2025 Exhibits and Events
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Cards for Hope Benefit Project
Continuing a tradition established by local artists, we offer the opportunity for the visitor to create small art pieces and handmade cards of hope to remind those facing temporary uncertainty that there are others who care. Beluga Art Studio has the art materials on site for your special project. (Midwest Food Bank, etc.)
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Fine Art Glass & Clay Exhibition
Ongoing Craft Art Show
Rhea’s personal collection of art glass and ceramics by visiting artists and art professionals features a high quality level of expertise and craft. As a gift or part of your own collection, these works offer beauty and quality that will retain value for years to come.
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Barbara Hoffman Photographic Art
LEAF
Artist Statement: Barbara Hoffman This body of work has developed over the past three years. Each one is made the same way, using leaves from a single tree, photographed with natural sunlight.
In school long ago, I had studied the process of photosynthesis, and the vitally important role the porous leaves play in life on earth, making oxygen to the benefit of all life.
As an artist and human living on this earth, I recognize how critical it is to pay attention to the small things that make life possible, to not lose sight of our responsibility to the future.
I invite you to look at each picture, find the leaf and then the shadow, and remember that each shadow represents a process so vital, so important to life on earth.
Rhea says, These are incredible abstracted leaf forms
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Two Brothers
Manuel and Salvador Ceniceros offer photography and painted forms of detail and precision
From 5PM-8PM on the First Friday of each month, the gallery & shopping district of historical downtown Bloomington welcomes guests for a special themed event. May-June-July exhibits at Beluga feature the following artists:
Harold Boyd; skillful intaglio printmaking with soft-ground, aquatint, halftone screen & open etching. Drawings with calligraphic ink. Figure stories in acrylic, collage, bronze, and varied sculpture mediums.
Sal Ceniceros; bright, detailed, contemporary color-rich paintings influenced by Mesoamerican art, architecture and sacred geometry.
Rhea Edge: intaglio printmaking etching & aquatint, acrylic & watercolor paintings with natural habitat, mythology and wildlife themes.
Mark Sumner Forth: technically perfect oil on canvas paintings with poetic, personal narrative figurative stories and surrealistic moods.
Harold Gregor: exciting & bright, these high color key “color-scapes” are mid to large sized watercolors in high detail and excellent craft.
Shahrbanoo Hamzeh: contemporary, mid-large brightly colored acrylic stain paintings with life-affirming moods and tones.
Kenneth Holder: skillful and creative watercolors, color-filled marker drawings, collages, Texas/western landscape and lively mystic themes.
Draper Matthews: highly crafted contemporary glass sculpture, whimsical glass bolts & glass nails, fiberglass installation pieces, glass vessels.
Rhondal McKinney: silver gelatin, 8” x 10” “contact” print landscape photography of the highest level of perfection & quality.
Dann Nardi; contemporary, highly crafted wood sculptures, minimalist constructions & line drawings with clean, clear modern design.
Lisa Nelson Rabbe: mixed media on paper, steel spine sculptures: paper saturated with acrylic medium and embedded with bits of nature, thread, pigment and glass microspheres. Architectural copper salvage paintings and installation pieces. Summer yellow happiness moods.
Beluga Press Art Gallery Show Overview, May 3, 2024 Color Field Forms
West Window View
Draper Matthews (glass sculpture with glass shards and drip on cement & steel pedestal by Amanda Pierce in the front window)
3-1 Hot Sculpted Glass, Flameworked Glass, Copper Patina, $1,200.
North Wall Entryway (1)
Dann Nardi
Mind of Circular Thoughts
Paint, Wood
12” x 17” x 4” $600.
Dann Nardi
Slivers Once Again (SOLD)
Paint, Wood
12” x 17” x 4” $600.
Dann Nardi
Looking for Unison
Ink & Acrylic on Wood panel, wall piece, 4 sides in folding configuration
12” x 16” x 4” $600.
Shahrbanoo Hamzeh
Nothing Stays the Same #1, 2023
Acrylic Painting on Canvas
48” x 36” $1,100.
(Smaller West) Wall 2
Harold Boyd
Dancing Clown with Red Legs
Acrylic on Arches Watercolor Paper
18” x 14” $400.
Draper Matthews (ceiling installation)
Planar Construct VII
Fiber Glass & Metal
$1200.
Lisa Nelson Rabbe (floor piece) 2 wrapped vertical panels, 3-D sculpture
Beat Around the Bush
Mixed media on Paper, Steel Spine
Paper and tulle as pliable plane, saturated with acrylic medium, embedded bits of nature, thread, pigment and glass microspheres respond, bend, wrap and curve. Architectural copper salvage is reconfigured into undulations and growing forms.
$800.
North Wall (3)
Rhea Edge
Barn Owls Return (Parklands Foundation Habitat Restoration)
Watercolor on Paper
29 ½” x 36” $2,800.
Kenneth Holder
Hill Country Fence
Watercolor & Collage on Paper
25 ½”x 33 ½” $2,800.
Sarah Smelser
1/1 (E) 2003
23” x 19” Chin Colle’ framed print $450.
Kenneth Holder
Unkolepi Unkuwapi #3 (We see them, we chase them: pewter)
Watercolor & Collage on Paper
25 ½” x 33 ½” $2,800.
Mark Sumner Forth
Spring I
Oil on Canvas
40” x 45” $5,900.
Teresa L. Hall
Dancer
Intaglio Collagraph (teal)
39½” x 32 ¾” $650.
Harold Boyd
Aftermath
Intaglio & Half-tone Dot Photo-etching
42 ½” x 32 ½” $750.
Harold Boyd
SOS#2
Intaglio Aquatint with Needle Etching, with Half-tone & Open etching
31 ½” x 41¾” $600.
arold Boyd
Homeless (Figure Reclining in a Suitcase)
Bronze $6,000
East Back Wall (4)
Lisa Nelson Rabbe (floor piece) vertical panel, 3-D sculpture with neutral tones
Piece of Cake
Mixed-media on Paper, Steel Spine: Paper and tulle as pliable plane, saturated with acrylic medium, embedded bits of nature, thread, pigment and glass microspheres respond, bend, wrap and curve. Architectural copper salvage is reconfigured into undulations and growing forms.
$600.
Harold Boyd
Night Meeting (Adlai Stevenson Series)
Acrylic on Metal with Rivets, Velcro, Black Wooden Frame
73½” x 50” $5,900.
South Wall (5)
Shahrbanoo Hamzeh
Nothing Stays the Same #5, 2024
Acrylic Painting on Canvas
48” x 36” $1,100.
Mark Sumner Forth
Poor Man’s Paradise
Oil on Canvas Board
19” x 25” $1,200.
Lisa Nelson Rabbe
Fuel for the Fire
Mixed-media on Paper, on Panel on Board, (yellow)
24” x 18” $400.
Mark Sumner Forth
Woman Reclining with Peonies
Colored Pencil Drawing
16” x 17 ½” $1,100.
Draper Matthews
Broken Perceptions III
Green Glass vase $600.
Harold Gregor
Colorscape #99
Watercolor
28” x 43 ½” $12,000.
Raymond E. George
08/19/1995
Color intaglio etching
17½” x 15” $350.
Kenneth Holder
Unkolepi Unkuwapi (We see them. We chase them: gold) 2011
Watercolor & Collage
25 ½”x 33 ½” $2,800.
L. J. Douglas
1/25, Ladder, 2006
Watercolor, Collage & Marker (book-press technique)
12 ¾” x 16” $250.
Harold Gregor
Colorscape #78
Watercolor on Paper, 2002
28” x 43 ½” $12,000.
Lisa Nelson Rabbe
Pie in the Sky
Mixed-media on Paper, on Panel on Board
24” x 18” $400.
James D. Butler
A Single Flower Vase
1985 Lithograph XVII/XX
22” x 27” $650.
Draper Matthews, Bolts, scattered throughout the gallery: Glass $150
Beluga Press Back Storage Room Available Inventory
Salvador Ceniceros Circular High Color-key paintings $400-$800
Dann Nardi Drawings (Ink on Paper) $300. each (located in grey drawers)
January 7 #3, January 7 #2, June 20
Rhondal McKinney Photos (Silver Gelatin Contact Prints) $2,500. each (on walls, on artsy.net and in the grey wooden drawers) inventory #975-1181,1020-582, 938-281, 3758-1010
Sarah Smelser
Reflect, 2015
Chin Colle’ beautiful, small, contemporary, unframed print $350.
James Butler
Lithography (Crystal perfume Bottle) $850.
Mark Sumner Forth Paintings $1,100. -$6, 000.
Kenneth Holder Marker Cages (5) $800. each
Full inventory of Harold Boyd, prices on request vary with size and media
HAROLD BOYD
TRIBUTE AND CELEBRATION OF LIFE
SATURDAY JUNE 17, 2023
2:00-5:30 P.M.
Program begins at 2:30 p.m. followed by food, drinks, and social time at the
Marriott Hotel in Normal, Illinois.
Bloomington-Normal Marriott
Hotel and Conference Center
201 Broadway Ave.
Normal, IL 61761
Artists’ Tribute Show
in honor of
Harold Boyd
Friends, colleagues, and former students have come together to pay tribute to Harold Boyd by creating a piece in the spirit of Harold’s influence on their own art. This show is a heartwarming tribute to Harold and will be open during his Celebration of Life gathering in June.
Friday, June 16
12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 17
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
The show will be open after Harold’s Celebration of Life memorial and reception.
Tribute Show continues at Beluga Press through Sept 1, 2023
Cac Exhibition Dates:
January 6 - February 18, 2023
Reception:
Saturday, January 21, 2023
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Contemporary Arts Center
305 SW Water St., Peoria, IL 61602
For further information contact: 309-674-6822
Printmakers
Contemporary Arts Center
Gallery 3R, 3rd floor gallery
305 SW Water St., Peoria, IL 61602
Boyd’s gestural figures defy gravity, exploring lithography, etching and relief printmaking with fluid lines in a largely black and white world.
Edge brings us the power of stealth bombers and predatory birds in these abstracted etchings, lithographs and relief prints.
Lost Lore
Contemporary Arts Center
Preston Jackson Gallery, 2nd floor
305 SW Water St., Peoria, IL 61602
As fellow artists, educators and administrators, Rhea Edge of Eureka College and Harold Boyd of Illinois State University have shared a long partnership in the downtown Bloomington arts community, both showing work at the Beluga Press Art Gallery.
With a focus on the human story, Boyd's fluid ink drawings and figures are poignantly recognizable, while dramatic images of motion and flight depict nature out of balance in Edge’s paintings.
Unforgotten: A body of work and a call for support
June 28 to July 12
McLean County Arts Center
601 North East Street
Bloomington, Illinois
Opening reception: July 8 from 6 to 8 p.m.
July 1 to December 30
Beluga Press Art Gallery
313 North Main Street
Bloomington, Illinois
Opening reception: July 15 noon-10pm.
Also by appointment: EdgeRhea@gmail.com