By SALINA POST
Two new exhibitions are now open at the Salina Art Center!
The Map vs. The Walk by Karen Reimer and Patching Voyages by Sanford Biggers will be featured until April 24 at the Salina Art Center, 242 S. Santa Fe Avenue. The art center galleries are open to the public at no charge at the following times.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Friday from 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Sunday from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
"The Map vs. The Walk welcomes the viewer through a large fabric ceiling installation, this site-specific work is meant to evoke the vastness and grandeur of the Kansas sky and makes references to water and stained glass. The exhibition will also feature other series from the artist’s thirty-year career, including Climate Data, Sea Change, Geometry in Outer Space or Heaven, Newspapers, Boundary Troubles, and Copies," the art center noted in a news release.
The Map vs. The Walk is funded by Salina Art Center members and Giving Tuesday donors including the Orbit Fund, Karen Black, Sydney and Morrie Soderberg, Bill and Kathleen Pierson, Mike Soetaert and Melanie Terrill, John and Debbie Divine, William Counter and Lee Romaniszyn, and Fred and Sue Guzek, according to information from the art center.
About the Patching Voyages exhibition, the art center explained that "artist Sanford Biggers uses Civil War era quilts as hosts to reexamine the histories that exist around them. The artist then stitches, paints, and layers new visual narratives onto these archived materials. Through this act of appropriation, the resultant artworks are now excised out of their previous functionality, allowing them to serve, presently, as spaces for reflection."
This exhibition was funded by the Salina Art Center Annual Gala and the Greater Salina Community Foundation, Dane Hansen Fund.