IN/SIGHT 2018

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

September 7th - October 20th, 2018

“I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever. “

- Kurt Vonnegut

Artists are the cultural equivalent of the proverbial canary in the coalmine. As sentinel species, artists are out front, alert, and hypersensitive to the world around them. They re-contextualize almost everything, and in doing so reveal surprising ways of thinking about art, our world, and the status quo.

Artists speak in the language of art using color, form, line, and material to discover something new, unexpected and true. Form and meaning are inseparably bound and content ranges from nuanced visual poetry to bold calls to action and everything in between.

The exhibition, IN/SIGHT, focuses on artists and artwork that demonstrate the broad range of engagement with material and content taking place in Kansas City and the region.

21 Participating Artists:

Judy Onofrio

Tom Huck

Mary Ann Strandell

Roger Shimomura

Sarah Sense

Tom Jones

Ana Maria Hernando

John Balistreri

Patty Carroll

Art Miller

Tanya Hartman

Larry Thomas

Anne Austin Pearce

Marcus Cain

Ky Anderson

Billy Hassell

Cary Esser

Norman Akers

Annie Helmericks-Louder

Brandon Reese

Vincent Falsetta

Roger Shimomura

American Beats American Acrylic on canvas

54” x 54”

Tom Huck, Electric Baloneyland, Chiariscuro Woodcut printed on Okawara paper, 89” x 114”, Edition of 22

John Balistreri, Storm Tower, Woodfired stoneware, 63” x 18” x 18”

John Balistreri, Clank, Boom, Steam, Woodfired stoneware, 43” x 15.5” x 15”

Patty Carroll Dished Fruity

Guns and Roses

Digital Photographs

40” x 40”

Edition of 10

Sarah Sense Champion

Woven archival inkjet print on rice paper

24” x 32”

Sarah Sense

Hollywood Cowgirls

Woven archival inkjet print on rice paper

24” x 32”

Tanya Hartman

Icons From a Broken World: Norman Akers

Oil paint, encaustic and glass beads on true gesso panel

60” x 54”

Edition 20

Norman Akers

Invisible World Passing Through Tears to Water

Lithograph

19.5” x 16”

Billy Hassell

Orchard Oriole with Peaches Oil on canvas

42” x 38”

Billy Hassell Cactus Wren, Eye on the Prize Oil on canvas

42” x 38”

Annie Helmericks-Louder

Requiem for the Birds req·ui·em

noun

A Mass for the repose of the souls of the dead

A musical composition setting parts of a requiem Mass, or of a similar character

An act or token of remembrance.

Mixed Media

Detail

Marcus Cain Ritual (left)

Acrylic and latex on canvas

84” x 60”

Marcus Cain Green Uniform

Acrylic and latex on canvas

18” x 14”

Judy Onofrio Unearth

Sliced bone, mica, diamond

dust, acrylic paint, resin

15” x 37” x 8”

Vincent Falsetta

EP 17-4

Oil on canvas

48” x 44”

Billy Hassell

The Canary (In the Coal Mine)

Oil on canvas

52” x 50”

Ana Maria Hernando

Y yo miro flores (And I Look at Flowers) 1-6

Acrylic inks and acrylics on paper with cut-outs

20” x 16” each

Ana Maria Hernando

Como Conversan el Hielo y el fuego? (How do the Ice and the Fire Converse?)

Acrylic inks and acrylics on paper

40” x 26”

Mary Ann Strandell

Transit Trail Train Bottoms- Diptych

3-D Lenticular Media

42” x 64”

Mary Ann Strandell

Missouri River/August

Oil on primed rag

30” x 30”

Mary Ann Strandell Transit Trail Shawnee Bird

3-D Lenticular Media

42” x 32”

Brandon Reese Dunes (left)

Stoneware with porcelain slip and wood

84” x 14” x 12”

Brandon Reese Gannon

Salt glazed stoneware

24” x 24” x 8”

Anne Austin Pearce

Blue Sea I

Ink and acrylic on paper

48” x 48”

Anne Austin Pearce Black Sea I Ink and acrylic on paper

48” x 48”

Cary Esser

Parfleche (b21)

Parfleche (b24)

Parfleche (w21)

Earthenware and glaze

16” x 11” x 1.5” each

Those White Paper Fellows Tell Black Ink Lies

Digital photograph and engraved glass

Edition of 10

Tom Jones

19.5” x 9.25”

Their Head Were Full of Fantasy

Digital photograph and engraved glass

Tom Jones

11.75” x 34.25”

Digital photograph and engraved glass

Edition of 10

Digital photograph and engraved glass

Edition of 10

Tom Jones

Tobacca, Snuff, and Segar

19.5” x 9.25”

Tom Jones

Seminole

19.5” x 9.25”

Join or Die

Digital photograph and engraved glass

Tom Jones

9.25” x 19.5”

Ky Anderson Spin 2

Acrylic on canvas

64” x 54”

Ky Anderson

Full Body Shield

Acrylic on canvas

60” x 45”

Ky Anderson

Empty Lower Half Acrylic on canvas

60” x 45”

Cellular Towers 1-12

Archival inkjet prints

15” x 22” each

Art Miller

Larry Thomas

Jealous Shadow

Mixed media on canvas

40” x 56”

Larry Thomas

Precarious Flicker Mixed media on canvas

40” x 56”