August 28 - October 10

text. (or in the vacancy of)
Joy Drury Cox & Marilyn and Peter Frank

Jeremy Mikolajczak guest curated “text. (or in the vacancy of).”

For this mixed media exhibition, which runs through Oct. 10, independent curator Jeremy Mikolajczak brings together the work of Brooklyn-based artist Joy Drury Cox and the Chicago-based husband and wife collaborative artists Marilyn and Peter Frank. Working primarily with a limited color palette and materials, Cox and the Franks examine the juxtaposition of text as “image and concept” and text as “image and concept through its removal.” Minimal in every aspect, their collective work questions the very definition of language and the replacement of language for image.

Joy Drury Cox, Graph Paper 8 x 8, 2009, 8" x 8", graphite on paper; Marilyn and Peter Frank, ACCIDENTALLLY HOPEFUL, 2007, 5" x 40" x 1.5", neon

March 20 – May 16, 2009
INDA:5 Group Exhibition, Julia Cole, Co-Curator

Greenlease Gallery Observes KCAI Art Program’s Fifth Year with Co-Curated Exhibit

The Greenlease Gallery proudly hosted “INDA: 5” in conjunction with the fifth anniversary of the Kansas City Art Institute’s Interdisciplinary Arts Program (INDA). To mark this anniversary, Julia Cole, sculptor and KCAI faculty, and Anne Pearce, director of the Greenlease Gallery and Rockhurst art faculty, co-curated a retrospective show of current and past INDA students spanning the last five years.

Cole’s and Pearce’s mutual interest is celebrating art that reflects a responsive, dynamic, organic process has evolved into an exhibit of artifacts and experiences that delicately layer material, concept and intuition. Countering a culture of over-saturation, the works balance integration with a keen sense of excising the extraneous and allowing space for the poetic, quiet and mysterious moment.

INDA 5 Show Catalog

	Drew Roth, Inda:5, 2008, digital photo illustration

January 24 – March 7, 2009
Journal Series: Genetically Wired, A. Lloyd du Pont

Genetically Wired, 2008, 4’ x 9’, mixed media

Greenlease Gallery Exhibit Takes a Peek into Artist’s Personal World

A. Lloyd du Pont's solo exhibition titled Journal Series: Genetically Wired featured a selection of her powerful drawings on paper. A. Lloyd du Pont’s private journal drawings are a stark contrast to the landscape paintings and prints she regularly exhibits to the public. The scale, sensitivity and symbolism in these large works reveal the layered and complex interior space of the artist. Using a variety of media and techniques, theses figurative works are intensely personal yet simultaneously universal.

Du Pont grew up in New England, attended Bard College and Boston University, and completed her Master’s in printmaking and painting at University of Missouri—Kansas City. She resides in Kansas City, Mo.

September 26- October 18, 2008

Television, Jack Gustafson

Jack Gustafson, Television #21, 2008, 36" x 36", inkjet print from film

Jack Gustafson's exhibition, Television, consisted of a series of ten photographic works, dealing with issues of identity, religion, and the American Dream. The works seek to magnify perceptions of ourselves, whether or not we as humans are content in living vicariously through a hyper-sensational narrative. Gustafson selected to photograph the televisions as he found them, turned off, implying that with the push of a button, we can ignore life in a state of ignorant hedonism.