Exhibitions

FIRST First Friday, September 3rd | 5:00 - 9:00   This First Friday at RSG, we will be opening a new solo exhibition titled "Labyrinth: Drawing a Meditative Line". This exhibition will highlight artist Rebecca Hoyer, who lives and paints in Wichita, Kansas and will be featuring over 30 original artworks created by her. We are excited to display this collection of oil paintings and watercolors! We hope you will join us for our reception on: . . . September 3rd, 2021 from 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm . . . . "I paint houses and trees because they are adversaries. I am telling the story of how these two forces live together. Houses want permanence. They are a pile...

This First Friday at RSG we will be opening our new exhibition titled "Fall Color Field". This show will consist of a selection of new, never before seen works by local and regional artists. We are excited to showcase such a wide variety of new pieces, and we hope you will join us for our reception from 5:30 - 9:00!

Featuring work by:

Aaron Jackson Bowman
Aaron Morgan Brown
Barbara Waterman Peters
Beverly Dodge Radefeld
Bill Goffrier
Bob Schwan
Brian Hinkle
Cally Krallman
Chiyoko Myose
David Olson
David Vollbracht
James Borger
James Oliver
Jim Simpson
Larry Peters
Mary Binford Miller
Rob Compton
Tom Gormally

For our annual staff curated exhibition, each person chose five pieces of art from the gallery based on five categories: -Contemporary -Traditional -Printmaking -Estate -Sculpture The artwork featured ranges in medium, style, and era! We hope this offers not only an insight into each of us, but also each of the artists featured in this exhibition. We hope you can join on First Friday, January 7th for the opening reception from 5:30 - 9:00 PM. "5 Point Perspective" will be on display until Saturday, January 28th.

Join us this First Friday for Bruce and Trish Vanosdel: Couple's Exhibition! This exhibition will feature Trish's life-size steel wool sculptures, along with Bruce's colorful, textured ceramic vessels. We hope you will join us for our reception from 5:30 - 8:00pm! February First Friday - "Bruce and Trish VanOsdel: Couple's Exhibition" runs Feb. 4th through Feb 26th.

RSG is going to feature a new exhibition that is connected with the Wichita Art Museum!

We will display a range of prints created by contemporary artists from around the region here at RSG!
These fantastic works of art were created with traditional and modern printing techniques.
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"Then and Now: A Centennial Celebration of Block Prints in Wichita, Kansas, 1922-2022" will be on display at the Wichita Art Museum from Feb. 26th until Aug 7th!

The International Block Print Renaissance began in the last decades of the 19th century in Europe, as artists and collectors rediscovered the block print medium. Beginning in 1922 with its annual print exhibitions, Wichita, Kansas, played a major role in expanding this renaissance throughout America.

Join us for the opening of...

"Keyword:" MFA Thesis Exhibition by Tim Stone.

Exhibition opens Friday, April 1st 2022, from 5:30pm - 9pm

The artwork on display will be large scale mixed media paintings that explore the current hybrid relationship between our physical and digital spaces!

"I replicate, imitate, and steal digital languages to express how confusing and lost it can be to operate in a world that is both super connected and isolating, mediated through a screen. The algorithmic ways of processing information through coding and keywords seems rather abstract to me, even unintentional or misunderstood.

My work sutures digital efficiency and painterly inefficiency through physical marks and colors that are rambunctious, fiery, and ambiguous in their affect. There is tension between the ordinary and the superlative, and between what is natural and artificial. I examine how bemusedly liminal our physical and digital spaces have become." - Tim Stone

"Keyword:" | Exhibition runs April 1st through April 30th, 2022

Join us for the opening of… “Synthesis from the Soil” by William Tinker Exhibition opens Friday, May 6th 2022, from 5:30pm – 9pm The artwork on display will feature large-scale, abstracted landscapes filled with vivid color by William. -------- "The process of aging has caused me to look for subjects to paint much closer to home. For years, we drove the mid and southwest, always looking for the perfect curvature of land and trees and sky that would represent the best of where we grew up and lived. Almost always, the subjects I would chose had as much to do with the things that were growing on the land as the overall beauty of its entirety. This continuous search for...