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Paragraph is an artist-run non-profit exhibition space with
a project-based curatorial program. We show emerging Kansas City-based
artists, designers, and architects alongside mid-career national and
international artists, designers, and architects working in a variety
of media. Paragraph likes multi-disciplinary activity and work that connects
diverse media, genres, and audiences. Ours is an inclusive sensibility
that broadly engages the hybridized field of contemporary culture — an
exhilarating mix of beer, art, and philosophy. We are eager to develop
reciprocating links with like-minded contemporary art spaces located
outside of the major art centers. Our programming includes traditional
exhibits alongside screenings, performances, lectures, events, and other
forms of public benevolence.
Paragraph was founded in Lawrence, Kansas
in September of 2003. After being forcefully ejected from our space just
six months later, we reopened
in Kansas City in May of 2004 as an Urban Culture Project. The Urban
Culture Project is a non-profit that establishes visual art and performance
spaces in vacant storefronts in downtown Kansas City. A progressive blend
of Kansas City’s business and art communities, the Urban Culture
Project aims to reintroduce street-level cultural vitality to Kansas
City’s core, while highlighting the city’s contemporary art
community.
Artists participating in our 2004 Stray Show installation are
Armando Diaz, Jill Noone, Eric Robertson, Seth Johnson, Cobi Newton,
Eric Grimes,
Miles Neidinger, Matt Wycoff, Cullen Stevenson, Peter Demos, Michael
Jones McKean, James Woodfill, Oz McGuire, Adam Hinterlang, Josiah Dermyer,
Jordan Nickel, and Hesse McGraw.
contact
Paragraph
Hesse McGraw, director
23 E 12th Street
Kansas City, MO
64106
hesse@paragraphgallery.com
www.paragraphgallery.com
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Armando Diaz
"IBC.01" 2003
painting
installation view of
"Buildings and Grounds:
New Forms of Constructed
Space"
installation view of
"Buildings and Grounds:
New Forms of Constructed Space"
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