NW Missouri Times

Northwest Missouri State University is highlighting artwork created by its faculty during its first exhibit of the 2024-25 academic year, followed by an exhibit featuring two Kansas City artists.

The annual faculty art exhibit is being displayed inside the Olive DeLuce Art Gallery at the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building through Friday, Sept. 13. The featured faculty members will give brief presentations about their interests and research activities during a lecture and reception from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9, in Room 244 of the Fine Arts Building.

The gallery’s exhibition schedule continues this fall with “Hanging Paper,” a site-specific installation of new works by Laura Nugent and Garry Noland from Sept. 23 through Oct. 11. Noland and Nugent are scheduled to speak at the opening reception at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23, in Room 244 of the Fine Arts Building.

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.

Nugent uses collected scraps as painting surfaces and brings her personal studio experience into the gallery with two public-facing mixed media works. Layering fragile pieces transforms an otherwise irregular backdrop into her main event.

Nugent has studied in Florence and New York City; her work has been exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art; Fort Wayne Museum of Art; and the 21c Museum Hotel in Kansas City. Her work is part of private and corporate collections including The Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago; Pinnacle Bank in Nashville; and Hallmark Inc.. After living and working in New York City; Chicago; Los Angeles she now paints at Holsum Studios in Kansas City.

Later this fall, the art gallery features Northwest’s Senior Preview Show from Oct. 21-25; Bob Walkenhorst from Oct. 30 through Nov..17; an exhibit featuring artwork produced by Bachelor of Fine Arts students from Dec..2-13..

The spring exhibit schedule includes exhibits by Robin North from Jan..27 through Feb..21; ceramics exhibit featuring Artaxis artists from March..24 through April..18..

All exhibits are free and open to the public.. Visitors may visit the gallery on Tuesdays between1and7p.m.andThursdaysbetween9a.m.and1p.m.onWednesdays,andbetween10a.m.and1p.m.onFridays