KCAC April Exhibition Openings

3200 Gillham,Kansas City MO 64109

02 April, 2021

Description

Please join us on Friday, April 2nd at the KCAC Galleries from 11am-7pm for the April Exhibition Openings. The April Exhibitions will feature the 26th Annual Undergraduate Student Juried Exhibition in the Main Gallery and Celina Curry in the Snap Space Gallery. The Student Exhibition was juried by Jade Powers. Jade is the assistant curator at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri where she organizes exhibitions including Deconstructing Marcus Jansen, Abstracted Wonders: The Power of Lines, Color Application, Child’s Play: An Exploration of Adolescence, Atrium Project: Joiri Minaya, and Dawoud Bey: Selections from Night Coming Tenderly, Black­­. Before joining Kemper Museum, Powers was the 2017-2018 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow at Saint Louis Art Museum. There, Powers created the first museum-wide gallery guide to comprehensively highlight works by artists of African descent. Powers has also been a Visiting Critic at Kansas City Art Institute, University of Kansas, and Washington University St. Louis as well as a juror for several artist awards. Powers is currently the visiting lecturer for the MFA graduate seminar in the Department of Visual Art for the 2020-2021 Academic Year at the University of Kansas. Celina Curry is a painter, illustrator, and educator residing in Kansas City, Missouri and originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania. A self-appointed self-archivist, her paintings most often call upon re-imagined imagery from own own past. The process of painting allows her to reflect on Big and Scary emotions, transforming them into a tangible souvenir of having worked through them. Recurrent themes of family ties, mental disorder, and the pains of growing up are woven together with exaggeration of varying intensity that correlates into emotional experience of confronting the subject at hand. Additionally, an ongoing series of accompanying short films complements and complicates the narrative. More recently, Celina has expanded her paintings to include the walls of physical spaces and is interested in further blurring the line between her two- and three-dimensional realities. The April Exhibitions will run April 2nd-30th,2021 Gallery Hours are Wednesday-Saturday 11am-5pm