Foundry Art Centre: Friday, 31 July 2009

The Opening of “Friendly Fire”, an exhibition celebrating the diversity of clay, is 6pm – 9pm, Friday, July 31, 2009. This juried exhibition was open to all ceramic artists working with functional, non-functional and sculptural clay.

Bob Allen Invitational Exhibition features the works of Bob Allen along with those of former students whose lives he touched throughout thirty three years of teaching at Meramec Community College, St. Louis. Allen is now a full-time artist-in-residence at the Foundry Art Centre.

Ameristar Gallery Emerging Artist Series: Bryce Olen Robinson, Mixed Media

The Foundry Art Centre’s studio artists will host “Open Studio” night from 6pm – 9pm in conjunction with “Friendly Fire” opening. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free and donations are welcome.

Foundry Art Centre
St. Charles, MO
636-255-0270
www.foundryartcentre.org

Marbles Yoga Studio and Gallery: Friday, 14 August 2009

Marbles Gallery exhibits "Parallel Reality" abstract landscape paintings by Michael Bolton based upon photographs by J. Roberts from August 3 - 31.

Opening Reception Friday, August 14 from 6-9 p.m. Meet the artists, enjoy a glass of wine.

Michael Bolton pushes away from structure and formalities in his paintings creating original work with color, texture, and flow. He rarely uses a paint brush. Instead, he uses pallet knives and screwdrivers and a variety of medium. Many of his abstracts consist of ordinary house paint, housing caulk, and other everyday materials transformed into a creation to enjoy.

J. Roberts uses photography to show others what she sees. She shoots without flash using Canon 40D on a tripod relying upon color and light to illuminate carefully chosen destinations that allow her to see something new: a ghost town, a fallen city, beautiful beach, countryside or a vacant building complex. Her adrenaline rush comes from discovering places and preserving their beauty for other to see.

Marbles Yoga Studio and Gallery
1905 Park Avenue in Lafayette Square

Brentwood Gallery: Friday, 31 July 2009

7-10 pm, 13 photographers.

Breentwood Gallery
2119 s. Brentwood
st louis MO 63144
(sic)

The Luminary | Center for the Arts: Saturday, 8 August 2009

When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build ForeverOpening Reception

Saturday, August 8th, 2009 from 6-9pm

When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever is a curated group show focused on the intersection of natural and manmade environments. Ranging from ecological experiments to meditations on the precariousness of our built environment, the exhibit presents a poetic view of the world that surrounds us and our effect on it. When We Build… features the work of primarily St. Louis-based artists, giving a local viewpoint and immediacy to the exhibit.

The exhibit brings together a broad base of St. Louis artists, from the internationally recognized work of Peter Marcus to the emerging work of Brea McAnally, BJ Vogt and Christine D’Epiro. Peter Marcus will contribute several pieces from his striking Horsehead series (provided by Bruno David Gallery) that focus on a single Victorian house “emblematic of an America-or, at least, the idea—of an America that has ceased to exist.” Brea, who also curated the exhibit, has created an interactive outdoor cityscape that invites viewers to add water to an adjacent dam that will, at some point in the evening, overflow and flood the city. The work is a ambivalent exploration of the role of man in natural disaster, inviting questions of implication and responsibility.

They are joined by Luminary Resident Artist Christine D’Epiro, who is transforming brown paper grocery bags into a room-sized installation depicting a nightscape. Entitled Night, the exhibition responds to our present shared economic situation with imagery that represents both a conclusion and a cyclical occurrence. B.J. Vogt is also contributing sculptural pieces depicting ‘natural’ environments or settings using mass produced or easily replicated ‘man-made’ materials, such as cardboard, PVC pipes, plastic implements, lamps and other electrical devices.

The opening reception will take place on Saturday, August 8^th from 6-9pm and will remain on view on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 2-7pm and on Saturdays from 12-5pm through the end of September.

The Luminary | Center for the Arts
4900 Reber Place
St. Louis, MO 63139
director@theluminaryarts.com
http://theluminaryarts.com

Riverside Gallery, Friday, 7 August 2009

Sacred Somatic Paintings, Single Moments and White Shadows
Riverside Gallery Exhibit opening reception August 7, 7:00 p.m.

Featuring cut paper and shadow designs by JD Dehne, abstract paintings by Bethany Joan Fick, and photographs by Casey Levin.

Exhibit dates: July 24 - August 28

Riverside Gallery is located at 13 W. Moody Ave., next to Llywelyn's Pub in Webster Groves. Call (314) 221-6432 for hours and availability, or contact Director Matt Blazer.

Good Citizen Gallery: Friday, 31 July 2009

Alison Ouellette-Kirby: Home From Work To Find Your Spaniel Turned Into A Wolf

July 31 - August 29, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, July 31 6pm - 10pm

Alison Ouellette-Kirby's upcoming show Home From Work To Find Your Spaniel Turned Into A Wolf takes a critical look at the underlying concepts and definition of "home." Her sculptures focus on the iconic home from the board game Monopoly™, a form she is obsessed with and a game she hated as a child. A game whose premise she describes as presenting "robber-baron style capitalism as something light and fun." A theme that seems all too familiar in the current political and economic climate and its relationship to one's "home,"

Alongside political motives are Alison's personal definitions of "home" and how these ideas shift with age and geography. Alison's work investigates how this ever-changing definition has a direct impact on the physical and psychological landscape of the country. Alison's Canadian background creates a thinly veiled difference between her and her surrounding community; a foreigner who is not quite foreign enough.

Alison's work is masterly crafted, engaging a variety of media and mechanisms. Her work includes larger metal sculptures that clang and crash as the viewer interacts with them as well as delicate jewelry sized pieces that seem fragile to the touch. Alison's craftsmanship and attention to detail result in engaging objects that demand our focus and attention.

Good Citizen Gallery
2247 Gravois Ave
St. Louis MO 63104
www.goodcitizenstl.com
314-348-4587

RAC Gallery: Friday, 31 July 2009

Exhibition Intertwined II opens July 31

Exhibition: July 31 to August 30
Opening reception: Friday, July 31, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. (free to the public)
Gallery talk: Saturday, August 15, 11 a.m. - Noon
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, noon - 5 p.m.

Intertwined II is part of the Friends of Taiwan-Greater St. Louis Overseas Cultural Exchange Exhibition program. This program features 35 artists from around the globe and organizes multi-national artist exhibitions and tours. It is hoped that through participation in programs like this and through the sharing of art and culture, we may enhance the global view of the hearts we touch for the common good of our world.

The Gallery at the Regional Arts Commission
6128 Delmar Boulevard on The Loop
St. Louis, MO 63112
(Free parking in the lot behind The Pageant; metered street parking)

Gallery 210: Thursday, 10 September 2009

St. Louis Through the Lens
Opening reception September 10, 2009 from 5:30 to 7:30pm.
The exhibition at Gallery 210 will run from September 10 through December 5, 2009.

The exhibition is intended to promote work by regional photographers and features the city of St. Louis as its subject. The jurors for the competition are Ellen Curlee, Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, and Bob Little.

Gallery 210
University of Missouri - St. Louis
44 East Drive
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121-4400
314.516.5976

Turner Center for the Arts: Friday, 24 July 2009

THIRD YEAR ANNIVERSARY ART EXHIBIT & GALA

THE TURNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS, CELEBRATING ITS THIRD YEAR OF OPEN STUDIO AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS EXPERIENCES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

"PATTERNS OF LIFE" FRIDAY, JULY 24, 5:00-8:00 PM

AN INSTALLATION LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! (WATCH OUT FOR THE MOVING BODY PARTS!)

3109 SUTTON BLVD.
MAPLEWOOD, MO.
314-781-4440

Brentwood Gallery: Friday, 31 July 2009

ART OPENING july 31,2009 Artists guild - photo section, 7 to 10 PM

Hours: 7-10 PM opening night, noon-5 PM every Saturday, Accessible to persons with disabilities.

The Brentwood Gallery
2119 S. Brentwood Blvd., 0.5 mile south of 40/64, St Louis, MO, 63114
(314) 878-0777

Good Citizen Gallery: Friday, 31 July 2009

Alison Ouellette-Kirby: Home From Work To Find Your Spaniel Turned Into A Wolf

July 31 - August 29, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, July 31 6pm - 10pm

Alison Ouellette-Kirby’s upcoming show Home From Work To Find Your Spaniel Turned Into A Wolf takes a critical look at the underlying concepts and definition of “home”. Her sculptures focus on the iconic home from the board game Monopoly™, a form she is obsessed with and a game she hated as a child. A game whose premise she describes as presenting “robber-baron style capitalism as something light and fun”. A theme that seems all too familiar in the current political and economic climate and its relationship to one’s “home”.

Alongside political motives are Alison’s personal definitions of “home” and how these ideas shift with age and geography. Alison’s work investigates how this ever-changing definition has a direct impact on the physical and psychological landscape of the country. Alison’s Canadian background creates a thinly veiled difference between her and her surrounding community; a foreigner who is not quite foreign enough.

Alison’s work is masterly crafted, engaging a variety of mediums and mechanisms. Her work includes larger metal sculptures that clang and crash as the viewer interacts with them as well as delicate jewelry sized pieces that seem fragile to the touch. Alison’s craftsmanship and attention to detail result in engaging objects that demand our focus and attention.

Good Citizen Gallery
2247 Gravois Ave
St. Louis MO 63104
www.goodcitizenstl.com
andrew@goodcitizenstl.com
314-348-4587

Picasso's: Friday, 24 July 2009

Artist Reception for Kim William Gordon's photographic exhibit display during the entire month of July. Music will be supplied, cash bar.

Friday, July 24, 2009, 6:00pm - 11:00pm

Picassos
101 North Main
Saint Charles, MO

Marbles Gallery: Friday, 17 July 2009

"Edge on…" black & white photography by Sally B. Simpson and Mark Tiedemann through July 31. Also continuing photography exhibit by Michael Rudolf.

Opening Reception Friday, July 17 from 6-9 p.m. Meet the artists, enjoy a glass of wine. Free and open to the public

Sally B. Simpson photographs under natural lighting situations, with very little or no use of camera filters to capture the beauty and simplicity of everyday subjects using a variety of camera types, including the medium format 120 film toy camera, the Holga. Intrigued by places and subjects that exhibit a haunting sense of abandonment, as well as images that evoke a strong sense of familiarity and simplicity, Simpson chooses to photograph with her Holga often. With its cheap construction, images produced from the Holga often yield photographs with characteristic light leaks, blurs and vignetting, adding depth and individuality to each photograph.

Mark Tiedemann, premiers his black and white art photography inspired by the work of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and other members of the f64 Group. During his commercial photography career as a proficient black and white lab technician, he has continuously recorded and printed but never shown his own work.

Marbles Yoga Studio and Gallery
1905 Park Avenue in Lafayette Square

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: Tuesday, 21 July 2009

City-Wide Open Studio Events sponsored by the Contemporary Art Museum

The Preview Party Tuesday July 21 5:30-9:30 pm, Contemporary Art Museum. See one piece by each of the participating artists. See http://www.contemporarystl.org for detailed information.

Over 100 Artists located through out the City will have their studios open. South of I-44 will be open Saturday; North of I-44 will be open Sunday. Studio Hours: Saturday & Sunday, July 25 & 26, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm.

3750 Washington Blvd
St Louis, MO 63108
(314) 535-4660

Concrete Ocean Art Gallery: Friday, 17 July 2009

Please join us for the opening reception of "Figuratively", at Concrete Ocean Gallery, located at Jefferson and Shenendoah, this Friday night, starting at 6:00 p.m. Thirteen artists will be showing paintings and drawings of the human figure.

Pele Prints: Thursday, 6 August 2009

LAURA BERMAN’S WORKS ON PAPER AT PELE PRINTS
Thursday, August 6, 2009, 5:30 to 8:30pm at the Pele Prints studio

Pele Prints welcomes Kansas City artist Laura Berman for a one-night preview of new works on paper. Laura combines families of shapes and whimsical color to create fresh images in non-traditional formats. Her latest work embraces the unexpected and celebrates the handmade in print.

9400 Watson Road
St. Louis, MO 63126
www.peleprints.com
314.750.7799

Art Saint Louis: Saturday, 18 July 2009

Third Degree East Gallery: 17 June 2009

In The Gallery: July 17 - August 18

Dreamzine Dudes. Is it a coloring book for grown-ups? Is it drawings for sculptural glass works? Karen Woodard captures the Neo-Surrealistic quality of dreams with floating, multi figural dudes in drawings and sculpture.

Duck! New glass by Jes Kopitske shows our bubble-bath companions with wacky quacky attitude.

Live At Third Degree...Opera at 7 p.m.
Jealous love, a duel, an avenging gypsy woman, and poison? At 7 p.m. get a sneak peek preview of Verdi’s Il Trovatore. Union Avenue Opera performers offer up a taste of opera at our East Gallery.

Schmidt Contemporary Art: Thursday, 18 July 2009

Schmidt Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the extension of the exhibition of Stuart Arends and Olivia Lahs-Gonzales. The gallery will be open during normal hours through July 18 and by appointment only through July 25. Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm.

Please join us for a closing reception on Thursday, July 18 from 6pm - 8pm.

Please stop by and view what David Bonetti from the Post Dispatch calls: "...the best painting show I've seen in St. Louis since, well, since Arends' last painting show, also at Schmidt, in 2005." And in a recent review by Ivy Cooper from the St. Louis Beacon she writes: "...recent works by Olivia Lahs-Gonzales and Stuart Arends, artists whose works couldn't be more different from one another but who show together nicely."

SCHMIDT CONTEMPORARY ART
615 North Grand Boulevard
Saint Louis, Missouri 63103
314.575.2648
jschmidt@schmidtcontemporaryart.com

Atrium Gallery: Friday, 10 July 2009

Atrium Gallery announces Summer Show "Small"
July 10 - September 6
Opening Reception, Friday, July 10, 6 - 9 p.m.

Lore Bert, "Recollection of Agnes Martin," 2006, object with Japanese paper, 20 3/8" x 20 3/8"

Please join us for the opening of our Summer Show, "Small" featuring new intimate works by Atrium artists. Good things often come in small packages and this show features a selection of many recent small works by Heather Becker, Lore Bert, Leila Daw, Karen Kunc, Polly McCaffrey, Fredrick Nelson, Janet Sorokin, Elizabeth Thach, and introducing works by former St. Louisan and Director of Laumeier Sculpture Park, Beej Nierengarten-Smith. Included will be paintings, drawings, prints, and artist books.

In contrast, Atrium's Salon level will present a rotating installation of larger scale work by gallery artists, Ellen Glasgow, Art Kleinman, James Kuiper, Willem de Looper, Adrian Luchini, Michael Marshall, Kirk Pedersen, Doug Salveson, John Schwartzkopf, and Victor Wang.

The shows open Friday, July 10 with Atrium's traditional Summer Celebration, 6 - 9 p.m. and continue through September 6th. Regular summer hours are Wednesday - Saturday 10 - 6 p.m., with Friday evenings featuring later hours for Euclid/McPherson's Fabulous Fridays, and also Sunday noon to 4 p.m.

4728 McPherson Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63108
314-367-1076
atrium@earthlink.net
atriumgallery.net

Mad Art: Friday, 10 July 2009

Opening Reception for Work Inspired by Cowboy Mouth
Friday, July 10, 7 pm to 11 pm
Adam Andrews, Ron Buechele, Katie Clancy, and Aunia Kahn have created an exhibition of art inspired by Cowboy Mouth. This exhibit opens prior to the play, on Friday, July 10, 2009, with a free opening reception from 7:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. The exhibit continues through July 28, 2009.

Cowboy Mouth is a semi autobiographical, one act play written by Sam Shepard. One of his lesser known plays, Cowboy Mouth owes its genesis to an affair between Shepard and rock star Patti Smith. Shepard left his wife and small son to take up residence in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel with Smith. Shepard and Smith co-wrote the original roles of Slim and Cavale and were to play the roles in a production scheduled at The American Place Theatre in 1971. Shepard fled following a preview performance, deserting Patti Smith in life and in art, to return to his wife and child. The play never opened.
The characters are complex, intense, and at times, disturbing. Sarah Jones plays Cavale, the Patti Smith character, who is obsessed with death and frequently flips into periods of bizarre fantasy. The Sam Shepard character, Slim, struggles with the meaning of art and the role of the artist. Slim, played by John Joern, is unable to move, yet is at complete unrest. Jimmy Griffin plays Lobster Man, a phantom of the couple's paranoia.
The play was written at the time when Shepard wanted to be a rock and roll star rather than a plawright, and he experimented with the inclusion of live music in his plays. This production of Cowboy Mouth features live music performed by Jesus Was a Sullivan Band following each performance. On July 17 and 18, musician Irene Jones will perform prior to curtain.

Craft Alliance: Friday & Sunday, 17 & 19 July 2009

Three Exhibitions – One Weekend

Faculty Biennial and Student Spotlight - Friday, July 17 at the Delmar Location, 6640 Delmar Blvd. The Loop. FREE Reception, 6-9pm
CONCURRENT - Sunday, July 19 in the Kranzberg Arts Center, Grand Center, 501 N. Grand Blvd. FREE Reception 3-5pm, Artists’ Talk at 2pm

Celebrate the talent that exists in our own community on Friday night, July 17, at the Delmar Loop location and on Sunday afternoon, July 19, at the Grand Center location. Both openings are FREE and open to the public. consists of works in clay, metal, fiber, glass, painting and graphics, created by local and regional artists who have taught a class or workshop at Craft Alliance during the past two years. In addition to the 46 faculty exhibiting, the winners of the Biennial Juried Student Exhibition from 2008 will be exhibited in the Charak Gallery: Joel Price, Clay; Barbara Zucker, Fiber; Kyle Feldman, Wood; Paul Milligan, Glass; Julie Moschenross, Metals; Anukriti Sud Hittle, 2-D and Alexandra Sasha, Teen Award. Both exhibits will be open from July 10 through August 30. Daily gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

CONCURRENT, presents the work of Gina Alvarez, Melody Evans and Damia Smith and opens Sunday, July 19, from 3-5pm, with an artists gallery talk at 2pm. In August of 2008, Craft Alliance opened a second facility in the Kranzberg Arts Center in Grand Center and began an Artist-in-Residence program. This competitive program gives emerging and established artists a 9 month residency opportunity to focus on their areas of clay, fiber or metals and then exhibit their work in the exhibition space. In this exhibition, Gina Alvarez has created a wall of delicate clay doilies that transforms her ideas of domesticity and the hand-made. Melody Evans is inspired by a scientific microscopic world and designed an installation of multiple organic clay forms and layers of plexi-glass that aims to create a sense of awe and wonderment at the beauty and complexity of the natural world. Damia Smith’s investigations of nature are not only showcased in her large scale, bold and bright jewelry but also shown creeping up one of the walls in the gallery space. This exhibition will be open from July 19th until August 16th. Daily gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Schmitt Art Center: Thursday, 9 July 2009

Please join us for a reception to celebrate the work of Jeff Sippel, Jenny Boudreault, and Joe Chesla. Thursday, July 9, 2009, 6 ­ 8 p.m.

“Action Reaction,” features Jeff Sippel. Sippels’s abstract prints are extremely expressive in color and line.

The second exhibition, “Letting go a breath I didn’t know I was
holding,” features artwork by Joe Chesla, who filled over 3,000 plastic bags with a mixture of porcelain and algae and installed them directly on the Reiners Gallery windows. The way that light and heat reach the bags will influence the
algae’s growth and determine the color and pattern of the installation.

In the Schmidt and Cox Galleries, “Awakenings,” features Jenny Boudreault, who creates portraits of everyday people. She
uses watercolor or oil paint on board, which often allows the wood grain to show through and provide texture and tone to the skin.

The exhibition continues through August 22.

SUMMER HOURS Tuesday ­ Friday, 11 a.m. ­ 5 p.m., Thursday, 11 a.m. ­ 8 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. ­ 2 p.m., CLOSED Friday, July 3, Saturday, July 4

2500 Carlyle Avenue
Belleville, IL 62221
618-222-5278
www.schmidtartcenter.com

PSTL Gallery: Friday, 10 July 2009

Bruce Burton: Observation and Formulation
Please join us for the OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, July 10, 2009, 6pm-9pm
(exhibit on view through September 4, 2009)

Observation and Formulation is a body of work that consists of images, sculpture, and installation, of seemingly unrelated and idiosyncratic materials and discarded artifacts. On the surface the objects and images seem to be disconnected, but upon closer examination, a thread reveals itself through formal and conceptual connections. A social environment begins to appear between the objects, images, and viewer. I am interested in these relationships that are formed by the viewer's response to an object and its collective, triggered memories, and perceived associations of the individual.

PSTL Gallery @ Pace Framing
3842 Washington Blvd.
Saint Louis, MO 63108
1/2 block west of the Contemporary Art Museum, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts,
Sheldon Art Galleries and the Bruno David Gallery
314-531-4304
paceframing. com

Arts Group of Union Avenue: Sunday, 12 July 2009

The exhibit "Polaroid: Past & Present" presented by the Arts Group of Union Avenue features the work of eleven area photographers. The exhibit runs from July 5 - August 2, 2009 with the opening reception on July 12th from noon - 2 PM. The gallery is located at 733 Union Blvd. St. Louis, 63108 and parkingis at the rear of the building.

Those exhibiting include: Joanne Kluba, Connie Lambert, Jane Linders, Dallas Moses, Marion Noll, Marianne Pepper, Susan Hacker Stang, Todd Thomas, Jeane Vogel, Kay Wood, and Barbara Zucker.