Please join us for a new round of exhibitions at our all-gallery opening reception Friday, October 12, 2007! Complimentary drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served from 5 - 7 p.m., just before the Sheldon Concert featuring guitar wizard Tommy Emmanuel at 8 p.m.
Bellwether Gallery of St. Louis ArtistsUnraveled: Crossing the Line between Fashion and Art
September 8, 2007 – January 12, 2008
In collaboration with the Fall 2007 citywide Innovations in Textiles 7 exhibitions, The Sheldon Art Galleries features the work of area artists C. Cathers, Michael Drummond, Courtney Henson, Christine Holtz, Nina Ganci and Paula Lincoln, who expand, explore and deconstruct the language of fashion.
The exhibition is made possible by Nancy L. Wunderlich. History of Jazz GalleryOctober 13, 2007 – February 9, 2008
Jam Session: Photographs from the MAXJAZZ Collection
Great jazz photographers capture the emotion and essence of jazz in an exhibition of dynamic photographs of jazz legends from the collection of the St. Louis-based MAXJAZZ recording label. Luminaries such as Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins and Sarah Vaughn are photographed by equally important photographers like William Claxton, Roy DeCarava, William Gottlieb, Jimmy Katz, Herman Leonard, Herb Snitzer and others. Both the early days of jazz and contemporary artists are represented.
The exhibition is organized by the Sheldon Art Galleries. Gallery of PhotographyOctober 13, 2007- January 19, 2008
Anthony Hernandez: The Seventies and Eighties
Since the 1970s, Anthony Hernandez has photographed aspects of the social landscape using a critical and analytic approach to focus on the urban environment, its inhabitants and social concerns of race and class. In the 1970s, Hernandez used a 35mm camera and a highly intuitive process to capture life as it moved through the camera’s frame. Other works, made with a 5 x 7 view camera, contemplate humanity’s quotidian moments in rigorous compositions. Vintage prints from the 1970s and 80s and images printed specially for the monograph Waiting, Sitting, Fishing and Some Automobiles (Loosestrife Editions, 2007) are the focus of the exhibition organized by the Sheldon Art Galleries.
The exhibition is made possible in part by The David S. Millstone FoundationBernoudy Gallery of ArchitectureOctober 13, 2007 – January 26, 2008
Architecture for Humanity: Gulf Coast Reconstruction Projects
Featured in this exhibition is a selection of new home designs, created under the auspices of the not-for-profit humanitarian group Architecture for Humanity, for displaced Gulf Coast communities like Biloxi, Mississippi following 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. Architecture for Humanity has worked to connect families and individuals who have been displaced by the hurricane with architects and designers who help them to navigate complex new building codes and FEMA elevations, make decisions about their future, and ultimately empower them to re-envision their homes, businesses and communities. To help bring families into new permanent homes, Architecture for Humanity partnered with several relief agencies and a number of volunteer groups working in the area to host a house tour and design fair. There, a model home program was launched that provided design services and financial assistance for the construction of a number of new homes. The exhibition at The Sheldon will feature several models, photographs and plans of these designs, some of which are already in progress, that illuminate this important humanitarian effort. More information on Architecture for Humanity can be found at
http://www.architectureforhumanity.org.
The exhibition is organized by the Sheldon Art Galleries. The Exhibition is made possible by Joan and Mitchell Markow and by UnicoAT&T Gallery of Children’s ArtKatrina’s Kids Project: Art of the Storm
October 13, 2007 – February 2, 2008
Katrina’s Kids Project: Art of the Storm is a traveling exhibition of 50 framed drawings created by children during their stay in Houston’s Astrodome and Reliant Center shelters after they were evacuated from their homes because of Hurricane Katrina. The exhibition was organized to continue to draw attention to the needs of children displaced by the storm and allows viewers to see the hurricane through the eyes and hearts of the children who were affected by it. The Katrina’s Kids Project came about when children met with groups of volunteer mothers in Houston shelters to draw their experiences of the storm, and their hopes and dreams, giving evacuee children the opportunity to create, discuss and process their experiences through art, thereby empowering them. Also included are two quilts made by New Orleans textile artist Cely Tapplette-Pedescleaux which incorporate 48 of the children’s drawings. More information on the project can be found at
http://www.katrinaskidsproject.org.
The exhibition is organized by Katrina’s Kids Project, Houston, Texas.Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg GalleryMy American History in Flashbulb Memories: Prints by Lisa Bulawsky
October 13 – January 5, 2008
Lisa Bulawsky exhibits a group of monotypes that explore the relationship between personal and cultural versions of history. For Bulawsky, the prints represent the fluid impression of memory images that she associates with major historical events of her lifetime. These "flashbulb memories" are Bulawsky’s personalized homage to some of American history’s most significant and idiosyncratic moments of the last four decades, among them the shootings at Kent State in 1970 and the death of Elvis Presley in 1977.
The Lucy and Stanley Lopata Sculpture GardenGreg Edmondson: Collective
October 13, 2007 – February 9, 2008
Oversized caterpillars roam throughout the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Sculpture Garden in
an installation that speaks to stages of both natural and human evolution. Painted in glow-in-the-dark paint, Edmondson’s large caterpillars elicit both fascination and revulsion and are both playful and intimidating. Edmondson has exhibited his sculptures and drawings nationally and internationally and is in many important public and private collections.
