“Banal Magic: Latin American Artists Transmute the Ordinary” is first and foremost an exhibition about the environment. In an explicit homage to the Latin American literary style Magical Realism, curator
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” wrote the magician Aleister Crowley in his 1904 grimoire, “The Book of the Law.” A cryptic and potentially amoral
Now on view at Westport Presbyterian Church, “The Collected Works of S. Brian Morgan” catalogues a decade’s worth of artistic production in the forms of assemblage masks, magazine collages and
Davin Watne has built a wall. Unlike the stone or concrete of the Great Wall of China or Trump’s proposed wall on the southern border, “Picture the Wall” at Haw
We are a nation of immigrants and refugees. Always have been. Even if we have short memories of who came from where, or for what reasons, countless stories thread in
Deception and detection, the personal and universal, the systematic and chaotic, are just some of the dualities that flow throughout Larry Thomas’ installation of 280 mixed media artworks at the Nerman Museum’s Kansas Focus Gallery. Thomas’ small, brightly colored, collaged paintings on wood at first sight appear upbeat, even playful. Seen in totality, this is […]
“Banal Magic: Latin American Artists Transmute the Ordinary” is first and foremost an exhibition about the environment. In an explicit homage to the Latin American literary style Magical Realism, curator Caroline Colby-Gonzalez has selected eight artists, four from Miami and four from Kansas City, whose work engages in fantasies and nightmares. And it’s little surprise […]
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” wrote the magician Aleister Crowley in his 1904 grimoire, “The Book of the Law.” A cryptic and potentially amoral commandment, it might cynically be reduced to ‘figure it out for yourself,’ a commandment to follow no command but your own. It makes a decent […]
Now on view at Westport Presbyterian Church, “The Collected Works of S. Brian Morgan” catalogues a decade’s worth of artistic production in the forms of assemblage masks, magazine collages and paintings, based on the theme of navigating personal and group identity in black America. Dozens of works hang on the walls of the nave and […]
Davin Watne has built a wall. Unlike the stone or concrete of the Great Wall of China or Trump’s proposed wall on the southern border, “Picture the Wall” at Haw Contemporary comprises several stretched flags and paintings depicting recent events in American political culture. No fewer than three presidents and one presidential candidate are present […]
We are a nation of immigrants and refugees. Always have been. Even if we have short memories of who came from where, or for what reasons, countless stories thread in and out and through the families that have come to this country generation after generation. “Narrative Atlas,” Gerry Trilling’s final solo exhibition as a resident […]
