exhibition/artist exchange with okay mountain/austin, tx at paragraph + project space nov 22 - january 10
Urban Culture Project is excited to present two new exhibitions together featuring recent work by nearly twenty Austin-based artists never before seen in Kansas City. The result of a collaboration with Okay Mountain, an artist collective and artist-run gallery in Austin, Texas, the shows open Saturday, November 22, 6pm at Paragraph gallery and Project Space, 21-23 East 12th Street in downtown KC.
TEXPOSÉ: NEW ART FROM AUSTIN at Paragraph gallery, curated by Kansas City-based painter Grant Miller and Charlotte Street Foundation Associate Director Kate Hackman, features the work of six Austin artists selected through image reviews and studio visits conducted in Austin this summer. Artists featured are Erin Curtis, Ryan Lauderdale, Erick Michaud, Jill Pangallo, Joseph Phillips and Virginia Yount.
IT’S GONNA BE REVERYTHING at Project Space is a group exhibition of artworks and site-specific installations by the Okay Mountain collective, who will spend more than a week in Kansas City prior to the opening. This new series of works seeks to highlight the collaborative way in which the group maintains its gallery and wealth of duties.
Exhibitions run through January 10. Note extended gallery hours for these exhibitions: Wednesday+Thursday 12-5pm, Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 12-5pm. The galleries are closed November 27+28 and December 24-January 2 except by appointment. Read the full press release. See media coverage: KC Star preview; Pitch preview. KCUR-FM podcast.
In exchange, Okay Mountain hosts Slow Cooked: New Art from Kansas City , curated by Okay Mountain member Sterling Allen and featuring work by Marcus Cain, Colin Leipelt, Kacy Maddux, Jim Woodfill and Michael Converse. More. See media coverage: Glasstire
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