Crossroads Arts District

Kansas City's Creative Neighborhood

Jones Gallery December Art Show

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You are invited to our Jones Gallery December Art Show!
First Friday is December 6th., opening from 5pm till 7pm.
Show also runs thru January 2nd.
All welcome and always free, thanks!
Regular Gallery hours are by appointment,
from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Closed Sunday
Jones Gallery 1717 Walnut, KCMO. 64108
816 – 421‑2111
https://jonesgallerykc.com/ 

Fine Art Photography: Genevieve Casey, “Seeking Connection”

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“Seeking Connection”
What is my work about?
The short answer:
Seeking a common theme in my work, I realized there are two main themes. One has always been allowing the camera to teach me mindfulness. The other is searching for relationship and connection.
For those who like the full story:
Our melting-pot ancestry goes back many generations in the US. As a result, I didn’t grow up with a sense of cultural identity beyond the mainstream, which didn’t suit. I admired the richness of culture and belonging I observed in friends with more recent ties to another place. In time, I realized I could choose some piece of my ancestral background as the focus of my quest for culture. Although I do not play an instrument, when I found the KC Traditional Irish Music community at Prospero’s, it felt like home. I have called it church. Naturally I also visited the Gaelic homelands.
As an adult with neither church nor child to bind me, when I found a community I felt its vitality to my well-being. The Arts, The KC Trad Irish Music Community, and my workplace are spaces where I’ve found those connections beyond my small but close family

November Jones Gallery Art Show

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You are invited to our Jones Gallery November Art Show!
First Friday November 1st., opening from 5pm till 8pm.
Show also runs thru December 5th.
All welcome and always free, thanks!
Regular Gallery hours are by appointment,
from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Closed Sunday
Jones Gallery 1717 Walnut, KCMO. 64108
816 – 421‑2111
https://jonesgallerykc.com/ 

William Rainey — A SENSE OF COLOR

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As I have been in the process of simplifying my work, I find that there is much more going on that is unseen. I believe painting is a series of adjustments no matter what the subject matter or lack thereof.

Continuous change occurs until the painting says we are done. My job as artist is to know when to stop.

Take time to look…there is more than first meets the eye.

The process of abstract art does not translate easily to words. I am not as comfortable talking about my art as I am in making it. I listen to jazz when I paint. Jazz is an improvisation on a theme, a blend of elements in the space of time. My art is like that. My paintings always begin with drawing nonobjective shapes, the use of line to define area and to push the limits of real and abstract. I can’t imagine painting something exactly as it is. That’s what a camera is for. For me, color and my own emotions play the themes, blending the elements in the space of the canvas.

I require nothing special of the observer… Each viewer may see and feel what they see and feel, and play their own themes and improvisations…That way we can both be surprised.

Rainey received he first art award 54 years ago and since has attended Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO and the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, Masters Program. Represented exclusively by Blue Gallery since 2000, William Rainey’s paintings can be found in private and corporate collections worldwide. Select corporate collectors include; Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, Data Systems International, Kansas City, MO, Restaurant Management Company, Wichita, KS, Missouri Bank, Kansas City, MO, Lanard Toys Ltd., Hong Kong, and The Conafay Group, Washington, DC.

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