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The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center has showcased regional, national, and international artists for 24 years with an attempt to help establish Kansas City as a center for the arts. We continue the founder's legacy of sharing professional resources with developing artists. We do this by balancing exceptional exhibition programming with education and community outreach. Quality has always been a goal, showing crafts along side installation, painting, and sculpture. The founding footprint of the Crossroads Art District, we are located on Baltimore Avenue between 20th Street and the Freighthouse Restaurants.
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Solo Exhibition
Dates: August 6th, 2010
Title: “Photography”
Artist: Cameron Gee
Medium: Photography Film
Solo Exhibition
Dates: June 4th through August 28th, 2010
Title: “Portraits of the Crossroads"
Artist: David Gant
Medium: Paintings
Description: The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center is pleased to announce David Gant, a native of Kansas City, who will open a solo exhibition on June 4th showing through August 28, 2010. David Gant’s show entitled, "Portraits of the Crossroads", will encompass roughly 150 to 200 hand-painted one of a kind portraits of individuals who live, work and have contributed to the Kansas City Crossroads Art District. This body of work displays a progression of unique styles that David draws upon while attempting to capture the allure of his subjects. David's simple materials of latex and oil on canvas are brought to life with his wonderful and creative interpretation of the energy of each person. David paints the individual perceptually during a 2-4 hour sitting on mid to large sized canvases. This exhibition has the makings of historical proportion due the many interesting and influential people who have been chosen to represent the crossroads. The portrait roster included business owners, visual artists, musicians, gallery owners, patrons, the mayor and his wife, and many others.
Solo Exhibition
Dates: June 4th through July 31st
Title: “Thoughts Before Sleeping"
Artist: Amy Kligman
Medium: Mixed
Description: At the end of the day, when all of life’s humming stops, I find the thoughts at once the clearest and the most convoluted. It is the fuzziness of the time right before sleeping that both allows for focus on the things that matter most, as well as the bombardment of the mundane to intermix, processing the day and life’s experiences in general into a strange condensed soup. This mental “stew” is the stuff of my paintings. They are my attempt to process this life: my own experiences, behavior I observe, the wealth of human history we all build on as members of this particular culture and civilization... and also the wallpaper, and the toothbrush, and all of those boring, inane things we fill every day with and dismiss as arbitrary- yet still are so invisibly consumed by. My painting process is a kind of meditation: thinking, exploring, evolving. The works start with a kernel of a thought; some feeling,or instance, or archetype, and then are built out, expanded upon, until I feel the image completes a kind of mental circuit. There are some reoccurring themes: social awkwardness, groupthink, apprehensive moments of contentment. In truth, though, I don’t restrict myself to specific themes or choose a specific story to tell ahead of time. The pieces emerge, one element at a time, intuitively, and often eventually come to describe what I am feeling or musing over in ways my words just don’t articulate.
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