Belger Arts is pleased to present Shifting Perspective: Belger Arts’ Twelfth Annual Resident Exhibition. The exhibition opens Friday, June 6, at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery (2011 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64108) and continues through September 6, 2025. An opening night reception will be held from 6 to 8 PM, where artists will give remarks at 6:30 PM.

Shifting Perspective features work by Allyson George, Lucky Moe, Joel Pisowicz, Logan Reynolds, Hannah Schelb, and Warren Van Ryzin. The exhibition includes work the artists have completed during their year-long residency at Belger Crane Yard Studios. Exploring themes of memory, culture, and narrative, the six artists invite viewers to reimagine the familiar, explore existing perceptions, and shift perspectives.

Inspired by cartoons and animation, Allyson George creates ceramic figures, placing them in humorous scenes that portray what it’s like to be a potter and the challenges inherent to the creative process. Drawing from her childhood in Myanmar, the imagery in Lucky Moe’s work depicts memories, narratives, and artifacts from Burmese culture. Using materials like wood, clay, and fiber, Joel Pisowicz explores themes of memory and memorials. His large-scale ceramic sculptures stand like altar sentinels and invite contemplation. Logan Reynolds finds inspiration in popular culture, media, and romanticized tropes of middle-class America. His distorted yet representational forms stir feelings of nostalgia and collective memories. Hannah Schelb’s brightly colored caricature forms entice viewers to delve into the darker side of interpersonal relationships. Drawing from contemporary internet content and his indigenous heritage, Warren Van Ryzin creates sculptures that reference meme culture while appearing as historical artifacts.

Belger Crane Yard Studios continues to host national and international artists through its Artists in Residence program. A residency provides ceramic artists with the opportunity to expand their body of work or create a special project that may be outside of the scope of their existing studio practice.

Hot weather means cool art!

This year’s Summer Invitational brings together a fresh mix of gallery artists and invited contributors, featuring new work that’s bold, bright, and full of personality.

Participating Artists Include:

Ky Anderson
Marcus Cain
Celina Curry
Jackson Daughety
John Ferry
Elise Gagliardi
Annie Helmericks-Louder

John Louder
Michael McCaffrey
Judy Onofrio
Mark Pack
Andy Ryan
Mary Ann Strandell
Maura Wright

Double Whammy! features new works from Patty Carroll’s ongoing series Anonymous Women: Demise, where domestic scenes teeter between beauty and absurdity. In these meticulously constructed photographs, layers of fabric, pattern, and household objects build toward a visual crescendo, blurring the line between comfort and chaos. With her signature wit and theatrical precision, Carroll invites us to revel in the tension, humor, and artifice embedded in the everyday.

In Patty Carroll’s ongoing photographic series, Anonymous Women, each densely patterned image focuses on a lone woman that is practically invisible. Each is merged, concealed, overwhelmed, and seemingly taken over by her excessive household trappings, careening toward the absurd. Her domestic demise looms large as she is inevitably done in by her own possessions and obsessions. Her home becomes the site of claustrophobic perfectionism leading to tragedy and danger, with scenes of mishap and horror, inspired by many sources including the game of Clue.

To create these darkly humorous and poignant narratives, Carroll builds life size installations, literally stage sets, in her studio using the figure and household objects as subject matter. Worlds are created and the women in them use their objects and décor as armor to shore themselves up against a dark and scary world.

Carroll credits, or blames, growing up in the suburbs of Chicago as the source for her work. In Domestic Dramas and Disasters, she continues her exploration of myths of perfection and happiness, consumer culture, social status and meaning. Her photographs debunk, critique, and satirize the expectation of domestic perfection and fulfillment. Their truthfulness not only hurts, its’ absurdity makes us laugh.

The photographs of Patty Carroll are held in the permanent collections of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and numerous others.

Artist Sandra Scott-Revelle weaves together storytelling and appliqué to feature individuals she refers to as “the lesser-known lights in the vast heavens of Black history.” Sandra researches the narratives of formerly enslaved people and prayerfully shapes their experiences into inspiring short stories, poems, and fabric art that “provoke thought and prick the heart.”

We will be hosting an opening reception on Friday, June 6 from 5:30 – 9pm, and a closing reception on Friday, August 1 from 5:30 – 9pm. At each reception, Sandra will be giving an artist talk at 6:30pm, followed by a time for audience Q&A.

Our gallery will also be open from 2 – 4pm every Saturday in June, July, and August, with the exception of July 5.

We are delighted to invite you to NEW WORKS, a vibrant exhibition featuring recent artworks by Hunt Slonem, Brooke Golightly, and Emily Johnson.

This show marks a special moment for the gallery, as we are pleased to announce formal representation of renowned artist Hunt Slonem. His exuberant, meditative works have long inspired collectors around the world, and we’re honored to welcome him into our gallery’s roster.

Please join us in celebrating these three distinctive voices — each exploring pattern, spirit, and surface in their own richly expressive way.

See you soon,

xo, Blue Galley

Open to the Public

Wednesday – Saturday 11 – 4