Periphery is a thought-provoking exhibition that showcases a harmonious blend of film photography and sculpture, transporting viewers to a tranquil realm of contemplative spaces.

In a world where AI-generated art is increasingly prevalent, Burke and Comotto's use of analog film is a deliberate nod to the beauty of the authentic and the imperfect.

Straddling the line of furniture and sculpture, Kirkwood utilizes the forms of familiar and nostalgic objects to inform an abstracted vision of what furniture is and can be, challenging traditional notions of furniture and functionality.

Merry Sun's installation serves as a sculptural aperture, framing an array of visual and sonic perspectives. Wielding the porosity of sound, her work utilizes sonic feedback to dissolve place into space by blurring the edges of adjacencies.

Periphery aims to examine the beauty of imperfection and grace in the unpredictable. By embracing the anomalies that occur within more traditional forms and processes, we find a connection that feels more acutely human.

FEATURED ARTISTS

Merry Sun constructs compositional infrastructures in her sonic sculptures. These physical and semantic systems delineate permeable spaces that facilitate interaction between individual subjectivities and their surroundings. Wielding the porosity of sound, her work utilizes sonic feedback to dissolve place into space by blurring the edges of adjacencies. Sun received her MFA in Sound Art from the Visual Arts Department at Columbia University in New York City. She currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri.

Colin Burke utilizes common errors of traditional film photography to create ethereal and atmospheric images that transport the viewer to a place of calm and reflection. Through the unpredictable and chaotic nature of film dust, light leaks, and overprocessing, he curates and designs impressionist landscape photography and gives a second life to film anomalies that would otherwise be discarded. Burke received his BFA in photography at the Kansas City Art Institute. He often cites Uta Barth and Hiroshi Sugimoto as heavy influences on his work. He works as a full-time graphic designer and brand innovator in Kansas City, Missouri.

Jason Comotto explores the relationship between objects and accumulated narrative; stories that exist beyond something’s functional role. The combination of travel and set building aims to uncover layered stories, each unique to collective memory. Comotto received his BFA in photography at the Kansas City Art Institute. He currently works and resides in Kansas City, Missouri.

Mitch Kirkwood straddles the line of furniture and sculpture. Utilizing the forms of familiar and nostalgic objects to inform a more abstracted vision of what furniture is and can be. Through craft and honing of raw materials veneer of delicacy is given to otherwise mundane items seen outside the context of furnishings. Kirkwood received his BFA in Sculpture and Creative Writing at the Kansas City Art Institute. He currently works as a furniture designer and fabricator in Kansas City, Missouri.