The Epsten Gallery will present its fourth annual 2018 Summer Artist-in-Residence program featuring Kansas City artists Misha Kligman and Gerry Trilling.
The four-week exhibit of theme-based projects and creative interaction will start with Kligman’s art from June 19-29. Trilling’s work goes on display July 9-20.
The Epsten Gallery, 5500 W. 123rd, operates in a cooperative partnership with Village Shalom, which houses the gallery’s exhibition program.
Kligman and Trilling will transform The Epsten Gallery into an activated “artist studio” for their own projects and a range of intergenerational activities. The artists will be working and available for pop-in visits during “open studio hours” for Village Shalom residents, caregivers, families, staff and community members. Visitors will experience a hands-on opportunity to observe professional artists at work and participate in creations.
The artists will also lead a series of intergenerational workshops to connect Village Shalom residents with several youth groups including Ma’ asim Tovim (Good Works – Life) campers from the Jewish Community Center, The Olathe Field Trip Club and Johnson County Mental Health Family Focus program.
Themes of community art-making, identity, memory, self-expression and storytelling will be explored through tactile materials in each residency. Kligman will focus on a variety of clay-based experimentations and sculptural forms; Trilling will enact group projects with yarn, crochet, paper collage and storytelling.
A “Call for Yarn” will be issued for Gerry Trilling’s residency inviting community members to drop off yarn during designated hours.
Misha Kligman was born in Kazan, Soviet Union, in 1978. He received his BA in Art from Cleveland, Ohio, State University and his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Kansas. Kligman, a Kansas City, Missouri, resident, is currently an assistant professor of art at Johnson County Community College.
Gerry Trilling incorporates ranging materials and techniques to create multidimensional installations engaging memory, time and place. Her parents escaped the Holocaust and relocated to St. Louis where Trilling grew up in a community of immigrants. She received her BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and has studied weaving, dyeing and papermaking. Trilling completed a residency at Studios INC, Kansas City and was recently featured at the Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Support for the 2018 Summer Artist-in-Residence program is provided by a grant from The Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City.
Abbreviated summer hours at The Epsten Gallery are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and by appointment only Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The Epsten Gallery will be closed June 11-15, July 2,3 and 4, and July 21 – August 18. The gallery will be open by appointment on July 5-6.
For more information visit epstengallery.org.