Urban Culture Project Announces Upcoming Exhibitions

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 6-9PM Charlotte Street Foundation's Urban Culture Project presents

SOFA KINGDOM IN THE VALLEY OF COMIC SANS
An Installation by Timothy Amundson and Charlie Mylie
Urban Culture Project Space / 21 East 12th KCMO 64105
Third Friday reception: Friday, February 19, 6-pm
Hours: Thursdays + Saturdays, 12-5pm
On view through March 6, 2010
&
CUMULUS (Part II)
An Urban Culture Project Studio Residency Program Focus Exhibition
Paragraph gallery / 23 East 12th KCMO 64105
THIRD FRIDAY RECEPTION: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 6-9PM
Featuring live performances, collaborative activities, evolving installations
Hours: Thursdays + Saturdays, 12-5pm / On view through March 4, 2010

SOFA KINGDOM IN THE VALLEY OF COMIC SANS
An Installation by Timothy Amundson and Charlie Mylie
Urban Culture Project Space / 21 East 12th KCMO 64105
Third Friday reception: Friday, February 19, 6-pm

Sofa Kingdom in the Valley of Comic Sans, a new, site-specific installation by Kansas City based artists Timothy Amundson and Charlie Mylie, opens at Urban Culture Project Space, 21 East 12th Street, Friday February 19, 6-9pm. It runs through March 6, 2010.

Amundson and Mylie, both artists in UCP's Studio Residency Program, are generating "an interactive, performative space of play." This multi-media environment is envisioned as a platform for "improvisations, cooperations, and transformations," whereby "actors become sculptures, performative games become improvisational dance, paintings become platforms, drawings become instructions, objects become tasks, formal sculptures become architectural interventions, and viewing becomes experience." Over the course of the evening, such array of transformations will unfold, with such materials as wood, fabric, guitars, electric fans, fermenting wine, pedestals, lights, plants, paint, play-dough, diverse found objects, and human beings as cast as active players in a real-time theatrical event. 

CUMULUS (Part II)
An Urban Culture Project Studio Residency Program Focus Exhibition
Paragraph gallery / 23 East 12th KCMO 64105
THIRD FRIDAY RECEPTION: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 6-9PM
Featuring live performances, collaborative activities, evolving installations
Hours: Thursdays + Saturdays, 12-5pm / On view through March 4, 2010
Cumulus, a multi-media, multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring select projects developed by current UCP Studio Residents, continues with the addition of new artworks and projects. New features debuting at the Third Friday opening on February 19, 6-9 pm at Paragraph, 23 E. 12th. include The Wizard Ningxt, an eccentric character embodied by Aaron Storck, who will offer stir-fry, drinks, and poetry to gallery visitors from temporary housing structure at the gallery's entrance, and a rotating exhibition curated by Erica Mahinay within Paragraph featuring works by Storck, Caleb Taylor, Samantha Persons, Lori Yonley, Kat Dison, Luke Rocha, Darwin Arevalo, Erica Mahinay, Charlie Mylie and Timothy Amundson.

In nearby Oppenstein Park, 12th and Walnut, Elaina Wendt Michalski will debut Exit, composed of two life-size figure sculptures, based on homeless youth. Made of unfired clay, these figures, left vulnerable to the elements, are inspired and informed by Michalski's interaction with members of Synergy Services, a youth homeless shelter in the Kansas City area. In additionm Lori Yonley will welcome visitors once again to Give and Take, an ever-revolving collection of 5×5 collaborative drawings, and on the street Kurt Flecksing and Sean M. Starowitz will again fire up the S'mores Vending Cart, supplying a taste of campfire nostalgia and accumulating funds to award to future artists' projects.

Additional Cumulus Events:
Saturday, February 20th, 1-2:30pm: Critique dialogue led by Barbara O'Brien, Curator, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Julie Farstad, Painting Professor, Kansas City Art Institute.
Wednesday, February 24, starts at 6pm: Potluck Drawing session, Reperformance organized by Charlie Mylie (7pm), & The Four Seasons, a performance collabioration by Jane Gotch, Tim Amundson, Erica Mahinay.

For more information, visit http://www.charlottestreet.org/