Influenzers explores the familiar and yet forgettable of social media. I don’t like social media, yet I’m addicted, just like everyone else. The paintings are inspired by the jumble of images that appear in the algorithm of mindless scrolling, each vying for your attention.

I’m not interested in fashion or flowers, but too often, the same type of styled poses and cookie-cutter images continue to fill my screen day after day. I wanted to address this and pull inspiration from the same subject matter that typically doesn’t interest me, and connect the two together to introduce a new aesthetic and bring interest to the ordinary.

Artist Bio

Jared is a self-taught artist and graphic designer living and working in Kansas City. He has exhibited both paintings and drawings in various group and solo shows throughout the Kansas City area. You can view more of Jared’s work on Instagram @jaredisgreen

Studios Inc’s, SUMMER FUNDRAISER / Selections from Current Residents & Alumni group exhibition is a walk through the history of the Studios Inc Artist Residency Program and features works from an esteemed roster of current resident artists and alumni, including:

Lilly McElroy, Emily Sall, Yoonmi Nam, Peregrine Honig, Harold Smith, Jill Downen, Misha Kligman, Ricky Allman, Barry Anderson, Patty Carroll, Miguel Rivera, Robert Bingaman, Gerry Trilling, Kathy
Liao, Benjamin Rosenthal, HyeYoung Shin, Lori Raye Erickson, Miles Neidinger, Jarett Mellenbruch, Lonnie Powell, Garry Noland, Caitlin Horsmon, Marie Bannerot McInerney, Debra Smith, Judith G. Levy,
Kevin Townsend, Miki Baird, May Tveit, Susan White, Marcie Miller Gross, Susan White, Peter Warren, Matthew Dahaemers, Andrea Flamini, Dylan Mortimer, Colby K Smith, Brett Reif, Jamie Warren,
Elijah Gowin, Archie Scott Goebber & Beniah Leuschke

This is the perfect time to celebrate the history of the vibrant Kansas City arts community and collect works from some of Kansas City’s premier artists. All proceeds from sales directly fund future artist residencies. Studios Inc is a 501 © 3 Non Profit Artist Residency Program serving mid-career artists in the Greater Kansas City Metro. Learn more at www.studiosinc.org.

SUMMER FUNDRAISER/SELECTIONS will be on view through August 23, 2023. Exhibition hours are Wednesday thru Friday 10am-4pm and Saturday 12 – 4pm. Private tours are available.

Jones Gallery August Art Show!
First Friday opening, August 4th.
Artist reception is from 5 till 9pm.
All welcome and always free.
Also with 150 pieces on display, both local and national artists.
Show runs thru August 24th.
Also open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Closed Sunday
Jones Gallery 1717 Walnut, KCMO. 64108
816 – 421-2111
https://jonesgallerykc.com/

Tonight, we’re dancing like it’s magic

The good vibes and energy around KC for the Taylor Swift concert is uplifting!

City Barrel likes to do some dancing and singing while working, so we are adding some Taylor Swift radio to our playlist 7/7/23 and 7/8/23.

We are embracing the festive mood, and Jackie created a series of slushies inspired by T. Swift this weekend. So, “shake it off” and get down here! These are limited batches so once gone, that’s it.

Up Next:
Red Margarita
Folklore Mango Froze

WHO WILL HEAR MY PLEA?

The artist continues to explore the roles of women in her latest installation, “Hear My Plea,” as she works with images of saints, martyrs, and goddesses. Using the figure she delightfully calls BAH!, which first came to her in a dream, she explores the limitations, bravery, passion, zeal, and compassion of figures related to the Catholic church, paganism, and other cultures.

Using imagery from the Renaissance and Middle Ages as a reference, a time when the general population could not read nor write, and utilized this imagery as their “lesson,” the artist observed only small differences between a woman’s life then and now.

Whom might women call today?

What messages might these images from the past offer to women today?

Who might possibly hear today’s women in their plea for help?

Bio

Linda Jurkiewicz lives in Kansas City and began working with fiber in 2005. She credits her upbringing as a first-generation Ukrainian-Croatian for her “make-do” attitude and her delight in upcycling repurposed materials, especially “woman’s work” such as dish towels, household items, and clothing. Her consequential fiber work incorporates soft sculpture, wordplay, idiom, embroidery, wall hangings, plush form, sequential dioramas, and installations which delve into the cultural roles of women in America over the last century, roles that are changing and roles that she pushes viewers to reexamine, to trade nostalgia for empowerment.

Jurkiewicz’s work has been shown in two solo shows in Kansas City galleries in 2022. Her work has been juried into numerous exhibitions locally. Nationally, her work has been included in Woman Made Gallery 24th International Exhibit, Chicago, Illinois (2023), Intersect Art Center Blue Hour, St. Louis, MO (2023), Amarillo Museum of Art Biennial-600: Textile/Fiber, Amarillo, Texas (2019), Raw – The Exhibition at Indiana University (2018), Sacred Threads in Herndon, VA (2017 and 2019), The Blue Show at the Core New Art Space (2017) and The Engaged Object at the Foothills Art Center (2016), both in Denver, Colorado, and Welcome to My World: Mental Health Awareness through Art at the MIRI Gallery (2016). Salt Lake City, Utah. Jurkiewicz is a member of the Kansas City Artists Coalitio