Front/Space (Selected Exhibitions)
From October 2014 - March 2018, along with Madeline Gallucci, I served as the Co-Director of Front/Space, a small but mighty artist-run space in Kansas City, MO. Represented here are a few highlights from our time curating & facilitating artist’s work together.
RAIL/SAIL (2016)
In August 2016 Front/Space hosted artists Joe Riley (NYC), Audrey Snyder (NYC) and Ricki Dwyer (San Francisco, CA) for a two-week residency conducting field research and building public programs focused on railroads, journeying, and agricultural sites of learning and re-imagination. Riley (right) is depicted here sailing across the Kaw River (the MO-KAN state line) on the artists’ wind-powered vehicle via an abandoned railroad bridge.
Zanzibar Dior teaches you how to Time Travel (2015)
The description for this Front/Space exhibition once read: “Thank you for helping us in our research on time travel. Your presence is priceless. Traveling through time is easier than we think. We are always doing it. Doing it well is like learning to dance right: there is one way to dance, but you know a good dance when you feel it happening: it can be affirming, and sexy.”
Zanzibar Dior was the former alias of artist Ariel Abrahams, who conducted this participatory time travel workshop. Those who joined in were lead through a series of obscure group exercises in 20-minute sessions/intervals. Depicted here are participants running in place for 2 minutes before being prompted to tell their life story in 2 minutes.
She was Right! A Museum of Strange Archaelogoy (2016)
For this exhibition, artist Erin Zona transformed the gallery into a temporary but fully operational museum. Much like the exclamation “Eureka!” the phrase “She was right!” is meant to be associated with an act of discovery. Through museum simulation, this show upended the hierarchies of authenticity and to alter our notions of time, fact, and fantasy. Sixteen drawings of "historical fiction" accompanied a mythical stone on display, questioning the value systems imposed on art and historical objects through collection, exhibition, and presentation.
All Allegiance (2017)
An exhibition by Kimi Hanauer (Baltimore, MD) investigating the legal definition and laws surrounding American citizenship and their relationship to non-western immigration throughout history. Presenting a combination of personal, poetic, and researched accounts of this process, Hanauer attempts to understand her own lived experience of assimilation.
