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Exhibition Review : Continent
Continent: Three Bodies of Environment & Experience
These three bodies of work all revolve around familiar aspects of home or the experience of investigating oneself and their environment, though they tend to ask more questions than answer anything specific.
Casey Holden’s “Neither Here Nor There” describes an experience of transition. Documenting spaces between Kansas City, Missouri and her hometown, Miami, Oklahoma, Casey’s photographs become a coherent structure, much like a well crafted sentence, that speak to the inherent feelings of leaving and returning home. Experiencing the work leaves the viewer somewhere in-between - somewhere between seeing and knowing. Can we ever really go home?
“Drift” is a collection of recent photographs by Briana Bosworth that flow gracefully - as if they carry you along a pilgrimage. The photographs present spaces and environments that are rich with presence and atmosphere captured in moments of solace. In one beautifully poignant photograph, water surrounds a large rock as the artists shadow is cast upon the image suggesting a certain self-awareness, an acknowledgment of herself, as trace.
“Mal•le•a•ble” is an on-going body of work by Victoria Meyers. Meyers uses an instant film camera to document intimately cold moments of occupancy. These polaroids are then meticulously arranged on a gallery wall in a grid structure that begs to be read as a map. But Meyers gives no direction, no clues, no real beginning, no real end. With nothing to suggest the passage of time, only a constant and overwhelming feeling of absence, the viewer is perpetually fixed inside of Meyer’s web of constructed space.
Continent was exhibited at the Red Lady, a new gallery in the West Bottoms of Kansas City, MO.
__ Review by Max Wagner for Archive Collective
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The Center is a Moving Target
Kemper at the Crossroads
33 W. 19th St
Kansas City, MO 64108
Kemper at the Crossroads displayed a perfect survey of the wide range of conversation happening amongst Kansas City local artists with The Center is a Moving Target. The space was divided nicely and curated very well. One of the most satisfying curatorial decisions being the…
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