Visit our First Friday Gallery, every First Friday from 5pm-8pm.
Starting June 2nd 2023 we will be showcasing the following Topeka Modern & Abstract Works:
Contact us at (785) 691-9958 to arrange a time to view in person, if interested in purchasing any of these works.
Barbara Waterman-Peters, “Flood Map” - $5,000
Barbara Waterman-Peters, “Map 164” - $4,000
Barbara Waterman-Peters
Barbara Waterman-Peters, (BFA, Washburn University, MFA, Kansas State University, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Washburn University) taught at Washburn and Kansas State Universities as well as for Lassen Community College in California. She has received a Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Achievement from the State of Kansas and the Monroe Award from the Washburn University Alumni Association. In 2011 she was awarded the ARTY for Distinguished Visual Artist from ARTSConnect in Topeka.
Her work is in the collections of the Mulvane, the Beach, the Spencer and the Cedar Rapids Museums of Art, the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery at Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, as well as arts centers and corporations. She is represented by several galleries, including SNW in Manhattan and Beauchamp in Topeka. Her studio, STUDIO 831, is in the NOTO Arts &; Entertainment District in Topeka.
Her work has been included in more than 300 solo, group and juried exhibits and is in museum, corporate, and private collections. She is represented by several galleries, Jones in Kansas City, SNW in Manhattan, and Beauchamp in Topeka. She owns STUDIO 831 in the North Topeka Arts &; Entertainment District (NOTO).
Waterman-Peters also writes about art and artists for TOPEKA Magazine. She co-writes and illustrates children’s books, including The Fish’s Wishes, Bird, Ting &; the Caterbury Tales, and A Packrat Named Orange; she has had her creative non-fiction included in 105 Meadowlark Reader and other anthologies. One such work, “Winter Guests,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems, “Whisper” and “Silence” were published online at 150kansaspoems.wordpress.com. A fiction piece, “The Critique,” was published in a recent issue of The Pen Woman.
Barbara Waterman-Peters, “BMP 1” - $2,500
Larry Peters, “Dead of Winter Series 2 #66” - $2,000
Larry Peters, “Dead of Winter Alphabet, Series 2” - $3,000
Pat Abellon
Larry Peters
Larry Peters has a BFA from Washburn University, Topeka, KS and an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He works in various media, particularly clay and collage. He was the Gallery Director of the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library and Curator of its Permanent Collections from 1975-2003. Since then he has held the title of Gallery Director Emeritus.
He continued to make art during his career, focusing primarily on collage. Upon retirement, Peters turned once again to his ceramics. He is represented by Jones Gallery in Kansas City, SNW Gallery in Manhattan, KS, Beauchamp Gallery, and STUDIO 831 in Topeka and his pieces are included in museum, corporate and private collections. Peters has participated in numerous regional and national shows and had his work in embassies in Afghanistan and Greece. In addition, he has juried and curated many exhibitions, including “Rare Earth: Contemporary Expressions in Clay” for the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.
In 1990 he was given the Kansas Governor’s Arts Award for Arts Advocacy and was a Washburn University “Alumni Fellow” recipient in 2003. In the same year he received a Kansas Museums Association Distinguished Service Award. He was given the John Ritchie Award by the Washburn Alumni Association in 2009. In 2016 he received the Glenda Taylor Visual Arts Award, the “ARTY,” from ARTSconnect, Topeka. He has served on countless boards including the Kansas Museum Association, the Mountain Plains Museum Association and was a representative to the American Association of Museums Council.
Larry Peters, “Dead of Winter Alphabet” - $1,500
Pat Abellon, “The Architect’s Mind” - $5,000
Pat Abellon is a Filipino abstract and figurative artist who lives in Topeka Kansas. Pat is recognised as one of the leading portrait artist in Kansas. Influenced by John Sargent and Jeremy Lipking, Pat made a significant collection of paintings through his career.
Pat’s artworks are most noted for his exploration and view of life in art by use of colour and light. He is known for both his early figurative work and non-figurative works, which over the years looked to explore further the idea of making all areas of the painting of equal importance. His work was exhibited widely throughout his career in his country (Philippines) and part of the United States. Pat currently works as an Architectural designer for one of Topeka’s renowned Architectural firm.
Gwen McClain, “Heart Series 3” - $1,000
Gwen McClain, “Iris for Grace” - $700
Gwen McClain
Gweneth McClain is an accomplished artist based in Topeka, Kansas. She was born and raised in the Midwest and has been interested in art as long as she can remember. She received a BFA at Washburn University and later received a Master’s Degree in Art Therapy at Emporia State University.
She has been active in the Topeka art community for many years and was one of the founding members of The Collective Art Gallery from 1987 to the closing in 2014.
McClain’s abstract paintings are characterized by vibrant colors and bold lines. Her realistic paintings incorporate elements of nature in the blue skies and rolling landscape of NE Kansas.
Gwen McClain, “Heart Series 1” - $800
Mark Hahn, “Alabaster” - $480
Mark Hahn
Artist Statement:
My name is Mark Hahn, born and raised in Topeka. Exposed to all things Kansas at an early age, our beautiful rivers, lakes, prairies, farm lands, big blue sky, the Flint Hills and yes our flat-lands. It will always be HOME.
My Art is an obsession, it is my core, it is my well being. If you have ever heard me talk about my Art, I usually begin by saying that I became an Artist the day my mother taped my first masterpiece to the refrigerator. From that day on, I found a sense of self worth and satisfaction in creating.
My qualifications are my failures, obsessed with an idea, I relentlessly pursue results until satisfied or content with lessons learned, and to live and create another day.
Creating is how I define Art, whether it is a multi-million dollar Water/Wastewater Treatment Facility, painting, drawing, sculpting, making a new primitive bow and set of arrows. It’s all creating.
I know what Art does for me, I know the benefits, the satisfaction, and the fulfillment it brings. I am able to share, communicate, collaborate, express my feelings and emotions through Art.
My Art is a part of me and who I am. I usually regret the sale no matter the profit. I have found that there is more satisfaction from donating a piece of myself, my work, my Art, to benefit those people and organizations that I feel most strongly about.