One of the underlying premises in assembling the Belger Collection is the importance of collecting multiple works over time by the same artist. Collecting in depth provides a glimpse through the artwork into how the artist approaches life, love, loss, and the other inevitable changes over the course of time. The viewer brings a perspective through unique memories and personal experiences that leave a mark and inform identity.

The artists in Whispers and Screams explore their memories and perceptions of people, places, and moments in time. Some of those memories are loud and jarring while others are more reflective and have softened with the passage of time. There are examples of stereotypes, idealized love, lust, romance, excitement, loss, and regret. There are glimpses into the complexity of communities at all levels, the commonalities and the differences.

The works selected for this exhibition focus on people, histories, and relationships. Human beings are pack animals. People look for their communities and how to understand their place in them. In the course of that exploration, an understanding develops of the past, present, and future.

Artists included in the exhibition: Terry Allen, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Nick Bubash, Clayton Bailey, William Christenberry, Robert Cottingham, John De Andrea, Viola Frey, Michael Hannon, Jasper Johns, Guy Johnson, Kate Kretz, Wes Lyle, Ed Massey, Jack Mendenhall, Jerry Ott, Joey Quiñones, Mel Ramos,Robert Rauschenberg, Don Reitz, Larry Rivers,Alex Siburney, Herb Snitzer, Robert Stackhouse, Renée Stout, Akio Takamori, William T. Wiley, and Winter & Williams.

To round out our fall/winter exhibition series, SLCA presents Animal House, a small group exhibition featuring works by represented artists that explore the playful relationships between humans and the animal kingdom. Through a variety of mediums including ceramics, paintings, and mixed-media sculptures, we hope these works invite viewers to reflect on the beauty and complexity of humanity’s relationship with the world around us.

Holiday Reflections, presented by BOK Financial, opens for the 2024 season on Friday, November 22, when it returns for a fifth historic season bigger and better than ever!

This spectacular indoor holiday experience fills Union Station’s massive Grand Plaza and features towering lights, dozens of decorated trees, giant forest creatures, colossal mirrored ornaments, 3‑D animated window displays, Santa appearances, animatronic displays, the award-winning Model Train Gallery with an expanded holiday model train layouts, a bigger-than-ever Rudy’s Wonderland where kids (under 48″) can ride the beloved Jones Store mini train, a holiday-themed VR ride, spectacular holiday-themed photo ops, and much more. PLUS, watch for sneak peeks of exciting new 2024 Holiday Reflections additions! It’s the most holiday family fun in Kansas City, and it’s all indoors with the unique beauty and history of Union Station included.

Pricing:
General Admission is $10
Children 12 months and under are free

Holiday Reflections Hours:
November 22 — January 1
10am — 8pm daily
Closed November 28
Open 10am-2pm December 24
Closed December 25

Nancy Newman Rice was born in New York City and was educated at Cornell University and at Washington University, where she earned a BFA with honors and an MFA. She has received awards that include a National Endowment for the Arts/MMA Fellowship for painting, and nominations for a Tiffany Award and an AVA Award in the Visual Arts. Rice has exhibited her work internationally and her work is included in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

Using Euclidian geometry as the skeleton of the experience is an approach rooted in Art History; Poussin and Cezanne both seized upon this method of pictorial organization through subtle designs and simplified spatial effects. The Sacred Space oil paintings began as an attempt to define the interiors of identifiable architectural structures by inventing elaborate geometric scaffolding to map the space within the confines of each edifice. As the oil paintings evolved the walls disappeared, seemingly erased by time, and what remained was the skeleton of intangible space, in essence, geometry as a sacred artifact.

I consider these objects to be what is real, what we can hold onto in life, but in the reflections, there remains what we do not know, the mysterious, that which is unsettling and perhaps chaotic. I’ve always thought that my best work was right on the edge of disorder. I think it’s as much about disorder as it is about harmony and balance.

– Jeanette Pasin Sloan

Jeanette Pasin Sloan takes visible reality as a starting point for her paintings, drawings, and prints. She auditions primarily domestic objects; silvered cups or bowls, with curved reflective surfaces, to be the actors on her up-close fantastically patterned stage sets. With close cropping and careful manipulation, Pasin Sloan’s complicated compositions subtly pull the viewer in and add to both the sense of reality and abstraction in her tour de force works of art. Originally from Chicago, Pasin Sloan now lives in Santa Fe, NM and the cactus and flowers of the desert have become perfectly integrated with the cool reflections and pattern in her newest work.

Jeanette Pasin Sloan is also a prolific printmaker who has published numerous editioned works with Landfall Press over the past 35 years. Pasin Sloan’s work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, Kansas City Art Institute, School of Design, Kansas City, Missouri, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin , Minneapolis Institute of Arts , National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. , New York Public Library , David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago , Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana , Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut , to name a few.