In the Galleries: Bernardo Trevizo, Karissa Ruth, & Connor Seybert at Harvester Arts
Harvester Arts’ expansive footprint and its eclectic approach to exhibition can make for a dizzying visual array, and perhaps never more so than right now: The Wichita arts organization has six wildly divergent shows on view through July 30.
Bernardo Trevizo presents six new paintings in “The Other Mexican Artist in Wichita.” The artist’s talent for humorous mashups is evident in paintings like “Mexican Americans Love Paletas,” a tribute to actor (and noted Chicano art collector) Cheech Marin. Its solid background signals that it belongs to Trevizo’s “Mexicans Doing Mexican Things” series of paintings that play with common stereotypes.
The show includes paintings from Trevizo’s “The Land Was Gold” series, composed of paintings rendered with gold leaf accents.
Photographer Karissa Ruth documents Wichita dancers in “Pole Art.” In addition to scores of photographs, the exhibition includes answers to a survey she conducted with her subjects, plus a temporary pole that dancers twirled on during the First Friday reception earlier this month.
A particularly striking series of images features subjects suspended from “Wichita poles” — the signposts and traffic poles that dot our urban landscape.
Connor Seybert’s “Through a Rented Car Window” documents three trips to Ireland. In addition to predictably scenic views, many images capture the context: reflections from the roadway, windshield wipers, window stickers, a self-portrait in a side mirror. Seybert’s decision to print, frame, and present this body of work in a gallery setting invites reflection about how we travel and make sense of landscapes. And his car seat and door window installation, through which visitors can view a series of projected photographs, is pure fun.
Other exhibitions on view at Harvester in July are “Captured: An Image(ination) of Self,” analog and digital self-portraits by A Lee Haworth; “Carrion and the Soul,” mixed-media works concerning selfhood and disability by Etienne Wesley; and the group show “Manual Exposure with Minimal Experience.” You can read all of the artist statements online.
Harvester Arts is located on the first floor of the Lux apartment building in downtown Wichita, 120 E. 1st St. Paid parking spots are available along 1st and Market Streets. Gallery hours are 3-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays.
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