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Oct
5
First Friday overload
October 5, 2006 |
This month’s First Friday has way too much stuff going on, in addition to the usual gallery openings…
TWA Rocket unveiling - The rocket that used to set on top of the old TWA headquarters returns, with the new replica unveiled at 6:00 p.m. on the corner of 18th and Baltimore.
Performing Arts Center groundbreaking - 4:00 p.m. kickoff ceremony for the new landmark. Afterward the symphony, ballet, and opera will perform outside until 9:00 p.m. on 19th Street between Central and Wyandotte Streets.
The American Royal BBQ returns for its 27th year in the West Bottoms. This year the public will have even more opportunities to sample the food. Free shuttles run from Union Station garage at Pershing and Main, Town Pavilion garage at 12th and Grand, and the City Hall garage at 11th and Oak.
KC Star’s new printing plant is open for free tours from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. at 17th and McGee.
The new pedestrian bridge linking Union Station to the Freighthouse building at Crossroads District opens to the public.
Keep reading for a list of art exhibitions from Present Magazine
October First Friday Highlights 2006
7-9 PM
Mackenzie Thorpe
Starting in Kansas City with a 10,000 square-foot exhibition, this internationally-renowned artist begins a two-year, multi-city tour of his paintings and sculptures. Love, hope, and hearts are a constant theme represented throughout his work. A portion of the proceeds from his exhibit will benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City. You can read more about Thorpe’s work in the PRESENT Magazine, September 18, 2006 special feature .
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
2012 Baltimore
816.474.1919
6-9 PM
Anthony Butler, Big Stuff
& Little Stuff
Anthony Butler is an exciting new painter with big, bold, and bright canvas shows just how much the artist feels about painting in general and his stuff in particular. “Painting is cool. It is beautiful and ugly, alluring and seductive. It can make us happy or angry. Painting is hot. It moves us and makes us stand and gaze upon it in wonderment. It can cause us to forget and take us away. It relaxes us and excites us. I dig painting, the way it makes me feel as I am doing it.”—Anthony Butler. Complementing the “big” stuff, will be a collection of small framed prints of variable subjects.
Grand Gallery & Café
1815 Grand
816.472.9955
Anthony Butler, Faith
Don Clabaugh, Sunflowers
6-10 PM
David Ford, Gold Standard
Though primarily known as a painter, Ford’s work covers a range of disciplines and cultures. His work exemplifies an approach of culling and combining images and information from a variety of sources, always keenly aware of the context from which they are derived and the meaning they carry. With no formal training, he paints in reaction to outside forces—social, political, and philosophical.
Dolphin
1901 Baltimore
816.842.5877
www.thedolphingallery.com
David Ford
6-9 PM
Jane Pronko, New Work and Private Stock
Pronko introduces rural landscapes in addition to her familiar cityscapes. Painting in oil, she shares her own unique vision and moody quality to scenes we all live in yet often fail to see. At once familiar and new, her paintings evoke nostalgic memories or feelings; a reminder of where we’ve been. Pronko’s work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and “Ninth Annual Missouri Top 50″, juried by Elizabeth Dunbar.
Pi
419 East 18th Street
816.210.6534
Jane Pronko, Interim
6-10 PM
Kwanza Humphrey
#8 Gallery
1600 Locust
816.916.8121
6-9 PM
Benjamin Timpson
By taking seemingly simple, everyday objects and illuminating them to display human emotions through photography, Timpson has created a name for himself with several of his collections on display throughout the United States. Most notable for his “End of Roll” work, Timpson specializes in taking found objects on slides and manipulating them to create images that are simultaneously both beautiful and disturbing. “I have taken ordinary and very simple everyday objects,” says Timpson, “I have turned them into human emotions and abstractions.” This month, 1810 Gallery has partnered with the Foundation Workshop of Kansas City. Ten percent of all sales will go to this non-profit organization that provides a sheltered work environment for adults with disabilities who live in Jackson County.
1810 Gallery
1810 Cherry
6-9 PM
Fiber Department Sophomore Exhibition, For the Love of Blue
All of the students in the Fall 2006 sophomore fiber class at KCAI were challenged to design and create a 24-inch-by-72-inch panel of fabric using blue as the only dye color, paying particular attention to rhythms, textures and shapes. Ten of the students wove their fabrics, and ten used surface design processes.
KCAI Crossroads Gallery
1908 Main Street
816.802.3423
www.kcai.edu
Americanimo
Americana Music Gathering with Wayward Son and Danny Cox in a show featuring American art and bands.
Grinder’s Sculpture Park
18th Street and Locust
816.520.8430
Kevin Sink Photography
A variety of natural landscapes and Kansas City images with limited edition photographs and notecards.
Studio 2131
2131 Washington
816.474.4555
www.kevinsink.com
6-9 PM
F. Max Fearing
The Wine Gallery
2004 Grand
816.471.5056
8:30 PM
Susie Thorne
Part of the Just Jazz concert series presented by the Mid-America Arts Alliance with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
2018 Baltimore
816.421.1388
www.maaa.org
6-9 PM
Jonathan Hils, Odds (@) Culture
Featuring “Right Turn,” a life-size racecar-like sculpture made out of welded steel.
Zone Gallery
1830 Locust
816.471.3618
6-9 PM
Kelly Porter, New Works
Through October 24.
“Each painting represents a formal and aesthetic challenge, as well as an intriguing adventure into the subject of microscopic life and the blending of cellular and botanical life. My process is formal in nature, and uses 18th Century philosophical ideas of the sublime and the beautiful to investigate the similarity of these different forms of life.” –Kelly Porter
Laura-Harris Gascogne
“My works are the reflections of my life experiences, past and present. They are my thoughts, reflections, observations and memories, made manifest in my mind and regurgitated into my ceramic sculptures and paintings.”—Laura-Harris Gascogne
Read more about Kelly Kuhn and the Blue Gallery in the September 2006 issue of PRESENT Magazine
Blue Gallery
7 West 19th Street
816.527.0823
www.bluegalleryonline.com
Kelly Porter, Tropic of Capricorn & Utopian Tree
Laura-Harris Gascogne, Mirage II
5-9 PM
Chameleon YA! Youth Arts
The exhibit will feature art by Master Teacher Ed Hogan and his students. Music for the event will be High Vibe with Elder Statesman of Kansas City Jazz Horace Washington. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres, free parking, and free shuttle to the Crossroads will be provided.
Radisson Hotel Suites City Center
1301 Wyandotte
816.460.6610
Ed Hogan, Downtown
John Kaiser, Landscapes and Abstracts
Apex Art Space
in Crossroads Dentistry
1819 Wyandotte
816-841-0206
7-9 PM
Philomene Bennett, Recent Paintings
Mike Lyon, Large Scale Woodblock Prints & Drawings
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
2004 Baltimore Avenue
816.221.2626
Mike Lyon, Sarah Reclining
Philomene Bennett, After the Fourth
5:30-8:30 PM
Terence O’Malley
Stop by and see the newest condos in the Crossroads and hear blues pianist Terence O’Malley. The former historic Monroe Hotel, which was owned for many years by Tom Pendergast, has recently been converted to nine condominium homes. To read more about Terrance O’Malley, read the July 2006 PRESENT magazine special feature.
Monroe Hotel Condominiums
1904 Main
816.810.6456
8:30 PM
Barclay Martin
After a stimulating evening of KC Crossroads art viewing, come relax to the tunes of Barclay Martin and his ensemble while you nosh at KC’s distinctive cabaret bar.
1911 Main Street
816.472.5300
bar Natasha
6-9 PM
The Art of Urban Living
Representatives from Prudential Kansas City Realty will have information on the myriad of options you have for urban living with some great art viewing from various artists.
Krzyz Studio
1800 Locust
816.472.4999
www.krzyzphoto.com
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