Crossroads Arts District

Kansas City's Creative Neighborhood

August First Friday Art Show

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Join Jones Gallery this August First Friday. We’re open from 10:00am — if you’d like an early viewing — to 9:00pm. Artists will be available from 5:00pm to 9:00pm.

Regular Dates. Wed., Aug. 4th to Thur., Aug. 26th
Open daily 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Closed Sun.

Jones Gallery 1717 Walnut, Crossroads Arts District, KCMO. 64108 816 – 421-2111

https://jonesgallerykc.com/

CULTIVATE A Solo Show by Phybr

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Join us this First Friday, August 6th, for the opening reception of Cultivate, a solo exhibition by Toledo-based artist, Phybr, who has spent the last month of July here as an Artist-In-Residence. Throughout his time as a resident, Phybr has been sowing seeds of new growth, propagating new techniques, and grafting current and past styles together which culminate in this cohesive and captivating cultivation of new work.

Phybr’s recognizable style has grown out of his passions for design, illustration, and color theory. By blending these formal elements together with natural subjects such as various mixings of plant life and portraiture he harnesses not only the intimate and emotional connection shared between viewer and painting, but also the fleeting essence of life itself because of the predominant use of spray paint and street art influences. His paintings seem to emit a vitalness that strike ever deeper chords with anyone who encounters them

SHAPING THE PAST: EXHIBITION

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Goethe Pop Up Kansas City is excited to present the poster exhibition Shaping the Past. This exhibit will also highlight the many projects that we developed in 2020 as part of Shaping the Past (“Gestaltung der Vergangenheit”).

Shaping the Past builds connections and showcases patterns that constitute a transnational memory culture at work to address systemic racism and sexism, social and economic exclusion, and legacies of colonial and state violence. Featuring works by artists, activists, and collectives from North America and Germany — all part of the Monument Lab Fellows Program — this exhibition broadens understandings and illuminates ongoing memory interventions that reimagine civil society.

The spotlighted projects offer innovative and reparative models that highlight creative changemakers who are actively shaping the past and our paths forward.

At Goethe Pop Up Kansas City we took part in this project in 2020, inviting Monument Lab fellows Alisha B. Wormsley and Patrick Weems to collaborate with artists, activists, and intellectuals from Kansas City and beyond on themes that are relevant to our community and the process of (re-)connecting with the past. You can learn more about these various projects by visiting the Shaping the Pastexhibition presented at the Goethe Pop Up as a concluding project.

Masks are required for all guests and staff in the shared space.

Opening Reception: Madeline Brice, “Okay, Okay; and other lies we tell ourselves”

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Join us First Friday for the Opening Reception of Madeline Brice’s, Okay, Okay; and other lies we tell ourselves.
Artist Statement
Okay, okay; and other lies we tell ourselves is a series of works in response to the increasing number of untruths about ourselves we quietly, loudly speak into existence.
“Do you smoke?” “No”, I say, having smoked a cigarette only an hour ago.
This work is an investigation into the lies I’ve told and continue to tell myself and the cognitive dissonance it implies. For dissonance is ambiguous, intangible. I often tie it to my feelings about perception. Having recently been diagnosed with a visual perception disorder these untruths have caused a more reactionary impulse. This disorder causes the world to seem dreamlike and delusive, an unwavering struggle between myself and reality. I can no longer sit with the dissonant discomfort like I used to. I’m interested in the perceptive patterns that these lies or untruths create as they build up in a portion of the psychological space, their combined power gradually forcing a change in my attitudes and behaviors.
Madeline Brice
Kansas City, Missouri based interdisciplinary queer visual artist Madeline Brice seeks to visually represent the fluidity of experiences and relationships through the lens of a visual perception disorder. She primarily works with oils on metallized mylar and aluminum, creating an experiential and experimental interaction with her work. She graduated from Missouri State University in 2015 with a BFA in painting and received a BA in Art History in May of 2018 from the same university. She is both a published and exhibiting artist having shown throughout Missouri and at a national level in both solo and juried group exhibitions. In collaboration with the Springfield Art Museum, she has installed many site specific installations for their fundraising events, hosted still life workshops, and given a number of artist talks and presentations. You can see her work as a part of the permanent collection at Hotel Vandivort and at Oh Gallery in Springfield, Missouri.
Her most recent commercial work can be seen on liquor store shelves with the rebranded Materfamilia beer label from Mother’s Brewing Company.
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