St. Louis Artists' Guild: Sunday, 5 September 2010

NewPop I and NewPop II

NewPop II
Opening Friday September 3, 2010 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Exhibition runs September 3, 2010 – September 25, 2010
Admission is free and open to the public
Hoffman LaChance
2713 Sutton Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63143
314.960.5322

NewPop I
Opening Sunday September 5, 2010 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Exhibition runs September 5, 2010 – October 29, 2010
Admission is free and open to the public
St. Louis Artists’ Guild
Two Oak Knoll Park
Clayton, MO 63105
314.727.6266

The St Louis Artists Guild and Hoffman LaChance Contemporary in partnership, are pleased to announce NewPop I and NewPop II. The St. Louis Artists Guild is teaming up with Hoffman LaChance to bring you a set of solo exhibitions by Stan Chisholm (aka 18andCounting), happening simultaneously with one another, NewPop I and NewPop II. NewPop I, opening Sunday September 5, 2010 from 1-3pm is located at the St Louis Artists Guild and NewPop II, opening September 3, 2010 from 6-8pm is located at Hoffman LaChance Contemporary.

As two inextricably linked exhibitions, like the relationship one would find between twins, NewPop I and NewPop II take a stand and rebelliously stab at the anatomy of pop culture. Through solidarity, topics such as memes, media, icons, commodity and quality will be scrutinized through an array of artworks ranging from sculpture, installation, text, book and drawings. The viewer will not be able to understand one with out the other. It is imperative that both exhibitions be considered, they finish one another's sentence and dot each others "i's". NewPop I and NewPop II is taking the tag-team approach to visual art.

Hoffman Lachance Contemporary: Friday, 3 September 2010

NewPop I and NewPop II

NewPop II
Opening Friday September 3, 2010 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Exhibition runs September 3, 2010 – September 25, 2010
Admission is free and open to the public
Hoffman LaChance
2713 Sutton Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63143
314.960.5322

NewPop I
Opening Sunday September 5, 2010 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Exhibition runs September 5, 2010 – October 29, 2010
Admission is free and open to the public
St. Louis Artists’ Guild
Two Oak Knoll Park
Clayton, MO 63105
314.727.6266

The St Louis Artists Guild and Hoffman LaChance Contemporary in partnership, are pleased to announce NewPop I and NewPop II. The St. Louis Artists Guild is teaming up with Hoffman LaChance to bring you a set of solo exhibitions by Stan Chisholm (aka 18andCounting), happening simultaneously with one another, NewPop I and NewPop II. NewPop I, opening Sunday September 5, 2010 from 1-3pm is located at the St Louis Artists Guild and NewPop II, opening September 3, 2010 from 6-8pm is located at Hoffman LaChance Contemporary.

As two inextricably linked exhibitions, like the relationship one would find between twins, NewPop I and NewPop II take a stand and rebelliously stab at the anatomy of pop culture. Through solidarity, topics such as memes, media, icons, commodity and quality will be scrutinized through an array of artworks ranging from sculpture, installation, text, book and drawings. The viewer will not be able to understand one with out the other. It is imperative that both exhibitions be considered, they finish one another's sentence and dot each others "i's". NewPop I and NewPop II is taking the tag-team approach to visual art.

Good Citizen Gallery: Friday, 3 September 2010

Special Closing Reception for Noah Kirby's Killbox: Friday Sept. 3, 7-10pm

Killbox, a sculptural installation by St. Louis Artist Noah Kirby, is embedded with hyper militarized language, tactics, and procedures that dictate the formal structure of the exhibition. The primary sculpture is a representation of small squad tactical maneuvers and CQB (Close Quarters Battle) techniques. The sculpture itself is influenced and loosely based aesthetically and structurally upon stealth technologies.

Good Citizen Gallery
2247 Gravois Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63104

Turner Center for the Arts: Friday, 10 September 2010

Come join us Friday September 10, at TCA for another solo art show. Using patterns and sharp geometric shapes, Tyrone Stroud creates large scale pieces that are bright and colorful. He also creates these very weird looking face portraits of clowns, old people, and other funny human images he likes. Refreshments and friendship will be furnished.

Friday, September 10 from 5 - 8 pm

At 3114 Sutton Blvd
Maplewood, MO 63143
314-781-4440
www.turnercenterforthearts.org

SLU Museum of Art: Sunday, 26 September 2010

THE SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART
SEPTEMBER 3 - OCTOBER 3

Threads of Tradition: St. Louis Quilters, an exhibition featuring the artistry of
St. Louis-area quilters, will be on display at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art on Friday, September 3. A reception will be held on Sunday, September 26 from 2 pm - 4 pm

Over 40 quilts, featuring various patterns and quilting techniques will showcase the talents involved in the art of quilting. Quilt styles range from the charm, the "crazy," and the memory quilt. Themed quilts include the Gateway Arch; the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Saint Louis University Billiken. The exhibition is free-of-charge.

Museum hours: 11 am - 4 pm, Wednesday - Sunday. Closed on University holidays

The Saint Louis University Museum of Art
3663 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63108

Jeanne Vogel Studios: Saturday, 4 September 2010

Landscapes in Mixed Media, by Anukriti Sud Hittle
September 4 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Please join us for a relaxed and enjoyable evening in the gallery with new art, a sip of wine, a yummy treat. Enter at Fletcher's entrance.

Jeane Vogel Studios
19 Crestwood Court - ArtSpace

Kirkwood Art at the Station: Thursday, 2 September 2010

Kirkwood Area Arts Council Art at the Station Presents
Richard Buckhold Photographer
August 30 – October 4, 2010
Opening Reception Thursday, September 2 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Art may be viewed when the station is open for passengers.

Kirkwood Train Station
100 West Argonne
Kirkwood, MO 63122
314-965-7100
kaacemail@gmail.com
www.kirkwoodareaarts.org

Kranzberg Arts Center: Saturday, 18 September 2010

Art in Motion

This event is the exhibit of one-of-a-kind pieces of art created by Mimsy Hebron. All artwork will be for sale the evening of the event. Proceeds from this event will go to charitable organizations that promote the arts for children and youth. “Art is a universal language that can be spoken and understood by anyone in the world and it is our duty to allow the world to hear our children and youth as they express themselves in the arts.” There will be a surprise youth artist whose work will be on display as a part of a silent auction during the evening.

The event is free. Light hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served. There will be ample paid parking near the venue. Donations towards charitable organizations for the arts will be accepted.

Saturday September 18, 2010 from 4:00p to 9:00p (with special interactive feature taking place at 6:00p).

Kranzberg Arts Center
501 N. Grand Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63103

Soulard Art Market: Saturday, 4 September 2010

“Spoked II”

The Tour of Missouri may be no more, but we’re still gearing up for the liveliest show this town has seen. “Spoked II” carries on the tradition of last year’s record setting exhibition “Spoked!” because, race or no race, people love bikes. Once again, we sought out artworks that featured bicycling as a theme for inclusion in our show. We have artwork in a variety of mediums by some of the area’s best artists on display. They may be able to stop the race, but they can’t stop this show.

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 4, 2010 - 7 to 10 pm
Exhibition: Through Thursday, September 23, 2010

Soulard Art Market & Contemporary Gallery
2028 S. 12th Street, Saint Louis, MO 63104
Corner of 12th and Russell, across from McGurk’s Pub
www.SoulardArtMarket.org

SLCC Gallery of Contemporary Art: Friday, 27 August 2010

A Faculty Art Show is now on display in the Gallery of Contemporary Art (Room D-118), which is adjacent to the Library, at St. Louis Community College-Forest Park, 5600 Oakland Ave.

An opening reception will take place 6-8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. The exhibit will close Friday, Sept. 17.

Faculty artists displaying their works include Ken Worley, Maureen Miller, Jamie Kreher, David Moore, Matthew Isaacson, Mario Carlos, Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey, Kevin Wilson, Amande Mathenia, Metra Mitchell and Yingxue Zuo, Art department chair.

May Gallery: Friday, 27 August 2010

Jorge Vera: urbanismo

27 August - 17 September 2010
Opening Reception Friday, 27 August, 5-7 pm

with a talk by the photographer on Friday, 3 September, at 1 pm in Sverdrup room 101

Jorge Vera is a photographer and visual artist based in Lima, Peru. His current series, "urbanismo" (2008-2010), echoes early work from his first solo show in St. Louis, "Seldom Seen" (1989), exploring iconic images of the Midwest, where he lived from 1983 to 1992. In this period Vera started capturing images of mostly empty suburbia and urban spaces and landscapes, work that reflects his experience of isolation and alienation as a young self-exiled immigrant in the United States.

And in the Small Wall Gallery,
Sara Levin: Toy Camera Images

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The May Gallery is located on the second floor, west wing, of the Sverdrup Building at 8300 Big Bend Boulevard, Webster Groves MO 63119. Hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-9:00 pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5:00 pm.

The Vino Gallery: Saturday, 4 September 2010

The Vino Gallery Presents "Twenty-Five at Twenty-Five" & Love Is...

A Pop Art Exhibition & Book release by Morgan Keenan

"Twenty-Five at Twenty-Five" is an exhibition of twenty-five nondescript, pop art portraiture paintings by Morgan Keenan. These are colorful portraits of twenty-five people who have changed the course of Morgan's life over the past twenty-five years. Love is is a collection of 200 definitions of different peoples perspectives on what love is. Everyday people from all over the globe and from all walks of life answer this simple, yet seemingly unanswerable question - "What is Love?"

Join us for the opening on September the 4th from 6pm to 9pm. There will be a wine tasting, hors d'ourerves, and a chance to meet the artist. A portion of all proceeds from art sales made on the opening evening will be donated to Growing American Youth: a social support organization for youth who live near St. Louis, who are 21 and under, and may identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual or questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity. Growing American Youth has been serving St. Louis area youth for 30 years.

Let us share our passion for wine & art with you

The Vino Gallery
4701 McPherson Ave
St. Louis,MO 63108

COCA Millstone Gallery: Friday, 24 September 2010

Through November 16, 2010

Photographer Michael Eastman will exhibit work from his archives alongside juried work from the Master Artist Series workshop. Opening reception September 24, 6pm -8pm.

COCA
Millstone Gallery
524 Trinity Ave
(314) 725-6555
http://www.cocastl.org

PHD Gallery: Friday, 27 August 2010

Please join us this Friday, August 27th at 7PM for the opening reception of
A LIFETIME OF COLOR
The Artwork of James Riddle

hosted by PHD Gallery ith 100% of all sales of Riddle's work benefiting The Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis (MCCGSL)

"Sometimes life feels bland, colorless, same-old same-old... What you need is an infusion of vibrancy, of playfulness, of loud, showy, colorful color — and the upcoming exhibition at the phd gallery has just the punch of pigment you crave." ~Alison Sieloff, RIVERFRONT TIMES

Noon to 4PM, Thurs-Sun.

PHD Gallery
2300 Cherokee Street
St. Louis, MO 63118
(314) 664-6644
http://www.phdstl.com

Philip Slein Gallery: Saturday, 28 August 2010

Sauce Magazine group show for all the contributing photographers. Philip Slein Gallery from 6-8pm this Saturday.

S. Carmody Photography: Friday, 3 September & 8 October 2010

DISTANT DREAMS - photographic exhibit by Shawn Escoffery
Preview reception with artist: Friday, September 3, from 6-9PM
Maplewood ArtsWalk Reception with artist: Friday, October 8, from 6-9PM
Show runs though December 5, 2010
Free event, open to the public

S. Carmody Photography hosts Distant Dreams, a collection of images from the travels of New Orleans - based photographer Shawn Escoffery. The exhibit comprises images taken over the past 3 years in countries such as Burma, India, Japan and South Africa.

Escoffery's images possess not only dreamlike visual beauty, but also display an empathic sensitivity to his subjects. Photography for Escoffery is a conduit for self exploration as well as a means for understanding the world around him. A city planner by day, Escoffery implements his studies of urban development to provide a deeper framework for his photographic explorations. "Photography is a passion, a way to share life," he says. His work generally possesses an underlying theme of aloneness or solitude, expressed from the viewpoint of a silent observer hidden in the normalcy of everyday life. Escoffery explains: "I see the world in frames, separating moments of life into single images while finding solitude in the midst of chaos. I seek the unknown and I look for the beauty in despair, the stories that are never told and the uncommon in the common. I photograph people in their environments because I am curious of what lays behind their eyes, where they have been and where they hope to go. I observe all that is around me and shoot to give each grain of time a name."

S. Carmody Photography
2707 Sutton Blvd.
Maplewood MO 63143
314.401.8089
www.carmodyphoto.com

Mad Art Gallery: Friday, 1 October 2010

Friday, October 1
7 pm to 11 pm
Opening Reception for Katherine Bish's Oil Spill Project

Cecille R. Hunt Gallery: Friday, 27 August 2010

Early Works
August 27th-September 17th, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, August 27th, 2010 6-8pm

An exhibition of film and video work including

Aspect: Early Works vol. 8
feauring works by:
Doug Back Joan Jonas
Robert Beck Tony Oursler
Cai Guo Qiang

Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films

Vital Signals: Early Japanese Video Art
featuring work by:
CTG Toshio Matsumoto
Katsuhiro Yamaguchi Video Earth Tokyo
Toshio Matsumoto Mako Idemitsu
Kohei Ando Norio Imai
Takahiko Imura Hakudo Kobayashi
Keigo Yamamoto Saburo Maraoka, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, and Uematsu
Morihiro Wada

Hours:Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm or by appointment

CECILLE R. HUNT GALLERY
Visual Arts Studio
Webster University
8350 Big Bend Blvd
St. Louis, Missouri, 63119

Luminary/Center for the Arts: Saturday 25 September 2010

(dis)Mantle, An Installation by Jill Downen
Opening reception: 10am-5pm on Saturday, September 25th, 2010
On view September 25, 2010 - October 30, 2010
Wednesday-Saturday from 12-6pm

The Luminary Center for the Arts is pleased to present a temporary site-specific installation by Jill Downen. (dis)Mantle responds to The Luminary’s Installation Space, a former chapel with vibrant natural light and arched 20’ ceiling. Downen will transform the volume of the chapel into a quiet spatial experience through a re-shaping of the architectural contours. A single plumb line hung in the center of the room offers a poetic and moving mediation on the symbiotic relationship between architecture and the human body.

Architecture functions as a kind of exoskeleton­an additional skin beyond our bodies. Our connection to space and objects is defined foremost by our own senses, movement and scale­a defined proportion or human scale. Jill Downen’s installation focuses and heightens this experience by allowing one person to enter at a time into a room subtly changed, leaving one body in one space to encounter new connections between the two.

(dis)Mantle is composed primarily of construction materials, seamlessly blending the artist’s work with the space’s natural construct. As seen in previous exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Bruno David Gallery, Downen’s organic and sensual installations are spare but overflowing with an exchange between the body, architecture and experience.

(dis)Mantle opens on September 25th with a special daytime reception from 10am-5pm and remains on view Wednesday-Saturday from 12-6 each week through October 30th.

THE LUMINARY | CENTER FOR THE ARTS
www.theluminaryarts.com

Mad Art Gallery: Friday, 27 August 2010

Mad Art Gallery to Host Multimedia Benefit for Mexican Girls' Art Program

Over a year ago. St. Louis ex-patriate and Webster photo alumna Katie Clancy picked up her life and moved to the labyrinthine city of Guanajuato. Mexico. There, immersed in the unfamiliar and far from fluent in Spanish. she met the 30 young girls of Buen Pastor. a convent that provides foster core and education for at-risk females. Both inspired and troubled by their stories, she undertook the development of an after-school arts education program to help the
girls form and explore their nascent identities through writing and visual art.

Clancy has returned to St. Louis this month to raise money for the school, which is funded largely by private donation. In collaboration with Bad Shoe. a local women's literary and art magaZine, she is hosting a benefit at Mad Art Gallery on Friday, August 27th from 7 pm to midnight The event is a combined art show, poetry reading, and book release party that will feature Clancy's recent photography of Mexico and the writing in Bad Shoe's Summer Double Issue. The handmade magaZine's third edition juxtaposes the written work of twenty local women with reproductions of Clancy's stunning photos of Buen Pastor.

The event will include readings , a raffle , the art show. music by OJ Ben House. Mexican street food. and a special musical guest for a suggested donation of $2-5. New and previous issues of Bad Shoe will be for sale.

Proceeds benefit the eStudio 473 after-school program for the girls of Buen Pastor.

Mad Art Gallery
2727 South 12th Street
Sf Louis. MO 63118
(314) 771-8230

White Flag Projects: Saturday, 11 September 2010

Garth Weiser
September 11 – October 23, 2010
Opening reception Saturday September 11, 7–10 pm

Garth Weiser is best known for his highly graphic paintings that compress the vocabulary of abstraction into dense pastiches of history and technique. For his exhibition at White Flag Projects, Weiser will present three artworks, each considering the impermanence of painting and the temporal relationship of each work to its substrate. The works on view will include Wall Painting for White Flag Projects, a temporary mural measuring over 57 feet long and 10 feet high, which will occupy the gallery's largest wall; a second painting rendered in water-soluble media displayed on the exterior of the gallery; and an installation of 150 pages torn from "I wouldn't have worn mascara if I knew I was going to be taking a trip down memory lane," an artists book reproducing Weiser's 2008 painting of the same title.

New gallery hours: Wednesday, 12 – 7pm, Thursday through Saturday, 12 – 5 pm.

White Flag Projects
4568 Manchester Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110
http://www.whiteflagprojects.org

Third Degree East Gallery: Friday. 20 August 2010

AUGUST 20: THIRD FRIDAY PARTY, 6 - 10 P.M. FREE
GLASS DEMOS, OPERA, ART, LIVE MUSIC.

At The Gallery: August 20 - September 14
1)Finding A Balance: Sarah Vaughn. This exhibit of glass cast cards is about transition, finding a place where you belong and getting along with where you end up in-between.

2) Where Connections Meet: Teri Moore. Moore's work presents the
threads of connection that tie us together.

Third Degree Glass Factory
5200 Delmar Blvd, between Union and Kingshighway
St. Louis, MO 63108
www.stlglass.com
314-367-4527

Mad Art Gallery: Friday, 3 September 2010

Opening Reception for Birds & Paradise Friday, September 3 7 pm to 11 pm

Works by by Susan Sullivan and Maggie Wheelock at the Mad Art Gallery

PSTL Gallery: Friday, 10 September 2010

Mary Jo Bang: Until Was
Sept. 10-Nov. 6, 2010
Opening Reception Friday, September 10, 6pm-9pm

The exhibition opens Friday, September 10, with an opening that evening from 6 – 9pm. The exhibition will run through November 6. “Was” is the past and “is” is the present. Grammar itself acts like a clock. And what is grammar but a continual rearrangement of the letters of an alphabet? The mixed media collages in Until Was combine text—the labeled parts of the brain, snippets from a Disney book from the 40’s, and even the raw alphabet in the form of stencil letters and magnets—with perennial characters like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Alice, all of whom gesture back to the “was” of childhood and forward to the “is” of this moment. And filling in the blank spaces between found text and borrowed characters, is the hand of the artist. Using gouache, ink, and graphite, I’ve tried to create a strange forest that stands for interiority, that
place where time doesn’t exit, where yesterday is today. Where there is no “was,” at least not until the clock stops for good. Then the curtain comes down.

Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10:30am-5pm

PSTL GALLERY
3842 Washington Blvd.
Saint Louis, MO 63108
314-531-4304
www.paceframing.com

Turner Center for the Arts: Friday, 10 September 2010

Friday, September 10th, from 5 pm - 8 pm

The Turner Center for the Arts presents artist and program participant Tyrone Stroud's one-man show. "Pattern Intensive" will present artwork exemplifying Stroud's use of geometry and repetition to create urban/graffiti inspired work. Most of his work is large scale mixed media (heavily focused on Sharpie Markers), though he'll also be displaying ceramics, books, and other smaller creations of his. He has been creating art with TCA for four years now, and has developed a distinctive style Masked faces and colorful abstract pieces are Stroud's forte, add some motorcycles, some dragons, and some hors' d'oeuvres and you've got one hell of an art show!

Turner Center for the Arts

3109 Sutton Blvd
Maplewood, MO 63143
314-781-4440
TCA@bridgescss.com
www.turnercenterforthearts.org

SLU Museum of Art: Sunday, 26 September 2010

Threads of Tradition: St. Louis Quilters, an exhibition featuring the artistry of St. Louis-area quilters, will be on display at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art on Friday, September 3. A reception will be held on Sunday, September 26 from 2 p.m. ¯ 4 p.m.

Over 40 quilts, featuring various patterns and quilting techniques will showcase the talents involved in the art of quilting. Quilt styles range from the charm, the "crazy," and the memory quilt. Themed quilts include the Gateway Arch; the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Saint Louis University Billiken. The exhibition is free-of-charge.

Museum hours Wednesday through Sunday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Closed on University holidays

Bruno David Gallery: Friday, 10 September 2010

KELLEY JOHNSON
September 10 – November 6, 2010
Opening Reception Friday, September 10, from 6 to 9 pm
Front Room: Gary Passanise
Project Room: Iris Nesher
Media Room: Barry Anderson

Bruno David Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Kelley Johnson. The exhibition Recent Paintings includes paintings of complex abstract landscapes. A fully illustrated color catalogue with writings by James Yood and Vara Lyons accompany the exhibition.

Completely removed from an earthly environment, the artist’s works present vibrantly, at times disturbingly, chaotic other worlds of raw energy and emotion. Yet underneath the jarring tones and clashing lines, his works retain a discipline, depth and meticulously impromptu nature characteristic of figurative conventions. Inspired by the manipulation of space and emotions, Johnson’s canvases present an overall effect of disorder so effectively controlled and manipulated that its thoughtful planning becomes invisible in the process. A

In the Project Room, Iris Nesher presents In the Dark Rooms, a series of photographs that investigates the very essence of female creativity. Nesher produces provocative, hauntingly beautiful photographs of a selection of female writers, poets, and playwrights of various cultural and religious backgrounds.

In the Front Room, the gallery presents "The Sky Is No Longer The Limit - Constructions and Proposals” by Gary Passanise. These small, mixed-media constructions contain ideas in miniature, revealing unsettling, unstable environments within. Grappling with the evolution of the American dream and the uncertainty of contemporary times, we are compelled to explore new possibilities and re-consider the path of our history.

In the Media Room, video artist Barry Anderson presents a three-channel video entitled Totem (1). This new work, created in 2010, depicts, at a distance, a turbulent tornado against a yellow ochre sky, overtaking a Midwestern landscape reminiscent of Dorothy’s Kansas. Upon closer inspection, a mass of swirling faces overwhelmed by this natural force becomes visible.

3721 WASHINGTON BOULEVARD
SAINT LOUIS MO 63108
314.531.3030
INFO@BRUNODAVIDGALLERY.COM
WWW.BRUNODAVIDGALLERY.COM

Metropolitan Gallery: Friday, 3 September 2010

As part of our ongoing series Jazz and the Visual Arts, The Nu-Art Series proudly presents "Paintings by Cbabi Bayoc." Opening reception Friday, September 3, 2010, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Metropolitan Gallery. The show continues through October 2, 2010.

To kick off the St. Louis art season this fall, we offer a local artist, Cbabi Bayoc, paired with jazz vocalist Nikki Washington, who was born in St. Louis in 1973. Washington will sing the songs of Dinah Washington in a one-time-only feature on Saturday, September 4, 2010 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the gallery.

The Metropolitan Gallery is open Wednesday-Friday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday by appointment only.

2936 Locust Street
St. Louis MO 63103
314.535.6500
http://www.thenu-artseries.org

Riverside Gallery: Sunday, 29 August 2010

We are excited for our second young artists show featuring the work of kids who participated in The Roam Family Art Camp. Join us for the opening reception on Sunday, August 29th to see the incredible art and learn more about this unique art camp. The Roam Family Art Camp Show

The Roam Family Art Camp is a week of creativity and learning for children ages 6-10. The theme of this year's camp is "Art and Children's Literature." Each day, the children create a piece of art based on a work of popular children's literature.

Come and enjoy light snacks, wine and an array of dazzling pieces of art by budding young artists from around the community.

Opening Reception: Sunday, August 29th, 4-6 p.m.

Show Dates: August 29 - September 30

Gallery Hours: M 11-4, T-R 9-4, (but, please call ahead for showings because the Gallery is a multi-purpose space).

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.

SLU Museum of Art: Sunday, 29 August 2010

URBAN WANDERERS: THE TAIL END

On Sunday, August 29, beginning at 1 p.m. the Saint Louis University Museum of Art will host Urban Wanderers: The Tail End. Barret Jackman, defenseman for the St. Louis Blues, will be at the museum to mark the final day of the exhibition, featuring artwork inspired by abandoned animals rescued by Stray Rescue of St. Louis.

Urban Wanderers: The Tail End will offer a final opportunity to personally view the art that inspired over 40 area artists, including actress Loretta Swit, to paint, sculpt, and photograph an abandoned stray. The rescued animals have used their paws, tails and noses to create "personalized" works of art. All artwork is available for auction at blacktie-stlouis.com/auctions. Proceeds support Stray Rescue of St. Louis.

Light refreshments, sandwiches from Pappy's Smokehouse, and Anheuser-Busch products will be served.

For more information, please visit http://sluma.slu.edu or call 314.977.2666.

Café Cioccolato: Friday, 13 August 2010

Please join Art Saint Louis tonight, Friday, August 13, 2010, from 6-9 p.m. at our newest Off-Site exhibition location, Café Cioccolato, for a free reception for ASL member artist Greg Kluempers. 10% of food & beverage purchases made at this reception will benefit Art Saint Louis!

Café Cioccolato is located in downtown St. Louis at 816 Olive Street, on Olive between 8th & 7th Streets. Park at a meter or in the Culinaria garage.

To learn more about Art Saint Louis exhibits & events, visit http://www.artstlouis.org and visit the Gallery at 555 Washington Ave., #150, downtown St. Louis, MO. 314/241-4810. Gallery hours: M-F 10-5 & Sat. 10-4.

Syndicate Building: Saturday 28 August 2010

"Up to a Point" A Group Exhibit
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 28, 2010- 7-10pm, wine, soft drinks, sweets.
August 28 - October 23, 2010

A no theme exhibit of recent artistic creations by a cross section of St. Louis artists. Come check out paintings, sculpture, photography, prints and mixed media created by selected artists: Connie LaFlam, Meghan White, Greg Smith, William Davis, Carrie Meyer, Evelyn Yocom, Evan Honercamp, Thomas Sheperd, Jon Mathews, Janice Senn, Deanna Chafin, Jordan Lemay, Kyra Termini, Laura Tolley, David Colbitz, Zack Drier, Claire Hyman, Jim Shank, Bob Koch, Mary Hessler and Paul LaFlam.

Additional viewing by appointment. Contact: Paul LaFlam 314-436-9374 or artthngs@hotmail.com

Syndicate Building
4th and 5th floor galleries
915 Olive St.
St. Louis, Mo. 63101

Luminary/Center for the Arts: Friday 10 September 2010

LUMINARY CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS
ANSWER FACTORY

September 10-October 9, 2010

The Luminary Center for the Arts is pleased to present the international group exhibition Answer Factory opening on Friday, September 10 from 6-9pm. This high-profile exhibition brings together six innovative emerging artists working along the theme of how information is processed, truth statements are proposed and the enigmatic ways we generate answers to unanswerable questions. Answer Factory brings together a diverse group of text-based and installation artists in a serio-comic presentation of facts, figures, mute megaphones, vision statements, decontextualized statements of support, and a mechanical bird questioning a mechanical rabbit about the nature of reality.

Fernando Orellana’s new mechanized piece, Beta, forms a dialogue between a mechanical bird and an unanswering audience, posing questions about the body, about the infinite, about itself. Posed against this piece is the video projection, plain text, which cycles through every possible ending to the phrase “You Want ____,” indefinitely answering every question it posits. Cheryl Waasenaar will be exhibiting her cut-up pieces constructed from commercial signage that embody a series of visual stutters, glitches and failed information.

Bad at Sports podcaster Duncan MacKenzie and collaborator Christian Kuras fill the exhibition with Values Values Values, which lines out an imaginary organization’s eerily familiar vision statement that is both nondescript and dead on. Kuras’s piece Drone circles a set of megaphones one after the other, forming a sphere of possibility and ineptitude, while Diagram of Itself is exactly what it says: a self-referential, utterly enclosed image.

Runo Lagomarsino’s We Support numbly projects its burned-out images suggesting war or commerce or both with the simple text announcing to us that we support…something. Bruce Campbell’s etched pieces embed their text in objects. In A Warm Breath, the viewer has to breathe on etched glass in order to see it and Light: Head: Horn: Mind offers its thoughts in the form of a gilded lightbulb.

314/807-5984
http://theluminaryarts.com

Green Center: Friday, 20 August 2010

Nurture Nature
Shawna Ventimiglia

July 24, 2010 - August 24, 2010
Closing Reception for the Artist: Friday August 20th, 2010 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
Art exhibit hours are Wednesdays from 9am-3pm and by appointment
http://thegreencenter.org/nature_and_art_education/art_exhibits.aspx

The photography exhibition Nurture Nature is currently on display at The Green Center. This body of work honors the special relationship humans have with nature, while challenging those who have lost this special bond to get back to their roots. While this event is free and open to the public, donations to the Green Center are much appreciated. Proceeds of art exhibit sales support The Green Center's youth programs.

The Green Center
8025 Blackberry Avenue
University City, MO 63130
314-725-8314
info@thegreencenter.org

Craft Alliance in the Loop: Friday, 10 September 2010

Matt Wilt, Orwell, Mixed Media, 2010

Matt Wilt: Trials and Errors
Exhibition probes the ever changing boundaries between the natural and the synthetic world

September 10 – October 31
FREE Opening Reception on Friday, September 10, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Thursday, 10am–5pm; Friday-Saturday, 10am–6 pm, Sunday, 11am–5pm. Closed Monday.

In the exhibition Wilt explores the body and its uneasy union with the artificial or mechanical. “Symbolic forms that I find particularly compelling include the hand and objects used as surrogates for the body: bottle nipples, respirator bags, sex toys, prosthetics,” said Wilt. “The hand exemplifies the human presence, while the other objects, to varying degrees, distance us from the most human of activities. These forms, as manufactured objects replicating natural functions, act as substitutes for nature. I find this composite of the physical body and the synthetic world simultaneously fascinating and frightening. “

The title, Trials and Errors, is Wilt’s homage to all people involved in processes that require skill and analysis along with an equal measure of faith and risk. “I admire scientists and artists who imagine seemingly outlandish hypotheses and still have the courage to pursue their possibilities,” said Wilt. “With a material like clay, trial and error is a fundamental way to experiment and learn. It can sometimes be heartbreaking and often joyous. This exhibition will be a culmination of ideas and decisions based on risk, faith and hope.”

Opening concurrently at the Charak Gallery is the exhibition Playing Around, featuring the work of Corey Ackelmire and Nathan Dube. Both artists work in metals and put a spin on the design and function of everyday objects. “This work alters the forms and functions of familiar objects for the purpose of subverting my viewer’s expectations of those objects,” said Ackelmire. “I hope to make the viewer question often overlooked aspects of the objects that surround us: aspects which include function, design and the emotional resonance of both.”

Craft Alliance in the Delmar Loop
6640 Delmar Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63130
www.craftalliance.org
(314) 725-1177

Gallery 210: Thursday, 9 September 2010

The Biennial
The UM-St. Louis Fine Art Faculty

September 9 -October 9, 2010

Gallery 210 opens its fall exhibition season with The Biennial: The UM-St. Louis Fine Art Faculty. This exhibition presents new work by tenured and adjunct studio faculty in the Art and Art History Department at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The participating artist include Marian Amies, Ken Anderson, Linda Bangert, Sharon Callner, Stephen Da Lay, Jennifer McKnight, Lucí McMichael , Phillip Robinson, Jeffrey Sipple and, Dan Younger. The exhibition features a wide variety of media including sculpture, graphic design, drawing, painting, photography, and mixed media.

There is a public reception for the artists at Gallery 210 on September 9 starting at 5:30 PM.

All Gallery 210 events are free and open to the public. Public parking for Gallery 210 is available at the South Millennium Parking Garage on the east side of East Drive on the UM-St. Louis Campus. Handicapped parking is available behind Gallery 210.

Gallery 210 is on the University of Missouri-St. Louis at 44 East Drive, TCC between the North UM-St. Louis Metro Station and the Touhill Performing Arts Center. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The gallery phone is (314) 516-5976; the fax is (314) 516-4997; and email is gallery@jinx.umsl.edu. For parking locations, campus maps and directions to Gallery 210 please visit our website.

Atrium Gallery: Friday, 13 August 2010

Carl Goldhagen, "Modern Times," 1995, photo emulsion on lead, 1 of 3, 37" x 29 1/2"

Atrium Presents an End of Summer Show, "Thinning."
Time for our annual "thinning of the racks."

Presented will be 24 works from the best of Atrium, celebrating twenty-four years in business.
Selections are offered at special pricing during this exhibition.

Opening with a Summer Sangria Reception
Friday August 13th 6-8 p.m

S. Carmody Photography: Friday, 3 September & 8 October 2010

DISTANT DREAMS - photographic exhibit by Shawn Escoffery
Preview reception with artist: Friday, September 3, from 6-9PM
Maplewood ArtsWalk Reception with artist: Friday, October 8, from 6-9PM
Show runs though December 5, 2010

S. Carmody Photography hosts Distant Dreams, a collection of images from the travels of New Orleans - based photographer Shawn Escoffery. The exhibit comprises images taken over the past 3 years in countries such as Burma, India, Japan and South Africa.

Escoffery's images possess not only dreamlike visual beauty, but also display an empathic sensitivity to his subjects. Photography for Escoffery is a conduit for self exploration as well as a means for understanding the world around him. A city planner by day, Escoffery implements his studies of urban development to provide a deeper framework for his photographic explorations. “Photography is a passion, a way to share life,” he says. His work generally possesses an underlying theme of aloneness or solitude, expressed from the viewpoint of a silent observer hidden in the normalcy of everyday life. Escoffery explains: “I see the world in frames, separating moments of life into single images while finding solitude in the midst of chaos. I seek the unknown and I look for the beauty in despair, the stories that are never told and the uncommon in the common. I photograph people in their environments because I am curious of what lays behind their eyes, where they have been and where they hope to go. I observe all that is around me and shoot to give each grain of time a name.”

S. Carmody Photography
2707 Sutton Blvd.
Maplewood MO 63143
314-401-8089
info@carmodyphoto.com

Parkway Collection: Friday, 20 August 2010

The Parkway Collection of Important 20th Century African-American Works of Art .

This is the first time in the Midwest an exhibit and sale of historically significant works of art by exclusively African-Americans has occurred. The artwork was executed between 1900-1970, and the majority between 1940-1960. Artists include: Charles White, Aaron Douglas, Hale Woodruff, Hughie Lee-Smith, Palmer Hayden, W.E. Scott and many others.

The website for the exhibit is www.parkwaycollection.com

Foundry Art Center: Friday, 27 August 2010

Gallery Exhibitions: August 27 - October 8
Opening Reception: August 27, 5 - 9 u

Gallery I & II:
The Artful Palette
This juried exhibition celebrates the art of painting. Artists using any wet paint media including, oils, acrylics, watercolors, and gouache will be featured. Juror: David Spear.

Gallery III Group 4 Award Winners - Unrefined Light
Gwen Arkin, Annette Fournet, Russ Rosener, Shannon Welles
These four artists each won awards in a previous
Foundry Art Centre exhibition

Ameristar Gallery- Emerging Artist
The Foundry Art Centre is pleased to present the work of Boisali Biswast 27, 5 - 9 PM

Duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 10 September 2010

"Radiant Rhino", 2010 by Mary Sprague pastel on paper 30" h x 40" w

Exhibition opens Friday, September 10th with a reception 5–8pm. The exhibition will run through October 16th.

Mary Sprague has been contemplating the nature of the rhinoceros. Known more recently for her humorous depictions of birds-Chickens and Eagles- her new body of work about the rhinoceros represents a departure in subject matter. In 1515 Albrecht Durer famously produced a woodcut of a rhinoceros based on a written description of an Indian rhino that had recently arrived in Lisbon. The resulting print looks like a fantastic military tank- as if the animal were wearing plate armor. Durer’s artistic mistake has remained the popular view of the exotic species: a tough thick-skinned brute. Even though we now understand the skin is as sensitive as our own, Sprague’s rhinos also wear plate armor. Not, as in Durer’s case in error, but for an emotive and comic characterization making the animal look like a medieval knight. Sprague’s attitude toward the human figure explains this tendency: “The human figure- I’ve never been able to identify with it. I don’t do drawings of humans because they don’t tell you the truth.” In a similar way Durer’s mistake, which created a stunning representation of the armored rhino, still seems true to our eyes today. We know the print is a rhino despite the information being objectively wrong. Sprague explores this anthropomorphic truth by recasting skin into plate armor. With Sprague’s new work the rhino’s face and posture hint at familiar human emotions and obsessions. She transforms a herd of wild animals into human-like medieval armies, brooding kings and gallant knights. By toying with representations she plays with the objective information but still tells us something true about this majestic species.

Good Citizen Gallery: Friday, 10 September 2010

Opening Reception Friday, Sept. 10, 6-10pm
Sept. 10 - Oct. 9, 2010

Good Citizen will be hosting The Asynchronous Array, an installation of kinetic work by Pittsburgh based artist Keny Marshall. Marshall utilizes electric motors, surplus equipment, and scrap hardware for hand built kinetic/robotic devices that investigate the relationship between humans and technology. His installations, with their transparent inner workings, act in sharp contrast to the increasing invisibility of our current technology.

For The Asynchronous Array, Marshall will be creating a habitat for small homemade sound emitting electronic devices. The robotic devices will interact with each other using a set of simple rules as a guideline for behavior. However, when an observer approaches these devices, they will have a direct impact upon them, interacting with the system as a whole. A synchronous system in computer architecture typically consists of operations under a strict centralized control. Allowing human interaction as a determining factor for behavior, The Asynchronous Array will follow a system more closely related to the human world. A system consisting of a reactive jumble of inputs and outputs, each vying for your attention, with direct impact upon one another.

Gallery Hours Fri., Sat. Noon - 5pm and by appointment

Good Citizen Gallery
2247 Gravois Ave,
St. Louis MO 63104-2852

Craft Alliance Grand Center: Friday, 27 August 2010

Elizabeth Keithline: Smarter/Faster/Higher
Curated by Luanne Rimel and Stefanie Kirkland
August 27, 2010 – January, 2011
FREE Opening Reception on Friday, August 27, 6-8pm

The exhibition features work by Elizabeth Keithline and explores the tension between the natural world and the world of technology. In Smarter/Faster/Higher, Keithline activates the Craft Alliance gallery space by drawing the viewer into a current of figures traversing the space. The exhibition consists of multiple woven wire human figures that cross the Gallery from south to north. Crawling from a group of wire trees on one side, they slowly begin to walk, then run, then stretch to ascend the opposite wall. On that wall, the same group of trees is arrayed, but this time as drawn by a Drawbot, a machine that has produced an exact replica of the trees on the south wall.

Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 12noon–6pm; Sunday, 12noon–5pm, Closed Monday and Tuesday.

Craft Alliance in the Kranzberg Arts Center
501 N. Grand
St. Louis, MO 63103
www.craftalliance.org
(314) 534-7528

Fort Gondo: Friday, 6 August 2010

Please join us for the opening of "4 Artists: New Works by Mark Buckheit,
Courtney Kennedy, Bridget Kraft & Jeff Robtoy" on August 6th, 6-9pm at Fort
Gondo Compound for the Arts. The show will be up for the weekend only, so the
opening will be the best time to check out the work.

For further information about the show and the artists, please check out Dana
Smith's interview with exhibition coordinator Liz Wolfson.
http://www.creativesaintlouis.com/2010/07/27/dana-smith-interviews-liz-wolfson-on-4-artists-fort-gondo-86/

Samples of each artists' work can be viewed at
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=132493520123027.

Fort Gondo
3151 Cherokee St.
St. Louis MO, 6311

Atrium Gallery: Friday, 13 August 2010

Atrium Presents an End of Summer Show

"Thinning"

Doug Salveson,"Terrace Temple," 1993 Carl Goldhagen, "Modern Times," 1995 Oil on canvas, 68 1/8" x 55" photo emulsion on lead, 1 of 3, 37" x 29 1/2"

Time for our annual "thinning of the racks." Presented will be 24 works from the best of Atrium, celebrating twenty-four years in business. Selections are offered at special pricing during this exhibition. Opening with a Summer Sangria Reception Friday August 13th 6-8 p.m 4728 McPherson Ave. St. Louis, MO 63108 W-Sat 10-6, Sunday 12-4 314.367.1076 atrium@earthlink.net atriumgallery.net

Mad Art: Friday, 6 August 2010

Opening Reception for Six
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Opening reception for Six - work by Amy Bautz, Deb Douglas, Coby Ellison, Maria Marshall, Carolyn Palmer and Gary Passanise is this Friday, August 6, 2010, from 7:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. For more details, please visit our website.