Dana Self

October 7, 2024

Artist Pages | Sunyoung Park: Ambiguous narratives and wild imaginings in colored pencil

Still lifes, portraits, doodles — this mark-making often defines a singular moment in time and space.

November 1, 2023

Gallery Glance | Sonam Dolma Brauen, ‘My Father’s Death,’ The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Tibetan-Swiss artist Sonam Dolma Brauen’s sculpture “My Father’s Death” opens an engaging dialogue between contemporary artistic and spiritual practice and historical ritual.

Articles

July 26, 2023

Gallery Glance | Katy McCormick: Rooted Among the Ashes: Hibakujumoku/A-bombed Trees

For more than ten years, photographer Katy McCormick has been documenting the survivor trees that have regenerated after the 1945 atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

January 11, 2023

Asian and Asian American Artists in Kansas City

At The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, eight Kansas City area artists who come from places across Asia examine some universally common experiences.

July 5, 2022

Honors: Sun Young Park

The expressive sculptor, currently a resident at the Belger Arts Center, has work in this summer's "Women to Watch" exhibit at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and is on for a 2023 solo show in New York.

March 14, 2022

‘Extensions: New Work by Hong Chun Zhang,’ Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

Since 2002, Hong Chun Zhang has focused on hair as the central theme of her work. Hair as image or metonym has a diverse visual and social history.

January 4, 2022

Worth Waiting For

After a year deferred, the 2020 Charlotte Street Foundation Fellows finally get their exhibition at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.

November 8, 2021

“Robert Bingaman: The Night Window,” Haw Contemporary

“The Night Window” is a view through a glass darkly into Robert Bingaman’s nocturnal (and some daytime) wanderings.

September 14, 2021

“Patricia Streeper: Women’s Work, Portraits of Strength and Contribution,” Shirley Stiles Gallery, Westwood City Hall

Kansas City artist Patricia Streeper’s painted portraits encourage the viewer to go further and learn more.

Author: Dana Self