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SHIP/SHAPE: an exhibition of new fabric constructions and paintings by Warren Rosser

August 27, 2010
by studiosprogramsdirector

 Opening reception Friday, September 10th, from 6 – 9 pm. Exhibition continues through, Saturday, October 23. 

* Artist will host a gallery talk on Saturday, Sept. 11th at 1:00 *

The exhibition entitled SHIP/SHAPE reflects the work done by Warren Rosser in the past three years. There are three distinct bodies of work that are being presented here: the fabric constructions, and the oil paintings on clay-board, both of which have been produced over this entire period, and a new group of paintings on canvas have been made in the past year. Although they are three discreet bodies of work they share a similar conversation, they occupy the studio simultaneously, each engaging the other in an ongoing manner.

 The title SHIP/SHAPE alludes to the interplay of organization in the relationship of the shapes and surfaces. The interplay between these elements builds a precise arrangement of pattern, color and structure- one that is discovered by making, not as result of a prescribed plan. Each body of work is characterized by its different material usage and the processes engaged in evolving the imagery. There is a relative speed and slowness in the different process of making.

The practice of working simultaneously on differing bodies of work sets up a process of reaction from one to the other. Something discovered in the fabric pieces becomes translated into paint, as pattern or a particular shape, the poured intersecting marks of paint in the clay-board paintings becomes a sewn grid of fabric strapping interrupting the structure in the fabric pieces.

Many of the works have nautical titles—referencing the insignia, pennants, rigging and terms associated with the process of sailing— maybe even the architecture of boats and boat building— There is a sense of doing, a procedure that directs various courses of action.  Actions are precise, repetitive and trusted.

The work is about materials and materiality; it is about abstraction, discovery and memory. It manifests a lateral process both mentally and physically, which reveals relationships of past work reappearing like echoes in a new context.

Review Studios Exhibition Space
1708 Campbell St, Kansas City, Mo.
816.994.7134

Tues-Fri   10 am – 4 pm
Sat Noon- 4 pm
First Friday, October 1, 2010, 6 pm – 9 pm

 

 

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FRAGMENTS by James Woodfill

June 4, 2010
by studiosprogramsdirector
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FRAGMENTS is a new installation of studio work from James Woodfill, conceived and built over the last few years. It is a reconstruction of sorts – a continuation of an experiment with constructed space that began in the studio, and recently culminated in the installation STATIONS, at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, in Omaha, Nebraska.

The installation will include multimedia elements ranging from video, sound and light to constructions of wood, plastic, steel and found objects.

“My most recent work considers issues of fragmented reference – incomplete scenarios that organically connect with adjacent mental and physical structures. I want to diversify the elements that make up the installations that I create, pushing the idea of “singularity” that was present in my earlier work to the point of dissolve, with each instant of understanding leading to a new unique moment.

Within each discrete structure, drifting intentions provide numerous starts and stops, with the boundaries loose so that a continual rhythm of shifts occurs, both perceptually and in memory. The boundaries then blur from piece to piece, forming constantly changing and drifting sets of reference and experience.

I have many starting points in my engagement with this work. I am often working with formal considerations, bringing reference to design, architecture and function into play with the idea of an ad-hoc development of the built environment, and utilizing these issues as compositional equivalents to color, form and space.

My intentions are to build an experience that prods a lateral set of memories and relationships, from personal and local to universal and global, providing a fluid set of referential encounters that mirror my experience of moving through my environment.”

Hesse McGraw, curator for the exhibition at Bemis, wrote:

“These works extend from Woodfill’s history of working in galleries and public sites and build upon an ongoing dialogue about reference points such as physical perception, architectural space, urbanism’s fuzzy edges, materiality and abstraction. . . . Beyond melding high and low cultures, this (work) merges the formal concerns of pure, systemic painting with the ad hoc, functional beauty of cobbled structures.”

The work for FRAGMENTS has an extended history, starting in response to the space of the studio, and the exhibition space at Review. Extending from the idea of a traveling installation, the parts and pieces were re-formed and altered in dialog with the unique space at Bemis, and as it returns it brings this history back into a conversation with Review.

Kansas City based artist James Woodfill’s exhibitions and public art works have received significant national recognition for their effects on the perception of space. Woodfill’s work has been reviewed in such publications as Art In America, Art Papers, New Art Examiner, I.D. Magazine and Sculpture magazine. His public work has been widely recognized with numerous awards, including awards from the American Institute of Architects. Woodfill’s efforts have extended into education, curatorial projects, writings and numerous urban planning projects and studies. He received a Charlotte Street Foundation award in Kansas City. In 2000 he served as visiting assistant professor in experimental mixed media at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Woodfill graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1980 and he has taught there since 1998. He has been a resident of REVIEW STUDIOS since 2006.

http://jameswoodfill.com
 
 
First Friday, June 4, 2010, from 6 – 9 pm.Exhibition continues through Friday, June 25, 2010.

Review Studios Exhibition Space, 1708 Campbell St, Kansas City, Mo., 816. 994.7134.

Review Studios Exhibition Space hours:

Tues-Fri   10 am – 4 pm
Sat 12 pm – 4 pm
 

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SpaceRockSpasm Opening

March 26, 2010
by studiosprogramsdirector

There was a very nice crowd for the opening night of Barry Anderson‘s new exhibition, SpaceRockSpasm, which opened at Review Studios March 12th. The exhibition consists of eight video and audio works by Anderson, and will be on display in the Review Exhibition Space till April 16th.

(Images courtesy of Jamie Warren)

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Review Studios Exhibition Space presents an exhibition of new works by Barry Anderson

March 4, 2010
by studiosprogramsdirector

Totem (1), 2010, video still from a three-channel installation Somnambulance (2), 2010, sketch for a multi-channel audio installation

Review Studios Exhibition Space: SpaceRockSpasm by Barry Anderson, Opening reception Friday, March 12, 2010, from 6 – 9 pm. Exhibition continues through Friday, April 16, 2010. Review Studios Exhibition Space, 1708 Campbell St, Kansas City, Mo., (816) 994-7134.

SpaceRockSpasm showcases new work in audio and video by Kansas City-based artist Barry Anderson. The installation features a selection of works, fragments, and experiments highlighting influences ranging from underground cinema to comic books, Kraut rock to geo-politics, Gothic monsters to theoretical physics. The exhibition will also include excerpts of sound compositions by Kansas City-based composer Christopher Biggs.

Barry Anderson has been a resident artist at Review Studios since 2009. His work in video, photography, and installation has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the country as well as abroad in England, Canada, Brazil, Thailand, Spain, Costa Rica, and Cuba. He recently completed a major project curated and funded by Light Work titled Intermissions which presented his work at 15 venues around the city of Syracuse, NY, including a solo project at the Everson Museum of Art. Recent local projects include a commission through the Art Through Architecture initiative for The National Center for Drug Free Sport and a commission for the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. A video of his will be featured in the Video’Appart Biennial this spring in Dubai.

www.barryanderson.com
www.christopherbiggsmusic.com
www.lightwork.org/exhibitions/past/anderson.html

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Review Studios Updating for 2010

February 19, 2010
by studiosprogramsdirector

We are currently working on updating our site for 2010 with current artist and exhibition information. We appreciate your patience while we complete this process.

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