A new series of works by Fernando Achucarro, entitled CDL, represents the struggle within oneself that an artist must face every day. Each drawing is a representation of the abyss that exists between the cruel reality of everyday life, and the perfect universe that exists within each one of us. Achucarro’s work truck became his studio where most of his drawings from CDL (Commercial Driver’s License) were started and finished during his breaks.

Exhibit Hours:

• Thursday November 18: 6 – 8 pm
• Saturday November 20: 2 – 4 pm
• First Friday Reception:
  December 3, 5:30 – 9:00pm
  With the artist and special guest Marty Solomon
• Saturday December 4: 2 – 4 pm
• Thursday December 9: 6 – 8 pm
• Saturday December 11: 2 – 4 pm
• Saturday December 18: 2 – 4 pm

About the exhibit:
In this exhibit, artist Madelynne Jones has created a visual representation of the chiasms and patterns revealed in Genesis. Chiasms are ancient literary tools used by Hebrew writers to create patterns in Scripture. These patterns point to a Creator that is so meticulously obsessed with beauty that He’s layered and buried jewels within the Scriptures for us to uncover. Madelynne’s work allows the viewer to see Scripture through dynamic colors and textures that reveal a God committed to telling His story of redemption over and over again.

About the artist:
Madelynne is an abstract painter living in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a self-taught artist, whose work is expressionistic and often includes depictions of culture or spirituality characterized by bright colors, movement, and texture.

jonesmadelynne@gmail.com | 816.703.7405
madelynnejonesart.com | IG @madelynnerae

Get a head start on your holiday gift shopping! Shop our selection of works specifically curated for holiday gift giving.

This group exhibition will be up through December, but come quick. Items are cash-n-carry and won’t last long. You can also shop right on our website at www.bunkercenter.com

Open to the Public

Thursday – Saturday 11 – 4

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Private Appointments

If you wish to set up an appointment to view the exhibition, either in the gallery or via FaceTime, please give us a call at #816.527.0823, or email kellyk@bluegalleryonline.com

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Blue Gallery is thrilled to present DIRECTOR’S CUT Group Exhibition. This exhibition features Director’s favorite works from recent arrivals and gallery inventory. Please stop by to see this stunning exhibition in person.

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Hope to see you soon!

Kelly + David

In this exhibition, Kelly Porter introduces more than 25 large-scale oil on canvas paintings and nearly 20 monotypes and mixed media works on paper. The work is organic, transcendent and presciently timely, born out of Porter’s decades-long fascination with the basic, essential forms of pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses, their shapes imbued with an inherent beauty that reveals itself under a microscope. That some of the most deadly pathogens look like beautiful flowers at the microscopic level has long intrigued Porter, and inspired her to translate them into ‘atomic flowers.’ The energy of these living forms radiate a powerful vibrancy that is simultaneously constrained and explosive. In Porter’s body of work, atomic flowers are abundant, vivacious and powerful subjects that are brought forward through the medium of art.

Inspired by German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who argued that it is our faculty of judgement that enables us to experience beauty and we grasp those experiences as part of an ordered, natural world with purpose, Porter, too, finds the physical world to be unified, functional, compatible and purposeful. But she delves deeper into unseen worlds, unavailable to the naked eye, and through her exploration offers viewers perspective and appreciation for these natural forms that, indeed, are beautiful.

Porter’s immersion in her fine art deeply influences her commercial work as co-founder of Porter Teleo, a line of hand printed, hand painted wallcovering and fabric that is highly sought after by many of the world’s leading interior designers. The very focused approach she takes to her studio work often leads to new discoveries for her design work, resulting in wallpaper and textile patterns that are entirely new – the intersection where art meets design.

Porter is from Dallas, TX. She received her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO in 1997, where she studied printmaking and philosophy. Upon receiving a full scholarship, she continued her education at the State University of New York in Buffalo, NY, where she received an MFA in 1999. Porter returned to Kansas City for a teaching position at the Kansas City Art Institute and began showing her work in galleries across the country. Kelly Porter’s work has been described by critics as “unique, composed and calming, with layered and labor intensive surfaces.”

Her honors include being named as one of the “21 Under 30 Top Artists to Watch” in 2004 by Southwest-Art Magazine, “Top Visual Artist” in 2006 by Kansas City Magazine, a “Merit Award for Best Product Design” from Interior Design Magazine, 2008, and a number of editorials in Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, Vogue, Town and Country, Women’s Wear Daily, Veranda, Metropolitan Home, House Beautiful, Spaces Kansas City and IN Kansas City Magazine for her surface design work for Porter Teleo.