I’m very excited to announce my curatorial debut in collaboration with artist Linda Jurkiewicz, “Pretty Gross,” opening at the Leedy Voulkos Art Center February 5th. "Pretty Gross" is a group exhibition presenting a conversation between artists and individuals from Kansas City and the midwest who perform the feminine gender but whose work wants to know how their performance is being perceived. Understanding that being a woman acknowledges that womanhood does not share one single experience or attribute across an entire gender, we enlist the perspectives of 11 individuals including myself, Linda Jurkiewicz, Andrea Shonna Simon, Alison Krenzer, Thea Wolfe, Emily Blair Quinn, Summer Brooks, Savannah Fout, Lacey Beth Hawkinson and Hunter Silvey to explore the limits of what it means to perform the feminine and if there is indeed a correct way to embody it.
Be sure to mark your calendars and don’t miss this incredible show of local and midwest talent pushing what we think we know about femininity and what it means to be “woman”.
“Arm with Lipstick” (2026) - Kathryn Marie Hogan