Widely known for her lively caricature art illustrations, Eileen McCoy is a Kansas City artist who has a reputation for “drawing the crowds”. For over 35 years, Eileen provides proven professional art services, specializing in caricature art entertainment and custom orders.
Eileen is award-winning prolific painter. Essentially self-taught, the artist has enhanced her skills over the years with study in private studio settings and workshops with other prominent artists. She holds a degree from the University of Missouri in Speech Communications/ Public Relations/Art. Eileen’s award-winning paintings have placed first in juried exhibitions and are in collections world wide.
Her artist’s work resume began at Hallmark Cards as a production artist where she honed her brush skills and line work. Then, as a freelance artist, she mixed and applied color to complex figurines in the Keepsakes Ornament department. She also worked as a display artist for Macy’s where she crafted large complex displays for merchandising.
Since then, in addition to Caricature art entertainment, her freelance services have been employed as a courtroom sketch artist, a muralist, a car-decal designer, a logo creator, an illustrator, landscape painter and portrait artist.
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You’ve seen her work in municipal displays such as the Art-in-the-Loop and Parade of Hearts programs, at Hotel Indigo, Deines Cultural Center, and numerous other galleries.
Shelly Pinto is bringing us a beautiful selection of sacred geometric abstractions to fill the ‘Balt Schaffer Gallery and the front lobby.
From the Artist:
My mixed media kaleidoscopes are a fusion my love of painting and digital art.
In this body of work I am inspired by sacred geometry. I have applied this study of pattern and its overlapping circles and spirals to connect me to the world.
I usually begin by finding the center of my circle, then mix colors, cut shapes and merge overlapping patterns. The process of layering and mixing reveals an inner calm.
My studio has become my place of solitude and meditation. As the world spins with all her chaos, my studio space is where I find a sense of joy that translates to my art. For the finish, I cover the pieces with a clear hard coating of resin which intensifies the colors and protects the art.
Tomorrow I’ll Know More is composed of images that I shot on the streets of Paris and Kansas City.
Visual narration intrigues me and I use the streets as a backdrop to create an implied drama in my imagery. I use the emotional impact of color and black and white to create mood and tension regardless of the subject. I’m always looking to tell a story, to write a novel with every photograph.
Artist Statement
This work is the world I inhabit. I document what is around me, I react to and interact with my immediate environment and it’s that immediacy that is captured in my work.
Artist Bio
Jim Robinson is an artist-photographer living in the Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City. He studied Fine arts at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit and began his career there as an Art Director before relocating to Kansas City. Jim began taking pictures in 2014 and has shot in Europe and the U.S.
His process begins with always carrying his camera and ends with photographing whatever he sees of interest. No intention other than observation.
Jim began exhibiting in solo shows in 2020.
An Enduring Legacy is a comprehensive survey of the career of Peter Callas, an internationally renowned artist, and master of the Anagama kiln wood-firing process. Callas considers the Anagama kiln, “the centerpiece for experimentation that records the passage of time.” The exhibition showcases Callas’ experimentation and innovation over 30 years of creative production and includes expressionist ceramic sculptures, abstracted container forms, intimate tea bowls, and works on paper. A film about the artist will also be on view.
Born in New Jersey in 1951, Peter Callas graduated from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. Callas traveled to Japan in the 1970s, visiting ancient kiln sites and exploring wood-fired glazing techniques. While there, he also helped build a traditional Anagama wood kiln. His visit to Japan inspired him to build the first Anagama kiln used in North America in 1976, an early career accomplishment. Numerous accomplishments followed throughout his 50-year career. Callas worked with Peter Voulkos in the 1980s and 90s, producing some of the most important ceramics of the twentieth century. Callas has exhibited extensively in Museums around the world including at the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art (Japan), The Powerhouse Museum (Australia), and the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. His work can be found in over 30 international collections, including the Gotoh Art Museum (Japan), the International Museum of Ceramic Art (Hungary), and the Minneapolis Museum of Art. He’s also the recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2018 and 2021) and the Windgate Foundation (2018).
Peter Callas: An Enduring Legacy is organized by the American Museum of Ceramic Art. An accompanying catalog, funded in part by a Windgate Foundation grant, includes essays by Jo Lauria, Glenn Adamson, and an artist biography by Glen Brown.
