In the Main Gallery: In combination with traditional 2D materials and collage techniques, the objects used to construct Robert Dohrmann’s body of work are mostly large romantic cardboard print paintings, shadow box clocks, unlistenable LP records and a variety of found objects. The process of cultural anthropology (picking though thrift stores) is conducted anywhere he happens to find junk stores. He likens these stores to museums (also consumer graveyards) where affordable consumer goods go to die and hopefully be reborn. When he finds something that piques his curiosity, he “re-arts” the object and gives it a new life through remix and mash-up strategies. For extra fun Dick Daniels creates oddball wooden signs painted on found and forgotten weathered wood in his ramshackle basement studio as well as Hammerspace Workshop, has created hundreds of whimsical ceramic face pots, mugs and trays at the Kansas City Clay Guild and more recently explored painting geometric abstract paintings on wood.

In the Snap Space Gallery, Michael Webb seeks the harmony between the past and the present, where the pulse of the digital world merges with the brushstroke of tradition. The landscapes beneath the vast and starry dome speak to me in tongues of light and shadow, their illuminated whispers recalling the early days of pixels and screens that first taught me to see. These nightscapes, with their grids of brilliance and darkness, do more than color my canvases; they etch the very lines of my narrative, allowing me to weave the threads of culture, the echoes of politics, the laughter of satire into a tapestry both vast and intimate.