Belger Arts Retirement News | | Photo of Mo and Jasper Johns installation at the Belger Arts Center by EG Schempf | After 19 years and countless tours, gallery assistant Mo Dickens will retire from Belger in January. In honor of this momentous occasion, we will host a public reception at the Belger Arts Center (2100 Walnut St., KCMO) from 6 to 8 pm on First Friday, January 5, 2024. If you can’t make it that day, the Terry Winters exhibition will be open during holiday hours through December 30 and regular hours through Saturday, January 6, 2024, so come by, get a tour from Mo, and wish him well. After the Terry Winters exhibition closes on January 6, the Belger Arts Center galleries will be closed until April 5, 2024, when our next exhibition opens. We will have exhibitions and public programs at our Belger Crane Yard Studios and Belger Glass Annex locations. Information about all programs can be found on our website. | | | Don't miss your chance to view over 100 works by renowned painter and printmaker Terry Winters at the Belger Arts Center.
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 runs through January 6, 2024. To schedule a group tour of this or any of our exhibitions, please call 816-474-7316 or email gallery@belgerarts.org. | | On View at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery | | The January Mug of the Month artist is Huey Lee and his mugs will be available for purchase online and at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery starting January 1 (10 am CST). Huey Lee is a ceramic artist from South Korea who has dedicated his career to exploring the expressive possibilities of clay. Lee's clay works are an exploration of daily emotions and introspection, creating tangible objects that reflect intangible feelings. By incorporating memories and experiences, his work reveals his interests, discomforts, and emotional responses.
December Mugs of the Month by Dehmie Dehmlow are still available through December 31. Don't delay, purchase yours today!
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. | | | | Time is a Circle: Generational Craft Practices includes the work of Mona Cliff, Wansoo Kim, Hùng Lê, Jada Patterson, Jason Wang, and Aleah Washington. Throughout time craft practices have been passed from generation to generation, keeping traditions alive, preserving culture and history, while building communities through the making process. The six artists in the exhibition use craft traditions to carry on generational practices while unearthing aspects of their own histories, within a broader historical and artistic context. This exhibition will be on view at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery through February 3, 2024. | | | | | Salvador Jiménez-Flores, El futuro es hoy, 2022. Stoneware, glaze, and ceramic decal, 13 x 10 x 1.5 in. Photo courtesy of the artist. | Belger Crane Yard Gallery presents Salvador Jiménez-Flores' solo exhibition, Arte-Sano: Soy Libre Porque Pienso, opening Friday, February 2, at 2011 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64108. An opening night reception will be held from 6 pm to 8 pm, where the artist will give remarks at 6:30 pm. Salvador Jiménez-Flores was born and raised in Jalisco, México. Immigrating from rural Mexico to a large U.S. city had a tremendous impact on him and his work. Exploring the politics of identity, the state of double consciousness, and the outlook of “the other,” he addresses issues of colonization, migration, history, cultural appropriation, and futurism across a range of mediums. The exhibition showcases the breadth of the artist's practice and includes ceramics, glass, metal, textiles, and prints. Salvador Jiménez-Flores is an Assistant Professor in ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has participated in many exhibitions including the National Museum of Mexican Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and Museum of Arts and Design. Jiménez-Flores is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, a Burke Prize finalist, and a 2021 United States Artist Fellow, among other awards and recognitions.
Salvador Jiménez-Flores' exhibition Arte-Sano: Soy libre porque pienso will be on view through June 8, 2024. | | | | | For more information about exhibitions, classes, and programs, please visit our website. |
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