Fri 1/5 @ 5PM
Dreary January may not be the best time for an outdoor gallery stroll. But in the Waterloo Arts District, there are plenty of places to duck in and get warm during the monthly Walk All Over Waterloo.
One place you’ll want to stop is Kink Contemporary on the corner of Waterloo and East 156th (next to the new Doinks Burgers where you also might want to stop if you’re hungry). This cheerful gallery focuses mostly on young and up-and-coming artists, and they don’t get more up-and-coming than figurative artist Davon Brantley whose subject is people in all their diversity. His solo show, Divided Together, opens at Kink on this evening from 5-9pm with a “performance” (of what we don’t know) at 8:30pm. (On Sunday January 7, Brantley will do an artist talk in the gallery at 1pm.)
Across the street, Waterloo Arts will be opening Settling/Unsettling, Daydrram of Jiangnan by Xia Gao, a Chinese immigrant who teaches at Michigan State University. The gallery tells us that “Gao’s work is informed by her migration to the United States and the adaptation and discoveries of assimilating in a new culture while experiencing the changes of her native land from afar.” She says, “I intend to present issues, styles, and concerns from a transnational perspective that reveals contemporary life and the fantasy of a paradise that cannot return.”