In The Galleries
April 06, 2012 — June 24, 2012
Mary Reid Kelley
Employing formative animation techniques, artist Mary Reid Kelley creates haunting videos that revisit the physical and psychological impact of civilians and non-civilians in early-twentieth-century times of war. Entrenched in scripts of euphemisms, clichés, riddles, and puns, her characters—often performed by the artist herself—embody men and women working as sailors, soldiers, nurses, prostitutes, and factory laborers in Europe. Influenced by German Expressionism, she paints herself with…
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April 06, 2012 — June 24, 2012
Dawit L. Petros
In conjunction with his residency at The Warehouse (located at 149 S. 4th Street), Dawit L. Petros will create a site-responsive installation that serves as an extension of the artist’s studio practice as well as an investigation of place and the demarcations we ascribe to define it. For the duration of the exhibition, the gallery will become the artist’s studio, as it is there that experimentation, observation, and the process happens; all of which are essential for the work to exist. The…
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April 06, 2012 — June 24, 2012
Machine Project
Described by founder Mark Allen as a “social organism,” Machine Project is a loose confederacy of some 40 artists that develops projects stretching the boundaries of what one might define as art experiences. Realized in a Los Angeles storefront gallery and various contexts throughout the United States, Machine Project’s explorations look obsessively at other people’s obsessions: knitting, gardening, experimental music, poetry, etc. Driven by an unquenchable thirst to learn, Machine…
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Salina Art Center programs, exhibitions and films are presented in part by Salina Art Center donors; the Horizons Grants Program of Salina Arts & Humanities, City of Salina; and by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency which believes that a great nation deserves great art.