What's Got Into You Lately?
October 18 - November 9, 2019
St. Louis, MO — Monaco is pleased to present What’s Got Into You Lately, organized by Yowshien Kuo, featuring Kansas City based artist Andrew Ordonez and Brooklyn based artist André Filipek Magaña. The exhibition will open on Friday, October 18, from 7:00 – 10:00 pm and run through November 9, 2019.
Curator Yowshien Kuo considers identity in this curatorial framework: “Living in the United States, my understanding of groups of people outside of my own race was presided by the dominant Western European narrative. For a large portion of my life, all other cultural traditions and histories existed as secondary, including my own. The expansion of that narrative to include what was previously omitted has revealed a contrasting divide between those who carry fear or doubt and those who feel empowered. What’s Got Into You Lately? emphasizes the experience of coming to terms with ourselves. My personal experiences do not represent the artist’s work in the exhibition; I see their works embodying the strength to help me realize a reality in which my own identity should not be considered secondary.”
Andrew Ordonez is a visual artist living and working in Kansas City, Missouri. He received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2013. His interdisciplinary practice currently explores the nature of erasure and artifact conservation through sculpture, installation, and photography. He is currently a Charlotte Street Foundation 2019-20 Studio Resident and a former Drugstore KC resident from 2017-19. Ordonez has recently exhibited work in gallery spaces throughout Kansas City, MO such as the H&R Block Artspace , Front/Space, the Kiosk Galley, Open House, and Leedy-Voulkos Art Center . He has also exhibited nationally at the Coop Gallery in Nashville, TN, and at the Mexic-arte Museum in Austin, TX for the 23rd annual YLA exhibition. In addition to his studio practice, he is an instructor at the KCAI Continuing Education, and a Program Supervisor at Imagine That KC.
André Filipek Magaña is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. His work utilizes digital fabrication and traditional ceramics techniques to re-imagine quotidian imagery from everyday Mexican, and Mexican-American consumer life as spiritually charged, monumental forms. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Prairie, Chicago, IL; Holding Contemporary, Portland, OR; and American Medium, New York, NY. Recent group exhibitions at SORBUS, Helsinki, FI; Vacation (organized by a Holding Contemporary), New York, NY; Hotel Art Pavillion, Brooklyn, NY; Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; and Alyssa Davis, New York, NY. In Sept. 2019 Filipek-Magaña was commissioned by Totokaelo to create a sculpture for the editorial “World of Yohji Yamamoto: The Futility Question”. In December, he will present new works at NADA Miami Beach 2019 with Magenta Plains.
