DeLuce Gallery exhibition opening lecture and reception: Laura Nugent & Garry Noland
Join artists Laura Nugent and Garry Noland for a reception and lecture commemorating the opening of their exhibition. The artists will give short presentations about their interests and research activities. The exhibit opens in the Olive DeLuce Gallery on Sept. 23 and remains open through Oct. 11.
Lectures and artist receptions are free and open to the public. For more information call 660.562.1326.
Noland’s exhibited works are chromatically charged assemblages of a wall-covering scale. They are constructed during months in his studio by adhering tinted, hand-shaped forms on a pieced-together, sturdy paper substrate. Described as “paper on paper,” each added facet is covered in paint mixed with baking soda that dries to a gritty texture, a distinctly tactile addition. Noland has an openness to both glitches and patterns that develop through extemporization.
While living in Independence, Missouri, Noland’s primary studio practice has been in Kansas City and Los Angeles. His work has been widely exhibited, including at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska, and the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the Studios Inc. Residency Fellowship and Charlotte Street Visual Artists Fellowship. Since 2020, he has operated Holsum Gallery, an artist-run space in Kansas City, Missouri.
Nugent uses collected scraps, odds and ends as painting surfaces and brings her personal studio experience into the gallery with two public-facing, mixed media works. Layering fragile, non-precious pieces in an improvisational exercise transforms an otherwise irregular backdrop into her main event.
Nugent has studied in Florence, Italy, and New York City, and her work has been exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art, Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana and the 21c Museum Hotel in Kansas City. Her work is in private and corporate collections including The Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago, Pinnacle Bank in Nashville and at Hallmark Inc. After living and working in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, she now paints at Holsum Studios in Kansas City.