BETHANY SPRINGER, CONNIE ERHLICH, FRANK BRADLEY JR
SEPTEMBER 7 – 28, 2012
BETHANY SPRINGER examines the ideas of place, territory, belonging and displacement. How place is established, reinforced and lost is a concept which is represented through metaphors of biology, territory, communication and security. Springer views her works as “situational experiments that monitor awareness in a constantly accelerating world”.
CONNIE ERHLICH allows the audience to walk with her through her experience with breast cancer. This series begins with the diagnosis, goes through treatment and brings us into the present day of her remission. Having received her degree in painting from the University of Kansas in 1993, Ehrlich knew that the only way to release her intensely varying and deep feelings was through the act of making art. The creative process of art making became her “saving grace” against cancer.
FRANK BRADLEY JR uses digital photography to capture the night lights of downtown Kansas City in a very different way. These images showcased along with ambient music and a live musical performance by Bradley, use rhythm, harmony, repetition and abstraction in order to engage the audience. He encourages his viewers to look beneath the surface and beyond the abstraction.
