With AnticKS & MOdels, the artist’s goal is both to fool the eye and the opposite: to make space for viewers to experience more. Irving uses material culture to reflect his own life and memorialize the present.
AnticKS & MOdels + My theater to your eyes: Kahlil Robert Irving marks the artist’s first institutional exhibition in Kansas and a return to the central Midwest. Irving’s work engages with the current post-industrial landscape and grapples with how tools and technology challenge perceptions of what we see and how we understand information. Irving is interested in using materials to engage abstract ideas around perception and legibility. Growing up in St. Louis, a city that has experienced a sharp population decline in recent years, the artist is constantly learning stories about places that need to be memorialized and not forgotten—places that continue to go unrecognized and unappreciated for their significance.
Irving critically engages the Nerman Museum’s architecture by trespassing its gallery divisions and boundaries. As visitors navigate the walkway, they encounter sculptures of ceramic, painted foam, fabric, granite, marble, wood, in addition to artifacts, and discovered objects drawn from the artist’s personal collection. With AnticKS & MOdels, the artist’s goal is both to fool the eye and the opposite: to make space for viewers to experience more. Irving uses material culture to reflect his own life and memorialize the present. Learn more about this exhibition at nermanmuseum.org.
Free and open to the public.
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2024/02/09 - 2024/07/07
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Mon. and JCCC Holidays: Closed
Upcoming JCCC Holidays: Thursday, July 4, 2024
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
12345 College Blvd, Overland Park, KS 66210
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The museum has accessible parking, entrances and elevators. The parking garage adjacent to the Regnier Center has handicapped accessible parking spaces near the elevators to the Regnier Center lobby, which is connected to the museum via an atrium. Wheelchairs, strollers and other mobility devices are welcome in the galleries.