The Potter Gallery at 含羞草社区 will exhibit 鈥淭hreshold,鈥� large-scale paintings by Kansas City-based artist Misha Kligman, from Oct. 10 to Nov. 7. The gallery is located inside Potter Hall on the Missouri Western campus. It is open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and admission is free.
Kligman is an adjunct art faculty member at Missouri Western. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cleveland State University in Ohio and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Kansas. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Midwest.
鈥淭he works in the Threshold are hopeful and unironic gestures,鈥� Kligman wrote on his website, . 鈥淭hey are hopeful in a sense that maybe a painting can be more than an object but a kind of place where the past and future collide, in the process revealing that which is most hidden 鈥� our present.鈥�
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