Wrestling, sparring, pretend and fantasy allows us to practice for the real world, a real world that asks individuals to engage in a social economy. In this social economy we sell the body as a product forever blurring the lines between consent, maturity, play and desire. Here we lose sight of individuality and fall into our roles. The part of the child, the man and the woman become intertwined in a pageant of desire. Toys and photographs engage us in never ending foreplay, forever wiring our brains to fulfill a predetermined destiny towards this inescapable narrative.

Join Philo Northrup and Kathryn Marie Hogan as they navigate the fine line between play and sex through object and image. In their show “For Play,” Philo & Kathryn tease out the paradox in our culture’s obsession with sex whilst asserting that you can grow up to be anything.

Come join us this Friday from 6 – 10pm from some electrifying art and have fun with our local businesses. The Thirsty Chariot will be serving up some holiday cheer and the energy will be high!

1739 Walnut St

Join us for a First Friday reception from 5 – 8pm on December 1st, featuring:

Player by Peregrine Honig, Exhibition Hall

Player directs the audience into seven theater sets by Peregrine Honig. Each 6x9 foot oil painting presents life size characters in pigment layered backgrounds waiting for their light. Staring out from the woods, swinging from the moon, hanging by their ankle, the viewer is invited into and out of the dark. The characters and audience are players being played.

Player will be on display at Studios Inc through Saturday, December 23rd.

The artist will be available on site for a meet and greet from 6 – 8pm.

Understudies and Auditions will be on display in conjunction with Player November 17th through December 30th at Blue Gallery. For all inquiries, please contact kellyk@bluegalleryonline.com.

Then, There, Here, Now: 

Celebrating the History of the Studios Inc Residency Program, Studios.gallery

This group exhibition is on display in Studios.gallery and our salon hallways through the end of the year. All pieces in this exhibition are for sale and proceeds go directly to funcing the Studios Inc Residency Program.

Guest artists Roberta Eichenberg and Kale Stewart will be in Kansas City to lead the next free glassblowing demonstration at the Belger Glass Annex (1219 E. 19^th St., KCMO) on First Friday, December 1 from 6 to 8 pm.

Both artists have been collaborating for the past year on a body of artwork consisting of blown glass dresses adorned with sculpted glass appliques. They will lead the Belger Glass Annex team in creating the next dress in the collection. 

Roberta Eichenberg earned her MFA from The Ohio State University, taught at Pilchuck Glass School, and is currently Professor of Art Emeritus at Emporia State University. Kale Stewart is originally from western Kansas and earned a BFA from Emporia State University in Kansas and an MFA in glass at Illinois State University.

Robert O. Beach (1923 – 2005) was an incredibly gifted painter. He was, by trade, a medical illustrator who headed up the medical illustration department at the J. Hillis Miller Health Center in Gainesville Florida. He received his masters of fine art painting at the University of Florida in 1972 studying under Hiram Williams.

We have 8 of his large scale works in our inventory and they will remain available on public display from October through December.