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April 2019
2018/19 stARTup exhibitions (April)
A professional development class for artists from grades 9 to 12, stARTup helps build student portfolios, websites, and writing skills, and provides guidance in pricing work and exhibition planning, culminating in a Final Friday solo show for participants. Symon Knox | Curious Existence Color-saturated figure and portrait photographs Edward Jones 4608 Merion Ct Lawrence, KS 66047 5:00 PM- 9:00 PM Ruby McLendon I Consciousness in Bloom Illustrative paintings that engage the space with heavily textured…
May 2019
Judith G. Levy | be/long/ing (and) a/part/ing
Judith G. Levy Artist Statement My work is about history, culture, and identity. I explore complexity, commonality, and contradiction in personal stories, historical narratives, and socio-cultural issues. I use my queer gaze to examine memory, authenticity, and desire, while I reconfigure and recreate in order to describe departures from traditional understandings and to create new meanings. I use text, found objects, and appropriated materials in an effort to create links between external and internal worlds. I tend to work in…
INSIGHT Art Talk | Judith G. Levy
Judith G. Levy is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores history, culture, and identity. She has presented solo exhibitions at venues including The University of Missouri, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana University, Big Car Gallery, Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, Navta Schulz Gallery, and the Paragraph Gallery. Her public art has been shown in Lawrence, Indianapolis, Chicago, and Kansas City, and she has been included in collaborative and group exhibitions at presenting institutions such as the Spencer Museum…
Johanna Winters | ENDLNG
This exhibition is the culmination of Johanna Winter's time as the 2018-19 Printmaking Artist in Residence at the Lawrence Arts Center. { An endling is the last known of a species. } { An ENDLNG is our protagonist resisting her fate to come undone. } ENDLNG is a puppet-figure performance, installation, and sound piece that proposes a narrative in which female desire and agency demand to be witnessed. Our protagonist confronts her burdensome longing and disappointment through a merging of puppetry, gesture,…
2018/19 stARTup exhibitions (May)
A professional development class for artists from grades 9 to 12, stARTup helps build student portfolios, websites, and writing skills, and provides guidance in pricing work and exhibition planning, culminating in a Final Friday solo show for participants. Ruby McLendon | Consciousness in Bloom Ruby has textural painting that jump off the wall at Z’s on Mass Liam Hoey-Kummerow | The World is Too Small for Walls Paintings that mimic constructivist propoganda with social messaging at Gould Evans …
June 2019
INSIGHT Art Talk | Johanna Winters, 2018/19 Printmaking Artist in Residence
Johanna Winters hails from Minneapolis, MN where she served as the Education and Community Programs Manager at Highpoint Center for Printmaking. Johanna received her MFA from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and was the 2017-18 recipient of the University of Tennessee College of Arts and Sciences Thomas Fellowship. She has taught printmaking as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and recently completed a residency at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland. Her work has…
Nate Ditzler | Domestic Perseverance
Nate’s work seeks meaning from the seemingly trivial and overlooked moments of everyday life. He uses a combination of handmade and slip cast ceramic forms, fabricated mixed media elements, and modified found objects to give a visual presence to these phenomena. Nate is fascinated by the way that combining familiar and surreal aspects can cause a shift in an artwork’s meaning, as well as the way in which the viewer can enter into the work based on their own subjective…
Rachel Trusty | Summer Crush
Rachel Trusty is an artist, educator, and curator. She is currently a student at the University of Kansas in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Ph.D. Program. She also works as an online Art Instructor at the University of Arkansas Community College in Morrilton, AR. You'll also find her out in the community organizing art shows and other art events in her home state of Arkansas. Trusty's personal work focuses on themes of femininity and the exploration of traditional women's…
(Sub)Urban Sprawl | Curated by Matthew McLaughlin
Featuring Amze Emmons, Yoonmi Nam, Benjamin Rogers, Nick Satinover, Christine Buckton Tillman, & Sang-Mi Yoo Through a combination of print, painting, installation and sculpture, (Sub)Urban presents an exploration of the contemporary surroundings and the underlying psychology of our modern living environments. (Sub)Urban questions the reality of suburban and urban environments through humor, satire and irony. The artists exhibited explore the banality of the interior and exterior of our lives, through our homes and the planned communities we live in, explore…