Here is a review of the Bread & Glitter Show.

http://ereview.org/2011/05/13/the-sparkle-that-feeds/

You can find a nice little review of "6ix" here.

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/02/16/2657999/review-new-spray-booth-gallery.html

Spray Booth Gallery, SBG, will be presenting: 6ix

Matt Jacobs
David Rhoads
Russell Shoemaker
Amanda Elise Bowles
Christina Dostaler
Paul Anthony Smith

At the corner of Wyandotte have to walk through Volker Bicycles. you will be able to see SBG- Spray Booth Gallery, logos on the windows also. Open from 6:00pm - 10pm come support a new Gallery in Crossroads Art District.

I will be in a group show of South Florida artists opening this Monday evening (Basel Week Event).
Come check it out!

CGAF Gallery Presents Natural Selection - Opening
Date: November 29, 2010
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Coconut Grove Arts Festival
3390 Mary Street, Ste. 128
Coconut Grove, FL 33133

Some of my work will be in Bridgeport's Art Space the First Friday in October!
Check it out!
Bridgeport Church
404 E. 18th St.
Kansas City, MO 64111

SEEING THROUGH: A review of b.a.l.m.'s TRANS•parent TRANS•lucent
Written by Ryan LaFerney

http://ereview.org/2010/09/12/seeing-through/

Aug. 27. 2010
5:00-8:00 PM

Final Friday's Flash Space (Previously Maurices)
739 Massachusetts Street
Lawrence, KS

Opening reception for b.a.l.m. TRANS•parent TRANS•lucent Art Exhibition in conjunction with the first of the Final Friday's Art Events in the new (DLAD) Downtown Lawrence Arts District. This is a group show exploring the idea of translucency and transparency curated by Darin M. White. The exhibition will be up till September 17th and will be available after the opening reception on August 27th by appointment. balm.org@gmail.com or 785.764.2216.

http://youngbloodnwsa.wordpress.com/

Founded by Michelle Gomez in 2008, “Young Blood” is a series of annual art exhibitions showcasing New World School of the Arts Alumni which open every year in August. The first 2008 exhibition, “Young Blood: A New World School of the Arts Student Exhibit,” opened at the Open Doors furniture boutique. In 2009, the second exhibition entitled “Young Blood: New World MIXX” opened at the new NWSA ArtSeen Gallery in Wynwood, Miami. Curated in collaboration, “Young Blood: New World MIXX” was a “remix” of the former student exhibition, featuring a broad range of ages and establishment levels. These shows have received exceptional press and recognition. The young curators have been compared to professional curators and New York galleries. This year’s 2010 “Young Blood: New Wave” will literally bring a “new wave” of artists that will be a part of the next generation of South Florida’s art community, hopefully to extend regionally and nationally.

I will be having a little show at Blue Bouquet opening this Friday June 4th.

Bind & Bloom
Christina Dostaler

Opening Reception: First Friday June 4th
6-9 PM
Blue Bouquet
517 East 18th Street
Kansas City, MO 64108

http://ereview.org/2010/05/27/unbound-by-space-or-material/

http://arttattler.com/archivetether.html

Check it out.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/04/23/1897807_a1897802/star-magazine-live-in-studio-at.html

TETHER
A Collaborative Installation by Christina Dostaler and Matt Jacobs

Opening reception: May 7th, 6 - 9p
May 7 - 28, 2010

Cocoon Gallery presents TETHER, a collaborative installation by Christina Dostaler and Matt Jacobs. This will be the first time the artists have worked together to form a site-specific installation. TETHER focuses on play, visual disruption, and the unexpected situation. Using found objects, both artists will explore and invent together, all the while challenging each others working habits. A driving force behind this exhibition is the hope of pushing past individually developed visual languages and ultimately discovering a way to synthesize artistic sensibilities.

For the past four years, Christina Dostaler has been utilizing and amalgamating fiber, painting, and sculpting techniques. Though initially a painter, working with fibers interested her for the way in which the material can be broken down structurally into the linear element. By taking painting not only outside the boundaries of the canvas, but into the intimate realm of weaving, knitting, knotting, and basket weaving, she is able to create a body of work which is simultaneously objects and drawings.

Dostaler delights in the challenge of building a form out of practically nothing. To produce her construction material, she strings monofilament across a wall using several pins and coats it repeatedly with a mixture of acrylic and gel medium. Through this time-consuming process Dostaler is able to imbue her woven works with smooth brilliance. The resulting forms are both surprising and vivacious, pure light and tangible objects.

Matt Jacobs is a found-object sculptor who employs techniques of banding, clamping, and painting to convert everyday items into something new. Often large scale, his works seemingly take on a life of their own, climbing up walls, expanding and squeezing, or spiraling up towards the ceiling. In what seems to be an infiltrative and spontaneous gesture, he sometimes spills high-pigment paint across the completed piece.

Jacobs’ work deals with the aesthetics of overuse and excess. As an artist and inventor, he seeks to disrupt the formalities of “artwork” through the integration of humor. He selects commonplace objects for their familiar and benign nature, though once they are strung-up, bound, stuffed, and candy-coated, it is their very materiality that strikes a mocking tone. The work he presents is familiar and strange, whimsical and reflective, awkward and adroit.

http://artsincubatorkc.org/gallery/

A Sense of Place
opening reception on
April 23rd
6-9pm
The Monarch Gallery located 3829 Main Street
Kansas City, Mo 64111

CURATED BY KATHERINE O’HARA AND RYAN TIMOTHY LAFERNEY

A Sense of Place wishes to further establish a dialogue within the arts regarding the subjects of functionality, viewer interaction, and the art of generosity, and how these elements can work together to create a holistic community.

A Sense of Place will feature the work of: Justin Rulo Sabe, Lora Campbell, Andrew Lyles, Elysia Contreras, Christopher John Schrat, Christina Lenert, Wen-Dan Lin, Leila Hybl, Kristen Montgomery, Lea Griggs, Tess Stilwell, Jaclyn Senne, Christina Dostaler, Stephen Proski & Sean Starowitz, Sarah Skidmore, Ryan Fletcher, Matthew Jorgensen, Charlie Mylie & Abbe Finley, Ramzy Masri & collaborator, MoneyBags (Stan Chisholm & Lisa See Kim), Eric Thomas Wolever, John Hilger, Sara Cramer, & Amanda James.

The 3rd annual Glee Medicine Show: curing cynical disorders in art seeks to provide an art experience that engages the senses and soul of both the savvy gallery goer and normal joe. This year's show explores the idea of generosity and promises to be a unique offering with archways of bologna, hand drawn advice from an oracle booth, gifts of video-viewing survival kits, and other works. The group show is curated by Lori Bury, Amanda Bowles, and Christina Carnes.
Fri., March 26, 7-11 p.m. Monarch Gallery