This is our January Gallery Art Show!
Show runs thru February 5th.
First Friday hours on January 2nd. are from 5 till 8pm.
Regular Gallery hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
And closed Sunday.
All are welcome and always free to visit, thanks!
Jones Gallery 1717 Walnut, KCMO. 64108
816 – 421‑2111
https://jonesgallerykc.com/

Gentry Mullen is a Kansas City – based artist and graphic designer with a career spanning nearly four decades. He refined his aesthetic and developed the craft of visual storytelling at The Kansas City Star, where he produced thousands of graphics, illustrations, and page layouts each year.

A graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, Mullen now paints in his home studio, where his background in design informs his exploration of form, pattern, and narrative suggestion. His work often features a cast of recurring animal and figurative motifs — part fable, part folklore — through which he playfully examines truth, transformation, and imagination.

In Earth Symphony, artist Rita Blitt elevates simple, everyday experiences with trees and gardens into poetic reflections upon line, movement, color, and harmony. Her use of water-based media allows colors to gently drift and pool across the surfaces of canvas and paper, resulting in a radiant visual connection with nature. 

The works featured in Earth’s Symphony are characterized by flowing rhythm and unfolding movement, reminiscent of musical patterns. Through these new creations, Blitt shares her deep appreciation for nature and her wonder at witnessing its continual growth.

- Connie Gibbons, Curator

Rita Blitt is an American contemporary painter, sculptor, and film collaborator based in both the San Francisco Bay Area and Leawood, Kansas. Her work is distinguished by abstract, organic lines and shapes that draw inspiration from nature, music, and dance. Blitt’s artistic repertoire includes dynamic black line and pastel oval paintings as well as large-scale sculptures.

Her art has been showcased in over 70 solo exhibitions. The Mulvane Museum at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, houses the Rita Blitt Legacy Collection. Blitt’s works are part of numerous museum and private collections, including the Mulvane Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Beach Museum of Art, John F. Kennedy Library, National Museum of Singapore, Spencer Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, Spertus Institute, Skirball Cultural Center, and the Kennedy Museum of American Art. Her monumental sculptures are installed in Australia, Israel, Japan, Singapore, and the United States.

Mike Lyon | Kwanza Humphrey | TJ Templeton : Selected Works — new exhibition on display at the Bunker Center for the Arts

“To Walk A Contradiction” is a curated exhibition by Elise Fippinger that opens the conversation of what it means to contradict. The works in Studios Inc.’s collection bring this show to life through conversations with one another.

Born and raised in the Funeral Industry, Elise learned at a young age the value of life and the preciousness of time. After leaving her small hometown in Illinois, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, concentrated in ceramics, from the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. Elise considers her work a direct reflection of her emotional state. Not limiting herself to material bounds, she describes her artistic process as therapeutic and uses art to process hardships and celebrate her life experience. Elise studied oil painting under the guidance of David Anderson and Pat Bereskin at Bereskin Gallery and Art Academy in Bettendorf, Iowa. Through spending her spare time outside, Elise uses nature to inspire, whether making landscapes by squishing clay under her feet in the rain or volunteering to assist in the Glass Lab at Englewood Arts in Independence, Missouri. She continues her practice by collaborating with other creatives and investigates forms and surfaces by manipulating material in ways she would approach different mediums. Through capturing light and little moments in time, Elise hopes to leave a glimmer of empathy in the world.