Front | Blas Isasi, A flower is just the shape of an idea (A), 2022
Kansas City MO, April 22, 2025: Charlotte Street proudly presents Geometrica Pop y Rucas, an exhibition curated by Yashi Davalos, Charlotte Street Curatorial Fellow. An opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Friday, May 2, 2025 from 6:00–9:00 PM in the Charlotte Street Gallery (3333 Wyoming St.). Geometrica Pop y Rucas explores social parallels of Midwestern and generational Latine identity through design, movement, and spatial imagination. This group exhibition repositions architecture, body, and culture through nonlinear migrations of form and feeling. Programming for the exhibition includes the In Absentia Concert, a collaboration with UMKC Music Conservatory’s Sight x Sounds Series, on Saturday May 10 at 7:00 PM in the gallery.
Artists featured in the exhibition include Gabriella Poulos (Kansas City, MO), Evie Lozano (Atlanta, GA), Brayan Enriquez (Atlanta, GA), Jaasiel DT (Jansas City, MO), Blas Isasi (St. Louis, MO) Ariadna Ginez (Chicago, IL), and Caleb Taylor (Kansas City, MO).
The exhibition moves through three interwoven frameworks: Infrastructure in pantomime, a nod to grid-based city planning and urban choreography; a destigmatized body, where form and identity freely occupy hybridized space; and a futurism with land and body hybrids, offering new visions for Latine presence in contemporary design. From ceramic sculpture to architectural intervention, each artist reimagines space as a site of resistance and renewal.
Geometrica Pop y Rucas will run through Saturday, June 14, 2025.
EXHIBITION PROGRAMMING
All programs are at Charlotte Street (3333 Wyoming St., Kansas City, MO) and are free and open to the public.
Geometrica Pop y Rucas Opening Reception—May 2, 6:00–9:00 PM
In Absentia Concert—May 10, at 7:00 PM
In collaboration with the UMKC Music Conservatory’s Sight x Sounds Series, the In Absentia Concert is a subtitled night of performance based on an original composition from Charlotte Street Studio Resident, Alberto Racanati, DMA. In dialogue with the exhibition Geometrica, Pop y Rucas, curated by Yashi Davalos, Racanati activates the three phases of works to create non-linear migratory patterns in the gallery activated by the musicians in pantomime with their luggage. Conservatory performers include Kyoungseon Lim (flute), Maddy Smith (mezzo voice), Wan Loo Soo (viola), Carlos Pacheco (bassoon).
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ABOUT CHARLOTTE STREET
Charlotte Street centers Kansas City’s most forward-thinking visual artists, writers, and performers—acting as the primary incubator, provocateur, and connector for the region’s contemporary arts community, and its leading advocate on the national stage. Since 1997, Charlotte Street has distributed over $2.5 million in awards and grants to artists and their innovative projects and has hosted countless exhibitions, performances, convenings, and conversations connecting and challenging Kansas City’s contemporary art ecosystem. For more information about Charlotte Street, its awards, programs, and initiatives, visit www.charlottestreet.org.
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