By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
A new exhibition coming to the Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art will feature works from an artist who formerly lived in St. Joseph.
Director Eric Fuson says the Then is Now exhibition will feature works from Ani Hoover, an artist who used to take classes at the museum before she moved to Buffalo, New York.
"She brings in a lot of influences from our pop culture with some of the materials she uses, from beads to little figures you name it she uses it all, but she combines that with the idea of memory jars and Victorian boxes, even African American grave tributes, she kind of brings all those together," Fuson tells KFEQ Hotline host Barry Birr.
Fuson describes the materials the items the works are made out of as found items
"You don't necessarily make every single piece of something, you kind of start to incorporate those in," Fuson explains. "You know, I collect all kinds of things and I claim that as my visual library, if I was somebody that read books all the times I would have tons and tons of books and you'd think wowee, but I have things instead and artists do that a lot, they find inspiration in the materials they're made out of, the texture, the color, the patterns."
Hoover's exhibit titled Then is Now will open today and run through November 5th on the main floor of the museum.
Also featured upstairs at the museum through the 5th will be Current Works by the Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photographers.