Culled from the Kemper family's deep collection of Kansas City art, Interchange at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art's Kemper East is an ode to the city by the artists who lived here. Spotlighting the work of Charlotte Street Award winners, KCAI instructors and members of the Kansas City Artists Coalition, it's a visual anthology of the town. So what if the pieces have appeared in other, different contexts? The cumulative effect of these works — by such artists as Peregrine Honig, Nate Fors, Lou Marak and Philomene Bennett — is the creative inspiration of a single place revealed through different artistic sensibilities and how the territory fragments into many maps. Many of the works, such as Wilbur Niewald's "Trees at Linda Hall Library," announce themselves immediately as Kansas City-inspired art. Others manifest their inspirations more subtly, inviting viewers to consider their own responses to their community.
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