Visual – KC STUDIO

September 8, 2017

At Crystal Bridges, Stuart Davis Will Color Your World

As a painter, Stuart Davis (1892-1964) represented a trailblazing strain of 20th-century American optimism. His jaunty canvases extended European modernism over a wide range of territory and human subject material. He celebrated urban streetscapes, shorelines and mundane life with an eye-popping sense of jazz-influenced rhythm and invention.

September 8, 2017

A Pollock Masterwork Stops at the Nelson

Want to see the largest painting Jackson Pollock ever made? Now’s your chance. Through Oct. 29, Pollock’s “Mural,” measuring 8 by 20 feet, is on view in the Bloch Building Project Space. The showing in Kansas City is part of a global victory lap for the painting — now back in U.S. from a tour of Europe — following two years of restoration work. Made in 1943, “Mural” is the ultimate transitional work in Pollock’s oeuvre.

September 7, 2017

Liberty Arts Commission is Supporting the Arts, One Grant at a Time

If you take a walk in historic downtown Liberty, you’ll find a growing collection of public art — murals on the exterior and interior walls..

September 1, 2017

Gallery Glance: “Rena Detrixhe: Red Dirt Rug”

They’re magic, embedded with reflections on history and our relationship to the land. During a year-long residency in Oklahoma, Rena Detrixhe conceived her “Red Dirt..

August 31, 2017

Artist Pages: Kansas City Sculpture

In conjunction with the International Sculpture Center’s 27th International Sculpture Conference, Oct. 25 – 28 in Kansas City, KC Studio asked a dozen area curators, critics and collectors to each nominate an artist for inclusion in our Kansas City Sculpture Artist Pages.

August 31, 2017

Ari Fish: Communal Transformation

“I like bad-ass women,” Ari Fish said in a recent interview, “and I want to celebrate them. They just keep on going on, no matter what.” It may be more politic to say, “women who lean in” than bad-ass, but despite her blue-eyed blonde, angelic appearance, Fish does not dissemble. Bad-ass, for this woman artist, is strictly positive. It means someone like herself: doing what you have to do and doing what you want to do with no fear and no apologies.

August 30, 2017

“Larry Thomas: HEAP,” Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

Deception and detection, the personal and universal, the systematic and chaotic, are just some of the dualities that flow throughout Larry Thomas’ installation of 280..

August 28, 2017

Groundbreaking Picasso Exhibition Opens This Fall

When I first arrived in Kansas City in 2010 to be the new Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell Director & CEO at the Nelson-Atkins..