In the exhibition "Active Ingredients: Film, Stone, Plastic, Pigment," four artists whose mediums are radically different are brought together to explore how their depiction of reality synthesizes a common thread within their work, creating a very interesting dialogue with the pieces represented in this show. "Active Ingredients" / Broadway Gallery, NY Jason Bryant Jason Bryant, […]

Creating art in collaboration with patients at mental health facilities is not at all out of the ordinary when considering the work of Javier Tellez. S-T-E-R-E-O-V-I-E-W is unique in that it is Tellez’s first work in conjunction with patients within the United States. Appropriately, the work is displayed in the same borough where it was […]

The Turner Prize-winning sculptor Rachel Whitehead is the sixth artist to receive the Unilever Series commission to fill the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Rachel Whitehead, Contained in the Tate? Arhan Virdi Rachel Whiteread, Embankment, 2005. Tate Modern, Turbine Hall. (c)Marcella Leith, Tate Photography. The Turner Prize-winning sculptor Rachel Whitehead is the sixth artist to receive […]

Cuban-born artist Arturo Cuenca, as a person and as an artist, pulls no punches with his thoughts, intentions or expressions. Those who have been lucky enough to follow his career over the past 25 years will find this exhibition of particular interest, because these works are immensely intimate and personal. Arturo Cuenca, "Aesthasy (Aesthetic+Ecstasy)" / […]

In his novel Transparent Things, the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov claimed that certain objects and places acquire a "time transparency" in the human consciousness. The past superimposed on the present creates multilayered spaces in the memory of human experience. The project White District by the leading Moscow artist Aleksander Konstantinov provokes similar thoughts. Aleksander Konstantinov […]

As a native son I never planned to move back to Kansas City after graduation from a nearby University. After a failed attempt to gain employment on the West Coast after the dotcom bubble burst, I retreated back to my hometown, like the Prodigal Son I was, enveloped in a support system that I never […]

Over the last decade, Byron C. Cohen Gallery has established itself as an anchor of the Kansas City gallery scene, tending to be the most consistently solid commercial space in town for current work by mid-career, nationally and internationally known artists. Jim Campbell at the Byron C. Cohen Gallery Kate Hackman Jim Campbell, Depth of […]

In 1966, I moved from San Francisco, California to Kansas City, Missouri, and, to my amazement, was embraced by a history of working artists determined to define themselves without a coast. Kansas City Rising Peregrine Honig Artist David Ford with Pat Alexander as “Saint Simone/ Maximon,” Central American Saint of vice and bad habits. Photo […]

Jaimie Warren’s intimate, ironic, ultimately confessional show, Don’t Try Not to Be Me, Just Be Yourself, at the Telephone Booth on Troost, consists of two large-scale triptychs (each image about 40″ x 30″), shot and presented in Warren’s characteristic mundane/beautiful style. Jaimie Warren, Mundane Meets Beautiful Jaimie Warren, Untitled, 2005. Inkjet prints, 30″x138″. Courtesy of […]

Six artists, one vision: advancing beyond reality to the core of the unpresentable truth. Using photographic material, Hubertus Hess, Hans Kotter, Maria Maier, Christian Rothmann, Tessa Verder and Felix Weinold encourage the viewer to go on a quest from reality to truth, following the famous idea of Paul Klee: "Art doesn’t represent the visible, but […]