Arts and Entertainment
June 14, 2025
From: Leawood Fine ArtOur gallery is excited to introduce new artists and their captivating work. Experience the beauty and creativity of fresh art pieces that will inspire you.
All work featured is available at the gallery now!
Brady Legler
Brady Legler is an artist and designer whose work begins with emotion and ends in form. Trained at Parsons the New School for Design and shaped by a painter’s sensibility, his pieces — from jewelry to canvas to rugs — carry a sense of personal meaning and a refined, architectural aesthetic.
At the center of Brady’s creative world is the color blue. It’s his origin point — a color tied to memory, healing, and resilience. Inspired by his father’s survival story, blue is embedded in every painting, whether visible or not. It’s both a symbol and a mantra: a quiet force of hope that fuels his art and anchors his design.
Across mediums, Brady is known for his emotional use of color, expressive abstraction, and commitment to creating objects that hold meaning. His work has appeared in Elle Décor, Modern, Hunger UK, and Vogue USA. His paintings have also been translated into rugs handmade in Nepal — a continuation of his belief that art should be lived with, not just looked at.
Steve Frink
Steve Frink is a multimedia artist that works primarily on paper, using single contour lines to create organic compositions. Most of the time, Frink builds up layers of paint on the paper, then sands them down to reveal a smoother surface and contrasting textures. Frink graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute.
Shelly Legler
With her keen eye, Shelly transforms everyday scenes into mesmerizing works of art. Her photos weave light and shadow, unveiling beauty where you least expect it. Her photographs are more than just images; they reflect Shelly’s diverse background and unique perspective. Every deliberate click of the shutter unfolds a narrative, with each frame serving as a window into her exceptional artistic vision.
Zac Bendrick
Zac’s work investigates the layered nature of identity through expressive, multi-faceted portraiture. Each figure is composed of overlapping faces, fragmented gestures, and vibrant color palettes that reflect a shifting inner life. These portraits are not literal depictions but imagined personas—composite reflections of emotional states, memories, and subconscious impressions. The intuitive brushwork and bold use of color create a sense of psychological motion, inviting viewers to engage with the fluidity of selfhood. His paintings blur the line between abstraction and figuration, offering a visceral exploration of the complexities that reside within a single individual.
Nate Trotter
Nate Trotter is a painter and illustrator specializing in figurative and cityscape images. He focuses on the use of light and contrast using a variety of mediums. His art is shown in galleries and is collected and commissioned by individuals, celebrities, commercial venues and corporate clients across the country.
He began his professional art career in 2003 after earning a BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he studied under Michael Hussar. Nate then started in Los Angeles as a free-lance illustrator and 3-D product rendering specialist. His illustrations have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Kansas City Star, and numerous magazines. He then appreanticed under Fabian Perez and became a gallery artist.
Vickie Trotter
Vickie lives and works in Kansas City. Her professional career began after graduation from the University of Kansas in 1970. While establishing her studio she held teaching positions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Barstow School. Her career continued to develop with freelance commissions, exhibitions and private student instruction.
Trotter is known for strong landscape and figurative images that have been shown and sold in shows and galleries for over 30 years. Extensive travel and living abroad have given the artist an abundant wealth of diverse subject matter.
Her work hangs in private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Europe.
Jennifer Nelson
Jennifer Nelson is a self-taught artist from Missouri. Her background is in interior design where balance, juxtaposition and composition are necessary studies. Her
personal design aesthetic has always been art based and has led her to start creating art herself. Jennifer is primarily a fiber artist, creating dynamic pieces made of wool and linen through the technique of hand rug punching. She is also a painter working in acrylic and eggshell to create contemporary works.