15 Feb 2008 to 15 Mar 2008
Hours: Thursday & Saturday, 12-5 pm
Opening Reception: Friday, February 15, 6-10 pm
Urban Culture Project at PARAGRAPH
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Paragraph | 23 East 12th Street KC MO 64105 Opening reception: Friday, February 15, 6-10 pm
Gallery hours: Thursdays & Saturdays, 12-5 pm February 15-March 15
Wild Reserve is a two-person exhibition of recent and site-specific work by Lawrence, Kansas based artists Christa Dalien and Kelly J. Clark. Through drawings, prints, mixed media works on paper, wall paintings and soft sculpture, the artists’ meticulously attend to eccentric worlds of their own invention. Whether it be the phrase “dread daily” revealing itself across the horizon of a night sky in a delicate print with colored pencil by Clark, or a forlorn raccoon sitting in a drippy pool of color that might be a paint pour, melting iceberg, or toxic spill in a pencil and acrylic drawing by Dalien, the artists’ work shares a sense of fantastic melancholy or “wild reserve.”
Both trained as printmakers, Clark and Dalien have collaborated in the past to present an exhibition at the University of Kansas where they received their MFA degrees in printmaking. This second collaborative exhibition reflects an ongoing interest in combining printmaking with other media.
Exhibiting a printmakerly tendency towards multiplicity with an appreciation for individuality, Kelly J. Clark alters the impressions of his printed editions into serial mixed media works on paper. Clark received his BFA from the University of Texas, Austin in 2002, and his MFA form the University of Kansas in 2006. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN; Slingshot Gallery, Madison, WI; The Farm gallery, Kansas City; and Grey Matters Gallery, Dallas, TX, to name a few. Clark is currently an Instructor in Printmaking at Kansas City Art Institute.
Presenting the natural world as a receptacle of her wishes and intentions, Christa Dalien often depicts herself there as well, as director of or participant in the events unfolding. Dalien received her BFA from St. Cloud State University in 2003 and her MFA from the University of Kansas in 2007. Exhibitions include “I Would Rather be Drawing,” curated by Michael Krueger, Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City; “Warm Blooded, Warm Hearted,” First Amendment Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; and “Yes, I Kansas” at the All Rise Gallery, Chicago, IL.
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KcEMA presents “Life like driftwood”
Paragraph | 23 East 12th Street KC MO 64105 One night performance: Friday, February 15, 8pm
Urban Culture Project is pleased to launch a new collaboration with the Kansas City Electronic Music Alliance (KcEMA). Founded in 2007 to promote electronic and experimental music of all types and genres across the Kansas City area, KcEMA organizes collaborative projects with visual artists, dancers, and other electronic musicians, as well as having concerts of music exclusively by their members. Providing a forum for experimental electronic musicians to collaborate, exchange ideas, and grow as an interactive, supportive community, KcEMA will present a free program of electronic music by its member composers specifically selected in response to the work in Wild Reserve. Visit http://www.myspace.com/kcema for more information.
