By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
Three new exhibits highlight the summer offerings of the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph.
Communications Director Jill Carlson says one of the exhibits is by a Kansas City photographer.
“We’ve got a series of photographs by an artist out of Kansas City named Deanna Dikeman and her series is called, ‘Leaving and waving,’” Carlson tells host Barry Birr on the KFEQ Hotline.
Carlson says Dikeman captured images of her parents over the years as she left their home in Iowa. A series of photos of her parents waving goodbye from their driveway over the course of 27 years is captured poignantly in 90 photographs.
An exhibition of 13 sculptures created by Ariel Bowman is, according to Albrecht-Kemper, an unlikely collaboration inspired by the gilded age of discovery and by prehistoric animals. The collection includes free-stand clocks, candelabras, “and kinetic wall sculptures depicting whimsical extinct animals in precarious positions.”
The sculptures include clocks, but all the clocks run backwards.
The third exhibit is the Found Objects exhibit, art created by various items distributed to artists by Albrecht-Kemper.
“Over the past six months, we’ve been distributing objects to different people who want to participate in this exhibition,” Carlson explains. “And they are creating art about or from or with their found object.”
Carlson says the exhibit should really spark some conversations.
“I think people will be delighted and astonished what can happen from each of those pieces.”
Albrecht-Kemper Executive Director Eric Fuson says artists have created art in several difference mediums from the objects, including sculptures, drawings, photography, and others.
The exhibitions kick off late Friday afternoon, June the 17th, with a reception. They will remain on display until September 11th.
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