estudio mariaurora -- # 516 & 518
1600 Genessee, Kansas City, Missouri
Autumn Art Preview
curated by Dexter Wimberly, through 9/6
Lyons Wier Gallery
Seventh Ave at 20th St, NYC 212-242-6220
hours: Mon-Sat 11-7, Sun 12-6
2010 Kansas City Flatfile
6/19-9/25, H&R Block Artspace
16 E. 43rd Street Kansas City, MO
reception Friday 6/18 6-8pm
816-561-5563; 12-5 Tues-Fri, 11-5 Sat
*installation curated by
Marci Aylward & John Carroll
Urban Suburban:
HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS
reception 9/5, auction Saturday 10/23
Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art
5500 W. 123rd Street at Nall Ave
Overland Park, KS 66209
913 266-8413; epstengallery@gmail.com
> coming in December 2010, ten windows at BNIM Architects ~ in the Power & Light district, Kansas City MO
Missouri Top 50, 8/12-22
Juror Esme Watanabe, 2010 Whitney Biennial Coordinator, Whitney Museum
of American Art, NY
State Fair Fine Arts Building, 2503 W. 16th Street, Sedalia, MO; 660-827-8150
reception Wednesday 8/11 7-9pm
Bessie Mae/Béseme y otras at Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Oaxaca, Mexico, June 12 - July 17
reception Saturday June 12, 7pm
Ensamblaje de Telas & Fotographia led by Maria & Katie Creyts: June 15 & 16, 4-7pm at Museo Textil, Oaxaca, Mexico
educacion@museotextildeoaxaca.org.mx
New Arts Program Invitational
in Pennsylvania, 5/28-7/10
reception Friday 5/28 6-9pm
610-683-6440; hours: Wed-Sat 11-3
Inspiration Grant awarded in April 2010
by the Arts Council of Metropolitan
Kansas City
on catchfly pink & new drawing projects:
"Maria Creyts, working under the name Mariaurora, shows a colorful series of sexy circular flora drawings, over which small sculptures of bees hover..."
-- Chris Packham, The Pitch
Pecha Kucha talk > THURSDAY 5/13 @
Crosstown Station, 1522 McGee, KC MO
doors open 7:30, show starts @ 8:20 !
naranja-canela has been selected for a juried exhibit at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, March 1 - April 30
reception Friday 3/9, 5pm
hours: M-Th 9-7, Fri 9-5, Sat 9-4
420 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh PA
"A Good Day for Frieze-ing"
by Steve Brisendine
"Maria Creyts’ work was very interesting in that I hadn’t seen anything like it before. Creating textile pieces that are then photographed and used to create friezes, some stretching as long as 16 feet, Maria’s work takes a few moments to absorb... her images have depths of color and visual texture that shouldn’t be missed."
-- Tyson Habein, SPOKEaNe Magazine
Flavorpill Chicago cover art 11/25/08
In her solo exhibit,"lacey"...
"Creyts’ three photo friezes are irresistible.
Part tidy, part tease, 'Bessie Mae/Bésame' (Spanish for 'kiss me') is a 10-foot vertical frieze, where layers of lace, net, tulle and braid dance over candy-striped fabric.
Creyts switches to the horizontal with 'Anima' and 'Home Deco.' 'Anima' combines punk pink plaid with a fur-trimmed row of hook and eyes that, writes Creyts, seems 'on the verge of bursting open.' And 'Home Deco' is a delightful flirt with its yellow pompoms, lacy ruffle and damask-inspired wallpaper, which is coquettishly peeling up at the photo’s edge."
-- Sarah Mote, Kansas City Star
From a review of "Curator's Choice" at the Cohen Gallery of the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania:
"Maria Creyts continues her investigation of the so-called feminine mystique by displaying shapes and contoured canvases painted in lightly patterned 'girly' fabrics."
-- Ron Schira, Reading Eagle
Also see: "Kansas City artists make their mark from Omaha to New York" (3/29/09) -- Alice Thorson, Kansas City Star
================================
Trained as a painter and also versed in silkscreen printmaking, Maria Creyts currently focuses upon digital projects -- typically these depict elaborate still lifes she fashions from textiles. Ms. Creyts' works are signed ~ mariaurora.
================================
content (c) 1999-2010 Maria Creyts
All Rights Reserved.
No reproduction of images or text without expressed consent from the artist.
================================
= RECENT EVENTS =
Her Art: Who Does She Think She Is?
through 5/28
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
2012 Baltimore Avenue Kansas City, MO
816-474-1919; hours: Wed-Sat 11-5
OPEN STUDIO: Wed. 12/16, 1-6pm
(+ via video chat for those out of town)
~ and by appointment
Chimera, a 12" digital work (pictured in the Kansas City Star), is in ~
"Small Works"
opening reception Friday 12/4, 6-9pm
through December 27th
Pi Gallery 419 E. 18th Street
Kansas City, MO 64108
(816) 210-6534, piart@sbcglobal.net
Gallery hours: Saturdays 8am-4pm
Sundays 8am-2pm, & by appointment
Frilling
Katie and Maria Creyts
October 2-31, 2009
reception / artwalk / Visual Arts Tour:
Friday 10/2, 5-8pm
Saranac Art Projects
W. 25 Main Street
Spokane, WA 99201
hours: Thursday-Saturday 12-5pm
509-954-5458
ArtSounds ~
Dreamy Time and Little Tokoyo
October 13, 2009, 7:30pm
Kansas City Art Institute
Epperson Auditorium
4415 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City MO 64111
Lafcadio Hearn’s strange tale of a brief sleep that yields a dream lasting two dozen years will be performed in miniature and accompanied by new music.
Little Tokoyo presenters:
Ryan Jesperson|, Composer
Maria Creyts and Spencer Musser, Artists
The Little Tokoyo story is conveyed by a puppet performance and narration cards -- carried along with the sound of new, thematic music.
(more on Dreamy Time & Little Tokoyo)
cifras de muchos mundos
September 5 - October 4, 2009
Telephonebooth contemporary art
3319 Troost Kansas City MO 64109
open Saturdays 12-5pm
& by appointment, 816 582-9812
("Buggy," digital hand-cut print &
"Furled," magnetic assemblage)
new painting: Gertrude's Beauty in ~
INVITATIONAL SALON EXHIBITION OF SMALL WORKS
New Arts Program
May 22 - July 11, 2009
reception, Friday 5/22, 6:30-9pm
173 W. Main Street, Kutztown PA 19530
610-683-6440, napconn@aol.com
Curator’s Choice (several paintings)
GoggleWorks Center for the Arts
March 1 - April 2, 2009
reception 5:30-8pm Thurs. 3/5
artist talks 5:45-6:30pm
201 Washington St. Reading PA 19601
610 374-4600
http://www.goggleworks.org
Winter Invitational
(silkscreen diptych: "Frenzy")
Telephonebooth Editions & Projects
January thru February 2009
3319 Troost Kansas City MO 64109
816 582-9812
Small Works Exhibit at Pi gallery
December 5-27, 2008
opening First Friday 12/5 from 6-9pm
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
816 210-6534, piart@sbcglobal.net
"lacey" (solo exhibit) at Pi gallery
November 7-29, 2008
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
816 210-6534, piart@sbcglobal.net
Summer Salon
Telephonebooth Gallery
opening Saturday, September 13, 2008 2-6pm
3319 Troost! Kansas City MO 64109
816-582-9812
*Urban Suburban:
HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS*
opening reception September 14, auction & reception October 25, 2008
Epsten Gallery
5500 West 123rd Street
Overland Park, KS 66209
913 266-8413; mcain@villageshalom.org
Pecha Kucha Night @ Bar Natasha
8pm, Tuesday July 29th
1911 Main St., KC MO
Declare Yourself! (invitational exhibit)
Pi Gallery
Reception 6-9pm First Friday June 6
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
TALK!
Join the artist & Avila students
Saturday 3/29, 10:30am at...
Thornhill Gallery, Avila University
"mariaurora"
works by Maria Creyts
February 29 - March 30, 2008
Reception Friday February 29, 5-8
11901 Wornall Rd. KC, MO 64145
816 501-2443 / Thornhillgallery@avila.edu
2008 Kansas City Flatfile
February 23 - April 5, 2008
Reception Friday February 22, 6-8
H & R Block Artspace, KCAI
16 East 43rd St. KC, MO 64111
816 561-5563 / http://www.kcai.edu/artspace
[four examples of the artist’s digital work]
Art Institute of Pittsburgh Gallery
January 16 - March 8, 2008
Reception Friday February 29, 5pm
420 Boulevard of the Allies
Pittsburgh PA
Pi gallery's SMALL WORKS EXHIBIT
Reception December 7, 2007
[four 12" paintings by the artist]
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
Telephonebooth Gallery Winter Salon
Nov. 10, 2007 through Feb. 2008
3319 Troost! Kansas City MO 64109
816-582-9812
[new print projects, signed "mariaurora"]
Slideshow -- Artist's Talk
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
5:30 Wed. October 10, 2007; 4420 Warwick Blvd. Kansas City MO 64111
Seton Gallery, University of New Haven
Chamlin / Coash / Creyts
: PAINTERS' PROJECTS
September 20 to October 17 2007
RECEPTION 4:30-6:30PM September 19 ~ ARTISTS' TALK 5:15PM
300 Boston Post Road West Haven CT 06516; www.newhaven.edu/gallery
isadore GALLERY -- "Master and Apprentice"; April 2007 ~ two paintings each by the artist and her KCAI student
228 N Prince Street, Lancaster, PA 17603
Pi gallery
March 2007, 4-color silkscreen prints on view in conjunction with Southern Graphics Council's Print Conference
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
Kansas City Art Institute
Artist's Talk, Epperson Auditorium
7pm December 5, 2006
4415 Warwick Kansas City MO 64111
Fairfield University, Fairfield CT
Visiting Artist -- workshop / lecture 2006
1600 Genessee, Kansas City, Missouri
Autumn Art Preview
curated by Dexter Wimberly, through 9/6
Lyons Wier Gallery
Seventh Ave at 20th St, NYC 212-242-6220
hours: Mon-Sat 11-7, Sun 12-6
2010 Kansas City Flatfile
6/19-9/25, H&R Block Artspace
16 E. 43rd Street Kansas City, MO
reception Friday 6/18 6-8pm
816-561-5563; 12-5 Tues-Fri, 11-5 Sat
*installation curated by
Marci Aylward & John Carroll
Urban Suburban:
HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS
reception 9/5, auction Saturday 10/23
Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art
5500 W. 123rd Street at Nall Ave
Overland Park, KS 66209
913 266-8413; epstengallery@gmail.com
> coming in December 2010, ten windows at BNIM Architects ~ in the Power & Light district, Kansas City MO
Missouri Top 50, 8/12-22
Juror Esme Watanabe, 2010 Whitney Biennial Coordinator, Whitney Museum
of American Art, NY
State Fair Fine Arts Building, 2503 W. 16th Street, Sedalia, MO; 660-827-8150
reception Wednesday 8/11 7-9pm
Bessie Mae/Béseme y otras at Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Oaxaca, Mexico, June 12 - July 17
reception Saturday June 12, 7pm
Ensamblaje de Telas & Fotographia led by Maria & Katie Creyts: June 15 & 16, 4-7pm at Museo Textil, Oaxaca, Mexico
educacion@museotextildeoaxaca.org.mx
New Arts Program Invitational
in Pennsylvania, 5/28-7/10
reception Friday 5/28 6-9pm
610-683-6440; hours: Wed-Sat 11-3
Inspiration Grant awarded in April 2010
by the Arts Council of Metropolitan
Kansas City
on catchfly pink & new drawing projects:
"Maria Creyts, working under the name Mariaurora, shows a colorful series of sexy circular flora drawings, over which small sculptures of bees hover..."
-- Chris Packham, The Pitch
Pecha Kucha talk > THURSDAY 5/13 @
Crosstown Station, 1522 McGee, KC MO
doors open 7:30, show starts @ 8:20 !
naranja-canela has been selected for a juried exhibit at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, March 1 - April 30
reception Friday 3/9, 5pm
hours: M-Th 9-7, Fri 9-5, Sat 9-4
420 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh PA
"A Good Day for Frieze-ing"
by Steve Brisendine
"Maria Creyts’ work was very interesting in that I hadn’t seen anything like it before. Creating textile pieces that are then photographed and used to create friezes, some stretching as long as 16 feet, Maria’s work takes a few moments to absorb... her images have depths of color and visual texture that shouldn’t be missed."
-- Tyson Habein, SPOKEaNe Magazine
Flavorpill Chicago cover art 11/25/08
In her solo exhibit,"lacey"...
"Creyts’ three photo friezes are irresistible.
Part tidy, part tease, 'Bessie Mae/Bésame' (Spanish for 'kiss me') is a 10-foot vertical frieze, where layers of lace, net, tulle and braid dance over candy-striped fabric.
Creyts switches to the horizontal with 'Anima' and 'Home Deco.' 'Anima' combines punk pink plaid with a fur-trimmed row of hook and eyes that, writes Creyts, seems 'on the verge of bursting open.' And 'Home Deco' is a delightful flirt with its yellow pompoms, lacy ruffle and damask-inspired wallpaper, which is coquettishly peeling up at the photo’s edge."
-- Sarah Mote, Kansas City Star
From a review of "Curator's Choice" at the Cohen Gallery of the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania:
"Maria Creyts continues her investigation of the so-called feminine mystique by displaying shapes and contoured canvases painted in lightly patterned 'girly' fabrics."
-- Ron Schira, Reading Eagle
Also see: "Kansas City artists make their mark from Omaha to New York" (3/29/09) -- Alice Thorson, Kansas City Star
================================
Trained as a painter and also versed in silkscreen printmaking, Maria Creyts currently focuses upon digital projects -- typically these depict elaborate still lifes she fashions from textiles. Ms. Creyts' works are signed ~ mariaurora.
================================
content (c) 1999-2010 Maria Creyts
All Rights Reserved.
No reproduction of images or text without expressed consent from the artist.
================================
= RECENT EVENTS =
Her Art: Who Does She Think She Is?
through 5/28
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
2012 Baltimore Avenue Kansas City, MO
816-474-1919; hours: Wed-Sat 11-5
OPEN STUDIO: Wed. 12/16, 1-6pm
(+ via video chat for those out of town)
~ and by appointment
Chimera, a 12" digital work (pictured in the Kansas City Star), is in ~
"Small Works"
opening reception Friday 12/4, 6-9pm
through December 27th
Pi Gallery 419 E. 18th Street
Kansas City, MO 64108
(816) 210-6534, piart@sbcglobal.net
Gallery hours: Saturdays 8am-4pm
Sundays 8am-2pm, & by appointment
Frilling
Katie and Maria Creyts
October 2-31, 2009
reception / artwalk / Visual Arts Tour:
Friday 10/2, 5-8pm
Saranac Art Projects
W. 25 Main Street
Spokane, WA 99201
hours: Thursday-Saturday 12-5pm
509-954-5458
ArtSounds ~
Dreamy Time and Little Tokoyo
October 13, 2009, 7:30pm
Kansas City Art Institute
Epperson Auditorium
4415 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City MO 64111
Lafcadio Hearn’s strange tale of a brief sleep that yields a dream lasting two dozen years will be performed in miniature and accompanied by new music.
Little Tokoyo presenters:
Ryan Jesperson|, Composer
Maria Creyts and Spencer Musser, Artists
The Little Tokoyo story is conveyed by a puppet performance and narration cards -- carried along with the sound of new, thematic music.
(more on Dreamy Time & Little Tokoyo)
cifras de muchos mundos
September 5 - October 4, 2009
Telephonebooth contemporary art
3319 Troost Kansas City MO 64109
open Saturdays 12-5pm
& by appointment, 816 582-9812
("Buggy," digital hand-cut print &
"Furled," magnetic assemblage)
new painting: Gertrude's Beauty in ~
INVITATIONAL SALON EXHIBITION OF SMALL WORKS
New Arts Program
May 22 - July 11, 2009
reception, Friday 5/22, 6:30-9pm
173 W. Main Street, Kutztown PA 19530
610-683-6440, napconn@aol.com
Curator’s Choice (several paintings)
GoggleWorks Center for the Arts
March 1 - April 2, 2009
reception 5:30-8pm Thurs. 3/5
artist talks 5:45-6:30pm
201 Washington St. Reading PA 19601
610 374-4600
http://www.goggleworks.org
Winter Invitational
(silkscreen diptych: "Frenzy")
Telephonebooth Editions & Projects
January thru February 2009
3319 Troost Kansas City MO 64109
816 582-9812
Small Works Exhibit at Pi gallery
December 5-27, 2008
opening First Friday 12/5 from 6-9pm
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
816 210-6534, piart@sbcglobal.net
"lacey" (solo exhibit) at Pi gallery
November 7-29, 2008
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
816 210-6534, piart@sbcglobal.net
Summer Salon
Telephonebooth Gallery
opening Saturday, September 13, 2008 2-6pm
3319 Troost! Kansas City MO 64109
816-582-9812
*Urban Suburban:
HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS*
opening reception September 14, auction & reception October 25, 2008
Epsten Gallery
5500 West 123rd Street
Overland Park, KS 66209
913 266-8413; mcain@villageshalom.org
Pecha Kucha Night @ Bar Natasha
8pm, Tuesday July 29th
1911 Main St., KC MO
Declare Yourself! (invitational exhibit)
Pi Gallery
Reception 6-9pm First Friday June 6
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
TALK!
Join the artist & Avila students
Saturday 3/29, 10:30am at...
Thornhill Gallery, Avila University
"mariaurora"
works by Maria Creyts
February 29 - March 30, 2008
Reception Friday February 29, 5-8
11901 Wornall Rd. KC, MO 64145
816 501-2443 / Thornhillgallery@avila.edu
2008 Kansas City Flatfile
February 23 - April 5, 2008
Reception Friday February 22, 6-8
H & R Block Artspace, KCAI
16 East 43rd St. KC, MO 64111
816 561-5563 / http://www.kcai.edu/artspace
[four examples of the artist’s digital work]
Art Institute of Pittsburgh Gallery
January 16 - March 8, 2008
Reception Friday February 29, 5pm
420 Boulevard of the Allies
Pittsburgh PA
Pi gallery's SMALL WORKS EXHIBIT
Reception December 7, 2007
[four 12" paintings by the artist]
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
Telephonebooth Gallery Winter Salon
Nov. 10, 2007 through Feb. 2008
3319 Troost! Kansas City MO 64109
816-582-9812
[new print projects, signed "mariaurora"]
Slideshow -- Artist's Talk
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
5:30 Wed. October 10, 2007; 4420 Warwick Blvd. Kansas City MO 64111
Seton Gallery, University of New Haven
Chamlin / Coash / Creyts
: PAINTERS' PROJECTS
September 20 to October 17 2007
RECEPTION 4:30-6:30PM September 19 ~ ARTISTS' TALK 5:15PM
300 Boston Post Road West Haven CT 06516; www.newhaven.edu/gallery
isadore GALLERY -- "Master and Apprentice"; April 2007 ~ two paintings each by the artist and her KCAI student
228 N Prince Street, Lancaster, PA 17603
Pi gallery
March 2007, 4-color silkscreen prints on view in conjunction with Southern Graphics Council's Print Conference
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
Kansas City Art Institute
Artist's Talk, Epperson Auditorium
7pm December 5, 2006
4415 Warwick Kansas City MO 64111
Fairfield University, Fairfield CT
Visiting Artist -- workshop / lecture 2006
