06/18/2026
✨Join Us Tonight✨
Opening Reception
Thursday, June 18 | 5–8 PM
Claire McConaughy
Other Worlds: Trees, Flowers and Birds
Ky Anderson & Alex Skorija
Left to Steep
All artists will be in attendance.
Join us at Nick Ryan Gallery to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions. On the main floor, Claire McConaughy presents a new body of oil paintings in “Other Worlds: Trees, Flowers and Birds”. Her paintings offer heightened, dreamlike images of nature that are rooted in reality yet transformed through perception, memory, and the act of painting itself.
In the downstairs gallery, “Left to Steep” brings together new work by Kansas City–based artists Ky Anderson and Alex Skorija. Working in painting, clay sculpture, and works on paper, each artist has developed a distinct visual vocabulary within abstraction, exploring materiality, process, and the construction of abstract space.
We hope you’ll join us in welcoming these exceptional artists.
Images:
1) Claire McConaughy, “Three Knees,” “Behind Floating Leaves,” and “Birch Bones in the Spring,” oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches each; “Blue, Yellow, Green, Pink,” oil on canvas, 60 x 96 inch diptych
2) Ky Anderson, “Double Eye,” clay and wire, 13 x 20 inches; “Blue Side Look,” clay and string, 18 x 18 inches; “Blue Core,” clay, wire, and string, 14 x 14 inches; “Sunset and Cave,” oil on canvas, 60 x 45 inches; “Mask 26.6,” clay and string, 10 x 10 inches
3) Alex Skorija, “Fidget Stine,” oil on canvas, 49 x 41 inches; “Side by Side,” gouache on cardboard mounted to wood, 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches; “Freight,” distemper and oil on muslin attached to canvas, 9 x 12 inches; “Tangential Marinade,” oil on linen, 49 x 41 inches
Photos: Wes Magyar
