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.

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.

Marching Toward the Singularity

Marching Toward the Singularity

Artists have engaged technology to aid and enhance their creations at least since the Renaissance and possibly as early as prehistoric times. Consider, for example, David Hockney’s book “Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters” or Penn & Teller’s documentary “Tim’s Vermeer.”

“American Narrative: Trigger Zone,” Belger Arts Center

“American Narrative: Trigger Zone,” Belger Arts Center

Call it a bang-up job. Belger Arts Center’s current exhibition “American Narrative: Trigger Zone” goes full-on Top Gun — right into the danger zone. Which one exactly? No less than the fraught territory of contemporary America, a post-war culture of near permanent war, with its paradoxical passion for firearms as the safeguard of civil liberties […]