Vulpes Bastille

Opening this First Friday (July 5th), Vulpes Bastille is proud to present Vestibul/ar, a group exhibition featuring Nell Hull, Alison Krenzer, and Izanna Perry!

From the artists:

This exhibition is inspired by a play on the word vestibule: the threshold to an entrance of an interior reality, and the vestibular system: that which creates a sense of internal balance within the body.

Nell Hull:
"My work is the proof of my existence confined in this earthly body and an exploration into what it means to suffer and celebrate being human. I have more recently begun to explore textiles as a way of softening my art practice. I am excited to pair my textile creations with my ceramic work for the first time in this exhibition."

Alison Krenzer:
"My work explores the binaries of attraction and repulsion, femininity and masculinity, and disgust and desire. While seeking to blur the line between the two distinctions, I aim to confront viewer's own notions about desirability and beauty."

Izanna Perry:
"My current work explores the connection between the body and how our emotions physically manifest themselves in our bodies. I try to imbue a sense of childlike whimsy and dread in my sculptures by taking inspiration from my own anxieties, childhood memories, and forms in nature."

See you Friday 6-9 ✨

Join us tonight from 6-9 PM for the closing reception of The Intensity of Being Alive, a solo exhibition by Trinity Pote!

We will not be open for gallery hours today, Sunday, June 16th! See y'all next weeeeeeek.

Join us next Thursday, June 20th, for a night of live figure drawing! We're thrilled to host Doug Catt, professional model, who will be doing poses from 6 - 8 pm.

Bring your own art supplies: any medium is welcome as long as you can keep it clean! The gallery will provide chairs, but you are welcome to bring drawing horses and supplemental drawing boards. We suggest a $10-15 donation to compensate the model and help support the gallery.

Hope to see you there! Come anytime between 6-8 pm. Vulpes Bastille Gallery is located at 1737 Locust St, KCMO in the Crossroads.

This month in the Sub Gallery, we are thrilled to host the Intensity of Being Alive, a solo exhibition by Trinity Pote!

The Intensity of Being Alive explores the unseen emotional aspects of experience. Themes of fear, alienation, isolation, detachment and obsession can be found with the work. The ways in which we self manage, the undeniable patterns of our behaviors which we must recognize. Intangible aspects of experience come to fruition, showing the complexity and contraindications within ourselves. The ways in which our minds affect and transform the world we perceive.

Be there 6-9 pm on Friday, June 7 💥

Vulpes Bastille is proud to present BUTTER AND OIL, an exhibition of site-specific and installation-based works by Mary Clara Hutchison! Join us 6-9 PM for the First Friday reception on June 7th!

Butter & Oil examines the relationship between consumption and daily ritual (both public and private) and their presence in our daily lives. Installation-based and sculptural pieces explore the architecture of routine, attempt to quantify the physical setting for those routines, and question if habit and comfort create intimacy between us and our households. The pieces in this show dissect every-day objects and present them for scrutiny, questioning the inherent value of those items.

Join us tonight at the closing reception for our two May exhibitions: Ambient Occlusions by Mol Mir and Jessica Perez, and Negotiating with Memory by Nada Bayazid. Don't miss your last chance to see these two incredible displays of artistic innovation. 6-9 pm at the gallery!

Pictured: Negotiating with Memory, exhibition by Nada Bayazid

This Saturday, 1-5 pm! Join us at AMBIENT OCCLUSIONS for not one, but two artist-led workshops!!! Mol Mir will be leading a DIY zine workshop and Jessica Perez will lead a workshop on making your own biomaterials. All supplies will be provided: come out for a fluid art making experience!

Live Drawing Session this Thursday! Join us at the gallery for an observational session with n**e poses modeled by Doug Catt.

Bring your own art supplies, any medium welcome as long as you can keep it clean! The gallery will provide chairs, but you are welcome to bring drawing horses and supplemental drawing boards. We suggest a $10-15 donation to compensate the model and help support the gallery.

Hope to see you there! Come anytime between 6-8 pm. Vulpes Bastille Gallery is located at 1737 Locust St, KCMO in the Crossroads.

Tonight!!

Please come out - With your support, we can bring more opportunities like this to the KC arts community!

Vulpes Bastille invites you to our very first live drawing session! We’d love to make events like this a regular occurrence, so please come show your support so we can continue to bring these kinds of opportunities to the community!

Model Doug Catt will be doing poses from 6 - 8 pm this Thursday, April 18th. Bring your own art supplies, any medium welcome as long as you can keep it clean! The gallery will provide chairs, but you are welcome to bring drawing horses and supplemental drawing boards. We suggest a $10-15 donation to compensate the model and help support the gallery.

Hope to see you there! Come anytime between 6-8 pm. Vulpes Bastille Gallery is located at 1737 Locust St, KCMO in the Crossroads.

Join us this morning at the Kansas City Artist Coalition for Coffee Talk!

3200 Gillham Rd
Saturday, April 13th 11:30 am

So what do we do with the CCA that utterly failed to represent their community’s interests and sold us all out to billionaires?

Thank you to everyone who turned out to vote no and save the Crossroads!
And to the city, Royals, Chiefs and additional du*****es that failed to ruin my neighborhood, I would like to kindly ask you to eat an entire bag of dicks. KTHNX 🖕

PLEASE VOTE NO TOMORROW IF YOURE A JACKSON COUNTY RESIDENT. The entire proposal for this stadium has been a farce from day one, and the people at the helm have utterly abandoned the facade of caring for the city. The Royals have now dropped any protections for small businesses as part of their proposed community benefits. To be clear, it was never a community benefits agreement- those are legally binding. Whatever horse p**s they’ve put to paper so far holds them to no obligation, and even in that they’ve refused to acknowledge the people they intend to steamroll.
The dozens of businesses that will be displaced, they feel no obligation to help them relocate or incorporate them into their plan. Does that sound like benefitting a community to you?

Coming soon! On Friday, April 12th, we're hosting the UMKC's MFA Spring Reading! A special showcase of contemporary prose and poetry, the event is open to the public. Come out to enjoy the creative debut of these talented local writers!

Opening next Friday! Abstract Garden by Jasmine Rodriguez will be feature in the Sub Gallery for the month of April.

From the artist:

I’m Jasmine Rodriguez, a current senior at the Kansas City Art Institute, majoring in Photography and minoring in Entrepreneurial Studies in Art and Design. My first introduction to photography was my senior year of high school. There, I learned and fell in love with the tactile process of shooting, developing, and printing film and images in the darkroom. At the time, a nature preserve was implemented behind my high school, allowing me to photograph the flowers that had bloomed. While the flowers were pretty, I continued the trend of using flowers in my work, the meaning of the flower changing as I changed.

My work at the moment includes elements of self-portraiture, flowers, and mirrors, along with the base elements of light and shadow. Using minimal and familiar elements in my work allows my subconscious to reveal itself within the images. I tend to work in the mode of make now, think later, meaning that I work solely based on intuition. It is during my downsizing and printing phases of my process that I start to dissect and give context to the images. This project is a visualization of a personal mindset. The darkness in the images are the “mind”, and I present my body in ways that depict movement throughout the mind. In most of the images, I’m interacting with my reflection in a large mirror, longing to be one with it. The flowers in the mirror are presenting an ideal situation, mindset, or something similar. The images that depict my body laying amongst the flowers shows full envelopment of the mindset, embracement and/or acceptance of it, or fighting to not be overtaken.

Opening this Friday, April 5th from 6-9 pm in the Main Gallery: Old Gods, New Tricks.

This thesis exhibition from Hannah Finnan and Dylan Ringer will be on view until April 20th. 3 years in the making, this dynamic duo invites you to explore their unique paracosms.

Although our imagery diverges, from the deep South and to the plains of the West, what else lies between these settings but two Midwesterners concerned with the narratives they share?

The closing for "for dear life" by Angela Shaffer is tonight! Stop by any time before 9 pm. Come out for your last chance to see this show and Ramifications by Stephen Homer and Avery Jade!

From the artist:

"Motherhood intensifies the fragility of time. As my son rapidly grows into new versions of himself, I beg for time to slow. These photographs are a response to the emotional labor of motherhood in relation to the persistence of time. Staged tableaus depict my neuroses as fictions. Functioning as both document and metaphor, the images reference impermanence, nostalgia, and uncertainty with what lies ahead.

With a mixture of sentiment and anxiety, these controlled images wrestle with my son's burgeoning independence. As he continues to age, I attempt to contain him. Time is a thief and photographs become my way to cope.

The foundation of this work draws upon Andrea O'Reilly's definition of Matricentric Feminism, which aims 'to position mothers' needs and concerns as the starting point for a theory and politics on and for womxns' empowerment.' Through photographic means, for dear life is a visual interpretation of the maternal and psychological experience driving my desire for control."

Angela Shaffer, 2024

Ramifications by Avery Jade and Stephen Homer is open until Saturday, March 23rd! Join us for a closing reception starting at 6 pm.

From the artists:

"Avery is interested in how global society has never before been so interconnected personally, culturally, and economically. That overwhelming rage or sorrow or helplessness that one might feel after reading the news is grief, we are mourning our notions for how we think the world should work. Avery is exhibiting wall tiles that explore the grief within the intersection of our urban environments and our natural world. Other works on view include a sculpture reminiscent of mountains that explores resource use and management, a large hand woven rug crafted on a hundred year old loom while in Mexico, and a linocut octopus print inspired by Minoan pottery.

Stephen’s works include an installation of planted ceramic pylons that explore the persistence of nature within our urban spaces, a large sculpture of a human head that is encrusted with coral and algal forms, a moon jar with textures inspired by cliff faces and shale deposits, a sculpture combining elements of terrestrial plants, fungus, and aquatic life, a large sculptural piece investigating the degradation of our cities, waste and resource usage, and a free hanging sculpture inspired by a visit to the local Kauffman Memorial Garden and the plants within. In addition they will exhibit a series of abstract photographic prints which utilize intentional camera movement and digital layering of domesticated and wild plants and sub/urban landscapes."

This March, Vulpes Bastille proudly presents for dear life, a solo exhibition by Columbia-based photographer Angela Shaffer.

for dear life is an image series about a desire for maternal control through photographic means. This work makes visible anxiety with my son’s aging and burgeoning independence. These images depict maternal conflict with the understanding that time persists, even as one attempts to stop it.

Shaffer works to bring visibility to hidden aspects of mothering. In doing so she explores the psychology, vulnerability, and banality of motherhood.

Opening Reception: March 1st
Closing Reception: March 23rd

Thanks for dropping this trash off at my house Yes On One Jackson County! Congratulations on somehow making something that is both vague and misleading🎉
Real top-notch appeal to the emotions of a city in love with their football team. Too bad that has nothing to do with building a stadium for their baseball team that can generously be described as “a perennial disappointment.”
The Chiefs were never threatening to leave, and implying that’s the case is disingenuous at best. What does “the Golden Era of Kansas City sports” even mean? Even the most generous interpretation of that nothing phrase does not include the Royals.
How does gutting an entire neighborhood guarantee this continuation? I wanted to know so I flipped over the card and… that’s it. You didn’t include any information. This thing says nothing and means nothing, except that you actively endorse the destruction of local businesses and a massive chunk of KC culture.

PS. I wasn’t going to address your second bullet point about “no new taxes” because it’s insultingly pointless to your audience. But let’s do it anyway. No one is proposing new taxes, except you. This is a new tax. Not a continuation. It’s just the same amount and applicable to areas outside the Truman complex. So one could call this an actual lie on your part. That is all.

They forgot that water will still be wet and the sun will rise tomorrow.

What WILL change is the Crossroads through destruction of 40-60 small, locally-owned businesses.

Don’t believe their lies.
Tell every Jackson County voter you know.

VOTE NO!

This March, Vulpes Bastille is proud to present Ramifications, an exhibition of selected works by Avery Jade and Stephen Homer. 

Avery and Stephen are BFA candidates at Kansas City Art Institute whose works explore the intersections between humans, nature, and our constructed environments through the mediums of clay, printmaking, fiber, and photography. As studiomates they have been in constant dialogue for the last two years about ideas and techniques, sharing material explorations and creating related but individually unique styles that marry well in conversation with each other.

Opening reception will be held during First Friday on March 1st, 2024 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm, with a closing reception and brief artist talks on March 23rd, 2024 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.

Save First Fridays
Save the Crossroads

No one wants it. No one benefits.

No one loses money if it goes away.
We only lose if we lose the Crossroads.

Vote NO.

Please join us in voting NO for new a stadium that will displace local businesses and destroy the culture of the Crossroads!
Vulpes Bastille narrowly escaped being in the proposed zone by a mere half block, but there is no doubt that we (and what would remain of our neighborhood) will be heavily negatively impacted by the proposed stadium. The Crossroads is defined by its diverse businesses and individuals who live and work here. Tearing down 40+ of those establishments and replacing them with a monolith owned by billionaires will effectively destroy the Crossroads. They can claim it will “help the community” but on what planet does “helping” entail uprooting the very people who make up the community?
And they want your tax dollars to do it. This is bad for literally everyone except a few very rich people. Please don’t help them. VOTE NO ON APRIL 2

Royals Nation Against New Stadium Taxation WE STAND AGAINST THE PROPOSED SALES TAX TO PAY FOR A NEW ROYALS BASEBALL STADIUM!
VOTE NO APRIL 2ND!!

Closing reception starting now - we're open til 8 pm!