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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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June 1, 2021

Arts News: Nelson-Atkins Digital French Paintings Catalogue

he secret lives of paintings and what lies beneath their surfaces are among the extraordinary territories we explore in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s new digital catalogue of its French paintings and pastels.
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March 10, 2020

“Marcus Cain: Borrowed Light” and “Ky Anderson: Star School,” Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Brooklyn-based Kansas City Art Institute alum Ky Anderson’s exhibit “Star School” is the result of a middle-of-the-night vision in which she imagined a series of paintings “filled with stars and the intricate structures used to view them.”
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October 15, 2019

“Look Me In The Eye: Portraits of Kansas City,” Epsten Gallery

Jam-packed may fairly describe the installation at the small Epsten Gallery.
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August 14, 2019

“Paper Routes – Women to Watch 2020,” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

What the artist describes as “a community of naked, plush creatures called fumblys” populate Fuko Ito’s pastel-colored, psychedelic work, and I, for one, would like to go on record as saying I’m up for this adventure anytime.
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