AMERICANA: WE THE PEOPLE VISUALIZES AMERICAN CULTURE THREE YEARS AFTER PANDEMIC

Kansas City, MO, June 25, 2024: PLUG Gallery is pleased to announce its newest exhibition Americana: We the People, opening on the July 4th weekend on Saturday, July 6 from 6pm to 8pm at PLUG (1328 Agnes Ave). Americana: We the People is a group exhibition featuring Braxton Fuller, Brendon Goodman, Isabella Matute, Julia Arredondo, and Yann Aguirre who visualize American culture and their own personal narratives through sculpture, portraiture, video, and photo-based works. This eclectic exhibition features artists that have lived or live currently in the Midwest community.

Curated by Isabella Matute, the exhibition emerges three years after COVID-19 pandemic and features works that survey the Midwestern-steeped American life experience through the lens of emergency healthcare workers, such as in Aguirre’s video installation, the death and revival of our city in the documentary photography of Goodman, subversion of the religious symbol of the cross and dabbling in occult in Arredondo’s prints, the facetious personification of pandemic fashion in Matute’s photographic portrait, and introspective mirror sculptures by Fuller. Each artist examines the temporal nature of human life. This exhibition is a reflection of our most celebrated American trait–freedom of expression. On view until Saturday, August 10, Americana: We the People invites audiences to ponder the effects of post-pandemic, American nationalism during the annual celebration of America’s founding holiday. This exhibition aims to comment on whether said nationalism is a good or bad thing for American society and invites the audience to make that decision themselves.

Visitors are invited to join us for our opening where there will be light refreshments available. PLUG Gallery’s open hours are on Saturdays from 11am-3pm from July 6th to August 10th.