Ryan Haralson - “Forming Opinions” 
Ryan Haralson
Forming Opinions
Exhibition: March 06 – March 28, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, March 6 from 6 – 9 p.m.
Artist Talk: Saturday, March 7th at 1 p.m.
Cocoon Gallery is pleased to present the newest body of work by Kansas City Artist Ryan Haralson.
Haralson has been busy painting in his Crossroads studio since his return home from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design two years ago.
The intensity of his attention to detail is equaled by his ability to portray complex themes in a subtle and effortless fashion.
In Forming Opinions layers upon layers, created by small subtle clues as well as spatially dominating images, work to create visually rhythmic compositions. His tight graphic style often gives way to a more fluid treatment of content. You quickly understand that Haralson is discovering these ideas, just as the viewer is.
“I’m composing my thoughts, forming opinions based on many interactions and responses to the environment that I live in. The sounds, symbols, textures, smells, etc. all have effects on my
work in ways that are inescapable. In the same way a bassist plucks the blues from his/hers strings, or a poet bleeding emotion into the words of a sonnet; I’m simply, and not so simply, letting you know where I’m coming from in the way I know best.”
Please contact Jenn Bohatyritz for more information or to arrange and
interview with the artist.
816-588-1850 / jritz@artsincubatorkc.org.
Andrew Elman - “Collidescape”
Opening Reception Friday, March 6th 5:30pm-9pm
March 6th – 28th, 2009
The Blue Bike gallery, located at 2029 Wyandotte, Suite 101, in the Crossroads is proud to present an exhibition by local abstract impressionist painter Andrew Elman. In his current body of work Elman focuses mainly on the Missouri River, downtown Kansas City architecture, and the trains that weave in and around them. Elman uses large fluid shapes, and a color palette that takes some inspiration from nature, to create a scenic environment that the viewer could almost step into. These works have been described as soft, yet boldly striking.
Please Join us Friday, March 6th for an opening reception.
Please contact Andrew Elman with any questions at elmanandy@aol.com
Bluebike Art Space
http://www.bluebikearchitects.com/bluebike_artspace.aspx
2029 Wyandotte, Suite 101, Kansas City, MO 64108
Andrew Elman
816.876.7135
elmanandy@aol.com
www.andrewelman.com
