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honoring lucía vidales

friday, september 20
6 p.m.

Lucía Vidales (Mexican, born 1986), Viendo Desde El Monte Calvario, 2020, painting on canvas, 83 ¾ x 283 ⅜ inches, Courtesy of the artist and PROXYCO Gallery, New York © Lucía Vidales

Support contemporary art and ideas in Kansas City and enjoy special access to an intimate dining experience created by Chef Ted Habiger celebrating Monterrey, Mexico-based artist Lucía Vidales and the debut of her major commissioned installation, Hambre.

Lucía Vidales is a painter who lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. She is currently an Art Professor at University UDEM and has been awarded three times with the Jovenes Creadores grant by the Secretaría de Cultura, Mexico. Vidales’s layered paintings engage themes of materiality, the body, and the consequences of historical and colonial imaginaries. The beings that populate her paintings suggest the potential for confrontation, but seldom follow through. Instead they play with humor or anxiety, or seek consolation from ancient wounds. Vidales’s major commissioned installation Hambre (Hunger) is Kemper Museum’s ninth annual Atrium Project.

Ted Habiger is the chef partner for Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. A three-time James Beard Foundation Outstanding Chef Award nominee, Habiger is a chef, restaurateur, sommelier, and entrepreneur with a decades-long commitment to local farmers and sustainable practices. He led Cafe Allegro, Kansas City's top Zagat-rated restaurant (1996–2000), served as sous chef at Danny Meyer's Union Square Cafe in New York City (2001–2003). Habiger is the owner and chef at Room 39, which opened in 2004 and recently joined the new CPCK Stadium as a vendor for the Kansas City Current. In addition to Room 39, Habiger is chef partner at Ánima, a restaurant in Mérida, Mexico, and he owns a commissary kitchen in Kansas City that supports local food trucks and entrepreneurs.

Event Chair: Mary Kemper Wolf

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Private Dinner & Curatorial Tour for Ten

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the 30th anniversary Artist Dinner Series features local chefs and celebrated artists, blending together the creative worlds of food and art.

These intimate dining experiences inside the museum raise funds to support free admission, parking, and public programs for all.

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