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The structure and concept of the bridge has been a major theme of Iranian-born, Minneapolis-based artist Siah Armajani’s work for decades. In celebration of Armajani’s Kansas City No. 1 (2000), gifted by the Sosland Foundation to the Kemper Museum in honor of the Museum’s twentieth anniversary, the exhibition Siah Armajani: Bridge Builder presents the artist’s exploration of the structural and philosophical underpinning of bridges since the late 1960s. In his works depicting bridges, Armajani poetically intertwines social science, art, and architecture to compel the significance of cultural connectivity. The exhibition presented the first-ever survey of close to sixty years of iconic bridge works, including eight large-scale drawings from a series inspired by the landscape, bridges, and vernacular architecture of Kansas City, as well as  additional bridge sculptures from 1968 to the present.

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 Norm Fretwell and Bev Haskins
 Linda and Michael Lyon

Installation view
 Siah Armajani, Bridge Builder, September 9, 2016–January 22, 2017
 Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri 
 © Siah Armajani, courtesy of the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York
 Photo: E. G. Schempf, 2016

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Siah Armajani: Bridge Builder

Siah Armajani, (American, born Iran, 1939)
 Kansas City No. 1, 2000, watercolor, gouache, graphite on board, 59 x 147¾ inches
 Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri,
 Gift of the Sosland Foundation in Honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014.19.01.
 © Siah Armajani. Photo: E. G. Schempf, 2016.