I’m Proud of this Lil’ groovy town on the Prairie. For about a year now there have been synchronized art events on the final friday of every month. Most of the action happens in the downtown area along Massachusetts street. Venues include The Lawrence Arts Center, Wonderfair Gallery, The Invisible Hand Gallery, and various “flash spaces” in which art shows are installed in vacant commercial spaces. Several blocks to the west of the historic downtown area along Mass. street, is the Spencer Museum of Art on the campus of KU. They have some great programming these days and usually do something special for the final friday event as well.
Alicia Kelly, above, curated a flash space for the final friday fun the night of April 29. The show was called Blame it on the Moon, and featured 10 exciting young artists and one older artist doing a variety of things. The work all meshed together well.. unfortunately I didn’t take a lot of photos. In the picture above she’s standing in front of the piece that I did for the show, a sort of “Wizard Entertainment Center” featuring 2 videos, an HSS speaker, a fog machine, incenses, and a fan blowing on the Kansas flag.
Detail of Lawrence artist Christa Dalien's window installation for "Blame it on the Moon", curated by Alicia Kelly.
Artist Ray Sohn (middle), and Kelly Clark (left) and Eric Dobbins (right) of Wonderfair Gallery.
Brooklyn/Kansas City artist Ray Sohn (above) came to Lawrence and created an ambitious solo show at Wonderfair gallery he called “Pyramid Lake”, which will run through June 19th. Gallerists (as well as being artist themselves) Kelly Clark and Eric Dobbins served as artist assistants to get help Sohn get the show in order. It was a nice achievement, the show looked really great.
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