Decline Limitations
a solo show by Nettie Zan at Vulpes Bastille: May 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, May 2 from 5-10 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 10 from 3-5 pm
Closing Ritual: Sunday, May 18 from 6-8 pm
private viewings available: text 816-812-8745
at Vulpes Bastille — 1737 Locust KCMO 64108
adopt a small god
paintings are priced in a general form:
large paintings in the main gallery are $750 each
smaller paintings in the reading room are $300 each
framed babies (4“x 6” ish) are $60 each, 2 for $100, 4 for $150
loose babies are $50 each, 2 for $80, 4 for $120
the new novel and poetry books are $15 each
Paintings are available on a sliding scale, please make an offer if the price is out of reach for you!
Here is the google form to fill out.
why are the paintings so inexpensive?
I am not a commodity. These paintings are gifts from nature, from the divine, and want to be housed where they can charm and protect a person who loves the small god.
Payment is a gesture. If you love some of my work and want to take it home to live with you, then we should know one another. I am more interested in community than career.
sign up for my email list, come to a party, join me in meditation, come to open mic on last sundays at the ArtHouse, knowing each other is why I do art, come hang.
Embracing Radical Change
The “small gods of animals” series began in the woods of the Ozarks in direct connection with deep wilderness. They have continued supporting and encouraging me over this time back in the city — through much grief and change. I lost my mentor Hugh and my Mother in this time, we have seen our country floundering in this time. These deities have sustained, protected and empowered me and I hope they do the same for you! They are all about body/infinity, about connection.
As my petroglyphs have entered the market, have become commodities, the spirits have fallen asleep in my hand. I will not force them to perform for my dinner. So, I am retiring the series from public life and this exhibition will be the last foreseeable engagement with the small gods of animals.
I am forever blessed by their appearance in my life and work. And I am releasing all unsold paintings after the show back into the wild from whence they came. Something new will emerge. It always does.
So many blessings to you, hope to see you at the show!