Visual Art Reviews – KC STUDIO

Category: Visual Art Reviews

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..

November 23, 2015

“Intimate Riot,” Rocky and Gabriella Mountain Gallery, Central Library

Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865, enjoys a longstanding relationship with the visual arts—ranging from the John Tenniel’s best-known illustrations, to Salvador Dalí’s 1969 version, to Tate Liverpool’s 2011-12 exhibition titled Alice in Wonderland through the Visual Arts.

November 11, 2015

“Christopher Kurtz: Orchards,” Belger Crane Yard Studios

The art world has seldom been comfortable acknowledging makers who function both as designers and as artists. As Andy Warhol discovered, no matter how successful..

November 4, 2015

“2015 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Awards,” H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute

Since 1997, the Charlotte Street Foundation has provided vital support for artists in the greater Kansas City area. The foundation’s stated mission is “to challenge,..

October 19, 2015

“The Center is a Moving Target: If You Lived (T)here,” Kemper at the Crossroads

What does it mean to be a “Regionalist” today? The Kemper at the Crossroads exhibit, “The Center is a Moving Target: If You Lived (T)here,”..

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