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.

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 Oktoberfest Vienna Lager, benefits Great Jobs KC. 🍻

The mission of Great Jobs KC is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with employment assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the Kansas City Area.

We also have artist, Amy Cline, setting up a table with her visual fine art. Follow her on instagram @amyacline.artist and check out some of her work.

A refugium is an ecological term for a protected place where organisms can survive cataclysmic events. Nature has served as a refuge for artists and inspired their work for many centuries. 

The four artists in this invitational exhibit nurture practices informed both by nature and their faith. While creation’s beauty can serve as a refuge, for these exhibiting artists it ultimately points to a higher place of security.

Through the beauty of this exhibit, viewers will glean wisdom about where to look for refuge in times of great upheaval and change. 

A refugium is an ecological term for a protected place where organisms can survive cataclysmic events. Nature has served as a refuge for artists and inspired their work for many centuries. 

The four artists in this invitational exhibit nurture practices informed both by nature and their faith. While creation’s beauty can serve as a refuge, for these exhibiting artists it ultimately points to a higher place of security.

Through the beauty of this exhibit, viewers will glean wisdom about where to look for refuge in times of great upheaval and change. 

Please join us this First Friday for a special artist panel discussion on nature, faith, and creative practice. 

Panel discussion begins at 6:30 PM.