Jones Gallery September Art Show!
First Friday come meet the Artists from 5 till 9pm.
All welcome and always free.
Showing over 150 pieces, from both Local and National Artists.
Show runs thru September 28th.
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
Most of our members have been long-time print collectors and will be sharing some of their most treasured pieces from their personal collections. Several of these will be on sale.
In addition, we are premiering our first-ever commissioned print suite. This combines 4 etchings of the West Bottoms that hang as a set from artist Doug Osa.
For over 30 years, Doug has chronicled the changing scene of the West Bottoms district in etchings. He first started this suite with a gift print to the Print Society in 2011, adding the second print the next year. The final 2 images were created this year and complete the suite. It is now available for members at a reduced price. Individual prints can be purchased separately for those who already own the first and second image.
New members signing up at the show will, for the low membership fee, get the member’s discounted price! For more information, please click on this link.
Featured Artists
Curt Clonts | Patrick Duegaw | Martha Dye-Walker | Dale Eldred
Connie Ernatt | Rachel Gardner-Roe | Joe Gregory | Marn Jensen
Dean Kube | Marcy Lally | Jim Leedy | Richard Mattsson
Emmett Merrill | Mike Miller | Gentry Mullen | Andy Newcom
J.A. Newton | Emily Nickel | Lori Raye Erickson
Holly Swangstu | Troy Swangstu | James K. Walker | Mark Westervelt
The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center is hosting an invitational group exhibition, encouraging each artist to determine their own creative interpretation of the working title “Undefined Species.”
Belger Crane Yard Gallery presents Ways to Train Songbirds opening Friday, September 1, 2023, at 2011 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64108. The public is invited to the exhibition’s opening reception to view the work from 6 to 8 pm. The exhibition includes work by five artists who are members of the Sticky Gold Collective: Ben Galaday, Padyn Humble, Matt Mitros, Danni O’Brien, and Matthew Wicks.
“There are numerous ways to train birds of prey, yet songbirds are incredibly challenging. Many ornithologists consider songbirds to be exceptionally intelligent but not always the most trainable . . . the same could be said about artists.” — Sticky Gold Collective, August 2023”
The Collective, formed by Matt Mitros in 2018, includes artists from a range of backgrounds who share an irreverent appreciation for the intersection of craft and art. While the artists do not align to a common theme or subject, they share a quasi-humorous tone and campy bravado regarding material usage and illusion.
Padyn Humble is a sculptor from Montana whose work investigates social norms and the way they influence identity. He utilizes Western iconography and his inspiration stems from influences like cartoons, truck stop souvenirs, and queer pop culture. Matt Mitros uses a visual language of botanical pastiche to depict the emotional relationship between plants and machines. Themes of survival, growth, and metamorphosis are prevalent in his work through visual displays of conflict and celebration. Danni O’Brien’s work is rooted in play, collecting, and constructing and is informed by an education in assemblage sculpture, fiber arts, and ceramics. Her fantastical cast-offs from upcycled materials marry construction and wood working with traditionally feminized and domesticated systems such as stitching, beading, and rug making to compose dually hard and soft objects. Danni O’Brien and Ben Galaday wield nuanced abstraction to engage the viewer with blurred dreamlike compositions. Galaday’s work, however, is a dark counterpart to O’Brien’s flamboyancy. Oscillating between demoralizing and seducing, Galaday taps into the truths of the human condition creating kaleidoscopic approximations of life, death, decay, rejuvenation, and apathy. Matthew Wicks uses kitschy, everyday symbols such as suits of playing cards or domestic objects to subvert ideas of hypermasculinity in Western culture.
Altogether, Sticky Gold Collective questions various aspects of gender, orientation, and societal expectations through a mixed media approach to ceramics, while relieving the viewer of certain preconceived notions that come with “traditional” craftsmanship and material expectations embedded within the canon of ceramic art. This exhibition will remain on view through December 30, 2023.
In Nest: A Collection, we invite you to witness selections of artist Jenna Bauer’s work from 1999 — present. The exhibition includes several distinct styles that have emerged in her work over the years, such as meditative landscapes, abstract process paintings, color grid explorations, and conceptual works. The exhibit also includes reflections of the artist’s daily life, such as a poignant checkerboard installation of to-do lists from the period of time when she was a caregiver for her father. Nest offers an intimate glimpse of the evolution of an artist’s life and work as she has moved through time, and the results range from restrained and thoughtful to joyful and energetic, creating spaces of respite for all who engage them.
