10/08/2026
“Beautifully Scary IV” opening on Saturday, October 17th from 6-9PM in The Gallery at 119. You’re invited for an evening of creative energy, meet the artists and enjoy the spooky season! Come view the journey each of these creatives took to explore what is beautiful & scary.
A big thank you to each of the 24 artists who are participating in this celebration of dark art. The exhibition has so much emotion! Powerful. You each truly offered pieces of yourselves to be on view. The show tells a story with an intriguing range of what is lovely, silly, serious, freaky, shocking, precious and certainly horrific. Incredible!
“Beautifully Scary IV” will be on view October 17th - November 14th in The Gallery at 119 East Saint Louis Street in Pacific MO.
Welcome and thank you to our guest judge, Beth Robinson, for agreeing to select the award recipients for this lovely dark art event!
Beth Robinson is a sculptor and mixed-media artist who has worked under the name Strange Dolls since 2003. Her figurative work is exhibited and held in private collections internationally and has appeared in university-level sculpture textbooks and numerous art and pop-culture publications, most recently at Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis, MO.
Her advocacy for the dark art community is longstanding, and she has always looked for ways to provide opportunities for and shine light on artists working in the fringes and tackling uncomfortable themes. For ten years she curated and ran the annual “Art of Horror” event at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Vermont, alongside invitational shows like “Conjuring, She Rises,” a feminist exhibition held on the anniversary of the Salem Witch Trials, and “Husk,” an exploration of parasitic relationships. More recently she curated “Broken Hearts” in Missouri and judged the mixed-media exhibition “It’s All In The Mix” at Artisans in the Loop.
She maintains a regular studio practice in Saint Louis, Missouri with her trusty companion, a taxidermy coyote named Toby. You can find her work online at www.strangedolls.net.
Beth Robinson's Strange Dolls
Michelle Melton Ross
Bryan Grubbs
Pacific Partnership
Pacific Area Chamber of Commerce