In the Galleries: Justin Korver, Tim Stone, Kevin Kelly & M. Willie Garcia at the Kansas City Artists Coalition
In "Edge Effect" and "The Distance Between...," four artists explore the physical world.
It's the final week to see two exhibitions at the Kansas City Artists Coalition.
"Edge Effect" brings together nature-oriented works by Justin Korver, Kevin Kelly, and Tim Stone.
Kansas City artist and Iowa native Justin Korver contributes work that bleeds past the canvas into the otherwise two-dimensional exhibition. He patches together moments of nature in textile and mixed-media works, capturing glitches in the environment.
The organic patchworks in Korver's work create overtly illustrative compositions, seen most clearly in "Camo Country."
Details of Kevin Kelly's "I'm Sorry You Feel That Way." (Taylor Waller/The SHOUT)
In his mixed-media works, Kevin Kelly creates dimension with paper pulp. Its bright stippling brings vibrancy to the works in "Edge Effect," which treat nature as an electric being rather than a setting to exist within.
Details of Kevin Kelly's "With Ghosts, There Is Always Room for One More" and "I'm Sorry You Feel That Way." (Taylor Waller/The SHOUT)
Like many of the artists in "Land in Alliance: Shared Ground / Shared Future" exhibition on view at the Salina Art Center, Kelly and Stone concern themselves with interactions between humans and the land we inhabit, studying how human-made objects converse and contrast with the natural world.
Original prints by M. Willie Garcia (within their plastic casings) on sale at KCAC, from top left: "Dreaming of Distant Stars and Alternate Realities," Mokuhanga, 20 inches by 11 inches; "Queering Space-Time," Mokuhanga, 12 inches by 16 inches; "The Entangled Fates of the Universe," Mokuhanga, 14 inches by 11 inches. (Taylor Waller/The SHOUT)
Kansas City-based M. Willie Garcia's "The Distance Between…" zooms out past the limits of our terrestrial existence into the boundless universe. The artist projects burning stars and shifting planets onto 2D and 3D works. Watching the images from a seat inside the small gallery, my role as a small piece of a larger universe doesn't seem so frightening.
Moments from M. Willie Garcia's mixed-media projection installation "The Distance Between…" (Taylor Waller/The SHOUT)
Both exhibitions are on view through Friday at the Kansas City Artists Coalition, 3200 Gillham Road in Kansas City, Missouri.
Related Coverage in The SHOUT:
- 'Enter the Void': Matthew Willie Garcia’s invitation to the cosmos at the Lawrence Arts Center [Leslie VonHolten]
- How to sneak up on a painting [Kevin Kelly]
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