institute.

The alternate paths that each have pursued help frame a discussion about their teaching philosophies as well, building by example a narrative that describes the pedagogical structure of the Painting Department at KCAI, where Rosser has worked to establish a faculty with a vast diversity of intent, and where both bring the professional practice into direct contact with students.

Point to the Center: An Alt. Lecture KC discussion between Rosser, Woodfill, and art history professors David Cateforis and Rebecca Dubay on Wednesday, September 16 from 7:00-9:00pm in the gallery will introduce the collaborative project marking the history of dialogue between the artists. Founded in 2013 by Jessica Borusky, Alt. Lecture KC pairs a local aesthetic producer with someone from outside the city in order to cultivate creative conversation across state lines.

Contact the Gallery for more information.