Sharif Bey, *Kiwi Bird #1*, 2019. Earthenware and mixed media. 14 x 10 x 10 in. Courtesy the artist and albertz benda, New York and Los Angeles.

Sharif Bey: Ancestral Vestiges

February 3 - august 5, 2023

at Belger Crane Yard Studios
2011 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64108

Opening reception: Friday, fEBRUARY 3, 6-8 pm. artist remarks at 6:30 pm.

artist talk: saturdAY,FEBRUARY 4, 2 PM

Sharif Bey is a Syracuse-based artist and educator whose inspired by modernism, functional pottery, Oceanic Art and Art of the African diaspora. His works investigate the cultural and political significance of adornment and the symbolic and formal properties of archetypal motifs, while questioning how the meaning of icons and function transform across cultures and time.

The exhibition opens on Friday, February 3 and will remain on view through August 5, 2023 at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery (2011 Tracy Ave, KCMO).