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.

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.

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.

Tap into your wild side at Casual Animal Brewing Company where local beer, plants, and art intersect! Our taproom brims with floor to ceiling greenhouse vibes and graphic design. Enjoy a pint or flight of our 11 rotating taps, including our Local Motive beer where $2 of every pint is donated to a different KC non-profit every two months.

This month, every pint of the Local Motive Hazy IPA, “Arc of Acceleration”, benefits the Kansas City Community Gardens.

This brew hits the taps just in time for First Fridays, a monthly celebration of the arts and local artisans within the Crossroads Arts District. We have 3 local artisans setting up inside the taproom as well offering paintings, jewelry, and pottery.

So don’t sleep on checking out the artists and makers this holiday weekend and supporting art through beer! 🍻

KC Community Gardens empower and inspire low-income households, community groups, and schools in the Kansas City Metropolitan area to grow their own vegetables and fruit. Their work helps support sustainable food systems and food security in the metro.

Come see our November Art Gallery Show!
Show runs thru December 4th.
First Friday hours on November 7th. are from 5 till 8pm.
Regular Gallery hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Closed Sunday.
All are welcome and always free to visit, thanks!
Jones Gallery 1717 Walnut, KCMO. 64108
816 – 421‑2111
https://jonesgallerykc.com/