Join us for a First Friday reception from 5 – 8pm on December 1st, featuring:

Player by Peregrine Honig, Exhibition Hall

Player directs the audience into seven theater sets by Peregrine Honig. Each 6x9 foot oil painting presents life size characters in pigment layered backgrounds waiting for their light. Staring out from the woods, swinging from the moon, hanging by their ankle, the viewer is invited into and out of the dark. The characters and audience are players being played.

Player will be on display at Studios Inc through Saturday, December 23rd.

The artist will be available on site for a meet and greet from 6 – 8pm.

Understudies and Auditions will be on display in conjunction with Player November 17th through December 30th at Blue Gallery. For all inquiries, please contact kellyk@bluegalleryonline.com.

Then, There, Here, Now: 

Celebrating the History of the Studios Inc Residency Program, Studios.gallery

This group exhibition is on display in Studios.gallery and our salon hallways through the end of the year. All pieces in this exhibition are for sale and proceeds go directly to funcing the Studios Inc Residency Program.

Guest artists Roberta Eichenberg and Kale Stewart will be in Kansas City to lead the next free glassblowing demonstration at the Belger Glass Annex (1219 E. 19^th St., KCMO) on First Friday, December 1 from 6 to 8 pm.

Both artists have been collaborating for the past year on a body of artwork consisting of blown glass dresses adorned with sculpted glass appliques. They will lead the Belger Glass Annex team in creating the next dress in the collection. 

Roberta Eichenberg earned her MFA from The Ohio State University, taught at Pilchuck Glass School, and is currently Professor of Art Emeritus at Emporia State University. Kale Stewart is originally from western Kansas and earned a BFA from Emporia State University in Kansas and an MFA in glass at Illinois State University.

Robert O. Beach (1923 – 2005) was an incredibly gifted painter. He was, by trade, a medical illustrator who headed up the medical illustration department at the J. Hillis Miller Health Center in Gainesville Florida. He received his masters of fine art painting at the University of Florida in 1972 studying under Hiram Williams.

We have 8 of his large scale works in our inventory and they will remain available on public display from October through December.

It has been said that art imitates life. Joseph Broghammer’s art is based on his life, acting as a sort of diary that captures his minutes, his hours, and his days. Talking about the role art has taken in his life, it’s clear that being an artist has shaped Broghammer into who he is today. Art is so much more than something he just wakes up and does. It is part of him. Broghammer has developed into one of the region’s most original voices whose mark making can be traced from Bosch and Brueghel to Dali and Magritte and linked to the likes of John Graham and Tony Fitzpatrick.

Broghammer says. “I use symbols, icons, religious objects, and more to spell out something that happened to me, that interests me, or something that I can learn from or someone that I can learn from.”

While Broghammer creates quite a few pieces centering around birds, he says the works aren’t always about the birds. They are more of a symbol to him and sometimes have nothing to do with the story he is trying to tell. It is always the story that matters most to Broghammer. However, seeing as birds come in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors, and even textures, they make an enjoyable subject.

It starts with a creative impulse.

There is the allowing of nothing to become something

It proceeds mark by mark, shape by shape, color by color.

There is the merging with the rhythm and following the lead of what wants to go where.

What is inside and invisible is now outside and visible.

Artist Statement

I have been drawing, painting, collaging, designing, and stitching since childhood. Elaborate sand castles were the first source of inspiration. 

My art journey has been characterized by experimentation with process and materials and the search for a compelling communicative visual language. I have often felt as if I were a witness, watching my hands create something from nothing, then compelled to breathe as much life as possible into whatever has revealed itself.

Bio

Jason Pollen is an internationally acclaimed artist, designer, and educator. He has been on the faculty at the Royal College of Art in London, Parsons and Pratt in New York City, and Professor and Fiber Chair at the Kansas City Art Institute. He is Professor emeritus at KCAI, President emeritus of the Surface Design Association, and an American Craft Council Fellow. His work is in numerous prominent private national and international collections, including the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

Pollen had designed numerous collections of textile designs for Channel, Dior, Yves. St. Laurent, and Jack Lenor Larsen. He also created sets for the Kansas City Ballet.