Uprooting their generational histories and lived experiences, the nine artists featured in this exhibition use materials of labor, landscape, and shelter as a means to navigate shifting geographical and environmental milieus. Dropping a pin on the inhabitants, the selected artists in this exhibition all currently live and work in the North American Central Time Zone region. The work shares space in Kansas City, MO, and collectively uses the site as a means to decipher new interpretations of nature and naturalistic observation. Similar to the philosophies of the Romanticism movement, the human being operating as an extension of nature remains an intersubjective principle in Sweeping the Chimney through the Mantle of the Earth. Relational to the changing world around them, the artists in this exhibition use this principle to blur the boundaries between entropy and empathy.
Featuring: Pia Bakala, Kevin Demery, Juan Molina Hernández, Jada Patterson, Ximena Prieto, Donald Pruitt, Jose Villalobos, Fred Vorder-Bruegge, Rachel Youn
Curated by Andrew Ordonez
Work featured in this image by Pia Bakala Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Pia Bakala Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Fred Vorder-Bruegge Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Fred Vorder-Bruegge Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Fred Vorder-Bruegge, Pia Bakala, Rachel Young Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Rachel Youn Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Rachel Youn, Pia Bakala Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Jose Villalobos Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Jose Villalobos Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Jose Villalobos Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Jose Villalobos, Fred Vorder-Bruegge, Pia Bakala, Rachel Youn, and Kevin Demery Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Kevin Demery Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Kevin Demery, Ximena Prieto Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Ximena Prieto Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Jada Patterson Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Jada Patterson Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Jada Patterson Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Jada Patterson, Donald Pruitt, Juan Molina Hernandez, Kevin Demery, Ximena Prieto Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Juan Molina Hernandez Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Jada Patterson, Donald Pruitt Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Donald Pruitt Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Ximena Prieto Photo by E.G. Schempf
Work featured in this image by Ximena Prieto Photo by E.G. Schempf