Julie Malen

Above is an image of “The White Monkey” currently on view at UrbanSuburban VII: Let There be Light @ the Epsten Gallery-Kansas City’s Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art . Sept. 18- Oct. 15. Come check it out!

I am pleased to announce my participation in a fabulous invitational Breaking Boundaries: A Survey of Contemporary Ceramics @ the Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh, New York! On view during August and September. The exhibition features an exciting selection of ceramic artists that challenge the traditional use of the ceramic media. Please visit the Ann Street Gallery website for more information on the exhibition, and for a complete list of the featured artists.

Left-Right: Joy in Folly by Julie Malen, Death by Car by Julie Malen and Calder Kamin, *Featured in Breaking Boundaries- A Survey of Contemporary Ceramics, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, Aug.- Sept. 2011

The United States of Happiness is an installation currently on view at the Kansas City Artists Coalition as part of New Work: Calder Kamin and Julie Malen- on view through June 10th in Kansas City, MO. Stay tuned for more pictures!

The Kansas City Artists Coalition will feature new work by Julie Malen and Calder Kamin in May and June. Kamin and Malen will present their own bodies of work focusing on human nature and a new edition of their collaborative project the Urban Still Life. The exhibition opens Friday May 13th and runs through June 10th in the Kansas City Artists Coalition Underground Gallery.

This is the first of new images of the Bull of in a China Shop from the KCAI 3D exhibition at the Belger Art Center. The gallery’s grey walls and hardwood floors made for an elegant yet industrial backdrop. Can’t wait to share the rest!

Come check out the KCAI IN 3D Exhibition at the Belger Arts Center. The show features two pieces I made during my senior year at the Kansas City Art Institute, as well as works by Keith Whitecloud Simpson, Laura Campbell, Tracy Krumm, and several pieces by Paul Anthony Smith Jr.  Up through January 15th, the show is one of three exhibits currently on view at the Belger. Other shows include UNDADOG an installation by Jesse Small, and Contemporary Ceramics in Israel.

Below is a link to a nice review of the KCAI 3D exhibition by Chris Packham of The Pitch Weekly.Many thanks to Chris for your positive, and observant feedback!

http://www.pitch.com/2010-11-04/culture/kcai-in-3d-belger-arts-center/

Open through September 25th, H & R Block Artspace, 16 E. 43rd St. KCMO. The Kansas City Flatfile exhibition features two dimensional works on paper and video from over 100 Kansas City based artists. See images of my portfolio for this exhibition by clicking on the page titled “2D.” The image here shows the west gallery wall with one of my pieces displayed (upper left). All of the walls are on a two week rotation.

Urban Still Life: An Evolving Field Guide to Kansas City, completed its metamorphosis for the third Friday event in February -Cumulus Part II: an Urban Culture Project Studio Residency Focus Exhibition. This collaborative project by Calder Kamin and I sought to document the relationship between humans and nature in an effort to show that nature is not something separate from the human experience. We did this by sculpting animals that we found dead in the urban environment of Kansas City throughout the course of a two month exhibition (both Cumulus I & II). Our installation at the Paragraph Gallery went through weekly updates as we documented these experiences from our daily lives.   You can view images of the urban still life in all of its stages and details by clicking on the page titled “Cumulus I&II”.

Cumulus I & II is an Urban Culture Studio Resident Focus Exhibition at the Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City, MO. Calder Kamin and I created a collaborative piece for this exhibition titled Urban Still Life: An Evoloving Field Giude to Kansas City. The peice will evolve/ expand over two months, so for those of you who attended Cumulus I, there will be much more to see at the February 19th opening of Cumulus II.