Studios Inc and Misha Kligman present “Seen/Unseen: Survey of Misha Kligman’s Work”, an exhibition opening May 2nd, 2025. Studios Inc will host an opening reception on Friday, May 2nd from 5 – 8 pm, with an Artist Talk on Saturday, May 3rd from 12 – 1 pm.

“Seen/Unseen: Survey of Misha Kligman’s Work” reaches into different periods and bodies of work spanning the last 18 years of the artist’s evolving creative practice. The show examines the origins and continued engagement with ideas such as landscape and figure contaminated by history, absence/presence of spirit in the world, model of artist as a mystic, as well as journeys both physical and emotional. The show includes several of most recent paintings where histories fracture and collapse, and private lives unfold amidst conflict both internal and external.

Launched to serve mid-career artists, Studios Inc is Kansas City’s only nonprofit arts organization offering pivotal three-year residencies to mid-career artists who are poised to significantly expand their careers. Studios Inc offers a unique immersion experience for resident artists, who use their studio and exhibition space to produce and exhibit work, network and learn from one another, and attract and cultivate relationships with art patrons, collectors, and arts professionals.

“Seen/Unseen: Survey of Misha Kligman’s Work” will be on view in the Studios Inc Exhibition Hall through June 14th, 2025. Exhibition hours are Wednesday thru Friday 10am-4pm and Saturday 12 – 4pm.

Featured image: “The Stranger” Misha Kligman, Oil on linen, 2023