| Our January Digital Debut artist is Genevieve Flynn. Flynn’s work reflects the fluid lines and sensuous feel of the Art Nouveau era along with the beauty of nature. She uses ancient metal techniques such as chasing, repoussé, engraving, granulation, saw piercing, among others to add detail, interest, and beauty. She receives gratification from working in noble metals that someday will be owned, displayed, utilized or worn by clients in their everyday life.
Flynn’s Digital Debut work will be available online and at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery (2011 Tracy Ave, KCMO) on January 6, 2023. | | | | Belger resident artist Gina Pisto is the January Mug of the Month featured artist. Pisto is interested in spaces between life and death, preservation and degradation, permanence and impermanence. Her material choices are driven by an attempt to understand intimacy, touch, memory, and material evidence of the past. Her mugs will be available for purchase on January 1, 2023. There are still a few mugs by December Mug of the Month featured artist Meredith Smith available online and in the gallery. Learn more about Meredith by visiting her artist page. | | | | 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. | Sharif Bey is a Syracuse-based artist and educator who's inspired by modernism, functional pottery, Oceanic Art and Art of the African diaspora. His works investigate the cultural and political significance of adornment and the symbolic and formal properties of archetypal motifs, while questioning how the meaning of icons and function transform across cultures and time. The exhibition opens on Friday, February 3 and will remain on view through May 6, 2023. Stay tuned to our website for more information. | | | | | Artwork by (left to right) Annie Honn, Justin Rothshank, Miguel Alaniz, Didem Mert. | If you haven’t yet treated yourself this holiday season, shop the Holidays at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery exhibition in person or online before it closes this week. The exhibition is an annual tradition that includes ceramics, glass, metal, and more, by local and national artists. | | | | Don't miss a chance to view work by Digital Debut artist Frank Thong. His work focuses on the balance between Eastern and Western influences contextualized through his cultural identity. Drawing upon concepts from Asian ceramics and his cultural experiences growing up, he creates functional objects that encapsulate the Asian-American dilemma. Through his artwork, he hopes to chip away at social stereotypes and promote representation.
Thong’s work is available online and at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery (2011 Tracy Ave, KCMO) through December 31, 2022. | | | | Elaine Olafson Henry, (left to right) Missouri, 2017, Kansas, 2018. Each wood fired porcelain, 6 x 4 x 4 in. | 50 Bowls, 50 States, 50 Woodfires includes 50 porcelain bowls made by artist Elaine Olafson Henry. Each thrown bowl was made using the same amount of clay from the same clay block, the same building and shaping process, and the same glaze. Curious about the effects of firing circumstances in different environments, Henry sent a bowl to a ceramist in each of the 50 states to be woodfired. The resulting bowls are products of the types of wood and variety of kilns used, the length of firing, and temperature reached. The bowls will be presented with technical details, including names of wood firing team members, providing insights into each collaboration and the various nuances acquired during the firing process. This exhibition is on view through January 7, 2023 at the Belger Crane Yard Studios. | | | | Peter Callas, Maquette: Barn Owl, 2018. Wood fired Stoneware, 12 x 13 x 4.5 in. Collection of John and Anna Seargeant. | Peter Callas: An Enduring Legacy is a comprehensive survey of the career of Peter Callas, an internationally renowned artist, and master of the Anagama kiln wood-firing process. Callas considers the Anagama kiln, “the centerpiece for experimentation that records the passage of time.” The exhibition showcases Callas’ experimentation and innovation over 30 years of creative production and includes expressionist ceramic sculptures, abstracted container forms, intimate tea bowls, and works on paper. This exhibition is on view through January 7, 2023 at the Belger Crane Yard Studios. | | | | 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 January 7, 2023 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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