Diana Heise<\/a>\u2018s \u201cBreath \u2013 Take.\u201d The artist asks visitors to write what helps them \u201cbreathe easier\u201d on green Post-it Notes and affix them to the silhouette of a tree she created on the gallery wall using soil and seeds. (Well, maybe an allergist\u2019s office would approve.)\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A very odd \u201creview\u201d of the annual group exhibition of residents at\u00a0The Studios Inc.\u00a0was published yesterday in\u00a0The Pitch, Kansas City\u2019s weekly alternative newspaper. The writer, Theresa Bembnister, misses the point of the exhibition, which is really just to show what current residents have going on in their studios. Here\u2019s an excerpt\u2026 \u201cThe 14 works assembled for Studios Inc: 2011 don\u2019t do much more than simply advertise the investment opportunity. It\u2019s smart business but not very inspired curation. Not that the most likely buyers want a lot of challenge. The repeating clips of screaming mouths in Barry Anderson\u2019s \u201cDeep Down Trauma Hounds\u201d video installation, for example, may not go over well with someone dealing with the fallout of the financial crisis. But Smith\u2019s pleasant abstraction \u201cBreak Wave Under Sky #3\u201d would look at home in a beige hallway. No office manager worth his or her salary would condone\u00a0Diana Heise\u2018s \u201cBreath \u2013 Take.\u201d The artist asks visitors to write what helps them \u201cbreathe easier\u201d on green Post-it Notes and affix them to the silhouette of a tree she created on the gallery wall using soil and seeds. (Well, maybe an allergist\u2019s office would approve.)\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,31,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kansas-city","category-review","category-studio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Fs9P-mY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barryanderson.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barryanderson.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barryanderson.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barryanderson.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barryanderson.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.barryanderson.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barryanderson.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barryanderson.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barryanderson.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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