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WATERSHED // Group Exhibiton
The Blue River Society is a group of multidisciplinary artists who have found the Blue River as a source for exploration and discovery within the local community. As a collective the BRS aims to share a variety of perspectives through representing the various artists and their own unique relationships to the Blue River.
Artists:
Will Toney, Andy Ozier, Molly Dillon, Emily Wilker, Celina Curry, Amy Erickson, Graham Carrol, Paige Nicole Gordon, Freed Vorder-Bruegge
(Click image in gallery to enlarge. If you would like to purchase an art piece, please contact vulpesbastille@gmail.com)
Vulpes Bastille Projects 2.0
BetaMax:
Tim J Harte (laptop, electronics), Kameron Sheffield (saxophone), Alex Williams (cello)
Improvisors Collective:
Jacob Frisbie (laptop, electronics), Matthew Niles (cello), Joel Trebbien (piano), David James Witter (trombone), Seth David (guitar)
"My Calling To You" by Raul Gaona
Raul Gaona approaches his subject matter and concepts with a non-anthropocentric perspective. He sensitively and instinctively explores with an investigative eye the lessons that nature patiently provides.
"Moby-Doll" by Paige Nichol Gordon
Moby Doll is a performance based experimental film and interactive installation created by Paige Nichol Gordon. Opening First Fridays, April 6, 2018.
Eggs In A Basket
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Great Gatsby," East Egg and West Egg are two sides of town who gained their wealth differently, one through achievement of, "new money," and the other inheriting it through, "old money." Eggs In A Basket refers to age and influence within the art world, where emerging artists bring new insights and ambitions with them. Artists included in the show are Sam Haan (@internetself), Paige Edson (paigeedson.com), Cesar Lopez (@cesar_cesar_), Chloe Thompson (cthompsons_), Julia Monté (@rare.joolz), Ben Johnson (benjohnsonstudio.weebly.com), Ellen Weitkamp (ellenweitkamp.com), and Julian Barlow (@julesdotnet).
Home & Away - Phillip Bakala and Emily Wilker
Phillip Bakala and Emily Wilker are both studio artists at Vulpes Bastille. They are also roomates, and over the course of their friendship have developed their studio practices around their mutual interest in painting, landscapes, bright colors, and sentimentality. Their duet show at Vulpes Bastille is a bright and bold display of intricate detail that transports the viewer into strange places, settings void of people or explanations. Some seem post-apocalyptic, some seem to resonate with childhood nostalgia, and some landscapes seem to feature other-worldly atmospheres. For more information on work availability, please e-mail vulpesbastille@gmail.com
Photos and text by Mark Allen.
November Exhibition: Other Windows
Vulpes Bastile is pleased to present Other Windows a group exhibition curated by Jonah Criswell.
Featuring works by:
Olivia Gibb,
Cristina Muniz,
Annie Woodfill
Other Windows brings together three emerging artists, who pursue aesthetic perspectives built on freedom and internal rigor. Each artist rediscovers their world through their studio practices resulting in an exhibition that champions curiosity and individuation. By placing these artists together, viewers are encouraged to recognize their discovery of sophisticated aesthetic meanings.
Opening Reception on Friday, November 6th from 6:00-9:00pm & up through November 28th.
UPDATE: Open Windows has been featured in The Pitch! Read the article here.
The Space Between opens September 4
Vulpes Bastille is proud to present The Space Between. Show runs September 4-26.
Opening Reception: September 4, 6-9pm
The Space Between is a collaborative exhibition by Tobias Fike and Matthew Weedman consisting of both collaborative and solo pieces drawing on themes related to the cosmos, isolation, and various forms of the “unknown.” It is the space between knowledge & wonder, fear & fascination, us & the other and here & there that this exhibition seeks to investigate through photography, video, sound and sculpture. Fike and Weedman collaborated from Colorado and Indiana respectively and it is Kansas City that is literally the space between this long distance collaboration. Both growing up in the golden era of the space age, the two artists’ comprehension of wonder is naturally tied to the mystery of outer-space. The collaborative work attempts to draw links between the awesomeness of interstellar worlds and the perceived banal qualities of the everyday.
CNB Group Exhibition opens July 3
Event info:
July 3, First Friday | 6-9pm | Vulpes Bastille
Cross-Border Network has teamed up with KC+ Connect in showcasing three local artists and featuring documentation from CBN's most recent human rights delegation to Honduras. This exhibition focuses on issues of worker justice, community empowerment, and international solidarity.
Join us this First Friday! 50% of sales will go to funding the work of Cross Border Network for Justice and Solidarity and their mission of fighting for workers across borders and who cross borders.
Featuring:
Ashley Anders, Curator
Eugenia Ortiz, Visionary Artist
Stephen Holland-Wempe, Photography
Tino Scalici, Spoken Word with Illustrations
Cross-Border Network Mission Statement:
Economic globalization, driven by unaccountable transnational corporations and an ethic of competition, is driving down living standards of workers around the world, despoiling communities, and weakening institutions which foster democracy and protect human rights.
The Cross-Border Network for Justice and Solidarity believes that an alternative to this type of globalization must be created by building international bridges of solidarity and mutual aid between workers and communities of working people. We educate and organize for social and economic justice by connecting workers and communities across borders and who cross borders.
Cross-Border Network website: http://www.crossbordernetwork.org
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/939727446049174/
Eugenia Ortiz, featured artist website link: http://eugeniaortizart.com/home.html
"Stone and Ether" opens Friday, June 5th
"Stone and Ether" an exhibition of new work by Thomas Luna and Adam Crowley opens June 5.
"Empty space constitutes a fundamental component of the structure of sublimation. Structure has two elements: sacred space, and the positive object which fills the space and delivers the idea of sublimation. Inversely, the common/public space and the negative object delivers the negation of sublimation."
This exhibition, featuring the works of Adam Crowley and Thomas Luna, is an exploration into sacred space, the void, and the sublime. Both artists attempt to create and decode their own ideas of what sacred space represents and how it functions.
Exhibition runs June 5 thru 24. Opening reception Friday June 5, 6-9pm.
"A Theory of Human Motivation" work by Molly Garrett opens May 1st
Physiology, safety, love, esteem, and self-actualization — the needs of every human being, as theorized by Abraham Maslow in 1943. In this video installation, A Theory of Human Motivation, Molly Garrett and Cody Kauhl use sound, animation and projection as a means to reinterpret Abraham Maslow’s thoughts to fit a contemporary and personal context.
Show runs May 1 thru May 10.
Opening Reception Friday May 1, 6-9pm
Contact: Molly Garrett, MGarrett@kcai.edu