Keeper of Memories: A Celebration of Works by Gerry Trilling is our current exhibition in collaboration with her husband, Howard Trilling, to remember and celebrate Gerry Trilling’s life throughout her career and work as an artist.

Gerry Trilling was a conceptual artist who presented a personal recounting of the history and assimilation of the American Jewish Diaspora in exquisite deadpan. Her parents escaped the Holocaust, relocating to St. Louis where she grew up in a community of immigrants viewing identity, assimilation and belonging as linked to home environments and material culture.

While Trilling used a variety of fabrics to mark the passage of time, she was not nostalgic. She embraced our contemporary material culture, itself omnivorous in the extreme. Nothing was off limits in her unsentimental investigation of the passage from greenhorn to assimilation. Materials, patterns, and certain numerical codes were her conceptual signifiers. Her work insists that you, the viewer, reach into your own personal place of memory and association. Trilling’s work is featured in the collections of the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Gerry Trilling was an Alumni of the Studios Inc. artist residency program from 2015 to 2017.

Studios Inc will be hosting First Friday September 5th from 5 – 8 pm. All are encouraged to come and celebrate Gerry Trilling, and welcome to bring photos to add to a wall of memories for her. The exhibition will be open from August 1st, to September 26th.

Gallery hours are Wednesdays through Friday 10 am to 4 pm, and Saturdays 12 pm to 4 pm.

Come to our month long August Art Gallery Show!
Show runs thru September 4th.
First Friday hours on August 1st. are from 5 till 8pm.
All are welcome and always free to visit, thanks!
Regular Gallery hours are
from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Closed Sunday
Jones Gallery 1717 Walnut, KCMO. 64108
816 – 421‑2111
https://jonesgallerykc.com/

First Friday opening reception for artist, Katheryn Krouse, a full time artist in Kansas City who takes pride in communicating how she sees the world through the lens of low vision. Krouse is visually impaired with a rare form of macula degeneration known as Stargardt’s Disease. Krouse communicates this in her work with thick impasto texture, and vibrant color palettes. Audiences are encouraged to touch and feel the tactile nature of these large scale paintings. Meet the artist, a proud new mom, and her little masterpiece, at First Fridays August 1st at the Arts KC Gallery.

Please come through the Leedy-Voulkos Gallery. Our door for coming upstairs is toward the back. Leedy-Voulkos staff is happy to direct you. We are on the second floor, and would love to visit with you!

Exhibition runs through August 30, 2025

Participating artists:

Amy Abshier

Stanley Bielen

Rich Bowman

Stephen Dinsmore

Joe Ramiro Garcia

Emily Johnson

Lisa Lala

Susi Lulaki

Lisa Noonis

Kelly Porter

William Rainey

Tuesday Schmidt

Hunt Slonem

Teresa Stanley

Blue Gallery turns 25 this year — and to celebrate this milestone, we’re bringing back one of our most beloved exhibitions: FLOWER.

Reimagined as FLOWER II and curated by founder and director Kelly Kuhn, this invitational features 14 artists from across the country. Some are known for their deep connection to floral subjects; others are exploring this new terrain for the first time.

Together, they offer fresh and compelling takes on nature’s most timeless muse — each engaging with pattern, spirit, and surface in richly personal ways.

We’d love for you to join us in honoring these 14 unique voices — and this meaningful moment in the gallery’s history.

With love,

xo, Blue Gallery

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