Visual – KC STUDIO

March 1, 2018

Emerging Artists in the Spotlight: Foxes in the Fortress

What’s an emerging artist in Kansas City to do after art school? Caranne Camarena, like so many of her fellow Kansas City Art Institute painting majors circa 2012, had to decide: Stay or go. Return to hometown XYZ? Embark for coastal art capitals or Chicago? Maybe grad school? Stick it out in KC with a group of friends and splash into the frothy local scene? About halfway through her senior year, Camarena and her non-artist parents were kicking around ideas for real estate investment.

February 27, 2018

“Christopher Leitch: chance diaries: dream things,” KCAI Crossroads Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice

The Trickster has always lurked in Christopher Leitch’s artwork, and s/he really gallivants around in Leitch’s current installation “chance diaries: dream things.” As in all..

February 12, 2018

“Extraordinary” and “Monumental” Painting to be Centerpiece of Debut Exhibition in National WWI Museum and Memorial’s New Wylie Gallery

Reaching a British dressing station southwest of the French city of Arras in the summer of 1918, famed American artist John Singer Sargent found his..

February 7, 2018

“Robert Quackenbush: Fragments,” Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

Kansas City artist Robert Quackenbush chisels multi-faceted stories of the earth and humanity in his “Fragments” show of recent paintings and mixed-media collages at the..

January 31, 2018

“Carlos Setien: 2016-2018 Large Scale Missouri River Landscape Paintings,” 5899 Raytown Rd

For thousands of years, the power, peace, and movement of the epic Missouri River has inspired artists. In his recent series inspired by the river,..

January 24, 2018

The Job: Rachael Blackburn Cozad

Except for the few collectors among us, most people know little about the work of fine art appraisers and the prominence in the profession of Kansas City’s Rachael Blackburn Cozad. Cozad, the daughter of two artists, the holder of bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art history has been prominent in Kansas City art circles since her arrival in 2001 to begin an 11-year tenure as executive director of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

January 15, 2018

Christopher Leitch — “chance diaries: dream things” at KCAI Crossroads Gallery

Kansas City artist Christopher Leitch is well known for his illustrated dream journals filled with funny, scary, bittersweet and personally revealing words and pictures. (KC Studio featured a selection of them in our July/August 2016 Artist Pages.) Coming up: Leitch will unveil a new twist on the dream journals concept in the exhibit, “chance diaries: dream things,” beginning Jan. 23 at the KCAI Crossroads Gallery.

January 12, 2018

DREAMS OF THE KINGS: A JADE SUIT FOR ETERNITY

If given the opportunity, would you live forever? It was certainly a desire of the ancient Chinese, who plotted their burial tombs as elaborate afterlife..