2012 Baltimore Ave I Kansas City, MO 64108 I 816.474.1919 I Thurs-Sat, 11am-5pm

July 4, 2014

6pm-9pm

CLOSED: July 6 - July 31 (open by appointment only)

1. Caren Canier, Albergo Sole IV, 2013, mixed media with matte acrylic on panel, 14" x 11"

2. Langdon Quin, Study for Above Baldelli's, 2004, oil on canvas, 16" x 17"

3. Laini Nemett, Rooftops from Garden 1, 2014, oil on muslin mounted to board, 8" x 8"

4. Scott Seebart, Anna, 2014, oil on linen mounted on panel, 20" x 16"

5. Jessie Fisher, Nude with Red Flower- Night Painting, 2013, oil on linen, 36" x 30"

6. Martha Armstrong, Montecastello to Todi-January, 2000, oil on linen, 30" x 24"

     

 

Marcy Lally - Bio   Coming from a family of artists, Marcy has art in her blood. Both she and her mother graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute. Marcy studied sculpture under Jim Leedy and the late Dale Eldred.   After graduation she studied abroad for several years in Pietrasanta, Italy.  During her stay she honed her skills as a sculptor, carving marble and casting bronzes. After returning to the United States she continued her education, earning a master's degree in sculpture from Northern Illinois University.    She has exhibited in galleries both nationally and internationally. Her work can be found amongst private collectors and commercially commissioned projects.   While attending school and elsewhere Marcy supported herself by working in the floral industry as a designer. Always a lover of nature, this floral influence is evident in her current work today.   Her work is inspired by the latin expression "Memento Mori" meaning "remember mortality." With this recollection, she wishes for the awareness of what life is and its cyclical nature to become even more heightened.

Apryl McAnerney - Bio   Apryl McAnerney is a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, obtaining her BFA in Painting in 1991. Both a professional artist and an art curator, running local galleries- The Slap-n-Tickle, Locust Factory KC, and co-curating Art Alley and the Main Street Gallery in Anton's Tap Room, while also pursuing a career in faux finishing, she has been on all sides of the artistic conundrum.   "I prefer working simply in pencil on paper, beginning with a female form, especially the face, and allowing the lines of the face and form to grow organically. As a dream morphs itself into symbols, so do the lines of my drawings."   During the past year, she has created over 100 plaster masks, by personally applying plaster gauze strips to the greased faces of friends, family and even strangers, in a quick 20 minute process. Each mask is then protected by a layer of white latex paint and accompanied by the participants "Living Epitaph."

 

Artist Statement

 

My work is a direct product of my surroundings, the emotional, psychological, and physical world in which all life inhabits. Intuitive and in the moment I translate emotion and experience through the act of creating.  My work teeters between the gestural and the technical.  Much like life, the reality of the universe I create is multi-dimensional, a bridging of motifs both light and dark.    

 

There exists a nasty tendency in the human condition, an aggressive and instinctual selfishness, our Id, the Dominator. The desire to seek immediate satisfaction has become rampant. Why do we alienate ourselves from each other and our environment, our Earth-Mother and deny the interconnectedness of all life? Was there a time in human evolution in which the ability to dominate, kill, rape, and pillage was not only advantageous but necessary? Was there an age of back-stabbing, face eating boogymen that eventually decimated their own species into dilution, ultimately evolving into what became a human being?  Whatever the case, the Dominator gene has survived and flourished in our psyche, having been passed down through the millennia. You can see it in our collective attitudes, governments, entertainment, in endless war, and amongst other hominids. This affliction is simply that, a disease of the mind, body, and soul. To identify the Dominator in yourself is to abolish its power.  Now is the time for mankind to transcend the chains of this evolutionary psychosis. My role as an artist is to investigate consciousness and the human condition. Playing the part of shaman and social commenter I regard my creations as reliquaries of spirit, emotion and consciousness, informed by experience. My work is a cathartic ritual that I must engage in. 

 

Artist Bio

 

Skyler Bieberly is a Kansas City Art Institute, Sculpture BFA recipient from 2008. During his time at KCAI and in the years following his graduation he has increased his involvement in local galleries, group shows, public arts projects, and critiques. Bieberly has previously shown in such group shows as "WITNESS:  Perspectives On War" at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center as well as group shows at The Dolphin Gallery and The Late Show Gallery. "DOMINATOR" will be Bieberly's second solo show, his previous "The Hidden Temple" took place at The Late Show Gallery in July 2011. Over the past year Bieberly has been curating one-night-only art openings for The Guild event space while simultaneously creating his new body of work for "DOMINATOR."

 

www.skylerbieberly.com

Artist Statement

 

Syncretized Patterns is a collection of small edition linocuts and screen prints that blend the influences of Native American weaving, Jazz music and contemporary printmaking.

 

Artist Bio

  

Travis (tArvis) Porter moved to Kansas City in 2003 to attend the Kansas City Art Institute School of Design. Since graduating in 2005 Travis has worked as a designer for Champion apparel and Barkley's Collective Studio. When tArvis is not in the office he is pursuing printmaking with his hand-me-down vandercook proof press and screen printing.

  

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