Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
Join us on Saturday, May 2nd at 1 pm, for a conversation with Marn Jensen about her exhibition Box and Wax and Things. Learn how worn boxes, wax, and found objects become layered assemblages that explore memory, history, and the stories held within everyday materials. Free and open to the public
Exhibition Date: May – June 2026
Location:
Cerbera Gallery
2011 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City, MO 64108
Opening Reception: THU, April 30, 5 – 8 PM
First Friday Reception: FRI, May 1, 5 – 9 PM
Phone: +1 – 844-202‑9303
E‑Mail: info@cerberagallery.com
In When The Sun Saw The Sky, Annieo Klaas presents a new series of oil paintings that explore the poetic interplay of light, perception, and interior space. Inspired by the simple yet transformative moment when sunlight filters through window blinds, casting rhythmic bands of gold across her studio, Klaas captures a fleeting visual phenomenon — one in which light and subject begin to echo one another. As these rays fall onto her painted skies, a subtle loop emerges, as if the sky were looking back at itself.
Klaas’s work operates within the quiet pulse of magical realism, where the familiar becomes quietly enchanted. Her recurring motif of a sunlit window, often softened by gauzy curtains, anchors the viewer in a domestic setting, yet the scenes shimmer with an otherworldly presence. Radiant hues bleed gently across surfaces, while layers of light, shadow, and foliage create a sense of depth that feels both intimate and elusive. Rather than departing from reality, Klaas heightens it — revealing a world that vibrates just beyond the logical.
Her treatment of light is not merely optical, but emotional. It is rendered with a dreamlike clarity that feels at once tender and uncanny, inviting a slower, more contemplative way of seeing. These compositions function as quiet thresholds — spaces where interior and exterior, presence and imagination, begin to blur. In capturing these ephemeral moments, Klaas offers viewers an opportunity to pause within that liminal space, where light becomes both subject and sensation, and the ordinary reveals its latent wonder.
Annieo Klaas grew up in Dakar, Senegal and is based in Birmingham, Alabama. She holds a PharmD from Auburn University, a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington, and works as a Nuclear Pharmacist for Siemens Healthineers.
Klaas’s work has been exhibited at the Mobile Museum of Art (AL), the LaGrange Art Museum (GA), the Alabama Contemporary Art Center (AL), Field Projects Gallery (NY), Warnes Contemporary (NY), Sophiella Gallery (AL), K Space Contemporary (TX), and the Intersect Arts Center (St Louis, MO). Her work has been featured in several publications, including New American Paintings (South Issue 178) and Booooooom’s Tomorrow’s Talent.
Klaas’s paintings operate within the quiet pulse of magical realism, where the ordinary becomes enchanted. Her most recent motif of a sunlit window softened by gauzy curtains grounds the viewer in a familiar domestic setting, yet the scenes shimmer with an otherworldly quality. Radiant colors bleed across surfaces, and the layering of light, shadow, and foliage suggests a reality subtly heightened, vibrating just beyond the logical. Like the literary tradition of magical realism, Klaas doesn’t abandon the real; instead, she infuses it with wonder, illuminating the poetic strangeness that lives in plain sight. Her treatment of light is less about optics than emotion, rendered with a dreamlike clarity that feels both tender and uncanny. More than just windows, these are thresholds, inviting the viewer to dwell in the thin space between presence and imagination.
From the producers of Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. comes the next world-shaping chapter of global history and the enduring importance of freedom, human rights, and democracy.
Opens May 29, 2026 The Berlin Wall. A World Divided. is the story of the greatest symbol of division in the 20th century. For nearly three decades, the Berlin Wall divided a city. Now, The Berlin Wall. A World Divided. brings its story to life.
An unprecedented collaboration, which for the first time gathers more than 40 lenders from 20 international institutions, highlights the different perspectives and experiences of people living on both sides of the wall through a collection of 200 original objects on public display for the first time in North America.
Divided into four sections, the exhibition explores the story behind the Berlin Wall and the world it represented – a global conflict between capitalism and communism that brought our planet to the brink of nuclear destruction.
The Berlin Wall. A World Divided. combines multiple perspectives and experiences through a unique collection of artifacts, media and diverse testimonies. The exhibition traces the origins and rise of the Cold War conflict.
Extending its narrative to the fall of the Wall in 1989, as a prelude to the end of the Cold War, the exhibition hints at the legacy of an era that continues, in essence, to shape the world and goes beyond the conventional narrative about the history of the Berlin Wall.
Included in your admission is an audio guide, which provides additional information with a carefully crafted narrative. Audio guide available in English, Spanish and French.
The Berlin Wall. A World Divided. is an exhibition by the Spanish company Musealia in collaboration with the Berlin Wall Foundation, the German institution that looks after the historical legacy and memory of the victims of the communist regime in East Germany.
Hours of Operation:
Comedian/painter Aaron Scarbrough presents a selection of oil and acrylic paintings that are both skillfully rendered and highly entertaining.
We are open all month for our April Art Gallery Show!
The First Friday hours on April 3rd. are from 10am till 8pm.
Regular Gallery hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Monday thru Saturday, closed Sunday.
Show runs thru April 30th.
All are welcome and always free to visit, thanks!
Jones Gallery 1717 Walnut, KCMO. 64108
816 – 421‑2111
https://jonesgallerykc.com/
