ARTSPEAK RADIO with Jonah Criswell, Mark Allen, and Mason Kilpatrick

Wednesday July 4, 2018 Noon to 1PM 90.1FM KKFI Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Jonah Criswell, Mason Andrew Kilpatrick, and Mark Allen. Jonah Criswell-Echoes is a group exhibition curated by Mirjam Cassandra Wendt and Jonah Criswell. Echoes features artists from Berlin and Kansas City hosted by Haw Contemporary. Ahram Park, Alexander Klenz, Claudio Pogo, Corey Antis, DAG, Eckhart Pscheidel-Jeschke, Jake Blaschka, James Woodfill, Jonah Criswell, Kelly John Clark, Maximillian Marcoll Nicole Mauser, Scott Dickson, & Stephane Leonard Echoes is an exhibition that explores both the possible and impossible connections found in the works of artists from two sites, Kansas City and Berlin. The exhibited works have formal or procedural similarities, which in an exhibition establishes a fragile symmetry. These unstable adjacencies provoke the urge to generate connections, but each artist, in their specific context, draws a series of references that, while globally legible, maintain resonance with their local and regional origins. Echoes, as an exhibition, seek to suspend a tension arising from difference, and indulge these urges of connectivity. This exhibition was born from a simple urge between Mirjam Cassandra Wendt and Jonah Criswell to bridge the distance between Kansas City and Berlin and to displace the unique stances each…