Upcoming: Locate|Navigate, Kansas City

six of twenty Boonville Snapshots, Timothy Briner, 2007

Locate | Navigate – exercises in mapping (part 1) Opening Reception: Friday January 18, 6-9 pm Urban Culture Project Space | 21 East 12th Street KCMO |816.221.5115 Gallery hours: Thursdays & Saturdays, 12-5 pm Exhibition runs January 18-March 8

A map is a visual representation of an area — a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes. Many maps are static two-dimensional, geometrically accurate representations of three-dimensional space, while others are dynamic or interactive, even three-dimensional. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or imagined, without regard to context or scale.

Locate | Navigate: exercises in mapping, curated by Charlotte Street Foundation Associate Director Kate Hackman, is a two-part exhibition project including drawings, paintings, sculpture, photography, installation-, audio-, video-, web- and performance-based work by diverse local, national, and international artists.

Locate | Navigate part 1, opening at Urban Culture Project Space on January 18, features work by Leah Beeferman (Richmond, VA), Timothy Briner (Brooklyn, NY), Joe Faus (Kansas City), Karen McCoy (Kansas City), Johnny Naugahyde (Kansas City), Garry Noland (Kansas City), Jack Rees (Kansas City), Eric von Robertson (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Michael Schonhoff (Kansas City), Larry Thomas (Kansas City), Andrew Thompson (Detroit, MI), and Cara Walz (Kansas City). Exhibited projects range from Eric von Robertson’s “Cloudburst” and “City Guide,” encompassing hand-drawn maps, photographs, and taxidermic dog sporting knitted relief map/sweater as components of an ongoing documentation and collection of discarded umbrellas; to Joe Faus’s interactive, multi-layered map of the Crossroads area, including audio recordings and personal topographical map layered on top of a large-scale street map annotated with happenings and observations accumulated over multiple decades; to a selection of snapshots from Timothy Briner’s “Boonville” project, for which the artist is exploring small-town America by living in and documenting six different towns called Boonville across the country. Also included in this “part 1” exhibition will be a resource area including library of map-related publications and articles, computer terminal with list of on-line map-related artist projects, and “pin up” wall for visitors to make their own contributions to the exhibition.

P.S. I will not be at the opening do to the Boonville, Indiana action, but I do have a tentative date in early Feb. to give a talk. Please go and check out the show if you are in the area!