| | | Our July Digital Debut artist is Wesley Harvey. Wesley combines kitsch and pop culture imagery with geometric patterns, floral designs, and gold to create elaborately decorated functional work. Through the lens of queer theory, Wesley addresses and questions what it means to be gay, queer, and cisgender. Wesley Harvey’s work will be available online and at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery (2011 Tracy Ave., KCMO) starting Friday, July 1 at 10 am CST. There’s still time to purchase work by Digital Debut artist Stephen Creech through June 30. | | | | Belger Arts Studio Manager Paul Maloney is July’s Mug of the Month featured artist. The surfaces of Paul’s puckered, dimpled mugs infer song and verse. Influenced by musical notes on a page, contemporary graffiti, and traditional Korean stoneware (Punch’ong), Paul’s created expressive, abstract lettering that covers his mugs and references his poetry and songwriting. His mugs will be available online and in the gallery starting Friday, July 1 at 10 am CST. Learn more about Paul by visiting his artist page. Mugs of the Month can be purchased without a subscription. This means you can buy a mug by an artist you love when they become available. However, having a monthly subscription reserves your spot to receive a new mug before they are offered for sale to the public. Visit our website to learn how to set up a subscription and to view previous mugs of the month, including mugs by Bill Jones, June’s featured artist. | | | | | Sun Young Park, Stack, 2022. Ceramic, mixed media, 65 x 18 x 12 in. | The Belger Arts annual resident exhibition, GroundWork, continues through September 3 at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery (2011 Tracy Avenue., KCMO 64108). GroundWork includes work by current Artists in Residence: Summer Brooks, Elaine Buss, Eleanor Foy, Sun Young Park, Adams Puryear, and Nicole Woodard. For the six artists, the past year has been one of processing and navigating uncertainty, while persistently evolving, creatively thriving, and laying the “groundwork” for what’s to come. | | | | Sarah Gross, Consumption, 2019. Slip-cast ceramics, 58 x 417 x 1.75 in. | Imprint is a two-person exhibition featuring ceramic works by Sarah Gross and fiber works by Mary Anne Jordan. Sarah Gross uses pattern and repetition to build complexity and engage the viewer’s eye. Her imprint is evident in the labor-intensive surface decoration of her vessels and in her installation titled Consumption, a 36-foot-long carpet of red-glazed ceramic tiles. Mary Anne Jordan uses nontraditional quilting processes to create hand-dyed, quilted, and stitched works. Creating pattern using bold colors and intensive hand-stitching, she allows her dyes to run and smear to reveal the artist’s imprint and a humanness to the work. The exhibition is on view through August 6, 2022 at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery (2011 Tracy Avenue, KCMO). | | | | Robert Stackhouse, Red Flyer, 1999, watercolor, 60 x 126 in. Photo Courtesy of the Belger Collection. | Passages includes more than 30 sculptures, prints, paintings, and drawings by contemporary art icon Robert Stackhouse, all from the Belger Collection.
His two-dimensional artwork often documents large-scale outdoor sculptures that were created with his students and volunteers. Many of them were of a scale where visitors could enter and pass through the installations. Often A-frame wooden structures, the sculptures were literal passageways through art. Frequent imagery in Stackhouse’s output includes boats and ships (reflecting earthly and spiritual passages) and snakes (symbolic of regeneration and death). This exhibition continues through August 6, 2022 at the Belger Arts Center (2100 Walnut St., KCMO). | | | | Sharif Bey, Nazarite, 2020. Earthenware and mixed media, 15 x 11 in. Courtesy of Albertz Benda and Sharif Bey. | New Arrivals includes recent additions to the Belger Collection by local, national, and international artists and builds on the Collection’s educational focus and support of contemporary artists. Most of the sculptural and functional works were created in the last three years by emerging and established artists, with ceramics as the predominant medium. The exhibition continues through August 6, 2022 at the Belger Arts Center (2100 Walnut St., KCMO). | | | For more information about exhibitions, classes, and programs, please visit our website. |
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