The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever an Installation by Amy Kligman

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Detail Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Detail Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Detail Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Detail Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Detail Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Detail Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever featuring “20 Minutes of Forever” a video by Melissa Lenos

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever featuring “20 Minutes of Forever” a video by Melissa Lenos

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever featuring “20 Minutes of Forever” a video by Melissa Lenos

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

Installation of Amy Kligman’s The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever

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The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever Opening Reception!

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The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever a new Installation by Amy Kligman

Join us for an opening reception of The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever, new installation work of Kansas City based artist Amy Kligman. THIS FRIDAY January 15th from 7pm-11pm. The Glory Days Will Not Last Forever is the final exhibition with curator Melaney Mitchell and will run through the end of January by appointment. This exhibition was made possible by a generous Inspiration Grant from ARTS KC!

Kligman’s installation utilizes disposable party goods including balloons, confetti, paper garlands, tissue paper, paper fans and lanterns, as raw material that is repurposed into a dense, large-scale installation. The resulting environment is a claustrophobic immersion of color and texture, which creates a contextually loaded environment for performances and conversations that will take place in the exhibition space during the course of the show run.

Themes and thoughts contributing to the resulting installation include the idealized past, over expectations of the future, mania, overstimulation and overconsumption, and the notion of shared or universal experience.

Amy Kligman has a hybrid practice of studio work and arts administration. Her resume highlights include an Arts KC Inspiration Grant, Missouri Bank Artboards Commission, inclusion in issue #101 of New American Paintings, and an exhibition at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art as a 2014 Charlotte Street Visual Award Fellow. She was a founding member & co-director of the curatorial collaboration Plug Projects from 2011-2015, leaving in 2015 to take on a role as Programming Director for the Charlotte Street Foundation. Amy currently is the Executive/Artistic Director of the Charlotte Street Foundation. She lives with her husband Misha and son Sam in Kansas City, MO.

At 7:15 pm on opening night this Friday January 15th Blanked Undercover will be performing their piece The Chamber of Secrets Will be Opened (mark your calendars)

Melissa Lenos’s project, “20 minutes of Forever” will be screening all night.

Subterranean Gallery,  founded in 2010 by Ayla Rexroth, is an underground hybrid art and domestic space in Kansas City, Missouri. In contrast to the traditional “white cube” gallery, Subterranean has always strived to facilitate an environment that engages creativity with intimate ambiance. During Melaney Mitchell’s two year run as Director she has taken advantage of its strange and unexpected histories of a basement domestic space to create seven exhibitions in a variety of mediums. Midwestern suburban basements are usually filled with walnut wood panelling, old shag carpet, and light up signs for Old Style beer. The experience of art in that space, in lieu of ones own father’s collected sports memorabilia, forces something different to happen. It’s a space of collaboration but more importantly a space for conversation. As Mitchell leaves the project she says “I realize that the part of Subterranean that I’m going to miss is the conversation. The talk of art in Kansas City is the hearth of what makes a stark white painted basement apartment a wonderful space see and be with art.”

Subterranean Gallery will open again in the Fall/Winter of 2016 with new gallery director Jordan Hauser.

Free Programming with HOME // SPACE Exhibition

 

This Sunday May 18th from 1-3 PM at Subterranean Gallery, HOME // SPACE Artist R. Shrum and Subterranean Gallery Director Melaney Mitchell will host a conversation about What Makes Contemporary Space.

We will consider the work in the exhibition, and how it relates to the way in which we perceive contemporary space.

Things to consider:

How do we make a space our own? What makes a place feel like a home? What makes a place seem “lived in”? How does the space of the home compare and contrast with our online space? What stories to the objects in our homes hold? What kind of objects do we accumulate to build a home?

Join us! This workshop is free and light refreshments will be provided.

 

Another HOME // SPACE program to keep on your radar is next Sunday May 25th from 12-2 PM, we will be hosting an ART BRUNCH where we will discuss the topic of Gender and Identity in the Home.  Seating is limited and brunch will be served complete with food and drink.

Please RSVP to ART BRUNCH as seating is limited by emailing subterraneangallery@gmail.com.

 

We hope to see you at one of these two events. These are both great opportunities to see the exhibition if you have not yet already. To schedule an appointment for another day email Melaney at subterraneangallery@gmail.com

 

HOME // SPACE New Work By R. SHRUM

 

HOME // SPACE Exhibition Opening Reception!

Friday, May 2nd 2014 from 7-11pm

This May Subterranean Gallery hosts our second relaunch exhibition, HOME // SPACE featuring the work of R.Shrum. HOME // SPACE opens on Friday May 2nd from 7-11 pm and will run through May 30th by appointment. The work of R. Shrum uses digital image and design based installations to explore the idea of home in relation to memory.

R. Shrum is a 2014 BFA Fiber candidate of the Kansas City Art Institute, Shrum has participated in the Ox-Bow School residency in Saugatuck Michigan and has participated in several shows in Kansas City, Missouri. Shrum lives and works in Kansas City, Missouri.

Shrum reconstructs childhood memories of domestic spaces through playfully arranging object and image. His work combines the production of image and concept inherent in printmaking, with the study of craft, technique and object based construction in relation to textile.  He utilizes the style of Mid-Century American living to activate feelings of security and comfort inherent in the home.  Surrealistic, portrait-like photographs of objects, serve as an entry into the mind of the child expressing the spirit of play. Light and reflection employ important roles in blurring the lines between time and space. Shrum uses an retro-specific language of color, form and motif allowing the viewer to draw personal connections by creating visual phenomena within familiar spaces and utilizing artifacts from their past.

 

In the weeks following the exhibition opening, we will be hosting programming to allow the public to interact further with the artist!

Here are the program dates and themes:

Sunday May 4th: 1-3pm PDF Club guided artist talk and discussion with R.Shrum

Sunday May 11th: 1-3pm Curatorial Activity// The Hidden Stories of Objects

Sunday May 18th: 1-3pm Social Activity // What Makes Contemporary Space?

Sunday May 25th: 12-2pm ART BRUNCH // Gender and Identity in the Home – LIMITED SEATING RSVP REQUIRED-

 

please email subterraneangallery@gmail.com with any additional inquiries, to schedule an appointment, or to RSVP to an event.

Subterranean Gallery Presents LOT I8

An Exhibition Featuring New Work By A. Bitterman

Join Us for an Opening Reception

Friday, June 3^rd 6:00 – 11:00 pm

Friday, June 3^rd 6:00 – 11:00 p.m. Subterranean Gallery will host a public opening showcasing new work by A. Bitterman. The exhibition will feature video, installation, and photography pieces that respond to late 1960’s Land Art. LOT 18 is viewable by appointment June 4th – July 1st. Subterranean Gallery is located at 4124 Warwick Blvd. Apt. B. Kansas City, MO.

A. Bitterman is an artist, writer, and pseudonym for father of five, and owner of The Reading Reptile, Pete Cowdin. LOT 18 is the spring installment in Bitterman’s ongoing (Home)Land Art series, begun in 2008. Bitterman utilizes his house and the land around it as a staging area to dissolve the boundary between the natural world and built environments. He uses aerial photography to capture a simple gesture: taking off his clothes and climbing onto the roof of his Brookside home to place himself between the earth and sky.