Preview Opening Reception

Join Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC) for an early look at our newest exhibitions in the Main Gallery and Snap Space. This preview reception offers a chance to see both exhibitions shortly after installation, spend time with the work, and connect with exhibiting artists and the KCAC community ahead of First Friday. Through renovation, restoration, and omission, Ellarie Haggart and Elan Warrenn's exhibition Poking Holes and Filling Gaps considers the ways images change and evolve throughout time. The collective, American subconscious frames a past that parallels our present, or, simply, the past repeats itself in new ways. In both Haggart and Warren’s practice, appropriated and grafted imagery from these pasts— layered, joined, and decollaged in order to consider the present moment. Hunter Silvey's Caught in a Storm is an exhibition of dimensional portraits, photography, painting, and sculptural installations that examines gender, transformation, and the fragile process of becoming through the fictional persona of Sienna Mae. Set within the visual language of the American Midwest, the work explores the tension between inherited expectations of femininity and the possibility of self-definition. Meet the exhibiting artists, explore the galleries, and spend First Friday with KCAC. Whether you regularly visit exhibitions or are stopping in for the first time, everyone is welcome. Free and open to the public.