Hilliard Gallery







"Unicorns and Rainbows"

Happy Artists... No Such Thing (Kansas City, MO) As a rule, an artist poses a certain amount of self-righteousness, a tad of entitlement and a bit of a fascist opinion that they hold the market on creativity. Egoistically we tend to feel as if we are"thinking outside of the box; As artists, we could not be more wrong. It is through a stubborn battle of wills for our personal artistic comfort zones that the Broken Brick Group will present UNICORNS AND RAINBOWS on August 1st at the Hilliard Gallery. Dont the innocence of the title fool you, unicorns are extremely dangerous and rainbows are filled with plutonium. The goal of the Broken Brick Group has always been to challenge each of us involved, either with subject matter that we are uncomfortable with, media that is unfamiliar to us, or social situations that, frankly, artists struggle in. And with UNICORNS AND RAINBOWS we have pulled the proverbial carpet out from under ourselves and nearly destroyed the group in the process. For how should a collagist, an assemblagist, two painters and a writer approach such a kitschy and cartoon-ish subject? The Broken Brick Group is made up of Kansas City artists Josh Motsinger, Tate Owens, Tyson Schroeder, Scott Allen and Jim Dayton. For each show presented by the group, topics are nominated and then chosen by true democratic process (the one from Texas hires a lawyer to rig the selection process). More

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History

The Hilliard Gallery is one of the oldest and largest fine art galleries in Kansas City. The Gallery was established in November of 1974, by previous owner Kent Hilliard. Located in the heart of the beautiful Country Club Plaza, the Hilliard Gallery began its eventful history. During the second year of operation we became the exclusive authorized dealer for artist, LeRoy Neiman, in the Kansas City area and we still are today.

Due to the constant awareness of the ever-changing art market, the diversity and stability of the gallery has improved each year. In each of our locations on the Plaza the gallery has survived and continued to grow despite such disasters like the plaza flood of 1977 and the Hyatt hotel collapse, in which our satellite gallery was completely destroyed along with the inventory inside.

The Hilliard Gallery provides both investment quality art and a large designer selection. The gallery's custom framing operation is one of the best in quality with particular attention to detail in the workmanship and material specifications.

On March 2006 we moved to our current facility at 404 E. 18th St, in the crossroads art district. We are not a business that operates out of a room in someone's home. We maintain a large inventory located on the premise as well as direct working relationships with over 200 artists and their publishers.