The holiday season is fast approaching, and Belger Arts is pleased to present the following unique shopping opportunity during the gift-giving season …

Shoppers can experience the joy of finding unique, handmade gifts during Holidays at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery, an annual exhibition that includes artwork created by over 50 artists from across the country. Artworks in a range of mediums, including ceramic, glass, metal, textiles, and wood, will be available for purchase from November 7, 2025, through January 3, 2026. Many participating artists will be in attendance during the exhibition’s opening reception from 6 to 8PM on Friday, November 7, at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery. For a list of participating artists, please visit our website.

My work alludes to an underlying current of knowing that is governed by feelings and emotions. The images that I produce are symbolic of an inner-personal and vulnerable human existence. They develop their identity through spontaneity, intuition, association, and chance.

In making art, I am only aware of the forces I use in order to move along the course of my pictures. The course of my art is a visual translation of internal feelings, thoughts, and emotions in relation to the inner condition of self.

process

The work involves a variety of materials and processes. The materials used include paper, paint, inks, marker, pencil, glue, dried paint chips, and paint skins. My work involves aspects of painting, drawing, collage, and assemblage.

The idea of using dried paint chips came about as a byproduct of the process that I go through when painting on canvas. When working on canvas, I paint and scrape off the paint a number of times to achieve a surface appropriate for the painting. During this process, a lot of paint falls to the floor and dries.

Through this process, I realized the random beauty that lives within the surfaces of the dried paint and decided it was still very much useful. I started re-applying the dry paint chips to my canvases at first, but then discovered the possibilities of scaling down the size of the current work to 5×7 inches on paper. I use the paint chip in its natural form as well as manipulate it to the desired form. I also fabricate acrylic paint skins and then manipulate them into final abstract figures on paper and wood panels. Approaching my work the way that I do, I am able to fulfill a desire to collage, assemble and sculpt without straying from my original discipline of painting.

Heinrich Toh’s monoprints explores the complexities of travel, displacement, and assimilation. Where his immediate environment, represented in vast ethereal landscapes, investigates ideas of longing, past and present memories, personal history, and layered cultural identities. While investigating the definition of home and evolving mindscapes. The process of his work combines collagraphs made from cardboard plates, painterly monotype backgrounds, and the transfer of imagery with paper-lithography. They are printed with multiple runs through an etching press that results in layers of color, pattern, and imagery. 

BIO

Heinrich is a printmaker & educator based in Kansas City. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art and the La Salle College of the Arts in Singapore where he grew up. His work is in public and private collections, including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum, Truman Medical Center, the Loews Kansas City Convention Center Hotel, the University Hospital of Cleveland, and the Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin, TX. He has exhibited extensively for the past 20 years, including the Wing Luke Asian Museum, the Bellevue Art Museum, Albrecht-Kemper Museum, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He has taught at the Kansas City Art Institute and led numerous workshops around the country that include the Pratt Fine Arts Center, Penland School of Crafts, the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Oklahoma Fine Art Institute at Quartz Mountain, among others. When not in his studio, he loves spending time in the kitchen creating culinary bedlam.

Put a Lid on It is an exploration of the lidded vessel form, showcasing how adding a lid can create a compelling separation between what is inside and what is outside. From beautifully crafted butter dishes to imaginatively designed trinket jars, each vessel demonstrates how this separation can be functional or emotional. The notion of what we choose to hold inside, whether literal or symbolic, practical or emotional, is at the heart of this exhibition.

Put a Lid on It features imaginative work by over 100 artists, each contributing lidded vessels and covered dishes across a vibrant range of media and unique styles.

Studios Inc. is excited to announce Surviv’n Under Pressure, a solo exhibition by JT Daniels. Studios Inc. will host an opening reception from 5 – 8 pm on January 16th, 2026, and the exhibition will remain on view through February 28th.

“My art is an extension of the way I learned to see the world through skateboarding. Skating taught me that nothing is fixed: a staircase isn’t just a staircase, a curb isn’t just a curb. They became opportunities for movement, expression, and transformation. That perspective carries over into my current work, where I reimagine discarded items as ways of reconstructing identity.” — JT Daniels

Daniels’ work weaves together various elements into streamlined designs that represent the heartbeat of the urban community. Overlapping faces and figures within the illustrations are visual representations of the people he encounters. These conversations and interactions become the compositions that signify the complexity of the human experience. In his work, he takes the opportunity to add phrases or words that have personal meaning. One of his favorite phrases is ‘SUP’, which stands for “Surviv’n Under Pressure”. The idea of ‘SUP’ encompasses the concept of what it is to be human and how we survive. He takes that embodiment of what surviving under pressure means and gives it life through art.