HOLIDAY SHOW (December 2022)

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In December, Gallery 9 featured our annual Holiday Show, with work by all of our member artists. November 30, 2022 - January 15, 2023.

SHIMMER GLIMMER & BRIGHT (November 2022)

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CONFLUENCE (October 2022)

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New paintings by Vonni Sparks, Mixed Media by Robert Esquivel, and ceramic sculptures by Ginny Freitag. October 5-30, 2022

NATURAL BEAUTY (September 2022)

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In September, Gallery 9 featured new work by Jennifer Nichols (charcoal on paper) and Barb Sullivan (watercolor on paper).. On display August 31-October 2, 2022

LIFE'S ABC'S (August 2022)

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JULY INVITATIONAL (July 2022)

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In July, we featured our annual Invitational Show, with work by gallery members and guest artists.

On display June 29 - July 31, 2022

Guests include: Angela Behrends (Sculpture), Danny Reneau (mixed media), Deb Monfelt (paintings), Elijah Swanson (paintings), Heather Brandt Ladman (painting), Hannah Demma (handmade paper/printmaking), Jane Chesnut (paintings), Kelly Axmann (mixed media), Linda Benton (painting), Matt Steinhausen (photography), Nick Brown (airbrush/mixed media), Patty Gallimore (paintings), Randy Mittan (photography), Sara Kovanda (paintings), Peg Pelter (over painting on porcelain).

IMAGES FROM THE ROAD (June 2022)

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IMAGES FROM THE ROAD, featuring photography by Merle Henkenius.

On display June 1-26, 2022

Merle Henkenius | Artist Statement
Nothing said about a work-of-art ever improves it, but sometimes a little history can make a wider pathway into it. Most of these photos are straightforward, but a few are so peculiar that a little story to flesh them out. All of these photos were found along roads, which make them, Images From the Road

Speaking generally, my goal is to render art from artifacts. I often favor homely artifacts, especially those which can serve up a little irony, or whose placement helps us know something about the person who did the placing. The Gallery 9 example here is the image I’ve entitled, “The Exact Spot Where Farming Failed in Sheridan County.” We can see at a glance that the sand beneath that row of implements could never have earn a farm income. It’s as if that farmer defiantly parked the last tangible remnants of his failed dream, and rode away on a draft horse, which likely wore blinders.

The two images entitled Whimsical Crucifixes #1 and #2 are of sculptures made by New Mexican artist, Ken Wolverton, who used scrap lumber and backlot detritus. He’s also a decent painter, who does not use galleries for their display. He hangs his many paintings and found item-sculptures on his horse corral fence, which is just a few feet off the road, where they weather. He sells a few this way, and if they don’t sell, he enjoys watching them deteriorate, to return to their elemental components.

And check out those mortar and chicken wire folks, which were crated by a self-proclaimed Native American shaman. Their creator was a WWII vet who was badly burned in a tank battle in Northern Germany. Back home, he underwent months of excruciating recovery. He emerged believing he acquired a specific wisdom with native overtones.  He then purchased five acres in the Nevada desert, took the name Rolling Thunder Mountain, which as a name, is precisely two syllables too long.  He then set about building a phantasmagorical spiritual compound. One befitting a shaman.  He built numerous effigies and structures out of mortar and chicken wire. In time, especially in the 1960s, many seekers found their way to the compound, where they sat at the shaman’s feet and sussed out his pain-tinged wisdoms. When his health began to fail, the shaman shot himself. Only some the mortar remnants survive today.

TURNING COLORS (May 2022)

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TURNING COLORS, featuring turned wood/epoxy bowls by Mark Entzminger and paper collages by Meghan Stratman.

On display May 4-29, 2022

SHARON LACY CECH & PRAIRIE MILE TILE Retrospectives (April 2022)

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In April, Gallery 9 showcased the work of Sharon Lacy Cech and Prairie Mile Tile.

Sharon Lacy Cech, who passed away in December 2021, was a member of Gallery 9 for 20 years and her distinctive, colorful paintings always brought joy our walls. Join us in celebrating Sharon's wonderful spirit through this retrospective of her art.

In addition to our main featured show, we will also be showcasing ceramics by Su Harvey/Prairie Mile Tile through the month of April. Su has retired from ceramics so this will be your last chance to take home one of her great tiles or ceramic sculptures.

On display March 30-May 1, 2022

OUT-SIDE-IN (March 2022)

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Mixed media by Gail Folda, Brook Taylor, and Dave Galois.

March 2-27, 2022

EXPLORATIONS IN GLASS AND PAINT (February 2022)

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