Heinrich Toh’s monoprints explores the complexities of travel, displacement, and assimilation. Where his immediate environment, represented in vast ethereal landscapes, investigates ideas of longing, past and present memories, personal history, and layered cultural identities. While investigating the definition of home and evolving mindscapes. The process of his work combines collagraphs made from cardboard plates, painterly monotype backgrounds, and the transfer of imagery with paper-lithography. They are printed with multiple runs through an etching press that results in layers of color, pattern, and imagery. 

BIO

Heinrich is a printmaker & educator based in Kansas City. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art and the La Salle College of the Arts in Singapore where he grew up. His work is in public and private collections, including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum, Truman Medical Center, the Loews Kansas City Convention Center Hotel, the University Hospital of Cleveland, and the Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin, TX. He has exhibited extensively for the past 20 years, including the Wing Luke Asian Museum, the Bellevue Art Museum, Albrecht-Kemper Museum, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He has taught at the Kansas City Art Institute and led numerous workshops around the country that include the Pratt Fine Arts Center, Penland School of Crafts, the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Oklahoma Fine Art Institute at Quartz Mountain, among others. When not in his studio, he loves spending time in the kitchen creating culinary bedlam.

You are invited to our October Art Gallery Show!
Show runs thru November 6th.
First Friday hours on October 3rd. 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/

Artist Statement:

I collage eco-prints to embody the legacy of women whose artistry was often expressed through labor and caregiving. These layered works capture knowledge, emotions, and insights, much like inherited stories or cherished recipes passed down through generations. My pieces reflect and challenge social expectations, weaving natural and human-made materials into visual narratives.

Using the natural dye technique of eco-printing, ink-making, drawing, and assembling, I build works that demand slowing down and engaging deeply with the material as well as the image. Found objects — such as photographs, paper scraps, stains, and pencil marks — merge with organic elements to form compositions requiring observation and reflection, as they come together to mirror the cyclical nature of seasons and life.

My work is driven by a desire to uncover and share the narratives embedded in places, plants, and objects, as well as the often-muted voices of women. Aspects of ourselves that we dismiss, deny, or are simply unable to recognize. The images are of the hidden, the frightening, the furious, the forbidden, and the parts too disturbing to face as well as goals, desires or aspirations. I see both natural and human-made objects as vessels for stories that inform and inspire. Through this practice, I envision these pieces as handed down through time- like a family or cultural recipe, grounding me in the present and guiding me through this third phase of my life — a phase marked by instinctual wisdom, intuition, and a deep connection to nature. I seek guidance from women and the natural world as I navigate these transitions.

Bio:

DeAnna Skedel has been an artist and professor in Kansas City since 2002. Her eclectic studio practice is deeply intuitive — akin to cooking: a meditation, an infusion, and a slow maceration of ideas and materials.

She began exhibiting at the Ohio Craft Museum while still an undergraduate. Graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago expanded her practice into theater and international opportunities, including the US/UK Contemporary Cast Iron in Sculpture Project in England, Overflow/Fluids (LA Art Girls) at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and a native garden project in Voulx, France. In Kansas City, she has been an Avenue of the Arts recipient, participated in the Urban Culture Project, and was featured in The Sixth Surface: Steven Holl Lights the Nelson-Atkins Museum. She has also been active in the Kansas City chapter of the social justice organization Avodah.

A committed educator, Skedel received the Missouri Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Metropolitan Community College – Blue River, where students affectionately describe her as “some crazy combination of Mr. Miyagi and Bob Ross.”

Reflecting on her overlapping roles as artist, educator, and parent of teens who learn and experience the world differently, she writes:
“It feels like I am in a kind of puberty of maturity — an acceleration of personal and artistic evolution beneath layers of responsibility and societal invisibility.”

She cherishes the creative pause, seeing it as a space to reflect on matriarchal wisdom and the lessons passed down through generations.

Participating Artists Stanley Bielen Rich Bowman Jamie Chase Joe Ramiro Garcia Emily Johnson Lisa Lala James Leonard Lisa Noonis Hunt Slonem Sarah White

Lisa Noonis Dinner Time mixed media on canvas mounted to panel 38″ x 56″ fr.

Jamie Chase foreground James Leonard background

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Luminous skies, rolling plains, and the vast hush of open country: Jeff Aeling captured it all. Ephemeral Nature: Celebrating Jeff Aeling brings together sweeping vistas and intimate, contemplative panels from the beloved painter, presented in tribute following his passing earlier this year. These works, alive with atmosphere and light, remind us why Aeling remains one of the great interpreters of the American landscape.