ARTSPEAK RADIO with Rivera, Sandoval, Simms, & Cunningham

Wednesday May 2, noon to 1PM

Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with artist/printmaker/educator Miguel Rivera, designer/artist/educator Angelica Sandoval, painter Christian Simms along with Christel Highland and Lori Raye Erickson and musician/educator David Cunningham and 25 of his music students jammed into the KKFI studio!

Christian Simms, Kansas City, Missouri native, has been exploring the human form since the late 80’s. Known primarily for his “blind contour” style, his work seeks the balance between abstraction and figurative representation. The use of bright color and line express the fluidity and motion in his paintings. He often uses collage and other mixed media to give the work texture and depth. Recently he has been taking a more graphic approach to his work with objects such as firearms and tanks. This new work explores male upbringing, playing with the theme of war and adolescence. By rendering these objects in bright, candy-like color, he blurs the line between dangerous weapons of war and toys of a lost childhood. Simms has had a number of solo shows as well as participating in group shows, primarily at The Late Show Gallery.
www.xnsimmsart.com www.cargocollective.com/xnsimms

DECADE Selected works by Christian Simms
Friday May 4, 6PM
Veritable Art 2010 Baltimore Suite 303
Kansas City, Missouri 64108

Angelica Sandoval is a sculptor and designer whose installations defy the traditional aspects of porcelain. Most recently, Sandoval was awarded the Arts KC Inspiration Grant, toward the installation in the Historic Power & Light Building. Sandoval was a resident of the Charlotte Street Foundation Urban Culture Project Studio Residencey Program 2011-2012 and did a summer residency at 200 at Cas Maries in Llorenc del Penedes, Spain. Sher received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and holds a Masters Degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has taught at the Kansas City Art Institue and currently teaches at Johnson County Community College.
www.studiossandoval.com

Miguel Rivera-Weinberger Fine Art’s exhibition, DRAWN & ETCHED, presents work from the Lasansky Studio and Miguel Rivera. Tomas Lasansky, Charlie Lasansky, and Adam Rake of the Lasansky Studio create work based on historical icons and figures. Art historian Joseph Czestochowski describes Tomas Lasansky as “…a humanist who has created eloquent, visual statements that are fresh, sensitive, pragmatic and romantic,” Lasansky’s work is balanced by Miguel Rivera’s layered abstract pieces which reference history, maps, viruses and colonialism.
Also on view will be ceramics and paintings by Jim Leedy.
Opening reception for DRAWN & ETCHED Thursday May 3, 5PM – 8PM Weinberger Fine Art 114 Southwest Blvd. KCMO 64108
DRAWN & ETCHED will be on view from May 3rd through June 30th.

Miguel Rivera joined the KCAI faculty in fall 2008 to serve as chair of the printmaking department. A practicing artist as well as an experienced educator, Rivera has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Argentina, Mexico, Japan and the United States.

He earned a B.F.A. degree in printmaking and painting in 1995 from Southern Oregon University in Ashland.Rivera also has given visiting artist lectures in Mexico, Peru, Argentina and the United States, including Southern Graphics Council conferences. Lately he has visited Project ACE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Guanlan Print Studio in Guanlan China and the 2013 Printmaking biennial in Lima, Peru; these visits were under their respective artists in residency and visiting artists programs. His work was featured at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO. He is represented by Todd Weiner gallery in Kansas City.
http://miguelriveraart.blogspot.com/

David Cunningham is a musician and long-time educator with the Center School District in Kansas City, Missouri.

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