KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art examines the concept of artists using pattern and dress to express their cultural identities in the exhibition Pattern ID, on view January 28–May 8, 2011 at the Kemper Museum. The fifteen featured artists use photography, sculpture, painting, mixed media, and video to address themes of gender, race, culture, sexuality, and ethnicity. Pattern ID, organized by the Akron Art Museum, brings together forty works of art by fifteen artists from around the world. Exhibition artists include Mark Bradford, (b. 1961, Los Angeles, CA); iona rozeal brown (b. 1966, Washington DC); Nick Cave (b. 1959, Jefferson City, MO); Willie Cole (b. 1955, Somerville, NJ); Lalla Essaydi (b. 1956, Marrakesh, Morocco); Samuel Fosso (b. 1962, Cameroon); James Gobel