Intersections

A figurative show is up at Rockhurst Green Lease Gallery. I found the show itself to not have anything that really stood out to me, and was pretty tame. Though it seems child birth art is in this year.

Rain Garden Update

I went by the rain garden I helped design and plan with my Persuasive Ecology class the other day do see how the plants have developed. It looks like it needs a little help, and possibly some replanting. I haven’t received any updates recently on the progress, or if there’s an intern to even care for it. But it’s nice to see a project I played a creative role in not washed into the creek…yet.

Art School Critique?

The past month I’ve been thinking way too much about art school. I started out with the intent of critiquing art schools in general and started by focusing on the school I currently attend, the Kansas City Art Institute.

My interest started with how art schools sale themselves to perspective students. Through accessing the KCAI archives I’ve viewed most of the catalogs dating back to the early 1900’s. I photographed elements of the catalogs I found interesting and started making collages out of the photos. But then I started to think too much.

I don’t have a negative opinion of the school, and have benefited tremendously from going to school at KCAI. I’m not interested in work that is merely complaining or reacting off the current administration. But using the school as a subject matter seemed to make perfect sense. I want to teach at the college level after I attend grad school, so why not explore the world I’m about to embark on.

Upon going back into the archives recently they had recently been sent a yearbook that a gentleman had found at a flea market in California. Only one class in the history of the school had put together a yearbook, the 1948 graduation class. The book itself is rather bland and not that interesting, just an ordinary yearbook. But on the front inside cover where a name should be and in the back, the autographs page there was an absence. Someone had gone to the trouble of burning out the signed names. They could have cut out the names, but instead choose to burn them.

The sense of trauma the book has to it became a metaphor for me about what happens to the artist that don’t succeed. But in romanticizing this symbol I left out one factor: That most artist that don’t exceed do so because of his or her own lack of ambition, drive, and talent.

I’m currently still working with theses issues, though my thinking phase is over and I’m just focusing on “Making and Thinking.”







I will be posting some of the work I’ve been making here soon.

Johnson County Community college: Nerman Museum of Contempory Art

I find myself more excited about the opening of the Nerman Museum of Contempory Art then I did the new Nelson-Adkins wing. Not that I don't enjoy the new building and the art. I think it's the fact that it will have CONTEMPORY art on display that is n't handpicked by the owner of the museum (Kemper Museum.) Crits on every other Museum aside I hope that the Nerman sets the new standard.




The musuem opens October 27, and I will have pictures of the opening weekend.

Sarah Luther and Erica Mahinay

"Thresholds: Inscapes and Adaptations"

Sara Luther and Erica Mahinay two seniors in the painting department at KCAI have a show up at the KCAI crossroads gallery. Being there studio mate I have an obvious bias towards their work, and think everyone should go down and check it out. The gallery is open from 6-9 pm on Fridays.

KCAI Crossroads Gallery
1908 Main St.
Kansas City, MO

Lucky Pierre: Rock and Roll Impatience

Lucky Pierre of chicago came to Kansas City and performed at there latest piece, Rock and Roll: Impatience. I got a chance to drink with them later, and filmed 90% percent of the perfomance. For more info check out http://www.luckypierre.org

I've included a few video clips of the perfomance below:

Orly Cogan and Elizabeth Huey at Bryon Cohen Gallery

One Year old Today

Well I made it to a year of blogging about my art and the Art I come across. I hope to start including a whole lot more about the Kansas City art scene aswell as including music and books I'm into.


I've included a photo here of my finished starp-on ballsacks.

Raised in Craftivity

Maria Buszek curated a show at the Rockhurst campus Greenlease Gallery. The work here is By Orly Cogan, Claire Joyce, Garth Johnson (Check out Extreme Craft),Laura Splan, and I will post the rest of the names later.