Photographs by Miki Baird

KANSAS CITY, MO.- Urban Culture Project presents Miki Baird: Tow Lot Vanitas, Opening Friday, January 18, 6-9 pm at Paragraph gallery. Tow Lot Vanitas is an exhibition composed of photographic images that Kansas City artist Miki Baird captured at close range from the inside and the outside of vehicles stored at the Kansas City, Missouri Tow Lot. With assistance from the Municipal Arts Commission and the Neighborhood and Community Services Department of Kansas City, Baird obtained permission to work on site at the tow lot at 6817 Stadium Drive for a period of four months in 2007, during which time she produced an extensive body of images and documentation.

A cumulative photo investigation examining bits of evidence left in the wake of human activity, this project is the latest in several series of large scale tracking expeditions that Baird has engaged in since 2005, beginning with her interactive, temporary outdoor public installation, Sidewalk Confetti, which covered a three block area of sidewalk between 9th Street and 12th Street on Central Avenue as a 2006 Avenue of the Arts commission.

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