15 June 2007 to 11 Aug 2007
Hours: window galleries
are always visible from the street
Urban Culture Project at JENKINS
Jenkins Music Company Building
1217 Walnut
Kansas City, MO
Missouri
North America
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Susi Lulaki and Jennifer Stocker JENKINS | 1217 Walnut | 816.221.5115
Gallery Hours: always visible from the street Through July 21
A collaborative installation by Kansas City artists Susi Lulaki and Jennifer Stocker. Birds of a Feather consists of a multitude of birds, cut from cardboard and colorfully painted, winging their way through a painted landscape filling both Jenkins windows. Most birds are in flight, with movable wings. From a distance, the installation reads as flocks of birds, with similarly shaped birds creating an overall patterned effect in an abstracted but discernable naturalistic background. From up close, each bird is individually recognizable, with the two artists’ styles interwoven creating an imaginative variation-on-theme installation. The seasonal bird migrations that bring a visible nature-in-the-wild element to downtown life inspired the concept for the installation; Downtown developed because of the river, and the birds are in the area because of flight patterns that use the river for navigation. On a more metaphorical level, the flock of birds reflects urban density, people on sidewalks going someplace, back and forth movement, and group activity.
