Artspeak Radio with Savreux & Gallery Bogart with Jo Archuleta

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org

Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes writer/music journalist Alexi Savreux and Miller Bogart Director/founder of Bogart Gallery and featured artist Jo Archuleta.

ALEXI SAVREAUX is a poet, satirist, and art and music journalist. His books include Graffiti on the Window, Eat Me & Other Short Poems, Asoak in the Knight’s Moat, The Ballad of Lady Vigilance, and the chapbooks The Arithmetic of the Heart and Blue Coffee. Additionally, Alexej has authored or co-authored other works, including The Neo-Expressionist Mathematica, multiple unfinished screenplays, pulp novels, and cookbooks. He has received grants from the University of Kansas, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the Charlotte Street Foundation. Alexej is a proud Step Up Community Learning Center graduate and was a visiting artist at the Kansas City Art Institute in 2023. He contributes to various publications and presses locally, regionally, and nationally, and he previously served as a special correspondent for The Kansas City Star.

“I’m also releasing The Neo-Expressionist Mathematica later today on my website and just released Blue Coffee on my website store. Both will be available as inexpensive digital PDF downloads starting tomorrow 🙂 The former is a book of academic essays and artwork, and the latter is a new poetry chapbook!!” – Alexi Savreaux
www.alexejsavreux.com www.etsy.com/shop/ArtbyAlexej

“Middle Daughter” – A Solo Exhibition by Jo Archuleta
Gallery Bogart is thrilled to announce Jo Archuleta’s “Middle Daughter”, featuring new paintings on canvas and works on paper on view from October 5th to November 30, 2024.
The artist’s debut solo exhibition is an exploration into the complexity of identity and mythology of womanhood. The paintings with striking color and form enchant viewers into their deepening narrative.
Gallery Bogart 1400 Union Avenue Kansas City, MO 64101
gallerybogart.com

“Middle Daughter” is an exploration into the complexity of identity and mythology of womanhood found within leisure, desire, pleasure and the specificity as a state of being. By acknowledging rules within the landscape of femininity, gender roles and their societal expectations, Archuleta has found multiple approaches to transgressive and transformative definitions of these identities. Her specific approach to this critique uses humor, jokes and satire. The small crusty dog is used as an objectifying self-identifying symbol, and a parallel to the sometimes awkward and uncomfortable experiences within girlhood. Archuleta is interested in exploring how the figure is perceived and how she sees herself, a constant battle between self-awareness and self-sabotage. The duality of being treated as an object, but also finding worth in your own company creates tension that the figure seeks to find solace within. Uneasiness within the color palette and subject matter is materially driven, using texture as a tool for attraction. The figures seduce and confront nuances within the vapidness of beauty, vanity, and ego while also using self-consciousness as repulsion. The women in her work wear masks, perform softness, weakness, shallowness, and confidence; all while cowering with insecurity. The work is a love letter to all middle daughters, finding autonomy in girlhood and vulnerability.
Jo Archuleta

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