Art Emergency!

May 17, 2012 by Chris | Leave a comment

Yep it hap­pens — art emergencies.

 

  • Some­one has for­got­ten a birth­day until this very moment — and they were sup­posed to be at the cel­e­bra­tion 30 min­utes ago.
  • A cou­ple believes they have com­mis­sioned a piece of art­work for the din­ing room, they think it will be ready before Thanks­giv­ing din­ner, but nei­ther of them spoke with the artist.
  • There is an art open­ing planned and pub­li­cized, but no art arrives to open.

I am happy to report that at this point in my career these are not typ­i­cally my emer­gen­cies, rather I have advanced to become the solu­tion to said emer­gen­cies. So I might not have “solve blind­ness” on my to-do list like my friend Christina (who, btw, should get a huge whop­ping bonus if she gets to mark that one off!), but I am quite capa­ble and equipped to ren­der art related triage.

The result of the lat­est triage is a show I would be happy to have hang­ing any­where (even with more than 12 hours notice), but espe­cially since it will be in my own Colum­bus Park neigh­bor­hood. If you haven’t seen my pre­vi­ous body of work, “Col­lec­tive Mem­o­ries”, or you would like to revisit it, please swing by this Fri­day, May 18th to Colum­bus Park’s hottest new din­ner spot, Pandolfi’s Deli.

 

Col­lec­tive Memories

by Chris Dahlquist

Pandolfi’s

538 Camp­bell

Kansas City, MO 64106

Have an art emer­gency or want to learn more about the Col­lec­tive Mem­o­ries show please con­tact me.

Have you had a art emer­gency? Oh, and have you read Night Cir­cus by Erin Mor­gen­stern? I fin­ished it yes­ter­day and it makes me want to revisit these images and treat them in a dif­fer­ent way! The first line of the descrip­tion seems to fit with my week quiet well:

“The cir­cus arrives with­out warn­ing. No announce­ments pre­cede it. It is sim­ply there, when yes­ter­day it was not.”

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Pick of the week, May 14

May 14, 2012 by Chris | Leave a comment

“Nay, be a Colum­bus to whole new con­ti­nents and worlds within you, open­ing new chan­nels, not of trade, but of thought.” Henry David Thoreau

 

MIle Marker 230, 23″ x 35″

 

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Show hangover

May 10, 2012 by Chris | 2 Comments

You can prob­a­bly imag­ine what the days lead­ing up to a show look like.

Some­thing like this:

Prepar­ing for shows

or this:

loads of artwork

And you can prob­a­bly imag­ine what the days after a typ­i­cal show look like.

lots of miles

But one of the glo­ri­ous things about doing a home­town show is that the days imme­di­ately fol­low­ing (which we call the “show hang­over”) look some­thing like this:

Great meals

a clean desk

a good book and a comfy hammock

and the muses

 

But as of today I am back in the stu­dio, the desk will be messy soon enough, and the muses will have to tough it out on their own. So if you need me you know where I will be.

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Pick of the Week, May 7

May 7, 2012 by Chris | Leave a comment

“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.” Emily Dick­in­son

Mile Marker 280, 35″ x 51″

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Think Big, Shop Small

May 3, 2012 by Chris | Leave a comment

Brook­side Art Annual — this weekend!

 

I have never been prouder to live in Kansas City, our city is filled with cre­ativ­ity and those that sup­port it!

From the painter that cre­ates in their din­ing room on Sun­day after­noons to the new Kauff­man Cen­ter for the Per­form­ing Arts, Kansas City sup­ports the arts and it is becom­ing not only local but national news. But for artists that par­tic­i­pate in art fes­ti­vals this comes as no sur­prise. Kansas City is host to two of the high­est ranked juried art fes­ti­vals in the coun­try (based on sales and atten­dance), the Brook­side Art Annual and the Plaza Art Fair. And I am thrilled to be par­tic­i­pat­ing in both of these spec­tac­u­lar shows. Thank good­ness I’m not super­sti­tious — it will be my 13th year in each!

So while the art com­mu­nity con­tin­ues to grow, and get press in the New York Times, and the New York Post, Frommer’s names Kansas City one of top des­ti­na­tions for 2012 (the only US city to make the list). Even our “rival cities” along I-70, Saint Louis and Den­ver declare, “Score one for Kansas City,” and “Kansas City is a cul­tured place.”.

Remem­ber the small­est of the cre­ative businesses–

The indi­vid­ual artists that have long been bring­ing great art to the streets of Kansas City and come visit us at the Brook­side Art Annual.

 

Brook­side Art Annual

May 4–6 2012

Art Fair Hours:
Fri­day, May 4, 5pm-9pm
Sat­ur­day, May 5, 10am-9pm
Sun­day, May 6, 11am-5pm

 

While in Brook­side vis­it­ing the art fes­ti­val be sure to visit the other small locally owned shops that make up the won­der­ful neigh­bor­hood. Brook­side in the KC Star

Not in Kansas City? Visit my sched­ule to see when I will be in a town near you. Or come visit us in Kansas City for the Plaza Art Fair and see all the great things that the “Paris of the Plains” has to offer.

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Pick of the Week, April 30

April 30, 2012 by Chris | Leave a comment

“The wide­ness of the hori­zon has to be inside us, can­not be any­where but inside us, oth­er­wise what we speak about is geo­graphic dis­tances.” Ella Mail­lart

 

MIle Marker 237, 23″ x 35″

 

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The shipping department

April 26, 2012 by Chris | 1 Comment

Ship­ping department.

Ever won­der who takes care of the “ship­ping depart­ment” while we are away?

 

We have had many house sit­ters over our years of travel. In fact, our house sit­ting ros­ter includes some of the most tal­ented per­form­ers in Kansas City. Many have been in tran­si­tion or recently back to Kansas City after a time of per­for­mances away. At times, our sit­ters spend almost as much time liv­ing in our house as we do — they are our invis­i­ble roommates. They are an essen­tial part of our team. You get to see us and my work in Florida, Texas, Ore­gon etc. because they allow us to travel with­out con­cern for the furry assis­tants (aka ship­ping depart­ment) that reside with us.

 

Cory Imig (photo from Ink magazine)

But none have approached it in the way our cur­rent sit­ter does, for Cory it is a life style and an art project.

 

Cory Imig has fore­gone tra­di­tional liv­ing and an abun­dance of mate­r­ial pos­ses­sions to live as a min­i­mal­ist. By shar­ing other people’s homes with them while they are away, she gets to expe­ri­ence dif­fer­ent ways of inter­act­ing with a space and dif­fer­ent parts of the city. Her job as an artist is to ques­tion the sta­tus quo and for now that is liv­ing arrange­ments. And while this life-style choice cer­tainly wouldn’t suit all, it is the per­fect fit for this well orga­nized, respon­si­ble young artist that likes to shake things up.

And in addi­tion to being the best house sit­ter ever, her project is get­ting local atten­tion (good thing we book our year of travel in advance!).

Read what Ink Mag­a­zine has to say about Cory here.

Fol­low her ongo­ing adven­tures on her blog: At Home With­out a Home.

 

Thanks Cory! We couldn’t do it with­out you!

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Pick of the week, April 23

April 23, 2012 by Chris | Leave a comment

“Is the spring com­ing?” he said. “What is it like?”… “It is the sun shin­ing on the rain and the rain falling on the sun­shine…” ― Frances Hodg­son Bur­nett, The Secret Garden

MIle Marker 266, 11″ x 14″

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Signs you’re in Texas

April 19, 2012 by Chris | Leave a comment

It’s a lie about the driving.

Kyle and I crossed the Red River into my home state Tues­day night on our way to the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Fes­ti­val. And though I haven’t lived here since I was a small child, and I often hear, “You don’t seem like a Texan” I was def­i­nitely raised as one — com­plete with the Texas flag fly­ing in front of our house on holidays…in Mis­souri. So while I know instantly when I have crossed into the “Holy Land”, as my grand­fa­ther called Texas from the pul­pit, for oth­ers it might not be so clear.

Some Signs:

  • You can hear a horse whinny from your hotel room…at the Hyatt.
  • There are images of barbed wire along with your room num­ber out­side your door.
  • The two pair of cow­boy boots tucked away in your suit­case seem inadequate.
  • The glasses of iced tea are big­ger than your head.
  • The state flag is every­where you look.
  • You hear the words “boot” and “scootin’” used together in a sentence.
  • The stars at night are big and bright.

*signs may vary — there might be a few others

Some Visual Signs:

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Pick of the week, April 16

April 16, 2012 by Chris | Leave a comment

“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!” ~ Sit­ting Bull

MIle Marker 258, 16″ x 22″

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