Past Exhibitions

KIRKS’ CERAMICS:
INHERENTLY EMPTY

August 7 - September 19, 2026
Opening reception: Friday, August 7, 5-9 PM

Kirks’ Grocery is proud to present Kirks’ Ceramics: Inherently Empty. This iteration of our annual ceramics show focuses on the spaces in-between that define the weight and volume of ceramic objects. Inspired by a schematic of a new toilet, this exhibition explores the presence or absence of the term and idea of “empty vessel” in contemporary ceramic works.

Artists: Renee Audette, Will Crain, Stephanie Dishno, Sandy Dvarishkis, Chris Eberly, Jennifer Hill, David Hiltner, Ellen Ornitz, Nancy Petersen, Richard Smith, Shalene Valenzuela

manette rene bradford
great flood

June 5 - July 25, 2026
Opening reception: Friday, June 5, 5-9 PM

Kirks’ Grocery is proud to present Great Flood, a solo exhibition by Manette Rene Bradford. Using painting, sculpture, and intaglio prints, Manette Rene Bradford invents a fictional ecological history for Butte, Montana. Great Flood combines historic and ecological realities with myths and allegorical figures. The viewer is invited to reimagine the environmental devastation from the copper mining and smelting industry on the land and waters surrounding Butte and the Clark Fork river system. Imported to Butte along with the colonialist European settler mindset, these mythic elements are the inevitable shadow of Butte’s copper extraction industry. Monstrous and feminine, they are calamitous outcomes. This primary manifestation and embodiment of opposition to the civilizing needs of the industry give voice to the non-human world and the agency of its inhabitants.

freak scene
art show by broke artists for broke art lovers

May 21- 30, 2026 Pop Up Exhibition
Opening reception: Friday, May 22, 5-9 PM

Kirks’ is proud to present Freak Scene: An Art Show by Broke Artists for Broke Art Lovers. Suny Stone has gathered the best on the Billings scene in an exhibition of prints, photos, paintings, clothing, crochet, and more. This is the chance to collect art at a price that you can afford. You will also be supporting up and coming Magic City artists who are rewriting the rules of art shows and innovative creative expression. This pop-up will only be at Kirks’ for two weeks, opening Thursday May 21. The opening reception is on Friday, May 22, from 5-9 PM. You are invited. Exhibition dates: May 21-30.

Artists: Addie Johnson, Forrest Farr, Juno Canid, Kay Stremcha, Nalu Kapu, Orange, Permawired, Preston, Sadie Arnold, Shoi, and Suny Stone.

Anticipating Their Place: Emerging Indigenous Artsts

April 3 - May 16, 2026 Opening reception: Friday, April 3 6, 5-9 PM (ArtWalk)

Curator Talk with Sean Chandler: Saturday, May 9, 3 pm

Kirks’ Grocery is proud to present Anticipating Their Place: Emerging Indigenous Artists. This group exhibition is curated by Sean Chandler, artist, curator, President of Aaniiih Nakoda College, and enrolled member of the Aaniinen (Gros Ventre Nation). The curation of this work conjures the excitement that Sean Chandler felt early in his art career. This show captures the anticipation of emerging artists when their work is initially shared publicly. Artists: Cayana Adams, Dreona Beston, LeiyahDawn Spotted Elk, Linda Pease, Miah Chalfant, Mónevata, Naji Haska, Olivia (Otse’vo’hto) McLean, Owaga Wachebi, Serena Chandler, Skyler HeDoesIt/Shoi, Taya Falcon, Troy Spang

STAGE IV: JASON JAM & STEPHANIE DISHNO

February 6 - March 21, 2026 Opening reception: Friday, February 6, 5-9 PM (ArtWalk)

Stage IV: Jason Jam and Stephanie Dishno is a risqué and serious exploration of the female form through the male and female gaze. The juxtaposition of physiques reflect the artistic perspectives and lives of Jason Jam and Stephanie Dishno. What do we feel when we see women depicted in these ways? What do we hold close? What do we let go?

Both artists address the immediacy and fleeting nature of time as it intersects with depictions of intimacy and desire upon the female form. Jason Jam, an artist with Stage IV cancer, drew erotic female imagery to find solace during aggressive chemotherapy treatments. Stephanie Dishno's ceramics are physical representations of desire, longing, and apprehension.

This exhibition includes the full series of twenty four Stage IV drawings by Jason Jam with fourteen ceramic pieces by Stephanie Dishno.

LARRY BEAN PHOTOGRAPHY AT ART HOUSE CONEMA & PUB AUGUST 2025 - JANUARY 2026

Kirks’ Grocery and Art House Cinema and Pub are proud to present a new exhibition at Art House Cinema and Pub, Larry Bean Photography. Larry Bean is a fine art black and white photographer and landscape architect living in Billings, Montana. Larry is in awe of the elegance of black and white photography. He has studied the history of compositional principles that most influenced early photography. As a landscape architect, he sees these compositional beginnings of photography within the design principles used in architecture and garden design dating back thousands of years.

Larry’s photography also reflects his study of early masters of photography including Alfred Steiglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Ansel Adams. His work most strongly reflects the concept of Notan, a compositional technique that translates from Japanese as light/dark harmony. In Notan, the aesthetics of the abstract structure of photography are assessed based on feelings of Chi (energy), Yin and Yang (balance) and Ma (essence and absence). Larry utilizes Notan to infuse his photography with feeling and emotion.

This exhibition is open to the public at Art House Cinema & Pub, 109 N. 30th Street, Billings, MT 59101. The Art House is open Monday – Friday from 4pm – 10pm, Saturday from 12pm – 10pm, and Sunday from 12pm – 8pm.

KIRKS' SMALL WORKS: GROCERY STORE DECEMBER 5 - 31, 2025

Kirks’ small Works: Grocery Store is this year’s iteration of our small works exhibition with a theme that touches at the heart of Kirks’ Grocery. All art is 7x7” or smaller and influenced by the Grocery Store theme. Come see this exhibition during our regular hours in December or by appointment in January. Artists Include: Courtney Blazon, Kayla de la Ossa, Jane Waggoner Deschner, Sandy Dvarishkis, Robin Earles, Sara-Beth Guilford, Louis Habeck, Allen Hahn, Stephen Haraden, Kate Huston, Jennifer Indreland, John Kennedy, Steve Kuennen, Rachel Larson Long, Eileen Laskowski, Jodi Lightner, Jon Lodge, Sara Mast, Clayton McDougall, Patience Melton, Rebecca Merfeld, Sheila Miles, Brooke Moore, Julie Schrock, Juila Siar, Marc Vischer.

Transgression Transaction October 3- November 22, 2025

Transgression Transaction is a group exhibition featuring work by Montana artists regarding the overlap of transgression and transaction in our lives.

Artists: Renee Audette, Manette Rene Bradford, Catlin Rose Caplette. Shane de Leon, Jane Waggoner Deschner, Stephanie Dishno, Stephen Glueckert, Shan Graf, John Henry Haseltine, Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Jason Jam, Cristina Marian, Stella Nall, Molly Ouellette (poetry), Kathryn Schmidt, Mary Serbe

Transgression is that crossing over, just dipping one or two toes in the water over that imagined line. Being ourselves can feel like a transgression. Standing up for others can be transgression. Creating art can be transgression,transaction, or both.

Transaction. Art holds incredible meaning while also being bought and sold. A sale is good news for an artist making a living on their work or simply in search of funds for more supplies. An art purchase can delight someone who brings that art into their home, their life. The transactional nature of the art market also propagates false ideas, such as “Art is only good if people buy it,” or “The only real artists are people who make a living at their art.”

The Ugly American Dream House: Becky Roberts, Kate Huston, & Marla Goodman August 1 – September 20, 2025

Kirks’ Grocery welcomes The Ugly American Dream House, a collection of collage and assemblage works by Bozeman artists Marla Goodman, Kate Huston and Becky Roberts. All three featured artists use vintage imagery to navigate a contemporary stew of rage, grief, beauty, lies, drudgery and desire. Weaving ticklish narratives from imperiled hopes, revising delusional fairytales with empowered heroines, and finding dark humor in domestic strife, their works celebrate and question objects and images from our nostalgic past.

Marla Goodman, a grandmother and art activist from Bozeman, sifts the dregs of midcentury American culture through comedic despair. Raised in “the before times,” she draws on wildly idyllic imagery from the sewing patterns, coloring books and advertising of her childhood to compose existential narratives that mock the absurdity of their own optimism.

Becky Roberts is a Bozeman-based assemblage artist, reimagining the world around her through found objects. Originally from Northern California, she combines her backgrounds in film studies and floral design to create dioramic dramas on unexpected stages, some as tiny as vintage matchbooks. By day, Becky is a picture framer and a supportive mother, but with glue bottle in hand, she manipulates mundane items into spicy tableaus that smack some sense into our assumptions.

Kate Huston was born in New Mexico and attended the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston before moving to Bozeman. Her works in The Ugly American Dream House grew from a series of paper dioramas that she calls Tiny Box Worlds. Reframing fairytales with the aim of emancipating their protagonists once and for all, her collage assemblages entwine antique illustrations and botanical engravings with the darkly lush precision of ceremonial wreaths.

On August 1, after the artists’ reception, Marla Goodman, in the persona of Fraternal Twin Thereminist Dolly Vinyl, will perform “Escape from the Ugly American Dream House,” a program of melodic Theremin music with projections and shadow play. Admission for the 8pm performance is $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Seating is general admission.

Opening reception: Friday, August 1, 5–9 pm (during ArtWalk) with delicious bites by Chef Ashley Woodward.

Matthew J. O’Brien: one plus one equals three July 24 - 26, 2025

Opening reception: Thursday, July 24, 5–9 pm

Kirks’ Grocery proudly presents Matthew J. O’Brien: one plus one equals three, a special pop-up exhibition which will immerse you in a broad range of Matthew J. O’Brien’s art and visual culture for three days only.

The son of a preacher man and grandson of a medium, Matthew J. O’Brien (thievesbreakin) is a Billings, MT-based contemporary artist and musician. Using paint, his words, video and sound predominately, O’Brien has, over the last two decades, shared his work with many throughout the northwestern United States. His work has been showcased in various mediums: gallery, museum, pop-up performance, festival, and zine. Classically trained in traditional gesso production, egg tempera painting, piano and polyphonic choral performance, O’Brien takes as influence the minds of Gibran, Abloh, Watts and Herzog; the Fluxus art movement, Nicolas Jaar, Mark Linkous, and Efrim Menuck in sound; Stanley Donwood, eastern Orthodox iconography, Harmony Korine, street art, and New York abstract expressionism in the graphic arts. Through its vulnerability and paradoxical nature, the art produced serves to both broaden horizons and ultimately unite.

Kirks’ Ceramics: Reiteration Exhibition Dates: June 6 - July 19, 2025

Kirks’ Grocery proudly presents Kirks’ Ceramics: Reiteration, our latest group exhibition showcasing contemporary ceramics by artists from across the state. These pieces reflect the iterative processes embedded in ceramic work, and the shifting and changing landscape of ceramics in Montana.

Artists:

Jesse Albrecht, Renee Audette, Stephanie Dishno, Sandy Dvarishkis, Chris Eberly, Battista Eaton, Taya Falcon, Beth Korth, Licia Lucas-Pfadt, Marlaina Lutz, Cathryn McIntyre, Marilu Metherell, Ellen Ornitz, Nancy Petersen, Jay Schmidt, Richard Smith, Shalene Valenzuela

Never Really Cowboys: New Work by Gordon McConnell April 4 – May 24, 2025

Gordon McConnell has always looked at and thought about the mythical Old West through the lens of a contemporary artist. He is influenced by the postmodernism of his generational peers, the "Pictures" group, and, more recently, the stylistics of early 1960s Pop Art. Like artists of that era, McConnell treats mass-produced imagery as readymade material. His sources are frames from movies, promotional stills, advertising graphics and comic books. Lately, he has been reprocessing images from some of his own earlier monochromatic paintings and painted over old canvases, sacrificing the old for something new.

In 2024, Gordon McConnell manipulated images digitally before referencing and interpreting them on canvas, using varied techniques and formal strategies to serve the needs of each composition. The experience of making each piece informed the process and decision-making for the next. Masculinity is a theme—in poses and action, and varied styles. Stagecoaches and the excitable draft animals pulling them are shown in a posterized rendering and in comic book style-made-large with bold colors, pronounced texture and surface variation.

The Western Horseman paintings in this exhibition derive from 1980s Marlboro magazine ads. Western Horseman #2, with the yellow slicker, comes from the edition of Newsweek that contained Mark Stevens’ landmark article on the Montana art scene—featuring Theodore Waddell and Patrick Zentz among others, themselves looking like Marlboro men posed on their ranches.

Despite appearances, the riders are never really cowboys: they are actors playing lawmen and outlaws, stuntmen driving teams, handsome models (sometimes real ranchers) in stylized Western gear pushing cigarettes, and comic book characters drawn by New York illustrators.

Kathryn Schmidt: Paintings on Paper & Jennifer Indreland Miniature Assemblages & Paintings Art Exhibition at Kirks’ Grocery February 7 – March 27, 2025

Opening reception: Friday, February 7, 5–9 pm (during ArtWalk) with delicious bites by Chef Ashley Woodward.

Kathryn Schmidt is a Bozeman-based painter who has been creating figurative and narrative work for over 40 years that reflects on the mysteries of the world and human beings. A grounded respect for nature paired with intimations of our climate-changed world are hallmarks of her practice.

These small, mostly black and white paintings on paper, never before shown, are many things: observed rock formations, first takes on a new idea for a painting and stand alone images reflecting the solitude and wandering mind quality of the studio. All things happen there when the world falls away.

Jennifer Indreland is a Billings artist whose nomadic early years drew her back to Montana to be near the ranch that has been in her family for generations. Her work is influenced by folk tales, medieval art, and the strange beauty found in the darker corners of history. This exhibition features surreal depictions of the animal kingdom in the form of miniature assemblages and paintings.

Kirks’ small Works: Intrinsic November 29 – December 20, 2024

Opening reception: Friday, December 6, 5–9 pm (during ArtWalk) with delicious bites by Chef Ashley Woodward. Kirks’ small Works: Intrinsic is a group exhibition, embracing the inherent nature of Kirks’, inviting the artists to play with the physical parameters of “small works.” Kirks’ has suggested that works be 12 x 12” or smaller while also inviting creative interpretation of the measurements and the theme. Artists in the exhibition: Renee Audette Courtney Blazon Sherri Cornett Kayla de la Ossa Jane Waggoner Deschner Marie Dono Robin Earles Stephen Glueckert Marla Goodman Sara-Beth Guilford Louis Habeck Stephen Haraden Milo Herbert Kate Huston Jennifer Indreland John Kennedy Bonnie Lambert Rachel Larson Long Eileen Laskowski Jodi Lightner Robbie Mann Sara Mast Gordon McConnell Laura Meintjes Margaret Mensching Sheila Miles Keeara Rhoades Becky Roberts Julie Schrock Linda Stoudt Ethan Whitefox Sara Wright

Supraliminal: Ellen Ornitz and Candace Forrette | October 4 – November 16, 2024

Opening reception: Friday, October 4, 5–9 pm (during ArtWalk) with delicious bites by Chef Ashley Woodward. Supraliminal: Ellen Ornitz and Candace Forrette is an exhibition of the ceramics of Ellen Ornitz and encaustics by Candace Forrette that takes you beyond the thresholds of the intentional and the intuitive. The Burnt Fossilsof Ellen Ornitz are primitively fired ceramic vessels exploring time, mortality, disintegration and renewal. Candace Forrette’s Following Winter series, inspired by traveling through a snowstorm, uses transparent encaustic layers and patterns to explore the journey through difficult times.

Kirks’ Ceramics 2024 Exhibition | August 2 – September 21, 2024

Opening reception: Friday, August 2, 5–9 pm (during ArtWalk) with delicious bites by Chef Ashley Woodward. Kirks’ Grocery proudly presents Kirks’ Ceramics 2024, a group exhibition showcasing the breadth of contemporary ceramics by artists from across the state. This is your chance to encounter the tangible evidence of each piece’s journey from the artist’s first moment with the clay to the fired and finished. Artists: Jesse Albrecht, Chris Alveshere, Renee Audette, Stephanie Dishno, Sandy Dvarishkis, Licia Lucas-Pfadt, Sara Mast, Cathryn McIntyre, Ellen Ornitz, Nancy Petersen, Jay Schmidt, Marcia Selsor, Richard Smith, Shalene Valenzuela.

Ubiquitous: john kennedy & Shane de leon | june 7 - july 27 2024

Opening reception: Friday, June 7, 5–9 pm (during ArtWalk) with delicious bites by Chef Ashley Woodward. Kirks’ Grocery proudly presents UBIQUITOUS: John Kennedy & Shane De Leon, which juxtaposes new work from two of Billings' most improvisational and ubiquitous artists, featuring works that have veered off from the artists’ representational roots to embrace immediacy and abstraction. What John Kennedy really wants in his art and life is to connect. The seeds of his visual art and writing are often planted during an early morning run, hike up a mountain trail, or a walk along a busy downtown street. He finds beauty in everything because he takes the time to really look. By reflecting himself honestly in art, words, and life, John Kennedy finds connections. Most of Shane De Leon’s visual art was representational until around 2020, when conversations with Jon Lodge and Mary Serbe sparked his interest in abstraction and process-based work. Shane works fast with glue, paper, thread, tempera, acrylic, and ink in an improvisational state, trying to avoid conscious meaning and self-editing.

EXTENDED THROUGH JULY 27!

Jason Jam: Horizon April 5 – May 25, 2024

Opening reception: Friday, April 5, 5–9 pm (during ArtWalk) with delicious food by Chef Ashley Woodward. Kirks’ Grocery is proud to present Horizon, an exhibition of new work in pencil, gouache, and watercolor by Jason Jam. Jam’s recent work in pencil uses subtle value shifts to create images of wonder and mystery. Millions of carefully arranged soft pencil marks have gone into these unusual images which take dozens of hours to create. Horizon also reveals Jam’s newest colorful landscapes. The artist has used unconventional tools and quick brush strokes to apply vibrant gouache over layered washes of rich watercolor. The effect is to draw the viewer into his world. Truly a sight to behold.

Sheila Miles: Nowhere & Everywhere April 5 – May 25, 2024

Opening reception: Friday, April 5, 5–9 pm (during ArtWalk) with delicious food by Chef Ashley Woodward. Kirks’ Grocery proudly presents Sheila Miles: Nowhere & Everywhere, showcasing her recent work. This exhibition is about making art as a sustained creative journey. The places she paints are transitory and “nowhere.” Through painting, she gives those places meaning; they become permanent and “everything”. “Wherever you end up is the ‘everywhere,’ and in making art, everything.” Sheila Miles Sheila Miles currently resides in Arizona. Her life and artistic practice are continually influenced by her 26 years living in Montana.

REFORMATIONS: JANE WAGGONER DESCHNER & MAGGY ROZYCKI HILTNER

February 2 – March 23, 2024 Opening reception: Friday, February 2, 5–9 pm (during ArtWalk) with delicious food by Chef Ashley Woodward. For over twenty years, Jane Waggoner Deschner has been using found photographs—family snapshots and professionally-captured studio portraits—as her medium. By embroidering into discarded photos, she enhances and recontextualizes them. Kirks’ will feature her work from 2023, when she began utilizing archival prints of scanned photos to make multiple interpretations of a single original image. Reformations also includes vintage found postcards she altered by stitching odd things into them. Maggy Rozycki Hiltner will be showing a new series of work: large-scale photographs on wood of her transitory wig and fur assemblages. These explore composition and texture as well as ideas of femininity and hirsute attraction/repulsion. Reformations will also include Hiltner’s cabinet of curiosities full of small stitched and assembled works.

KIRKS’ SMALL WORKS: PULLING FOCUS EXHIBITION AT KIRKS’ GROCERY DECEMBER 1 – 23, 2023

Opening reception: Friday, December 1, 5–9 pm (during ArtWalk) with delicious food by Chef Ashley Woodward. Our annual small Works exhibition has decreased its tiny footprint and tightened the foci of the artists. Prepare for 8x8” pieces from artists including: Kayla De la Ossa, Jane Waggoner Deschner, Robin Earles, Marla Goodman, Louis Habeck, Stephen Haraden, Milo Herbert, Kate Huston, Rachel Larson Long, Jodi Lightner, Jon Lodge, Robbie Mann, Sara Mast, Gordon McConnell, Cathryn McIntyre, Laura Meintjes, Margaret Mensching, Sheila Miles, Keeara Rhoades, Becky Roberts, and Sara Wright.

PRESENT: Kirks’ Social Commentary October 6 - November 18, 2023 | Opening reception: Friday, October 6, 5–9 pm (during ArtWalk)

Kirks’ Grocery is pleased to announce PRESENT: Kirks’ Social Commentary. This group exhibition is an opportunity for artists from the region to comment on present day issues by presenting their individual perspectives. Reception on Friday, October 6 during ArtWalk with delicious food by Chef Ashley Woodward. Artists: Alaina Buffalo Spirit, Ben Pease, Bently Spang, Candace Forrette, Carlin Bear Don't Walk, Jackie Emery, Jane Waggoner Deschner, Jay Schmidt, Jesse Albrecht, John Kennedy, Maraud, Marie Dono, Mark Earnhart, Sandy Dvarishkis, Sean Chandler, Shane De Leon.

Marla Goodman: Out of Hand: Misremembered Memoirs & Untouched Sounds

“Out of Hand: Misremembered Memoirs and Untouched Sounds,” a collection of paintings and mixed media work by Bozeman painter and performance artist Marla Goodman, opens August 3 at Kirks’ Grocery. Goodman’s work revolves around her 15-year obsession with the Theremin, an electronic instrument that is played without being touched. A fifth generation Montanan, grandmother and self-described community art activist, Goodman divides her creative time between “painting, practicing, and pretending.” The exhibit includes music- and Theremin-inspired paintings and collage/assemblage work drawn from Goodman’s imaginary world as Theremin-playing twin sisters. A live performance component of the show will feature Goodman’s Theremin-playing personae, Polly and Dolly Vinyl. The exhibition runs Aug. 4–Sept. 23 2023 with the Theremin performance at 7pm, Aug 3. The artist will also discuss the work and demonstrate the Theremin at a reception during Art Walk, 5-9pm Aug 4.

Jennifer Eli Indreland: The Haunted Part of the House Exhibition at Kirks’ Grocery February 3 – March 25, 2023 Opening reception: Friday, February 3, 5 – 9 PM during Art Walk.

Kirks’ Grocery is proud to present “The Haunted Part of the House,” a solo exhibition by Billings artist Jennifer Eli Indreland. With imagery drawn from folk tales, medieval art and her own dreams, Indreland’s narrative paintings and mixed media assemblages depict surreal versions of the natural world. Click image to see and purchase work from this exhibition.

Kirks' small Works - Where we are now? | December 2 - 24, 2022

Kirks’ Grocery is proud to present our second annual Kirks' small Works exhibition. This group exhibition features art under 12” by artists from across Montana. The theme is “Where We Are Now” as we all continue to navigate unprecedented moments throughout many facets of life. DECEMBER 2 - 24, 2022 Artists Michael BIRDINGROUND, Shane DELEON, Jane WAGGONER DESCHNER , Sandy DVARISHKIS, Mark EARNHART, Robin EARLES, Todd FORSGREN, Marla GOODMAN, Louis HABECK, Jodi LIGHTNER, Jon LODGE, Robbie MANN, Sara MAST, Gordon MCCONNELL, Sheila MILES, Terri PORTA, Keeara RHOADES, Jay SCHMIDT, & Kathryn SCHMIDT

Kirks' Artists A-Z | October 15 - November 19, 2022

Kirks’ Grocery is proud to celebrate the work of many of our family of artists who have exhibited throughout the last four years. This exhibition will open in conjunction with our 4th Anniversary celebration and reopening. Artists: Renee Audette Suny Stone Ballou Jackson Blue/Epitome J Emily Davidson Shane DeLeon Becca DeMeyer Jane Waggoner Deschner Sandy Dvarishkis Robin Earles Jackie Emery Stephen Glueckert Gary Halsten Jason Jam Terry Karson Jon Lodge Cathryn McIntyre Margaret Mensching Matthew O’Brien Jean Posusta Matthew Potter Abby Rausch Nicholas Rogers Brian Keith Scott Mary Serbe Leah Tinari James John Warneke Stella Zell

Stephen Glueckert - Willendorf - Double Take | April 1 - May 21, 2022

CELEBRATE APRIL FOOL’S DAY AT KIRKS’ ON FRIDAY. This is no joke. Friday, April 1, from 5 – 9 PM is ArtWalk and the opening reception for a new solo exhibition by Stephen Glueckert, Willendorf Double Take. Every piece of art depicts the adorable Venus of Willendorf juxtaposed with pop culture icons from Yosemite Sam to Mr. Potato Head to a Minion. If you are unable to make it to the opening or eager to check it out and buy online, this link will take you right to the show.

Kirks' Small Works Exhibition | February 4th - March 19th, 2022

Kirks’ Grocery is proud to present Kirks’ small Works, a group exhibition featuring art under 12” by 23 artists from across Montana. From cyanotype to ceramic, from paint to photo to print, this show features a broad range of media and subject matter. Artists include: Chris Alveshere, Suny Stone Ballou, Courtney Blazon, Austin Coudriet, Becca DeMeyer, Emily Davidson, Jane Waggoner Deschner, Todd Forsgren, Stephen Glueckert, Marla Goodman, Jason Jam, Jodi Lightner, Jon Lodge, Sara Mast, Gordon McConnell, Jackson McMurrey, Matthew O’Brien, Juliet Parks, Keeara Rhoades, Jay Schmidt, Kathryn Schmidt, Martha Stahl, and Erika Wilson. See and buy work from this exhibition online by clicking image.

Innately Unseen: Sean Chandler and Mary Serbe | December 3 - 31, 2021

Innately Unseen: Sean Chandler and Mary Serbe Kirks’ Grocery is proud to present an exhibition of work by Sean Chandler (Aaniih) and Mary Serbe. Sean Chandler’s work is infused with experiences from his childhood in Eastern Montana, including his love of Major League Baseball and the history of Native assimilation into White culture, as well as teachings from his father. This exhibition features large mixed media canvases and monotype prints. Mary Serbe’s new work explores landscapes that are intuited in spaces without light and depth. These small works form an interconnected space on the periphery of memory using acrylic and black thread. Click image to view the rest of the exhibition.

Cathryn McIntyre: "Chronicling the Female Experience among Men" | October 1 - November 19, 2021

Chronicling the Female Experience among Men is a solo exhibition of the work of Glasgow, Montana artist Cathyrn McIntyre. This series originated as the result of a sexist encounter experienced by the artist during an art auction in 2012. After being told, “You paint yourself naked that’s a painting worth buying,” she was incensed. She spoke with other professional females to learn if they had experienced sexist encounters while working at their professions. They ALL had. Click image to view the rest of the exhibition.

Artwalk: The Poster Art Of Shane de Leon | August 8- September 27, 2019

Kirks’ Grocery owner Shane de Leon exhibits over 30 years of his silk screen, letterpress, photocopy, stencil and hand drawn posters, records, and rock and roll ephemera. Showcasing his graphic design and love of music. Mainly encompassing his bands Freak Seen, Rollerball, and Miss Massive Snowflake. Over 200 posters will be on display featuring bills with Green Day, Blink 182, Rocket From The Crypt, Bardo Pond, as well as, posters from the 80’s and 90’s Montana rock scene.

Past Exhibitions

freak sceneart show by broke artists for broke art lovers

freak scene
art show by broke artists for broke art lovers