This March for the First Friday art walk in Crossroads Beco Gallery is exhibiting the work of Printmaking artist Genesis Koussiafes, and Photographer Isabella Matute. Please join us for art and light refreshments!
Kansas City Art Institute Students Genesis Koussiafes and Isabella Matute will be having their Senior thesis show this March.
-Genesis Koussiafes is a print and installation artist from Miami, Florida. She creates narrative images indicative of anxieties stemming from isolation, displacement, and loneliness. Her work makes extensive use of print-based techniques such as letterpress, relief, cyanotypes, and laser-cut materials such as paper, plexiglass, and mylar.
-Isabella Matute’s theatrical ... view more »
Kansas City Art Institute Students Genesis Koussiafes and Isabella Matute will be having their Senior thesis show this March.
-Genesis Koussiafes is a print and installation artist from Miami, Florida. She creates narrative images indicative of anxieties stemming from isolation, displacement, and loneliness. Her work makes extensive use of print-based techniques such as letterpress, relief, cyanotypes, and laser-cut materials such as paper, plexiglass, and mylar.
-Isabella Matute’s theatrical photo series, gender performer, is the artist’s provocative photographic response to a family archive of the artist’s gender normative performances in her childhood well into young adulthood. The artist believes gender to be a performance ofexpected and idealized gender roles tied to her multicultural experience as a HispanicAmerican. Social integration is a reward given to those that perform recognizable performancesof their genders. In these self-portraits, the artist showcases vignettes of her multi-facetedidentity. She portrays her varied roles as director, actor, Latina, ex-dancer, etc. These works aidin answering questions the artist poses about herself. Some of these photographs are achallenge to represented gender ideals while other photographs explore a new facet of theartist’s self. The artist seeks autobiographical representations of her life. See Less
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