2014 brought us some stellar art exhibitions! Some of my favorites were: the Ulrich Museum’s Bruce Connor retrospective; American Moderns at the Wichita Art Museum; Randy Regier’s installation of TYTON at the Salina Arts Center; andGeorge Ferrandi’s performance for Harvester Arts that gave a small, but lucky audience an experience that changed hearts, minds and opinions on Performance Art – I know it did for me.
And now it’s 2015! It still sounds like the future, but its here and art lovers have a lot to look forward to!
The Ulrich Museum keeps a contemporary pace with the opening of Evan Roth// Intellectual Property Donor - an exhibition where hacker culture meets art and graffiti. The show has already been making “must-see” lists in 2015 and I can’t wait for the opening.
The Wichita Art Museum brings Photographic Wonders: Daguerreotypesfrom The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. This early photography exhibition feel like a historical bookend to the Ulrich’s tech-forward show which could strike a nice harmonic balance for the winter art-viewing season.
Later in the spring, Fisch Haus is hosting the7th bi-annual invitational XX. This exhibition features five artists selected by the five previous artists – all of whom are women. This lineage of female artists continues to showcase a diversity of extraordinary contemporary practices.
What will Final Friday shows bring? Always hard to say, but I’m ready for them and everything in between.
