View/Review

Celebrating the Gallery’s Fifth Anniversary

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In recognition of a half-decade of bringing contemporary art to Johnson County Community College and the Kansas City area, this exhibition will feature the most current works available by 14 artists exhibited in the Gallery’s one- and two-person shows over the past five years. A celebration of the Oppenheimer-Stein Sculpture Collection installations is planned in conjunction with the reception, as well as a lecture addressing the art world today: Jerry Saltz, internationally-known New York art critic, will present “Keep Your Head Down and Your Helmet On” in GEB 233. 

From its opening in October 1990, the JCCC Gallery of Art has endeavored to present exhibitions of work by some of the most significant and exciting artists of our time. Working with artists, museums, galleries and collectors regionally, nationally and internationally, the Gallery of Art has presented 37 exhibitions over the past five years. “The exhibition View/Review was organized for two reasons – to provide an overview of many of the artists featured in one- or two-person exhibits since 1990 and to offer a glimpse of recent works by these same artists. Ultimately, however, the exhibit is a tribute to the importance, vitality and diversity of contemporary art and artists,” stated Bruce Hartman, director of the JCCC gallery.

View/Review will also include the premier Kansas City showing of Untitled (Altgeld Gardens), a Kerry James Marshall painting acquired by JCCC in 1995. Marshall, a Chicago-based artist, has achieved critical acclaim with his recently completed series of paintings based on inner-city housing developments in Chicago, and Untitled (Altgeld Gardens) has recently been featured in publications such as The Kansas City Star and The Village Voice.

Celebration of the initial installations of the Oppenheimer-Stein Sculpture Collection will also be in conjunction with the Gallery’s anniversary. Judith Shea’s Between Thought and Feeling, Jonathan Borofsky’s Walking Man (On the Edge), and Barry Flanagan’s Hare and Bell were recently installed on the campus grounds. Visitors will be encouraged to walk the campus to see these new additions to the College’s growing collection.

Now based in New Orleans, Luis Cruz Azaceta was born in 1942 in Havana, Cuba. He studied at the School of Visual Art in New York City. The Gallery of Art held a solo exhibition of his works earlier in 1995.

Jonathan Borofsky was born in 1942 in Boston and now lives and works in Maine. He earned a BFA at Carnegie-Mellon University, studied at the Ecole de Fontainbleau in France, and graduated with an MFA from Yale University in 1966.

Christopher Brown was born in 1951 in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and now lives and works in California’s Bay Area. He earned an MFA from the University of California, Davis, in 1976; in 1973 he earned a BFA from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. In 1992 his paintings were showcased in The Figure: Two Bay Area Artists with Viola Frey at the JCCC Gallery of Art.

New York artist Lynn Davis was born in 1944 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She studied at the University of Colorado and the University of Minnesota, and received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1970. In 1994 the JCCC Gallery of Art held a solo exhibition of her photographs of icebergs and ancient Egyptian monuments.

New York artist John Duff was born in 1943 in Lafayette, Indiana, and graduated with a BFA from the University of San Francisco in 1967. The JCCC Gallery of Art held a solo exhibition of his sculptures in 1995.

British artist Barry Flanagan was born in 1941 in Prestaten, North Wales. He studied at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts from 1957 to 1958 and at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, from 1964 to 1966, where he earned a Vocational Diploma in sculpture.

Leon Golub was born 1922 in Chicago, graduated with a BA in 1942 from the University of Chicago, and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, earning a BFA in 1949 and an MFA in 1950, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949 and 1950. The JCCC Gallery of Art held a solo exhibition of his paintings in 1990.

Keith Jacobshagen was born in Wichita in 1941 and trained as an illustrator and graphic designer at the Kansas City Art Institute.  He worked at Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, Missouri, and then received his MFA in 1966 from the University of Kansas, Lawrence. The JCCC Gallery of Art held a solo exhibition of his paintings in 1993.

Jane Lackey was born in 1948. Lackey received her BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.  Before she became Head of Fiber at Cranbrook, she was a fiber professor and department chair at the Kansas City Art Institute. In 1994 the JCCC Gallery of Art presented a two-person show of her work with fiber artist Warren Seelig.

New York artist Donald Lipski was born in 1947 in Chicago. In 1970 he earned a BA from the University of Wisconsin and graduated with an MFA in 1973 from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The JCCC Gallery of Art held a solo exhibition of his sculptures in 1993.

Kerry James Marshall was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955. Marshall received a BFA in 1978 and an honorary Ph.D. from Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California. In 1995 the JCCC Gallery of Art hosted a solo exhibition of his paintings and collaged works.

Elizabeth Murray was born in 1940 in Chicago, and received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Mills College, Oakland, California. In 1993, the JCCC Gallery of Art presented a solo show of Murray’s sculptural paintings.

Alan Rath was born in 1959 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1982 with a BS Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The JCCC Gallery of Art held a solo exhibition of his works in 1993.

Now based in New York, Judith Shea was born in 1948 in Philadelphia. She has an AA degree in fashion design from the Parsons School of Design in New York, 1969 and a BFA degree from the Parsons School of Design/New School for Social Research, 1975.

British artist Boyd Webb was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1947 and attended the Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury. He also studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London. The JCCC Gallery of Art held a solo exhibition of his photographs in 1992.

Born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York, Terry Winters graduated from Pratt Institute in 1971 with a BFA.  The JCCC Gallery of Art organized a solo exhibition of his large-scale paintings in 1994.

Betty Woodman was born in 1930 in Norwalk, Connecticut. Woodman studied at the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University from 1948-1950. The JCCC Gallery of Art hosted a solo exhibition of Woodman’s sculptural vessels in 1991.