Brian Hearn

Brian Hearn is an award-winning curator, arts writer and consultant with 25 years of experience in both the film and fine art industries. He is the collection manager for The Collectors Fund, an innovative fine art investment fund that includes The Kansas City Collection, a rotating corporate art program of exclusively Kansas City arts.

“Jason Needham: Wintertide,” Habitat Contemporary Gallery

As we all digest the dire warnings of a “Dark Winter” ahead, Kansas City painter Jason Needham offers up a new body of pandemic-era work in the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center’s newly minted exhibition space called Habitat Contemporary Gallery, run by Robert Gann, formerly of Studios Inc. Needham’s “Wintertide” series, consisting of ten acrylic on canvas […]

‘Nothing Will Be Business As Usual’

‘Nothing Will Be Business As Usual’

William Keyse Rudolph joined The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art as deputy director of curatorial affairs in March, following seven years at the San Antonio Museum of Art, where he was co-interim director and previously served as chief curator and curator of American and European art.

Honors: Bo Hubbard

So much can happen to an artist in four years. Since graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2016 with an emphasis in painting, Bo Hubbard has been going with the flow while making key shifts in his art practice. “KC Studio” readers might recall the emerging artist’s recent role as co-founder of the queer art collective, Alter Art Space.

Roger Shimomura: From Studio Art to Performance Art Ace

Roger Shimomura: From Studio Art to Performance Art Ace

Roger Shimomura, distinguished painter, printmaker and venerable educator, illuminates his uniquely American story of cultural difference in “Staging Shimomura,” a retrospective look at his lesser known performance art works, primarily from the peak home video era of the 1980s and 90s.