Bruno David Gallery: Thursday, 4 September 2008
Opening Reception tonight at Bruno David Gallery from 6 to 10 pm
(Also tonight "Light Project" around the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts)
HOWARD JONES: Working Space (Main Gallery)
PETER MARCUS: Untitled 1972 (Project Room)
IAN WEAVER: Artifacts From the Black Bottom (Front Room)
NANETTE BOILEAU: White Woman (New Media Room)
GALLERY HOURS Wed -Sat 10:00 - 5:00pm
Howard Jones was an intensely brilliant artist and even in the rambunctious 1950s, '60s and '70s was a maverick and an innovator. He was part of the Art and Technology Movement along with Nam June Paik, Le Parc, Takis, Uecker and others. He worked through various artistic phases, including abstract expressionism, op and pop, but settled finally on creating work that harnessed technology for genuinely authentic artistic ambitions. Jones's use of light and sound, separately and simultaneously, was far in advance of his time. Many works survive and they are endowed with a special aura of prophesy. This current exhibition brings a group of Jones's paintings and constructions that employ lights as media and metaphor. As art historian, Udo Kulterman said of his work, "Technology was never a goal for Howard Jones - it was a vehicle he used to express changing perceptions of reality in a continuously poetic and artistic manner." The work in the show is from the estate of th e artist and on loan from private collections. "Memory and Refraction" runs concurrently with the concluding weeks of "Dan Flavin: Constructed Light" at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, which is located directly across the street from the Bruno David Gallery.
For further information, please contact the gallery or visit our web site.
(Also tonight "Light Project" around the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts)
HOWARD JONES: Working Space (Main Gallery)
PETER MARCUS: Untitled 1972 (Project Room)
IAN WEAVER: Artifacts From the Black Bottom (Front Room)
NANETTE BOILEAU: White Woman (New Media Room)
GALLERY HOURS Wed -Sat 10:00 - 5:00pm
Howard Jones was an intensely brilliant artist and even in the rambunctious 1950s, '60s and '70s was a maverick and an innovator. He was part of the Art and Technology Movement along with Nam June Paik, Le Parc, Takis, Uecker and others. He worked through various artistic phases, including abstract expressionism, op and pop, but settled finally on creating work that harnessed technology for genuinely authentic artistic ambitions. Jones's use of light and sound, separately and simultaneously, was far in advance of his time. Many works survive and they are endowed with a special aura of prophesy. This current exhibition brings a group of Jones's paintings and constructions that employ lights as media and metaphor. As art historian, Udo Kulterman said of his work, "Technology was never a goal for Howard Jones - it was a vehicle he used to express changing perceptions of reality in a continuously poetic and artistic manner." The work in the show is from the estate of th e artist and on loan from private collections. "Memory and Refraction" runs concurrently with the concluding weeks of "Dan Flavin: Constructed Light" at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, which is located directly across the street from the Bruno David Gallery.
For further information, please contact the gallery or visit our web site.
BRUNO DAVID GALLERY
3721 WASHINGTON BOULEVARD
SAINT LOUIS MO 63108
314.531.3030
3721 WASHINGTON BOULEVARD
SAINT LOUIS MO 63108
314.531.3030
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