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Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

 

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

You are one step closer to learning the truth

February 8 – June 15, 2008


Deb Sokolow, preliminary artist’s rendering of
You are one step closer to learning the truth (detail), 2007;
graphite, ink on paper; Courtesy of the artist

Deb Sokolow’s elaborate diagrammatic drawings read like graphic novels. Often constructed with pen, pencil, watercolor, and correction fluid on paper, each drawing’s story features diagrams, floor plans, texts, and illustrations that chart an anonymous, paranoid narrator’s obsessive explorations of the circumstances and clandestine connections among various characters and places. For the Kemper Museum, Sokolow works directly on the gallery walls to construct a new storyline based on an amateur detective’s attempts to unravel a mystery involving barbecue sauce, food critics, condiment espionage, and Kansas City’s SubTropolis. Written in the second-person and following the narrative structure of a Choose Your Own Adventure—a popular series of children’s books—viewers assume the role of the central character and determine the fate of the inquisitive detective.


Common Grounds

March 11–July 18, 2008


Tina Barney, The Bridesmaids in Pink, 1995;
chromogenic color print, 48 x 70 inches;
Museum Purchase, Barbara Uhlmann Memorial Fund, 2001.21

Considering images of the familiar and the everyday explored in the documentary-style photographs of Stephen Shore, Common Grounds brings together works from the Kemper Museum’s permanent collection that respond to the people, places, and things that compose the American vernacular. Artists Tina Barney, Jim Dine, Neeta Madahar, Fairfield Porter, and Wayne Thiebaud, among others, transform the ordinary into the extraordinary through careful observation and personalized depictions of America’s common grounds.


Julia Oschatz: Where Else

April 4 – July 6


Julia Oschatz, untitled (122-07), 2007;
oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas, 21 5/8 x 29 1/8 inches;
Courtesy of the artist and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects , New York

Julia Oschatz’s room-size installations, comprising paintings, drawings, and videos housed in cardboard constructions, chart the eternal odyssey of a fictitious protagonist this German artist’s ongoing narrative. Part animal and part human, this wayward being stars in short, looping videos that blend performance, animation, and painted imagery, and in muted, enigmatic landscape paintings. Whether dancing to German pop music or meandering through an unearthly terrain, Oschatz’s benign, and at times comical, character embodies the existential quest for meaning and transcendence.


RubberMade: Sculpture by Chakaia Booker

June 6 – August 17


Chakaia Booker, Sugar in my Bowl, 2003;
rubber tire and steel, 95 x 110 x 57 3/4 inches;
Courtesy of the artist and Marlborough Gallery, New York

Since the early 1990s, Chakaia Booker has worked almost exclusively with recycled tires. Through a physically demanding process of twisting, slicing, and weaving found rubber tires (primarily from bikes, cars, and farm equipment), she forms dynamic, whimsical sculptures that fuse ecological concerns with questions about racial and economic differences, globalization, and existing sociopolitical power structures. Featuring more than twenty sculptures, this exhibition surveys the past seven years of production by one of today’s leading African-American artists.

 

 

 

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
4420 Warwick Blvd.
(one block east of 45th and Main)
Kansas City, MO 64111-1821

Information: (816) 561-3737

Administrative offices:
Phone: (816) 753-5784
Fax: (816) 753-5806

www.kemperart.org

Kansas City's world-class FREE contemporary art museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art boasts -- in addition to its permanent collection -- a rapidly growing permanent collection of modern and contemporary works of artists from around the world. The Museum hosts temporary exhibitions, installations, performance work, film and video series, lectures, concerts, children’s workshops, and other creative programs designed to both entertain and challenge. The museum opened in 1994 and draws more than 130,000 visitors each year.The Museum Shop offers one-of-a-kind artworks for sale, as well as books, cards, and posters. The Café Sebastienne offers alfresco dining in the sculpture courtyard, for lunch daily, or Friday dinner.

Museum Hours:
Tuesday-Thursday
10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Friday-Saturday
10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.

Sunday
11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Kemper East Hours:
(200 E. 44th Street)

Tuesday-Friday
10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Café Sebastienne Hours:
Lunch
Tuesday-Saturday
11:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

Dinner
Friday-Saturday
5:30–9:30 p.m.

Brunch
Sunday
11:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

The Museum and Café are closed on Mondays.

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