The Studios Inc: Come Join Us to Explore and Learn More

 PLACE:       The Studios Inc

                         1708 Campbell Street         

                         Kansas CityMO64108

DATE:        Wednesday, February 22, 2012

TIME:         5:30 P.M. – 7:30 P.M.

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 The Urban Core is a grassroots effort dedicated to learning more about how urban pioneers are preserving and enriching ourKansas Cityexperience.   Each month we gather to discover and learn how new projects and redevelopment efforts are revitalizing our urban core.   Join us at this great location to discover a place that truly contributes to the vitality of our Urban Core.

This 51,000 square foot building located on the east side of the Crossroads Arts District provides studio space, professional development, networking and a 4500 square foot exhibition space for mid-career artists in Greater Kansas City.

The current building is a hodgepodge of many buildings that have been combined over the years. A three-story brick and stone planing mill and shed was built for P.S. Ford in 1907. Then in 1924 a factory building designed byKansas Cityarchitect Von Unwerth was constructed and attached to the original 1907 structure. Finally the property was modified in 1965 by the Estrin Construction Company and again in 1969 for the MO-KAN Chemical Company when two one-story additions were added to create what we see today.

Studios Inc: 2011

Gallery Hours
Tues – Friday   10 – 4 PM
Saturday          12 – 4 PM     

The Studios Inc Exhibition Space is pleased to present Studios Inc: 2011, an exhibition featuring resident artists Barry Anderson, Julie Farstad, Andrea Flamini, Archie Scott Gobber, Marcie Miller Gross, Diana Heise, Beniah Leuschke, Dylan Mortimer, Garry Noland, Colby K Smith, Peter Warren, Davin Watne, and James Woodfill, on view from 12.9.11 to 2.17.12, with an opening reception, Friday, 12.9.11, 6 – 9 PM.

Studios Inc: 2011, an annual exhibition, features work by each resident artist and serves as an introduction to The Studios Inc Corporate Collection Program. Through this program, The Studios Inc makes available an exclusive collection consisting of one piece of work from each of The Studios Inc resident artists. The Studios Inc is eager to begin promoting the Corporate Collector Program and help fuel corporate patronage of the visual arts community, along with increasing exposure for The Studios Inc resident artists. The Studios Inc underwrites the cost of an independent curator to assemble the collection.

By DANA SELF
Special to the Star
Posted on Wed, Oct. 05, 2011

 In her show “Concentrations,” Marcie Miller Gross works almost exclusively with heavy gray felt, as seen in this wall piece, “Sheared #1.” Photo: E.G. Schempf

If patience is a virtue, then Marcie Miller Gross and her audience should be handsomely rewarded.

Gross’ work is a study in stamina and the subtle delight that a tidy, orderly world manifests.

In this show at Studios Inc.’s exhibition space, where she’s been a resident artist for several years, Gross’ industrial gray felt installation is a fitting companion to the gallery.

The gray floors, walls, and ceilings in this voluminous space are oppressive, and here Gross’ immaculate fiber work actually seems to lift the space, to suggest its rightness as a gallery.

While working almost exclusively in gray felt for this exhibition, Gross does include several minimalist drawings and some works incorporating lush, creamy-white felt and white military blankets. Continue Reading…

Concentrations
Marcie Miller Gross
9.9.11 – 10.21.11

The Studios Inc Exhibition Space is pleased to present Concentrations, an exhibition by Marcie Miller Gross, on view from 9.9.11 to 10.21.11, with an opening reception, Friday, 9.9.11, 6 – 9 PM and a gallery talk on 9.10.11 at 12 PM.

Concentrations is an exhibition of drawings and sculpture that examine elemental, abstract form. Through an accumulative means of building with industrial felt, this work explores the visceral, visual relationship of physicality and weight, of balanced measure and subtle form.  These solids are poetic and repetitious, animal and mineral, dark and absorbing. 

Miller Gross has exhibited her work extensively including: Dolphin Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Byron Cohen Gallery of Contemporary Art, Salina Art Center, and a solo exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Collections include: American Institute of Architects/Kansas City, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri Bank, Helix Architecture and Design and many others.  Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Sculpture, Art Papers, I. D Magazine, Review, and Kansas City Star, and received many awards including the Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, and Arts KCFund Inspiration Grant.  She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and has held academic appointments at the Kansas City Art Institute and University of Kansas. 

Gallery Hours
Tues – Friday  10 – 4 PM
Saturday            12 – 4 PM

Gallery Talk
Saturday 9.10.11 12 PM

The Studios Inc exhibition is at 1708 Campbell, Kansas City, MO 64108.

By ELISABETH KIRSCH
Special to The Star
Posted on Wed, Jun. 08, 2011

In the ambitious exhibit “Consumer Foreplay,” Davin Watne’s paintings, installations and sculptures take the subject of over-consumption to a new level.  If Watne’s dark and theatrical paintings recall the dramatic, heroic painting styles of such 19th-century artists as J.M.W. Turner and Eugene Delacroix, his flamboyant and deliberately garish sculptures would be at home in the Folies Bergere. In this show, Watne wants to have his cake and eat it too — his work ranges from the glamorous to the deadly — and for the most part he succeeds. Continue Reading…

The Studios Inc is pleased to announce that three studios will become available in the beginning of 2012.  Applications are to be submitted online @ http://thestudiosinc.org/residenc/ Application materials must be received no later than June 15^th 2012. Continue Reading…

America: Now and Here Launch Party with DJ Spooky

Friday, May 6th, 7pm
Leedy-Voulkos
2012 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64108-1914

Celebrate the launch of America: Now and Here, Kansas City, on First Friday, May 6th, in the Crossroads Arts District with a live performance by audio-visual installation artist and mix-master extraordinaire DJ Spooky and DJ Sheppa (of Nomathmatics). Continue Reading…

May 13 through June 24, 2011

Gallery Hours

Tues – Friday 10 – 4 PM
Saturday       12 – 4 PM

Gallery Talk

12 pm Saturday May 14, 2011

The Studios Inc Exhibition Space is pleased to present CONSUMER FOREPLAY, an exhibition by Davin Watne, on view from 5.13.11 to 6.24.11, with an opening reception, Friday May 13, 2011 6 – 9 pm. Continue Reading…

3.11.11 to 4.22.11

Performance and Opening Reception, Friday 3.11.11, 6 – 9 PM

Gallery Talk on 3.12.11 at 12:00 PM Continue Reading…