Main Gallery Installation

                                                                                                            Archie Scott Gobber                                                             Laura Berman

                                                                     Debbie Barrett-Jones                                                   Heinrich Toh                                                Bill Cave

                                          Skyler Bieberly                                                                                               Steve Joy                                                                                 Joe Gregory

Preview Group Show

Highlighing Artists with Upcoming Solo Exhibitions

June 7 - July 27, 2013

Main Gallery

Artists

Debbie Barrett-Jones

Laura Berman

Skyler Bieberly

Bill Cave

Joe Gregory

Scott Archie Gobber

Steve Joy

Heinrich Toh

Christel Highland

Becoming Free

June 7 - July 27, 2013

Back Gallery

BECOMING FREE memorializes the individuals who died as direct and

vestigial result of military actions in taken against Japan in August 1945.

Christel Highland’s practice utilizes ecological techniques centered on creating community dialogue. She oftentimes consults history, poetry, literature, and music prior to conceptualizing a show or piece. Christel lives and works in Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District, and happily shares her studio and home with her two sons. 

 

                                           Portrait, 2012, Oil on Panel, 72" x 48"                               Installation: Lexicon, 2013, graphite on paper, 24" x 18" each                         

Jared Flaming

Parergon

May 3 - June 29, 2013

Front Gallery

Artist Bio

Jared Flaming received his BFA from University of Oklahoma, Norman, and will receive his MFA at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, this Spring. In 2008 he collaborated with Icelandic and American artists in Reykjavik, Iceland for the exhibition Princes of Royal Blood at the Lost Horse Gallery.

Artist Statement

Parergon is a solo exhibition by the artist Jared Flaming comprised of recent paintings and drawings.  This series of work pulls from disparate sources and combines them into amalgamations that challenge the way in which an image is read.

A series of large-scale paintings suspend distinctly heterogeneous assortments of objects and text amid ambiguous white spaces that seem to oscillate between deep void and flat surface.  The conflicting sense of space derived from collage-like overlapping of subject matter and the incongruent sense of scale adds to the confusion between the disparately sourced imagery.  Art historical touchstones mingle with nondescript kitsch motifs in a reciprocal undermining of identities.  Oversized wet paint strokes are deceptively rendered in a flat illusionistic manner that toys with perceptions of origins and authenticity.  The result is a hall of mirrors where nothing seems definitive and precepts are suspect.

This body of work concerns itself with the ways in which meaning is inextricably the product of continuous mediation. The paintings begin to question the ideology of images through their formats as they protrude from the walls into the space of the viewer.  The panels’ deep profiles insist on the objectivity of the painted images and conflict with the illusionistic space rendered on their surfaces.  The white backdrops of the images spill over the sides of the surface, confounding the idea of an edge of the image.

The paintings are juxtaposed with a large installation of graphite drawings depicting paint strokes.  Loaded with historical mythology and contemporary ideology these simulacra continue the line of questioning of the ways in which a medium prefigures the identity of images.  They play with the lenses of authenticity and deception through which images are received.

Recently featured in

Angela Burson, Twins, 2011, needlework, 7” x 7 3/4”

The Opie Collection

Featuring Angela Burson

June 7 - June 29

Opie Gallery

Angela Burson Bio

Angela Burson is an artist working in a variety of media including, painting, drawing and needlework. She is an alumna of the Savannah College of Art and Design where she received her B.F.A. in Painting in 1991. She was born in Kansas City and grew up in the near by town of Liberty Missouri. Angela has been a working artist since 1992 and has exhibited her work in Georgia, Florida, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, and West Virginia. She lives in Savannah, Georgia with her husband, artist Gregory Eltringham, and their two children.

Angela Burson Statement

Color, pattern, memories and details

My current body of work links elements of color and pattern with random images to create a vague feeling of memory and narrative within the paintings. I use a straightforward, simple composition, which is constructed featuring details of people, various objects or possessions. The subjects come from a personal collection of source material consisting of family photographs, photos and reproductions of tin toys, portrait miniatures, remnants of doilies, pillowcases, and towels from my family’s closets. This personal inventory reoccurs in my paintings and needlework.

I simplify the ground into patterns or a solid color, which allows an ambiguous place for the subject to inhabit. The colors and patterns play an important role in invoking a specific mood and situate the objects in space. The colors chosen are inspired from old color photographs, vintage color schemes, and filtered through my personal aesthetic.