LEEDY-VOULKOS ART CENTER JUNE FIRST FRIDAY June 1, 2018 6pm - 9pm |
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RED SQUARE William Counter May 4 - July 6, 2018 Main Gallery Using objects like vintage magazines, album covers, paperback books, etc., William Counter reexamines Pop Art through a socially generated context. Paintings are poetically arranged offering the viewer a personal experience and interpretation based on past and present cultural associations. The artist is personally interested in representing what he terms ‘contradictions and coincidence.’
William Counter is based on his family farm outside of Chapman, Kansas, and a graduate of Painting-Printmaking from KCAI in 1999.
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Raw Umber Scott Seebart May 4 - June 30, 2018 Front Gallery In abstract constructions of observed events, everyday materials are transformed into color, light, texture and mark. Repeated observation of the world sets up a history of ideas. Thoughts and emotions set to paint. Scott Seebart is a painter who lives, paints and teaches in Kansas City, Missouri along with his partner Jessie Fisher and son Tino. He received his BFA from the University of Minnesota, and his MFA from the University of Iowa. He has also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and at the Scoula della Grafica in Venice, Italy. He has taught at the University of Iowa, Wartburg University, University of Missouri, KCAI and Longview Community College. Seebart has shown in many group and solo exhibitions in the United States as well as Italy and China. |
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Optiprismatic Travis Porter June 1 - July 28, 2018 Opie Gallery A combination of the words “optimistic” and “prismatic”, "Optiprismatic" is a collection of colorful, multifaceted monoprints. My process throughout "Optiprismatic" involves layering elements of color and cropped pieces of patterns. The layering simultaneously builds secondary colors while splitting the patterns into smaller facets.
The intersection of unique characteristics creates tension. The resolution creates new shapes and colors with unpredictable yet familiar features. This integration of separate, perhaps opposing, elements doesn’t mean the surrender of identity. Rather, the inclusion of it within a larger context. The hope of creating a new beginning from disparate identities is a driving force throughout this collection.
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Mircotopia Sarah Hearn May 4 - June 30, 2018 Back Gallery Microtopia is a collection of small still lifes that call attention to invisible terrestrial life forms while revealing new, artificial ones. These Lilliputian worlds incorporate specimens I have collected, photographed, drawn or imagined. Each composition is unplanned and has grown spontaneously. Many of the real species appear otherworldly when observed close up- illustrating how reality can be stranger than fiction. ...read more... |
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The Ordinance Project: Voices Raised Curated by Austin R. Williams and Kathryn B. Carpenter June 1 - June 30, 2018 Lower Level Gallery
This installation, curated by Williams and award-winning designer Kate Carpenter, commemorates the 25th anniversary of the ordinance passage by highlighting voices from struggle within the context of the AIDS epidemic—a crisis which fanned the flames of homophobia and forced issues of LGBT discrimination to the forefront of political activism.
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Studio A Angelica Sandoval May 4 - June 30, 2018 The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Shop Angelica Sandoval is a sculptor and designer whose installations defy the traditional conventional aspects of porcelain. Sandoval’s work revolves around the act of synthesizing materials and space in conjunction with light. June of 2017 Sandoval was selected as one of the Women to Watch-Metals by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. She has shown in cities such as Perioria, IL and Ponoma, CA. Sandoval Currently has an installation at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Sandoval was awarded the Arts KC Inspiration Grant in 2012 and again in 2014 toward an installation in the Historic Power & Light Building. Sandoval was a resident of the Charlotte Street Foundation Urban Culture Project Studio Residency Program 2011-2012 and did a summer residency in 2009 at Casa Marles in Llorenc del Peneds, Spain. Angelica Sandoval received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and a Master's degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has taught at the Kansas City Art Institute, Avila University and currently, teaches at Johnson County Community College. |
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