Haw Contemporary | Contemporary Art Gallery in Kansas City

A stylized illustration depicting a steamboat with two tall smokestacks navigating turquoise waters near a dramatic waterfall, rendered in warm yellows and greens with purple mountains in the distance. A brown and white horse stands on the grassy shore in the foreground, observing the vessel.

Leaving Gustopher Michael Krueger

9/11/2026 – 10/17/2026

In this exhibition, I am exploring themes of longing, wonder, uncertainty, abandonment, forgiveness, friendship, and contemplation through an unfolding narrative of symbolic proxies, including a horse, a dog, the sea, the moon, a train, a boat, and others. The work draws upon memory, recollection, and the ways lived experiences are transformed over time. Each carries its own symbolic and metaphorical weight, helping to open the work to broader themes that… (Read More)

Horizontal landscape composition with a gradient sky transitioning from teal at the top through pale yellow to warm orange at the horizon. Dark landforms divide the composition, with a reflective body of water catching golden light in the center, and soft green tones in the foreground suggesting vegetation or fields. The painting employs soft, horizontal brushwork creating a sense of atmospheric depth and stillness.

River Becoming/Becoming River Lisa Grossman

9/11/2026 – 10/17/2026

I chose the title River Becoming/Becoming River, because the Kansas River is a process, forever recreating itself. And as a rivering human, adventuring along the river and exploring it from various angles, not to mention drinking its waters from my tap, I am surely becoming the river. My work is typically determined by the weather; maybe drought has revealed intricate sandbars on the river, or floodwaters have… (Read More)

A painted scene depicts a blue and red pickup truck with an American flag hood boasting oversized wheels, stuck in muddy water with its front end tilted downward. Spectators gather in the background near cemetery headstones and bare trees under a cloudy sky, watching the vehicle strain against the mud and its own weight.

Baby We Were Born To Run Davin Watne

9/11/2026 – 10/17/2026

In this new exhibition, Baby We Were Born To Run, Davin Watne presents a body of paintings and prints exploring metaphor and allegory within the American experience. These works build humorous narratives that challenge prevailing media depictions of nationalism, toxic masculinity, and culture war politics. By intersecting these themes with concepts of folk physics, Watne exposes the fragile underbelly of male vulnerability. Watne utilizes "folk physics" as a conceptual… (Read More)

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