Visual Art Reviews – KC STUDIO

Category: Visual Art Reviews

May 13, 2016

“Images of the Great War: European Offensives 1914-1916,” National World War I Museum and Memorial

Storytelling about wartime experiences is an age-old tradition.

May 5, 2016

NCECA Exhibits Roundup, Multiple Venues

This spring, the Kansas City area has been able to boast an embarrassment of riches in ceramics exhibitions. Through early June, approximately 100 venues stretching..

March 18, 2016

“Desire,” Belger Arts Center

Clay. It’s pliable, damp, dirty, fun to touch, and we can build beautiful things with it. What’s not to love? Coinciding with the 50th annual..

February 15, 2016

“Traces and Trajectories,” La Esquina Gallery

For the last six years, artists in the KC region have been winning Rocket Grants. As the name suggests, the cash grants have been boosting..

February 4, 2016

“Wendy Red Star: Parading Culture (Tokens, Gold, & Glory),” Haw Contemporary

Native American artist Wendy Red Star considers different cultures from a variety of angles—consumption and commodity, contradictions within community, insider/outsider identity— in her solo show at Haw Contemporary.

January 29, 2016

“Dylan Mortimer: Cure,” Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

If one quality of a great artist is fearlessness—and it is—Dylan Mortimer has it in spades. He’s demonstrated it from the start of his career,..

January 7, 2016

“Winter Stream,” Epsten Gallery

Twenty short films, ranging from documentary and political manifesto to experimental film collage and surrealist stories, await viewers to the Epsten Gallery’s Winter Stream exhibition...

December 8, 2015

“Eric Sall: Full Phase,” Haw Contemporary

Eric Sall is on fire. The collection of 15 paintings from 2014–15 on view at Haw Contemporary is perhaps his best work so far. His..

November 30, 2015

“Andrzej Zielinski: Open Sourced,” Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

In his latest book, Lights Out, newsman and journalist Ted Koppel writes of the looming dangers of our increased reliance on power grids and other..

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