Mike Lyon | Kwanza Humphrey | TJ Templeton : Selected Works

The Bunker Center for the Arts is currently hosting an exhibition of the works of three of the six artists that are featured currently in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art "Personal Best" show. The Nelson-Atkins Museum will be featuring the work of these artists through August of 2027. The Bunker Center exhibition runs through January 31st 2026.

 

“Mike Lyon has been called a father of post-digital printmaking because of his extraordinary use of digital technologies. He has created large drawings, paintings, and woodblock prints using computer software that he has written or adapted to control machinery, and he has invented or adapted the machinery itself in order to manipulate traditional tools and materials using very unconventional methods.”

— Sylvie Covey, Modern Printmaking, (Watson-Guptill, January 26, 2016)

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Kwanza Humphrey is an award-winning artist who has been included in exhibitions across the United States; including being one of the small group of artists selected for inclusion in the new terminal at the Kansas City International Airport.  Kwanza’s masterful and disciplined work, often characterized as impressionist realism, resides in the permanent collection of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as extensive private collections.

 

Tj Templeton is an interdisciplinary artist and Kansas City native. His work has been collected for over 30 years nationwide and been featured in such outlets as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, ArtMove Magazine, KC Studio Magazine, the Martin Scorsese screening room at the Tribeca Film festival, 21C Museum, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He is currently the artist-in-residence at the Bunker Center for the Arts, where he maintains his studio and curates the gallery’s inventory of over 400 works by local, regional, and international artists.