Wonder Wall

Fuck It.. by Lori Raye Erickson

• Wonder Wall
Blue Gallery (118 Southwest Blvd in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, December 3, 6-9pm (Ongoing until Jan. 3rd)

From the organizers:
Works of art $500 or less, including artists Amy Abshier-Reyes, Rich Bowman, Shannon Gaines Bowman, Carson Catlin, Nicole Cawlfield, Jamie Chase, Lori Raye Erickson, Joe Ramiro Garcia, Joe Gregory, Bernal Koehrsen, Lisa Lala, Sheryl Pierson, Doug Schwietert, Rachel Stuart-Haas.

DJG Ate Eight: An Art Show

• DJG Ate Eight
The Brick (1727 McGee St. in Kansas City, MO)
Saturday, December 4, 6pm (Ongoing until Dec. 31st)

From the Organizers:
Presented by DJG Design. Prints and original art will be for sale on opening night only.
Starting around 7pm will be music by Kansas City area talent: Konnor Ervin (of The ACB’s), Bryan Lamanno (of The Tambourine Club), Thom Hoskins, Micah Buzan.

A Reading and Print Show

• A Reading and Print Show
Wonder Fair: Art Gallery, Shoppe & Studio (803 1/2 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Sunday, December 5, 7:30-10pm

From the Organizers:
After collaborating on “We Are The Only Natural History We Need: An Interdepartmental Trade Portfolio featuring Writing and Etching”, the students of Adam Desnoyers’ Fiction Writing II class and Kelly Clark’s Intaglio class at the University of Kansas will be presenting their work. The writers will read their fiction and the printmakers will have their prints displayed.

Portrait

Red Chair by Cody McLouth

• Portrait
The Lawrence Percolator (940 New Hampshire in Lawrence, KS)
Saturday, December 4, 6-9pm

From the Organizers:
Featuring work by Molly Murphy, John Sebelius, Cody McLouth, and Marguerite Rappold.

Artboards

Adolf Martinez

• Artboards
Missouri Bank Crossroads Branch (125 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, December 3, 6-10pm

From the Organizers:
Jerry Kunkel’s two west-facing images, titled Memories Are…, play with ideas of fact and fiction, past and present, the nature of memory, and the veracity of photographic representation.  Juxtaposing the front and back of a postcard against two views of the specific location it apparently depicts, Kunkel invites the viewer “to fill in the blanks, conjure a short response, and consider what may have transpired.”

Adolfo Martinez’s east-facing Artboards, titled We’re Not in Kansas Anymore, feature robots pulled from pop culture set amidst the Kansas City skyline: Robby the Robot, from the movie “Forbidden Planet,” Gort from “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” and robots from “Lost in Space,” “March of the Robots,” Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis, ” and a B movie called “Robot Monster.” While injecting a sense of humor and fantasy into the downtown landscape, this line-up of visitors from different eras and planets also offers a poignant portrait of changing cultural portrayals of the futuristic “other.”