Welcome to Studios Inc!

Studios Inc welcomes Ben Rosenthal, Kathy Liao, and Susan White into our 2018 Residency Program. With their amazing work, accomplishments, and dedication to their studio practice; we’re launching into 2018 with an amazing and diverse group of artists. The Residency Program is aimed exclusively at mid-career artists. This free, three-year program gives them the ability to strengthen their portfolio, build lasting relationships, and become more immersed in the Kansas City community.Rosenthal’s primary discipline is in video and other new media, his practice is interdisciplinary, and rapidly traverses disciplines within the field of visual art including sculpture, installation, performance, and drawing. His art questions the authenticity and intimacy of our physical and virtual realties. It strives to look at notions of militarism, religion, and technosexuality.  Kathy Liao is a painter who utilizes a mixed media platform of paintings and photographs.It centers on different forms of art coagulating into a concept that examines the modern relationships of distance, intimacy, and technology, in layers of paintings based around moments, memories, and observations with and recorded snapshot photos. Susan White sculpts with thorns, honey locust trees and other materials to create discrete sculptures and large installations. Her use of organic materials explores the elemental relationship of the body to the landscape, the cellular nature of the body, the granular nature of the soil, the sense of time and space in the natural world.