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August 2nd - December 4th, 2019

Don Dane
Greenwood, Missouri

Don is a full time, award winning artist whose work has been shown and sold to collectors all over the United States. Favoring a realistic style of painting, he has become well known for his portrayal of the American West. His mediums include watercolor, oil and pencil.

Don's subject matter varies, but he prefers painting subjects that reflect the tradition of the American West. This includes American wildlife, the cowboy and the rural way of life. His artwork has been featured in Western Art Collector, Southwest Art, Western Horseman, Horses in Art, Art of the West and American Cowboy. It has also appeared on over a dozen different western, rodeo and cowboy music/poetry festival posters across the country. Among these, was being featured poster artist at Silver Dollar City’s “Salute to the Great American Cowboy” in Branson, MO for over ten years.

In 2011 Don was commissioned by the Kansas State Lotto Commission to paint an original painting to be featured on the state lotto ticket as part of the Kansas 150 year anniversary of statehood. He currently works from his home studio in Greenwood, Missouri.

June 7th - September 4th, 2019

Taylor Crites
Excelsior Springs, Missouri

My paintings are the liminal Rubicon fluctuating ever uneasily between perception and imagination, and cross in resolute desire towards the unvanquished wildernesses of Imagination. Images, that is Images with a capital I (which engage all the senses beyond the merely optical, as well as the inner senses of intellect, imagination and emotion), are born of a talismanic urge and a bedeviling ambiguity concerning any form of representation. What is lost when we reconstitute the innately equivocal experiences of existence into the paradigmatic captivity of an Image? Through the inherent reduction and pseudo- caricature all art is, can an Image evoke, enlarge and elaborate its fiendishly untraceable origins rather than merely reinterpret them, propagate superficialities, fumblingly retrace and artfully reproduce/reduce?
Memories are the fossils of experience; desire is their re-inception’s catalyst. The Remembered is a degraded palimpsest of the Actual, much scribbled-over by the ceaseless reimagining of the innumerable selves we are and inevitably become. This is one of the paramount concerns throughout my paintings and writings, which together constitute my grand theater of Images. They embody a quasi- parodic ekphrasis sublime in the catharsis of its Images, an art-experience that though ostensibly secular in theme and content, broaches on the purely religious, an inner poetics intensely ambiguous in its relation to literality, in its belief in an eternity bound God and material revelation.