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