Wickerson Studios, formerly known as Beth Allison Gallery/Web Design, has reorganized itself on 11 wooded acres in the rolling hills of Kansas City, Kansas. Combining the virtual reality of a web design studio with the materiality of a outdoor sculpture yard, Wickerson Studios plans to have many gallery exhibitions, iron casting performances, and art events in the coming years. Stay tuned for more information.
Beth Allison Wickerson is a Web Designer and Graphic Artist in the Kansas City area. After graduating with a Double Major in Photography/New Media and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute, she co-founded and directed the Beth Allison Gallery in the Crossroads Arts District of Kansas City for three years. During that time she worked as a Web Designer, Photographer and Digital Photo Retoucher. Her interests were and remain in web design, so she closed the gallery and began working full-time as a Web Designer for Fire Lake Solutions in 2006, where she was responsible for the design and development of websites for Fire Lake Solutions and its clients, as well as design and creation of materials for print.
Currently, she is a board member of the Kansas City Freelance ExchangeCurrently she is working freelance as a Web Designer and Graphic Artist, with clients such as CornbreadWorks, Van Rooijen Architecten in The Netherlands, Matt Shepherd Advertising & Design and The Woodlands Race Park and Matt Shepherd Advertising & Design in Kansas City. she have a strong virtuosity with CSS Adobe CreativeSuite3, she prioritizes keeping abreast with the latest web technologies and is never afraid to try something new. While she considers herself to be design-oriented, she prefers to hand-code my projects, and has experience with Actionscript, Javascript, XML, and Content Management Systems.
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An international web-based gallery space representing the available works and current projects of Michael David Wickerson, THE LAST CANADIAN MAN IN AMERICA
BORN IN 1971, Michael Wickerson, assistant professor and Chair of the Sculpture Department at the Kansas City Art Institute, teaches a variety of traditional and contemporary skills and crafts.
Wickerson is a Canadian artist working in Kansas City, experienced in wood-working and metal-casting. He has exhibited throughout North America since 1994 and displayed artworks overseas in Holland and Bulgaria since 2002. In 2005, his installation, This Equipment Belongs to the Earth, was displayed at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City and his aluminum casting, House of the Sun, was recognized in Spaces Magazine in the spring of 2006.
In 2007, Wickerson received a Lighton International Exchange Grant from the Lighton Foundation; in 2004, he received the Excellence in Teaching Grant from the Kansas City Learning Exchange. He is a current member of both the American Foundry Society (MK Chapter), the Kansas City International Visitors Council and the Kansas City Artist Coalition. Previously, he co-founded and co-directed the Beth Allison Gallery in Missouri and taught at Memorial University in Newfoundland. Wickerson holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Waterloo and a master’s of fine arts degree from York University in Toronto, Canada.
In my work I have been intent on drawing attention to the simple objects that we have built in order to do our work for us. My sculptures are useless, broken, awkward objects encumbered by their own weight. By portraying them as such, I seek to highlight the cyclical, yet futile, labor of building tools to function to make work for us. Essentially, I am subtly attempting to critically engage the sensibility of the viewer through the creation of quiet and contemplative environments. Changing people's sensibility towards the objects in the world, that we have artificially superimposed upon the earth, is something that drives me to make artworks. Challenging the viewer to realize their fundamental connection between our artifice and nature's creation by making aesthetic connections between the earth's raw, processed, and refined materials is paramount to my work. Bringing attention to simple devices (bowls, doors, wheels and, tools) that co-exist with us in our environment is conceptually linked to my desire to change the way people view the world as opposed to changing the world itself. For thousands of years, humans have constructed tools to facilitate labor. Inevitably, these tools have been conceived as extensions of ourselves, taking shape in relation to our own bodies and actions
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