Meet the Artists on August 4 | | Gina Pisto, flowerpot VII, 2023. Stoneware, glaze, 54 x 18 x 18 inches. Image courtesy of the artist. | Milestones: Belger Arts’ Tenth Annual Resident Artist Exhibition at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery includes work by 2022-2023 resident artists Cindy Leung, Sun Young Park, Gina Pisto, Adams Puryear, Meredith Smith, and Nicole Woodard. The exhibition celebrates the culmination of the artists’ time in the residency program and the program’s tenth year at the Belger Crane Yard Studios. Resident artist Gina Pisto (work pictured above) returns as a 2023-2024 resident artist. Meet her and several of the incoming 2023-2024 resident and visiting artists in the gallery on first Friday, August 4 from 6 to 8 pm.
| | | | | Sharif Bey, Kiwi Bird #1, 2019. Earthenware and mixed media. 14 x 10 x 10 in. Courtesy the artist and albertz benda, New York and Los Angeles. | Don't miss Sharif Bey: Ancestral Vestiges at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery closing on August 5, 2023.
Inspired by modernism, functional pottery, Oceanic Art and Art of the African diaspora, Sharif Bey’s works investigate the cultural and political significance of adornment and the symbolic and formal properties of archetypal motifs. Ancestral Vestiges includes vessel-inspired mixed media works, mask-like sculptures, and large-scale power necklaces. These and other works in the exhibition reflect his continued exploration of functional and ritual objects, and the materiality of clay, metal, wood, and glass. | | | Now on View at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery | | Kacey Ziegler is our August Mug of the Month artist. Ziegler's work is inspired by silhouettes from ancient ceramics from across the globe, botanical materials, and elements from classical architecture that are filtered through generations of revivals, renovations, and revisions. Ziegler's mugs will be available online and at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery from August 1 through August 31.
Purchase a Mug of the Month even if you don't have 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 every month before they’re made available to the public. | | | | Digital Debut artist Muriel Hansen is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2019. Often referencing textures and forms found in nature, Hansen uses simple, pleasing patterns and motifs to convey a sense of comfort and wanderlust. Through their work, they seek to inspire contemplation and enrich lives. Hansen's work is on view and available for purchase at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery through August 31. | | | Belger Arts Center Exhibition Extended | | Terry Winters is a contemporary American painter and printmaker who is represented in depth in the Belger Collection. A native New Yorker, Winters graduated from Pratt Institute in 1971, focusing on painting. Through the 1970s, while studying nature, especially molecular level life forms, Winters honed his craft as a drawer and a painter until he was ready for his inaugural exhibition in 1982 at the prestigious Sonnabend Gallery. Later that same year he began his first foray into printmaking at Universal Limited Art Editions on Long Island. Winters became one of the leading printmakers in the United States. Over the years, Winters paintings, drawings, and prints have been featured in major retrospectives at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition at the Belger Arts Center has been extended through January 6, 2024. To schedule a group tour, please call 816-474-7316 or email gallery@belgerarts.org. | | | For more information about exhibitions, classes, and programs, please visit our website. |
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