LOCATE | NAVIGATE – exercises in mapping (part 2)

la Esquina / 1000 W 25th
Feb 1 - Mar 22, 2008
First Friday reception: Fri, Feb 1, 6 - 9p
Hours: Thurs + Sat, 12 - 5p

Locate | Navigate: exercises in mapping (part 2), features contemporary artworks which, in a diverse array of manners, “map” highly specific sets of information. This second component of a two-part exhibition project (Part 1 remains on view at Urban Culture Project Space through March 8) includes drawings, paintings, sculpture, photography, installation-, audio-, video-, web- and performance-based work by Corrie Baldauf (Bloomfield Hills, MI), Darlene Charneco (Southampton, NY), Brian Collier (Kansas City), Matt Dehaemers (Kansas City ), Andrea Flamini (Kansas City), Jorge Garcia (Kansas City), Adriane Herman (Portland, ME), Mike Hill (Kansas City), Wopo Holup (NYC), Timothy Hutchings (NYC), Beniah Leuschke (Kansas City), Anne Lindberg (Kansas City), Justin Newhall (Minneapolis, MN), Garry Noland (Kansas City), Anne Pearce (Kansas City), Dana Sperry (Richmond, VA), (VxPxC) (Los Angeles, CA), James Woodfill (Kansas City), and Matt Wycoff (Brooklyn, NY).

Curated by Charlotte Street Foundation Associate Director Kate Hackman, Locate | Navigate employs an expansive definition of “mapping” to highlight individualistic, creative processes of positing, investigating, and representing relationships among particular elements of interest, from places to objects, ideas, experiences, and points in time.

UPCOMING PUBLIC PROGRAM:

MAPPING THE TOW LOT: Miki Baird, Matt Dehaemers, Dan Maginn

Paragraph | 23 East 12th
February 6, 6 pm (doors open at 5:30)

“Mapping the Tow Lot” is an evening of presentations and conversations among two artists and one architect, all currently involved in creative work focused on the Kansas City Vehicle Impound Facility, aka “the tow lot.”

Kansas City artist Miki Baird will discuss her intensive process of documenting the current Kansas City, Missouri tow lot and the resulting photo-based exhibition, Tow Lot Vanitas. With assistance from the Municipal Arts Commission and the Neighborhood and Community Services Department of Kansas City, Baird obtained permission to work on site at 6817 Stadium Drive for a period of four months in 2007, during which time she produced an extensive body of images and documentation.

Dan Maginn, a partner at el dorado, inc. architects, is the architect of the new Kansas City Vehicle Impound Facility, under construction, which will be a new 40 acre sustainably-designed development in East Kansas City, MO. He will discuss the design of the new facility, which is registered with the United States Green Building Council, and is tracking at the Gold level of certification.

Kansas City artist Matt Dehaemers is the One-Percent-for-Art public artist for the new Vehicle Impound Facility, awarded the project through the Municipal Art Commission. Inspired by his family’s history in the auto salvage business, his piece makes tangible the sense of passage and release upon exiting the impound lot, and alludes to the tradition of an honor guard that often greeted heads of state as they arrived in another country.