Plans are moving along with the upcoming First Friday show in April.  The dates and times have been confirmed.  The opening reception will be Friday, April 2 from 6 to 10 pm.  The show will be available by appointment for three weeks until the 23rd.  It’s at Plenum Space Gallery, 504 E. 18th St., Kansas City, MO.  Don’t know exactly where that is?  It’s called Mapquest. 

The gallery is in an unassuming looking building just across the street from Grinders and Pi gallery.  There’s usually an open garage door with a ceramics and pottery display open in the lower level of the building, and right next to that is a red door that leads upstairs to my show.  If you get to the Slap and Tickle gallery, you’ve passed Plenum Space.  I’ll try to have a sign on the sidewalk or something to make it easy to find, but not being familiar with the neighborhood is no reason to not make it to the show.  Where’s your sense of adventure?  Leave the GPS unit at home!  Go out and explore!

There will be some exciting never before seen work at the show.  The eight-foot-long linoleum print “Country to City” will be on display for the first time ever!  “Country to City” a panoramic image composed of eight 1-square-foot linoleum blocks that transitions from a country pasture to the increasingly jumbled and un-organic city scene.  It was a carving I began while in New York, so I began with the city block first and then worked backward, coincidentally finishing with the country end of the image after returning to Lecompton.  Because of is unweildy size, I have never properly documented the piece, so it is not on my site anywhere.   Come and give it a look!

Also on display will be four of the cityscape panels, which have never been shown.  Those, however, are featured in my online portfolio.  The newest piece I’ve made, featured in my last entry, will be there, along with some previously displayed work. 

I almost forgot that there will be one other never before seen piece making its debut at this show.  The intaglio print titled “Buildings 1″ on my site has been revisited, reworked, and transformed into the new piece “Light Beam”.  I’m not going to give you a description for free, but the addition of some gouache and colored pencil has brought that print to its final state.  Gotta come see it to find out what it’s all about!

Well, back to the grind.  See you in April!