MINIATURES (February 2023)

An all-member group show featuring small art, tiny subjects, and other takes on the “miniatures” theme. February 1-26, 2023

HOLIDAY SHOW (December 2022)

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

JULY INVITATIONAL (July 2022)

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)

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)

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)

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

Sharon Lacy Cech (1941-2021)

Sharon Lacy Cech (1941-2021)

We are very sad to share that Gallery 9 artist and member Sharon Lacy Cech passed away on December 21. Sharon was part of our gallery for 20 years and always there to offer support, friendship, and a kind word. Her beautifully intricate paintings, often featuring one of her signature crows, brought color and joy to our walls. She will be dearly missed.


Read Sharon’s obituary

OFF ON A TANGENT (October 2021)

STUDIES IN PIGMENTS AND GRAY SCALE (August 2021)

In August, we featured a solo show with oil paintings and charcoal drawings by Jennifer Nichols.

August 4-29, 2021

JULY INVITATIONAL (July 2021)

 

Our annual Invitational Show, featuring work by gallery members and guest artists.

Guest artists include: Adrienne Griffin (illustrated images with mixed media and ink), Anthony Jackson (Acrylic paintings), Dana Clements, Harry Tompkin (glass), Heather Brandt Ladman (paintings), Jane Chesnut (paintings), Jeremy Johnson, Katie Nieland (cut paper and mixed media), Linda Hatfield (pyrography/acrlyic), Alias Kane (paintings), MC Anderson (paintings), Paul Adamson (ceramics), Pawl Tisdale (mixed media), Ronda Esquivel (photography), Rose Kotwas (jewelry), Shannon Sullivan (photography), Taylor Dozler (ink drawings), Patty Gallimore (mixed media), Jude Martindale (paintings), Peter Sherr (ceramics), Peg Pelter (porcelain paintings), Rachel Smith (paintings), Luke Potts (wood), and Sean Scott (ceramics).

June 30-August 1, 2021

TIME & PLACE (June 2021)

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In June, Gallery 9 will feature new oil paintings by Mitch Egeberg and watercolor paintings Barb Sullivan.

On display June 2-27, 2021

The still life paintings in oil by Mitch Egeberg range from realistic to somewhat abstract. His focus is on the play of light and shadow on the bowls, plates, fruit or plants that he is painting. He often uses the shadows cast by the objects to add unique negative shapes to the compositions.

Barb Sullivan’s paintings on paper are colorful watercolor and mixed media landscapes. She spends considerable time visually exploring her subjects and strives to create a sense of time and space. Sullivan’s work intermingles realism with abstraction as she combines her love of drawing with the transparency, purity, and richness of watercolor. Sullivan is a Signature Member of the Kansas Watercolor Society.

Extended hours on First Friday, June 4 (5-8pm)