Come for a public discussion about the work of Pat Alexander, Mark Cowardin, and Neil Lawley. Guests Sean Kelley and Corey Antis will join moderator Blair Schulman in leading a public dialogue.

The goal of this series is to encourage open discussion of artists’ work and to activate both the artist and audience in engaged dialogue that will provoke artistic growth and the public’s engagement.
For more information on our Crit Night Series, including submission policy, check out our webpage: http://plugprojects.com/crit_night.html

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Aug. 27, 2010) – Want to get the creative juices flowing? Then check out “The Big Draw” on Saturday, Sept. 11. Drawing activities for all ages will be offered from noon to 5 p.m. at the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, 16 E. 43rd St.

Intended for the whole family, “The Big Draw” will feature five artist-led sessions where participants will learn about a variety of drawing styles and approaches. Materials will be provided. Several of the artists are KCAI alumni.

Session #4 3 – 3:45 p.m.
What’s Round You?
Led by Patrick Alexander
Using mixed media drawing and collage, Alexander will share his techniques to be utilized and collaborated upon in the participant’s drawings

world expo shanghai
in the urban footprints pavilion the city one minutes will be exhibited on 24 screens, which show (all together) one city each minute.

the selected cities are:
abu dhabi / accra / addis ababa / amman / amsterdam / antwerp / ardes / asmara / athens / baghdad / bamako / bandung / bangalore / bangkok / banjul / barcelona / beijing / belgrade / berlin / bratislava / brussels / buenos aires / cairo / calcutta / cape town / chisinau / chongqing / dallas / detroit / dhaka / dubai / glasgow / gothenburg / groningen / guangzhou / hangzhou / hanoi / havana / hohhot / hongkong / istanbul / jerusalem / juneau / kaliningrad / kansas city / kathmandu / kuala lumpur / las vegas / lijiang / lille / lima / lisbon / ljubljana / london / los angeles / maputo / mexico city / moscow / mumbai / nanjing / naples / new delhi / new orleans / new york / odessa / oostende / osaka / ouagadougou / paramaribo / paris / port au prince / qingdao / ramallah / reykjavik / rio de janeiro / rome / san francisco / sana'a / santiago / são paulo / sarajevo / shanghai / singapore / skopje / sofia / st petersburg / stockholm / sydney / taipei / tbilisi / teheran / tel aviv / tirana / tokyo / toronto / trieste / ulan bator / venice / vienna / warsaw / willemstad / wuhan / xiamen / yogyakarta / zurich

Tue March 9, 2010

I have some new drawings and collages at the annual invitational exhibit
“2010 Kansas City Flatfile”
Kansas City Art Institute’s H&R Block Artspace, 16 E. 43rd St., through Sept. 25. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays. For more information, call 816-561-5563 or visit www.kcai.edu.

The joys of trusting others with your art...
http://www.pitch.com/2010-02-25/culture/mikal-shapiro-s-ripe-moves-to-leedy-voulkos/

http://www.pitch.com/2010-02-11/culture/ripe-west-bottoms-erotic-sketches

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ns880/4345317128/in/set-72157623270240285/

I have 11 drawings in an Erotic Art Exhibit called RIPE curated by Mikal Shapiro.

Keyhole Gallery
1903 Wyandotte Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
816-326-8851
First Fridays, 4-10 p.m. and by appointment. February hours: Saturday, noon-3 p.m.

RIPE
An exhibition of small erotic ink drawings, presented veiled behind individual red curtains. Directed by Mikal Shapiro, artists include: Patrick Alexander, Betsy Barratt, Christopher Bell, Joha Bisone, Jennifer Boe, Sean Branagan, Stephen Bushman, Héctor Casanova, Cara Compernolle, Philip David Deibler, Debra Di Blasi, Evie Englezos, Maria Delgado Gambini, GEAR, Lester Goldman, Alison Greene, Adrian Halpern, Joe Hammers, Joseph Hu, Leeah Joo, Bryce Lawrence, mariaurora, Carey Maxon, Oz Mcguire, Ashley Miller, Json Myers, Natalie Myers, Adam Nichols, Notanja, Shane Ogren, Meghan Orbek, Desmond Poirier, Shawn Powell, Jack Rees, Leone Reeves, Patrick Rocha, Jori Sackin, Araan Schmidt, Mikal Shapiro, Colleen Shull, Justin Shull, Zac Singer, Beth Slutzky, Mark Stevenson, Scot Stolfus, Nate Sutton, Jimmy Trotter, Mary Ware Davin Watne, Allan Winkler, and Aaron Wrinkle
First Friday opening: February 5, 4-10 p.m.
February 5 — 28

Fri, Sept 4th - TAKE US THERE / MAPPING MEMORIES opens

There’s no other space, like this space, anywhere near this space, so this must be
the space.

Take Us There
A cross-country journey that explores the relationship between meaningful spaces,
and the people and memories connected to them.

Mapping Memories
Like lines and points on a map, the significance of a space has no meaning or
connotation without the memory of the people who bring it to life. A site alone has
no memory, and it is the people who interact with it that creates meaning. Using a
variety of mediums and found objects, artists will examine the intersecting layers of
space and memory.

http://takeusthere.tumblr.com/
http://www.flickr.com/takeusthere

Here is a link for a feature about my work in Kansas City based magazine Present
http://www.presentmagazine.com

I had the pleasure to be a guest juror to select the best of show at the Kansas City Art Institute's BFA show at H&R Block Art Space today. Myself and Chris Cook, curator of Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art viewed over a hundred pieces in the exhibition. The exhibit was curated by the wonderful staff at H&R Block Art Space.

I have just began this 8 week program. I am one of 25 through a selection process

First Class of Artist, Inc. Workshops Announced
New seminars for artist teach entrepreneurial skills

Kansas City Metro - The first class for Artist, INC, an eight-week series of Monday night seminars for individual artists, was recently announced by the program administrators: The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, the Charlotte Street Foundation, KCSourceLink and the UMKC Small Business and Technology Development Center. The first session will begin in May 2009.

Artist INC, developed through the UMKC Small Business and Technology Development Center, is designed to provide artists with small business skills to manage the business end of their art careers. Artist, INC, a series of in-depth entrepreneurial seminars that will reach more than 100 area artists over the next two years.

The first class of artists are from a diverse range of arts disciplines and ethnic backgrounds. Artists represent the visual arts, music, film/video, theatre, and dance.

The Pitch weekly (kc arts/entertainment newspaper) just announced me as a "mastermind" for my contributions to the arts in Kansas City- primarily for my work operating the YWCA's gallery and theatre. This is the fourth year the paper has honored four artistic individuals(visual, theater, design, all around) with a $1000 check and celebration.

"Pat Alexander believes in the underdog. That’s why he still loves Kansas City, still lives here (in Merriam, not far from where he grew up in Overland Park). It’s why he didn’t mind leaving the Kansas City Art Institute after one semester to make a living as a waiter (and then a cook) to support the downtown gallery he opened in 1997, Locus Solus. “We were showcasing international art, indie art, graffiti, DJs, live bands, performance art,” he says. “That was when I knew I wanted to stay in KC to make art. This is a scene not for spectators but for involvement.”

Alexander has only involved himself more. Over the past two years, as the arts and events coordinator of the YWCA of Greater Kansas City (at 1017 North Sixth Street in Kansas City, Kansas), the 36-year-old has trained his focus on artists, filmmakers and guests whose voices murmur below the popular surface.

Low to the ground as they are, underdogs are finders. Alexander’s own art emphasizes collage and video assemblage, and he collects records (his wheels-of-steel alter ego around town: DJ Fat Sal). So it’s no surprise that he’s a natural curator. In the bright, high-walled but intimate gallery space at the YWCA (and throughout the building), Alexander has hung paintings and placed sculpture by a handful of artists whom he can say he discovered.

At the heart of Alexander’s work is the YWCA’s mission: “eliminating racism, empowering women.” For last fall’s Colorblind Film Series (six documentaries that screened at the YWCA’s Black Box Theatre at the height of the presidential race), he booked political and sometimes heartbreaking work by women filmmakers. Later this month, the YWCA (with the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault and the Latino Writers Collective) will put on the second-annual “Speaking Out,” an anti-violence spoken-word event.

Reaching out to the people whose work drives these events — and finding them in the first place — would be job enough. But Alexander, with the KCK Arts Network, also has embarked on a quest to secure exhibition space for art in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. The resulting Second Friday Art Walks have expanded quickly and have tapped into a layer of local talent that, at its best, refuses to accept second place behind the Crossroads-centered First Fridays.

When it comes to his own art, he mostly makes it these days after his wife and their toddler have gone to bed. When Alexander accepts his Masterminds award, in fact, he will have just returned from exhibiting his work in a solo show at the Los Angeles gallery Echo Curio. And he will have wandered that city looking for old records, especially on the Fania, King, Blue Note, Studio One and Curtom labels.

Alexander has an eye for art, but he also has something like X-ray vision when it comes to spotting influence and intent. Last summer, after seeing smart, very different works by KCAI students Vanessa Freund and Ankur Desai on the school’s campus, he booked them together for an edgy, often lovely exhibition. When he called first one and then the other to set up the show, he discovered that they were best friends. Another curator might have shrugged off the coincidence as Midwestern quaintness or been reminded that, in the cynical world of art, friendships are fragile and fleeting. But Alexander is no cynic. And if more trend-conscious or money-minded gallery types aren’t inclined to be charmed by studio-forged friendship, well, we should all be so Midwestern."

— Scott Wilson

Consolidated-
kansas loves california/ stimulus for collectors

solo show of small drawings and site specific installation

ECHO CURIO GALLERY los angeles CA
opening Friday, April 3rd 8pm-12am

I have been selected for inclusion in the new Art Through Architecture program, a partnership between Charlotte Street Foundation and the American Institute of Architects-KC. My work will be featured on the ATA web site www.ArtArch.org. This new program/web page allows architects and clients the opportunity to purchase work from exceptional artists in the Kansas City area. There are various levels of "art achievement" awarded to these clients that purchase the art work through the ATA program.

WED. October 8th 5:30pm

July 25th 8:20 PM
slide show presentation at Bar Natasha