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June 2019
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
Summer Crush features selected work from the mixed-media series Friends and Lovers. This body of work features images of love that are historically invisible. Based on anonymous found photographs, the small paintings depict same-sex female couples from different historical time periods. The titles in the series allude to captions normally written on family photographs and ambiguously address the relationship between the two women shown. This is purposeful as historically same-sex relationships are ignored or relabeled by family or friends to…
(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 planned communities. They explore items from our…
COMMUNITY EXHIBITS: Living My Vision / Tuss
Dairionn Billberry, best known throughout the art community as ‘Tuss’ or the ‘Young Visionary’, has put together a show of new work that focuses on street culture and sports iconography. Using apparel as canvases, Tuss embellishes and enhances urban style with his own style of customization. He has been featured in the University Daily Kansan, SneakerFiles, Bleacher Report, KC Sneakfest, CollegeSpun, and a few other media outlets. In his own words, “My work is inspired by my everyday interactions and…
July 2019
INSIGHT Art Talk: Sub (Urban Sprawl)
Join us for an Insight Art talk with artist Yoonmi Nam, where she will discuss the inspiration and ideas behind the group exhibition Sub (Urban Sprawl). This exhibition explores the banality of the interior and exterior of our lives through a combination of print, painting, installation, and sculpture by various artists. Yoonmi Nam, a printmaking professor at the University of Kansas, will talk about the different ways each artist has examined everyday items and presented them in new ways in a fresh…
Jody Boyer, Russ Nordman | Mechanical & Botanical
Jody Boyer's Forest for the Series, as well as new work developed in residence at the Cedar Point Biological Station in Ogallala, Nebraska, explores a fusion of alternative photography, encaustic, and folk painting. Russ Nordman presents work from his two Combines series. In Iowa Combines, he travels across Iowa to photograph the distinct characteristics of each county. His second series, Mechanical Combines, explores a fantastical re-interpretation of the mechanics of historic vehicles, machinery, and tools. FINAL FRIDAY RECEPTIONS July 26 | …
August 2019
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
A Free State Festival presentation With never-before-seen footage, this brand new documentary tells the story of the political and social upheaval leading to those three historic days when near disaster put the ideals of the counterculture to the test. Running time: 106 minutes
Back to the Garden | Photographs of the 1969 Woodstock Festival
Henry Diltz • John Dominis • Bill Eppridge • Elliott Landy • Jason Laure Lisa Law • Ken Regan • Baron Wolman OPENING RECEPTION August 9 | 5 to 8 pm “This project brings together images and photographers from Woodstock and asks us to consider the legacy of this festival that came to symbolize the tumultuous 1960s." - Julie Mulvihill, Humanities Kansas Executive Director Woodstock embodies the sixties. Honoring the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, Back To The Garden is an intimate look at the…
INSIGHT Art Talk | Ben Ahlvers
Curator Ben Ahlvers will present a more in-depth look at the exhibition, sharing insights into the photographers and their stories, and expanding on the curatorial process and showing additional Woodstock images.