Slow Cooked: New Work from Kansas City

Friday, November 8 through Saturday, December 13, 2008

SLOW COOKED: NEW ART FROM KANSAS CITY, runs November 8-December 13 at Okay Mountain, 1312 E Cesar Chavez Ste B, Austin, Texas. Curated by Okay Mountain co-director Sterling Allen from image reviews and studio visits conducted in Kansas City this summer, the exhibition features work by Marcus Cain, Michael Converse, Colin Leipelt, Kacy Maddux, and James Woodfill. Though the formal and conceptual aspects of the five artists chosen for Slow Cooked are very different, Allen views “a solid commitment to an idea and the patience necessary to carry that work into fruition,” as a unifying characteristic of the work. Carnal Torpor, a collective comprised of Colin Leipelt, Ashley Miller and Seth Johnson, perform live at the opening. This collaboration is Urban Culture Project’s second exhibition exchange project, following TRUCK, a St. Louis exchange/collaboration with White Flag Projects in 2007, which culminated in an exhibition of St. Louis artists presented at UCP’s la Esquina venue, curated by Kansas City-based artist Barry Anderson, and an exhibition of Kansas City artists presented by White Flag, a non-profit space in St. Louis, curated by director Matt Strauss. This Austin-Kansas City exchange was instigated by Grant Miller and Sterling Allen, who met as artists in residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Upstate New York.