Most of our members have been long-time print collectors and will be sharing some of their most treasured pieces from their personal collections. Several of these will be on sale.

In addition, we are premiering our first-ever commissioned print suite. This combines 4 etchings of the West Bottoms that hang as a set from artist Doug Osa. 

For over 30 years, Doug has chronicled the changing scene of the West Bottoms district in etchings. He first started this suite with a gift print to the Print Society in 2011, adding the second print the next year. The final 2 images were created this year and complete the suite. It is now available for members at a reduced price. Individual prints can be purchased separately for those who already own the first and second image.

New members signing up at the show will, for the low membership fee, get the member’s discounted price! For more information, please click on this link. 

FIRST FRIDAY OCT. 6th
Open Studio/Gallery — FALL SALE
4pm to 8pm

1920 Wyandotte St., Unit 5,
Kansas City, Mo. 64108
(entry at NW corner of building, follow signs)

Visit my Website — www.annegarneypaintings.com

On the website, you can now purchase Paintings and Prints directly
and you can also arrange private Studio Visits. At the Open House,
Prints will be available — some on Canvas Framed — all at discounted prices. 

Looking forward to seeing you all!! Anne 816 – 842-3388

A native New Yorker, Terry Winters graduated from Pratt Institute in 1971, focusing on painting. Through the 1970s, while studying nature, especially molecular level life forms, Winters honed his craft as a drawer and a painter until he was ready for his inaugural exhibition in 1982 at the prestigious Sonnabend Gallery. Later that same year he began his first foray into printmaking at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) on Long Island. Winters became one of the leading printmakers in the U.S. At first, he was leaving his Manhattan studio one day a week to work with the master printers at ULAE, and that later escalated to up to four days a week. As art historian Richard Axsom wrote in “The Philosophers’ Stone: The Prints of Terry Winters:”

Printmaking is a forum whose procedures and collaborative protocols have allowed Winters to explore the expressive nature of his drawings. For an artist whose cardinal subject is protean form, printmaking encourages a changing image through the various proofing phases that lead to an editioned print. A print reflects a progressive history of alterations. It is a record of mutation, an accumulation of discrete changes that has no exact counterpoint in drawing or painting.

Over the years, Winters’ paintings, drawings, and prints have been featured in major retrospectives at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Belger Crane Yard Gallery presents Ways to Train Songbirds opening Friday, September 1, 2023, at 2011 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64108. The public is invited to the exhibition’s opening reception to view the work from 6 to 8 pm. The exhibition includes work by five artists who are members of the Sticky Gold Collective: Ben Galaday, Padyn Humble, Matt Mitros, Danni O’Brien, and Matthew Wicks.

“There are numerous ways to train birds of prey, yet songbirds are incredibly challenging. Many ornithologists consider songbirds to be exceptionally intelligent but not always the most trainable . . . the same could be said about artists.” —  Sticky Gold Collective, August 2023”

The Collective, formed by Matt Mitros in 2018, includes artists from a range of backgrounds who share an irreverent appreciation for the intersection of craft and art. While the artists do not align to a common theme or subject, they share a quasi-humorous tone and campy bravado regarding material usage and illusion.

Padyn Humble is a sculptor from Montana whose work investigates social norms and the way they influence identity. He utilizes Western iconography and his inspiration stems from influences like cartoons, truck stop souvenirs, and queer pop culture. Matt Mitros uses a visual language of botanical pastiche to depict the emotional relationship between plants and machines. Themes of survival, growth, and metamorphosis are prevalent in his work through visual displays of conflict and celebration. Danni O’Brien’s work is rooted in play, collecting, and constructing and is informed by an education in assemblage sculpture, fiber arts, and ceramics. Her fantastical cast-offs from upcycled materials marry construction and wood working with traditionally feminized and domesticated systems such as stitching, beading, and rug making to compose dually hard and soft objects. Danni O’Brien and Ben Galaday wield nuanced abstraction to engage the viewer with blurred dreamlike compositions. Galaday’s work, however, is a dark counterpart to O’Brien’s flamboyancy. Oscillating between demoralizing and seducing, Galaday taps into the truths of the human condition creating kaleidoscopic approximations of life, death, decay, rejuvenation, and apathy. Matthew Wicks uses kitschy, everyday symbols such as suits of playing cards or domestic objects to subvert ideas of hypermasculinity in Western culture.

Altogether, Sticky Gold Collective questions various aspects of gender, orientation, and societal expectations through a mixed media approach to ceramics, while relieving the viewer of certain preconceived notions that come with “traditional” craftsmanship and material expectations embedded within the canon of ceramic art. This exhibition will remain on view through December 30, 2023.