First Friday Edge Effect group show & The Distance Between solo show

Fri Oct 02 2026 at 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-05:00

Kansas City Artists Coalition | Kansas City

Kansas City Artists Coalition
Publisher/HostKansas City Artists Coalition
First Friday Edge Effect group show & The Distance Between solo show
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This fall, Borders collide, overlap and dissolve , while queer cosmologies explode in two dynamic exhibitions.
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First Friday Opening!

Main Gallery: Edge Effect, 3 person exhibition Kevin Kelly, Justin Korver, Tim Stone

The three artists in Edge effect are most concerned with the collision between suburban and rural space. The paintings of both Kevin Kelly and Tim Stone depict the porousness of this barrier: Cola vending machines sitting in scrubby underbrush, deflated tube men lying in cracked and W**d-festooned parking lots, wooden structures whose lath opens up into neon skies. Justin Korver’s installations lead us further into that other-than-human land with immersive sights, sounds and even smells.

Snap Space: The Distance Between, by Matthew Willie Garcia

In this site-specific mixed media print installation Matthew Willie Garcia explores what it means to live alongside the unknown. Drawing from science, science fiction, and personal identity, the installation invites viewers to reflect on their place within a universe that has been expanding for 13.8 billion years. It’s a meditation on awe, curiosity, and the willingness to release the need for certainty.

Using printed matter, projection mapping, and sculpture, the space is transformed into

an observatory, a temple, and a queer sacred space. The work explores the visual language of the cosmos, employing sumi and fluorescent inks alongside the luminosity of projected light to evoke a space that hovers between the flatness of surface and the depth of the universe. This shifting dimensionality gently destabilizes the viewer’s sense of gravity and scale.



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Kansas City Artists Coalition, 3200 Gillham, Kansas City, United States

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