Gallery FAB: Thursday, 27 October 2011

The Other Picture
October 24th through November 20th
Opening reception: Thursday October 27th from 5-7pm

The University of Missouri at St. Louis and Gallery FAB are pleased to announce the opening of “The Other Picture,” an exhibition created to explore the relationship between photography and painting in a contemporary sense. Since its invention, photography has been impacting the conceptual and technical processes of painters. In this exhibition we see the photographic imagery of eight contemporary painters from various locales. Their painting output represents a broad and exciting range, and this collection of images begins to shed more light on how they use and think about photography in their studio practices. The artists included are Roz Akin of Brooklyn, New York - Brian Dehart of Tulsa, Oklahoma - Michelle Forsyth of Pullman, Washington - Christine Ilewski of Alton, Illinois - Stacie Johnson of Brooklyn, New York - Christopher Reno of Iowa City, Iowa - Michael Rosenfeld of Los Angeles, California and Michael Woody of Urbana, Illinois.

Curated by Michael Behle, Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Gallery FAB
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Department of Art and Art History
201 Fine Arts Drive
St. Louis, Missouri 63121
314-516-6967

Gateway Gallery: Friday, 14 October 2011

CLAIRE MEDOL HYMAN: PRINTS and MULTIMEDIA
October 14-November 18

Open Reception: October 14, 2011, 6: 00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Wine and appetizer reception

www. clairehyman.com

GATEWAY GALLERY
21 N. Bemiston Ave.
Clayton, MO

Bruno David Gallery: Friday, 21 October 2011

CHARLES SCHWALL: Source Confluence
Opening Reception: Friday, October 21, from 6 to 9 pm

Front Room: Mario Trejo: Centered
WOP Space: Bill Kohn: Grand Center Series
Media Room: Brett Williams: Blurs

Bruno David Gallery is pleased to present Charles Schwall, Source Confluence. Schwall’s new paintings investigate his longstanding interest in curvilinear and organic formations found in nature that are connected to growth, water imagery, and the life sciences. Source Confluence explores the origins, metamorphosis, and rhythms of life forces through oil and gouache paintings. The works employ a vocabulary of soft colors distinguished by lightness and subtlety. His abstract imagery combines multiple forms to create forces of expansion and contraction that reveal processes in which organic life appears.

In the WOP Space, the gallery presents a series of works on paper titled Grand Center Series by the late Bill Kohn. In his final body of work, which began in 2002 and continued until his death in November 2004, Kohn returned his focus to St. Louis, painting the landscape of historic and modern buildings around Grand Boulevard in the Grand Center arts district of St. Louis. Kohn created these pieces while working on several large-scale paintings for the 2006 exhibition Centering on the Grand at the CAM (Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis). Kohn stated in 2004 that, “Grand Center as a landscape embodies forces of creativity, decay, restoration, preservation, learning and innovation, interacting over time in the heart of a metropolitan region, whose rich character is often overlooked by its own residents,” which demonstrates his interest in bringing to light the culture and history of the city through his work.

Kohn traveled the world, sharing his vision of many significant places through paintings that were celebrated for their vibrant color and dizzying perspectives. Machu Picchu in Peru, the Duomo in Florence, the bridges of Paris, the Grand Canyon, Khajuraho, and Jaiselmer in India were his favorite sites.

In the Front Room, the gallery presents “Centered” by Mario Trejo. This new work is a continuation of the ongoing series “Catharsis”. This series is a refreshing remix of the artist’s process while reiterating his core artistic values. The title has its root in the Greek katharsos, for “pure”. The binary chromatics, parity of mark making, and consistency of dimensions evident in all of the pieces are what Trejo has imposed on his own process: a purification of form and content. What results from this structure are compositions that radiate a controlled chaos and a sophisticated treatment of volume, perspective, and scale. Trejo uses a black and white palette to emphasize the contrast between background and gesture. The images he has created utilize this method to elegantly occupy the picture plane as if in a photogram or some sort of electroscopic imaging print. This body of work denotes an evolution of the artist’s vision of the mark as the building block of the performance and remnant, and of the void as the arena for battles between the hand and instrument, space and perception, part and whole. Trejo’s fundamental commitment to purity results in work that embodies mystery, metaphysical energy, and optical wonder. This commitment serves as a testament to the artist’s disciplined mind and unflinchingly precise hand.

In the Media Room, the gallery presents a new video work titled Blurs by Brett Williams. Blurs is an investigation of memory and the difficulties associated with remembering. The way we remember past events in our lives is not reliable and cannot fully be trusted. We construct our memories. Williams spent several hours in wonder and fascination looking down into the cold air return grate in the hallway leading to his grandfather’s study. He has strong associations with sound and flashes of images when he tries to remember discreet moments related to the past and his perceived memory. He does not trust his constructed version of the past. Instead, he trusts the rhythms and patterns that emerge from the fog of memory.

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

Bonsack Gallery: Friday, 14 October 2011

“Water in Winter,” an exhibit of prints in which Casey Rae explores the icescapes of Lake Superior, will be on display in the Bonsack Gallery from October 14 through November 8.

Rae, who has always loved snow, went searching for the powdery precipitation in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 2006. She says, “I was quite surprised to find Lake Superior transformed into a magnificent frozen landscape. I had an eerie feeling, as if I were on another planet. The shoreline had disappeared and the darkened sky against the bright ice enhanced the feeling of an alien world. I spent the day taking pictures at the edge of Lake Superior, but I was not able to capture the feeling I had on first discovery.”

Rae returned to the Lakes the following year with a more serious objective. She says, “I wanted to recreate photographically that haunting feeling of winter isolation that I had experienced. To do this the images needed to be large scale. I shot 4x5 transparencies, and to get as much detail as possible, I later scanned the film on a high-resolution scanner. I cropped the images just above and below the horizon line and printed them (very large) in order to convey the feeling of vastness of these Lakes. The resulting icescapes, printed on fine art paper, transcend the photographic medium with their other-worldly presence.”

All are invited to a public reception hosted by the artist from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, on Friday, October 14. Regular gallery hours are 8 am to 6:30 pm, weekdays. The exhibit is free to the public. For more information, contact Donya Allison (Fine Arts) at 314-993-4040, ext. 229 or dallison@jburroughs.org.

The Bonsack Gallery
John Burroughs School
755 South Price Road
Ladue MO

Poor Souls Gallery: Saturday, 1 October 2011

You are invited ti the 14th Street Gallery _ Poor Souls
Saturday October 1, 2011, 2 PM

Come and enjoy the New Artwork, 5 artists.
One block from Crown Candy

Sheldon Art Galleries: Friday, 30 September 2011

The Sheldon Art Galleries
Cordially Invite You to Our Fall Opening
Friday September 30, 5 – 7 p.m.

Ralston Crawford and Jazz
History of Jazz Gallery and Gallery of Photography

I’ll be your Mirror
Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery

Shawn Burkard: Monoliths 3
Lucy and Stanley Lopata Sculpture Garden and Emerson Entrance

The Sheldon Art Galleries
3648 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108
314.533.9900
www.thesheldon.org/galleries.asp

S. Carmody Photography: Friday, 7 October 2011

Photography Exhibit Opening: Yoichi Nagata: Star of the Stars

Opening Reception: October 7, 6-9PM during the Maplewood Fiddlefest ArtsWalk. Show runs until December 11, 2011.

S. Carmody Photography presents Yoichi Nagata's Star of the Stars, a photographic exhibit featuring portraits from Tokyo's nightclub district. Nagata has spent the past 5 years capturing over 600 images of outlandishly dressed club-goers, 30 of which will appear in the show. The fashions are inspired by a diverse assortment of themes: naturalistic to synthetic, ancient to futuristic, and eastern to western. Cosplay, kawaii (cute/adorable) gothic, gothic Lolita, cyberpunk, fetish, and visual kei are some of the many styles represented. Nagata draws parallels between these partyers and the ancient basra or kabukimono, shamans and social rebels in Japan's medieval and early modern periods who were known for their daring, outlandish dress and behavior.

The clubgoers' fake eyelashes, hair extensions, tattoos and character goods that cover their bodies seem to infinitely breed and multiply in a motley riot of colors. Since ancient times, wearing bright colors and ornaments has been considered an effective way to call down luck from the spirits who are said to be attracted to such brilliance.

Nagata asks, "Could our modern-day basara be like the shamans of yesteryear, channeling the gods and spirits of this megalopolis who have long ceased to call to the humans who live within their ken? If so, will these shamans indeed be able to bring supernatural blessing upon Tokyo, now in the fast-dwindling last days of our fossil-fuel-based civilization?"

Nagata will be unable to fly in for the show, but will be there in spirit.

Sarah Carmody
2707 Sutton Blvd.
Maplewood MO 63143
www.carmodyphoto.com
314-401-8089

May Gallery: Friday, 23 September 2011

Ellen Fein Rosenbaum
Functional Architecture

Lincoln Highway, Iowa, 2007

26 August - 23 September 2011
Closing Reception Friday, 23 September, 5-7 pm

and in the Small Wall Gallery, Toy Camera Photos

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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.

Victor Roberts Building: Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Pais Center’s youth photograph their neighborhood for exhibit

The Academy neighborhood in St. Louis once served as the setting for “Meet Me in St. Louis.” More recently it has fallen on hard times with many homes lying in ruins due, in part, to illegal brick scavenging. The neighborhood, bordered by Dr. Martin Luther Kinger Drive, Delmar Boulevard, North Kingshighway Boulevard and Union Boulevard, also boasts relics of its more elegant past and a nod to the future: well-kept older homes, newly renovated houses, busy shopping centers and active street life.

Academy is the setting for “PPRC Photography Project: Pais Youth Development Center,” the newest exhibition for the Public Policy Research Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Children from the nonprofit center, which is based in the neighborhood, took to the streets to capture the more vibrant aspects of their surroundings. They photographed deep turquoise steps of the Christ’s Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church, a close-up of a glossy yellow fire hydrant cap and a vintage red Cadillac against the backdrop of a red brick house adorned with red ribbons.

The colorful exhibit will be on display Sept. 27 to Jan. 8 at the PPRC Photography Gallery in 427 Social Sciences and Business Building at UMSL, 1 University Blvd. in St. Louis County (63121). Gallery hours are from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. An opening reception will be from noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 27 in the gallery.

A duplicate of the exhibit will be on display Sept. 27 to Jan. 8 in the northwest hallway at the Victor Roberts Building, 1354 N. Kingshighway Blvd. in St. Louis (63113). The exhibit can be viewed from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. An opening reception will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Victor Roberts Building.

More information:
pprc.umsl.edu
314-516-5273

UMSL PPRC Photography Gallery: Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Pais Center’s youth photograph their neighborhood for exhibit

The Academy neighborhood in St. Louis once served as the setting for “Meet Me in St. Louis.” More recently it has fallen on hard times with many homes lying in ruins due, in part, to illegal brick scavenging. The neighborhood, bordered by Dr. Martin Luther Kinger Drive, Delmar Boulevard, North Kingshighway Boulevard and Union Boulevard, also boasts relics of its more elegant past and a nod to the future: well-kept older homes, newly renovated houses, busy shopping centers and active street life.

Academy is the setting for “PPRC Photography Project: Pais Youth Development Center,” the newest exhibition for the Public Policy Research Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Children from the nonprofit center, which is based in the neighborhood, took to the streets to capture the more vibrant aspects of their surroundings. They photographed deep turquoise steps of the Christ’s Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church, a close-up of a glossy yellow fire hydrant cap and a vintage red Cadillac against the backdrop of a red brick house adorned with red ribbons.

The colorful exhibit will be on display Sept. 27 to Jan. 8 at the PPRC Photography Gallery in 427 Social Sciences and Business Building at UMSL, 1 University Blvd. in St. Louis County (63121). Gallery hours are from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. An opening reception will be from noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 27 in the gallery.

A duplicate of the exhibit will be on display Sept. 27 to Jan. 8 in the northwest hallway at the Victor Roberts Building, 1354 N. Kingshighway Blvd. in St. Louis (63113). The exhibit can be viewed from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. An opening reception will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Victor Roberts Building.

More information:
pprc.umsl.edu
314-516-5273

RAC Gallery: thursday, 22 September 2011

The Gallery at The Regional Arts Commission Presents
Textile Variations/ New Directions
Curated by Barbara Simon

GALLERY TALK on Thursday, September 22
5:30pm Reception 6:00pm Talk

Exhibition continues through November 6

As the work of the 10 textile artists in this exhibition reveals, textiles display visual appeal, skillful execution and experimentation. Their creation incorporates dyes, paints, image transfers, silkscreens, stamping, stitching and text, just some of the possibilities available to fiber artists. Textile Variations/ New Directions is part of the St. Louis biennial collaboration event Innovations in Textiles 9 (http://innovationsintextiles.com).

Artists in the exhibition: Joyce Briscoe, Erin Dimick, Sun Smith-Foret, Marjorie Hoeltzel, Dawn Ottensmeier, Nicole Ottwell, Jo Stealey, Laura Strand, C. Alana Tibbets, Rena Wood

Exhibition Dates: September 16 - November 6, 2011
Gallery Talk: Thursday, September 22
Reception: 5:30 p.m.
Talk: 6:00 p.m.

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, noon - 5:00 p.m.

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)

Aisle 1 Gallery: Friday, 14 October 2011

Opening Reception
at Aisle 1 Gallery
October 14, 2011, 7-11pm.

Saturday Novermber 12, Noon - 4 pm, Closing Reception

Join Aisle 1 Gallery on Cherokee Street Friday Oct 14th for the Opening Reception. Eric Nichols is a Cherokee Street resident and patron. His works are vibrant and technically intoxicating leaving the viewer lost in thought.

Process and experimentation have proved to be valuable factors in the development of Eric's current body of work. The past provided a sculptural, technical and historical knowledge that set the foundation for my creative process. Eric has a fascination with the manipulation of material and found forms.

View the exhibition During Gallery Hours, Saturdays noon-4 pm or by appointment and on our website.

2627 Cherokee Street
at the corner of Texas, one block west of Jefferson.
63118
www.aisle1gallery.com

MOCRA: Saturday, 24 September 2011

Adrian Kellard: The Learned Art of Compassion

September 24 - ­ December 11, 2011
Free public opening reception Saturday, September 24, 2011, 1:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Regular museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Admission is free, though there is a suggested donation of $5, or $1 for students and children.

Saint Louis University’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) presents "Adrian Kellard: The Learned Art of Compassion," a selection of work by American artist Adrian Kellard (1959­91). Although a professionally trained artist, Kellard incorporated “high” art with “low” art, combining images quoted from artists such as Giotto and Michelangelo with images from pop culture. Working in the stylistic tradition of German Expressionism, Kellard demonstrated expertise with wood carving by creating bold images of Christ, Mary, and Christian saints in contemporary contexts, for which an X-ACTO knife was his principal tool and household paint on pine panels were his media.

Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA)
3700 West Pine Mall Blvd.
on the campus of Saint Louis University
mocra.slu.edu
314-977-7170

Mad Art Gallery: Friday, 4 November 2011

The Mad Art Gallery is proud to present the fifth installment of the annual Famous Fictional art show, which opens on the evening of Friday, November 4th, 2011 continuing until November 24th by appointment.

The Montagues vs. The Capulets in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. The Atreides vs. The Harkonnens in Frank Herbert’s novel Dune (or David Lynch’s film). The DiMeras vs The Bradys in the soap opera Days of Our Lives. As long as there has been fiction, there have been families. And as long as there have been fictional families, there have been family feuds.

Over 30 artists will be making two portraits of families from literature, cinema, and television, and hanging them side-by-side in direct competition. There will be families of all kinds: functional, dysfunctional, historic, futuristic, human, animal, non-traditional, nuclear. What happens when Donald Duck’s cartoon brood faces off against the Brothers Karamazov? Or when the Swiss Family Robinson goes head-to-head against their Lost in Space counterparts? SURVEY SAYS: You have to see to find out!

Famous Fictional assembles a diverse family of St. Louis-based artists from the fields of illustration, comics, photography, printmaking, graphic design and tattoo art. Artists include Amanda Mueller, Anchovy, Bob Hartzell, Brian Cummings, RJ Shay, Brian Yap, Courtney Kennedy, Denny Smith, Drew Crowley, Mary Frances Foster, Jenny Cimino, Jessica Robtoy, Leslie Townley, Katie Fischer, Charlene & Matt Kindt, Matt Reedy, Monica Heitz, Nathan Poetzscher, Nick Main, Noah McMillan, Rob Brooks, Ron Weaver, Ryan Doggendorf, Sam Washburn, Thomas Plunk and more.

The show is once again being curated by host Dan Zettwoch, who promises to be a fair arbiter amongst all families feuding and not kiss any of the female contestants before moving on to the fast money round. A free, opening reception will be held on Friday, November 4, 2010, from 7:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. Cash bar available.

SLU Museum of Art: Friday, 16 September 2011

The Saint Louis University Museum of Art
Friday, September 16 6 p.m.
Exhibition continues until November 20

In Motion: Sports Photography by Lew Portnoy features more than 75 images of some of the world's most famous athletes at their best. In that split second that becomes iconic, Portnoy captures the victory, the defeat and those rare moments that have come to define these competitors as legends. View these thrilling images and meet Lew Portnoy at the opening reception beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16 at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art.

From boxing to bull riding, from soccer to swimming, In Motion transcends time and space to bring the magic of sports into focus. This exhibition seizes the imagination of the art enthusiast as well as the sports fan through Portnoy's gift of combining art and sport — masterpiece from moment.

Join Portnoy as his photographs suspend for eternity the searing defiance of Muhammad Ali, the deft delivery of a Popovich kick, the unleashed elation of the Cardinals mobbing Ozzie Smith as he leaps toward home plate, trailing echoes of Hall of Fame broadcaster, Jack Buck: "Go crazy, folks!" "Go crazy!"

All photography contained in the exhibition is available for silent auction and will benefit Cardinal Care. The St. Louis Cardinals Community Relations department and the team's non-profit foundation, Cardinals Care are dedicated to caring for underprivileged children. The mission statement is achieved through numerous programs supported by St. Louis Cardinal players, coaches, staff, volunteers, sponsors, and especially Cardinal baseball fans. Thanks to the support of so many, since its inception in 1997, Cardinals Care has distributed more than $14 million dollars to support organizations throughout the St. Louis area.

For bidding information, please visit http://sluma.slu.edu.

Old Orchard Gallery: Friday, 23 September 2011

Please join us for the opening reception of "33September" on Friday, September 23, from 5:30pm to 10pm.

The 33September exhibit opening features new work by 33 artists, live music, and food and drink. Admission is .free and open to the public at 37 South Old Orchard in Webster Groves. The exhibit is also open for viewing (and purchase) on Saturday, September 24, from 10am to 5pm. For a list of all participating artists and a Google map showing our gallery location, visit http://www.myslart.org/events/33september on the Internet.

S. Carmody Photography: Sunday, 25 September 2011

UpCycled for MS Cycle

Sunday, September 25 · 1:00pm - 4:00pm
S. Carmody Photo and Pixies: 2707 &2709 Sutton Blvd., Maplewood MO 63143

Bid on your favorite pieces from the UpCycled show and other fabulous donated items during this hors d'oeuvres reception to benefit the MS 150 bike teams. Event is free, but RSVPs are appreciated. Contact: upcycled@carmodyphoto.com or call 314-401-8089.

Philip Slein Gallery: Friday, 16 September 2011

Reception: Friday, September 16th, 2011, 6-8 pm runs through October 29th
Hours: Tues.-Sat. 10am-5pm. Cost: Free and open to the public.

The Philip Slein Gallery presents Wonderland: A Bright and Guilty Place, recent figurative paintings by an artist, Phyllis Bramson, frequently linked to the Chicago Imagists. Perhaps the Chicago artist her work most resembles, however, is Henry Darger, all of whose artistic efforts went towards a child-like depiction of an imaginary planet, complete with all sorts of submerged
eroticism. Phyllis’ other art historical references include: Indian and Persian miniatures, 16th and 17th century French ornamental painting, Japanese art and design, as well as Victorian-era depictions of fairies. Curators have frequently pointed out the theatrical in Bramson’s paintings, for example: Lanny Silverman notes “her theatrical use of pattern, decorative elements and filigree that recall historic notions of the Rococo,” even as she depicts Rococo-like scenes in her paintings.

Bramson calls her paintings “ruminations about submerged eroticism played out against operatic opulence.” To paraphase what Stephen Prokopoff says about Henry Darger, her art enables her to transform her obsessions into luminous productions.

The Philip Slein Gallery
314.621.4634
1319 Washington Ave.
Downtown St. Louis

Turner Center for the Arts: Friday, 16 September 2011

This Friday, September 16th from 5-9 pm, TCA hosts self-taught artist Melelani Perry's second solo show. Melelani creates intricate, shiny, glittery, spiritual, funny, socially astute collages using found and recycled materials. Don't miss your opportunity to view and purchase artwork by a true self-taught master. All art purchases help support the Turner Center for the Arts mission of fostering independence through the creation of fine art. To find out more about Melelani, or TCA, at www.turnercenterforthearts.org

Friday, September 16th, 5-9 pm

For details or to schedule a viewing: nate@turnercenterforthearts.org or 314-781-4440.

3109 Sutton Blvd, in Maplewood
www.turnercenterforthearts.org

Third Degree East Gallery: Friday. 16 September 2011

September 16: Third Friday Party, 6 - 10 P.M. Free

At The Gallery: Opening September 16 - October 18: Reflections: ArtFiber Saint Louis. Art quilts, sculptural works and stitched constructions that play with the theme of reflection - both
emotional response and the unique quality of glassworks, in particular stained glass. The pieces utilize disperse dye, reactive dye and other surface design techniques and a variety of construction techniques. Artists featured: Carol Neumann, Carole Braig, Deb Lewis, Drew Donnelly Benage, Marianne Axboe, and Pat Owoc.

Reflections is held in conjunction with Innovations in Textiles 9, a biennial collaborative event investigating the state of contemporary textile arts.

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

Good Citizen Gallery: Friday, 7 October 2011

Good Citizen invites you to Commonwealth, a solo exhibition by Derek Larson
Video installation and billboard project by Derek Larson
October 7 - November 5
Opening Reception Friday, October 7, 6-10 PM

Commonwealth will be an immersive installation in which Derek Larson creates a dilapidated sculpture garden incorporating projected video statuary. The work will rely heavily upon the viewer's previous experiences with classical statuary in large institutions. Larson will present a virtual likeness to a grand garden, questioning its function and validity as a common space for public interaction. Commonwealth is a response to Federica Bueti's article Give Me The Time in which she states "satisfaction of temporary desire falsifies experience". With the installation, Larson will point to the divisions in experience between private property and commonality by referencing the curatorial grandiosity of the Getty Center as a reminder of where we are not.

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

Good Citizen Gallery
2247 Gravois Ave,
St. Louis MO, 63104-2852
314-348-4587

Studio Altius: Friday, 7 October 2011

BORN TO WANDER
Photography Exhibition by David McWhirter
Opening Reception Friday, October 7
6-10pm at Studio Altius

Photography can be distilled into moments of time never to come again. These images represent my moments in life. I can't say I go out with a fixed plan as to where and what I photograph. I simply go and see what is out there...

I guess you could say I like to wander and just know when I get there.
-David McWhirter

Mad Art Gallery: Friday, 7 October 2011

Mad Art Gallery proudly presents Sidekicks & Soulmates; a collaborative group show celebrating friendship of every kind. The opening reception will take place on Friday October 7, 2011, from 7:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. This exhibit continues through October 28, 2011, with viewings by appointment.

Friends. Pals. Buddies. Homies. Sidekicks. We’ve got a lot of names for the people that star in our everyday lives, from the special few who know us better than we know ourselves, to the co-workers who help us sludge through our weekly grind, to the strangers we only virtually know online. This show also poses the question of how well we really know those 500 plus friends we have on Facebook, while celebrating those we hold dear through a collaborative showcase of artistic expression.

Please join us for an evening of friendship and celebration for the opening reception of Sidekicks and Soulmates. Who knows, you may even make a new friend.

Des Lee Gallery: Thursday, 6 October 2011

OFF THE RAILS
New York Fashion Designer Todd Thomas Showcases
A Unique Installation of His Work

October 6 – 31, 2011
FREE Opening Reception on Thursday, October 6, 6-8pm
FREE Lecture at Washington University’s Kemp Auditorium, 4:30 pm, October 5

Craft Alliance is pleased to announce a one-man exhibit at the Des Lee Gallery, featuring the stunning creations of New York fashion designer Todd Thomas. The exhibition follows the audacious career of fashion designer Todd Thomas, starting with his story-like, local beginning here in Saint Louis. Currently, Thomas occupies a glittering position in the world of fashion, and he credits Saint Louis with establishing his creative foundation during the relatively brief but productive period he spent here in the early 1980s. It was the pinnacle of a kind of Do-it-Yourself Renaissance in Saint Louis, where anything was possible for young artists, clothing makers and performers, all of whom found endless inspiration in each other and what they were doing.

A mass exodus from the city center to the suburbs in the 1960s and ‘70s meant big empty spaces at cheap rents. The rag trade meant endless cheap clothing and fabrics to play with, and punk rock and art flourished in this fertile, jumping counterculture. From Saint Louis, Thomas went to New York, where he developed his craft in many different realms, from designing for the theater and films, to working in the fashion houses of Seventh Avenue.

Today Todd Thomas couldn’t live in a more glamorous world, designing for the likes of Katy Perry, Sarah Jessica Parker, Deborah Harry & Blondie, Cindy Sherman and Parker Posey. He created Deborah Harry’s distinctive look for her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he’s dressed up Sex and the City, helped Jennifer Lopez in developing her fashion line, and sharpened up the Scissor Sisters. He has collaborated with a veritable Who’s Who of the most important fashion editors, stylist and photographers, including Katie Grand, Tonne Goodman, Lori Goldstein, Steven Meisel, Patrick Demarchelier and Terry Richardson. And for the last eight consecutive seasons, Thomas has been responsible for the ultimate glamour event: The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, creating fantastic, opulent works of art to adorn the most beautiful and well-known super models in the world. When designing for celebrities, Thomas’s creations are at once chic, elegant and “red carpet,” sometimes over-the-top and veering into the fantastic. His own collections, for both men and women, are always very conceptual, making use of original prints and eclectic choices of fabrics--beautiful, surprising even when classic, and always wholly original.

Gallery Hours: Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 1 - 6pm. For more information, please call (314) 725-1177 or visit www.craftalliance.org.

THE DES LEE GALLERY
1627 Washington Ave
Saint Louis Mo 63103

Art St. Louis: Friday, 16 September 2011

Please join Art Saint Louis
NEXT Friday evening,
September 16, 2011, from 6-10 p.m.
for a FREE reception for our new exhibit, "Fiber Focus 2011".

Art Saint Louis proudly presents our newest exhibit, "Fiber Focus 2011 ," on view in the Gallery September 6-October 13, 2011. Please join us on Friday, September 16, 2011, from 6-10 p.m. for a FREE reception open to the public--ALL are welcome. Juror Lia Cook will be in the Gallery from 8:20-10 p.m. (after her solo show at Duane Reed Gallery closes; opening reception there 5-8 p.m.).

Ms. Cook will also be with us on Saturday, September 17, from 1:30-1:50 p.m. for a brief FREE Gallery talk, presented in conjunction with day-long gallery talks throughout the St. Louis area as part of the Innovations in Textiles event.

Art Saint Louis presents "Fiber Focus 2011," our biennial fiber/textile art exhibition open to artists in Missouri and the eight Midwestern regional states that border our state: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.

For this year's exhibit, 259 artworks in all media were submitted for Juror Lia Cook's consideration. From those entries, Ms. Cook selected 56 artworks by 42 artists for the show.

Our featured artists in Fiber Focus 2011 are Aviva Alter, Chicago, IL; Carol Bormann, Springfield, MO; David Brackett, Lawrence, KS; J. Penney Burton, Columbia, MO; Dianna Callahan, Morrisville, MO ; Shin-hee Chin, McPherson, KS; Rosemary Claus-Gray, Doniphan, MO; Susannah Dotson, Chicago;Suzy Farren, Webster Groves, MO; Carlene Fullerton, Richmond Heights, MO; Katy Gilmore, Greenville, IL; Mindy Goodman, Kansas City, MO; Stephanie Grubbs, Edmond, OK; Erika Lynne Hanson, Kansas City, MO; Sheri Hausman, Hermann, MO;
Marjorie Hoeltzel, St. Louis; Jess Jones, Smithville, TN; Donna June Katz, Chicago; Lialia Kuchma, Chicago; Carol LeBaron, Elilzabethton, TN; Bette Levy, Louisville, KY; Nicole Ottwell, Edwardsville, IL; Pat Owoc, St. Louis; Teresa Paschke, Ames, IA; Marti Plager, Louisville, KY;
Deeann Rieves, Brentwood, TN; Luanne Rimel, Webster Groves, MO; Trudy Rogers-Denham, Columbia, MO; Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Lexington, KY; Adrienne Sandusky, St. Louis; Jayson Schwaller, Hays, KS; Susan Swisher, Murphysboro, IL; Melinda Snyder, Louisville, KY; Leandra Spangler, Columbia, MO; Patricia Vivod, Troy, IL; Ruth E.W. Walker, Columbia, MO & Suza Wooldridge, Hartsburg, MO; Kathy Weaver, Highland Park, IL; Jennifer Weigel, St. Louis; Jill Rumoshosky Werner, Wichita, KS; Sharon Wright, Barrington, IL; Peggy Wyman, Macomb, MO;
Carol Zeman, Osage Beach, MO.

Click here to view some of the featured artworks in the Art Saint Louis portion of the exhibit.

FREE Opening Reception at Art Saint Louis: Friday, September 16, 2011: 6-10 p.m.
Free juror's Gallery talk Saturday, September 17, 1:30-1:50 p.m.

Art Saint Louis is FREE & open to the public. Gallery Hours: Monday 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday-Friday 10 a .m.-5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Closed Sundays, holidays & between exhibits.

555 Washington Avenue, #150
St. Louis, MO 63101
314/241-4810
www.artstlouis.org

Aisle 1 Gallery: Saturday, 9 September 2011

Join Aisle 1 Gallery on Cherokee Street, Friday, September 9th at the Opening Reception for Bumble & Bramble - Works by Ben Pierce & Joy Tiyasirichokchai. 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Enjoy Samples of Frostbite Gourmet Ice Cream. PBR and wine also available.

Aisle 1 Gallery
2627 Cherokee St.
Saint Louis, MO

Art Dimensions: Friday-Saturdy, 16-17 September 2011

A&B England
BroadeningBASE

On September 16th & 17th, ArtDimensions Gallery & 2720 Cherokee will be hosting “Today’s Truth From Yesterday’s News”: Come join us for two evenings of great live local music and stirring artwork from over 20 local artists inspired by recycled newspaper. Fresh baked pizza available from South City Pizza Co.
Doors open at 6, FREE entry until 8pm! Admission is $7.

ART Dimensions
2720 Cherokee
314-265-2405

Soulard Art Market: Friday, 9 September 2011

Urban Architecture
Opening reception Friday, September 9, 2011 from 7pm – 10pm
The show will be on display from September 9 to October 7.

Soulard Art Market and Contemporary Gallery
2028 S. 12th Street
Saint Louis, MO 63104
(314) 258-4299
www.soualrdartmarket.org
Corner of 12th and Russell, across from McGurk's Pub

RAC Gallery: Friday, 16 September 2011

The Gallery at The Regional Arts Commission Presents Textile Variations/ New Directions
Curated by Barbara Simon

Gallery Opening: Friday, September 16 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Thursday, September 22 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Exhibition continues through November 6
As the work of the 10 textile artists in this exhibition reveals, textiles display visual appeal, skillful execution and experimentation. Their creation incorporates dyes, paints, image transfers, silkscreens, stamping, stitching and text, just some of the possibilities available to fiber artists. Textile Variations/ New Directions is part of the St. Louis biennial collaboration event Innovations in Textiles 9.

Artists in the exhibition: Joyce Briscoe, Erin Dimick, Sun Smith-Foret, Marjorie Hoeltzel, Dawn Ottensmeier, Nicole Ottwell, Jo Stealey, Laura Strand, C. Alana Tibbets, Rena Wood

Exhibition Dates: September 16 - November 6, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, September 16: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Thursday, September 22
Reception: 5:30 p.m.
Talk: 6:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, noon - 5:00 p.m.

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)

Crossroads Art Studio and Gallery: Friday, 9 September 2011

Women's Caucus for Art, St. Louis is pleased to host this exhibit "Beyond the Stitch" as part of the city wide 2011 Innovations in Textiles.

Beyond The Stitch
Sept 8 - October 6, 2011
reception: Friday Sept 9, 7pm - 9pm

Participating artists: Lisa Becker, Corinne Didisheim, Virginia Dragschutz, Sandra Kolde, Pat Owoc, Roxanne Phillips, Perla Segovia, Evie Shucart, Janet Wade, Jacqueline Weatherly,
Jessica Witte, Carol Zeman

hours: M-F 9:30am - 4:30pm, Sat 10am - 3pm

Crossroads Art Studio and Gallery
501 N. Kingshighway
St. Charles, MO 63001

Syndicate Building: Saturday 10 September 2011

Falling Temperatures Opening Reception
Saturday, September 10, 2011, 6-9 pm
Exhibit continues through October 8 by appointment

The spotlighted artists for Falling Temperatures are Connie LaFlam, Lisa Blinn, Mark Swain, Trenna Edwards, Hope Rathnam, Jay Behrle, Carlyne Hasten, Evan Honercamp, Luella Perry, Katja Oosthuis, Meghan White, Janiece Senn, Zack Drier, Tamara Peeples, Alizarin Rose, Erin McGrath Rieke, Terry Pierson and Paul LaFlam

Painting, abstract and otherwise, Photography, traditional and altered, Sculpture, metal and wood, Drawing, graphite and beyond, Jewelry, shiny and natural.

Street parking, no need to feed meters on weekends. 2 hours free parking in the 9th Street Garage, entrance on Olive adjacent to the Syndicate Building, with any purchase, no matter how small, from the Schnucks Culinaria.

Call box entry to building, instructions to be posted or punch in 015 we will buzz you in, take elevator to 4th or 5th floor

Syndicate Building
915 Olive Street
4th & 5th floor Galleries
Saint Louis, Mo. 63101

Alton Museum of History and Art: Friday, 9 September 2011

Kerri Buchanan Stoltz
Artist Reception
Friday, September 9, 2011 · 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Alton Museum of History and Art
2809 College Ave
Alton, IL 62002-4743

Concrete Ocean Art Gallery: Friday, 9 September 2011

After a brief Summer hiatus, Concrete Ocean is proud to announce a solo show with the amazing: Phil Jarvis "Three Rectangles." Our opening reception will be this coming Friday, September 9, 2011 from 7pm until 11pm.

Rectangles may sound terribly common for those of you who are unfamiliar with the works of Phil Jarvis, but he hasn't painted inside a box in over 12 years. His human sized, irregular shaped, psychologically autobiographic canvases with their elaborately contorted hardwood frames have been his long stan...ding artistic mark.

Jarvis admits that as a painter he's had a split personality. One side of him has been evolving as an artist, beginning as a child, through his years as a student at Washington University, and into his professional years since. The other side developed from his 35 years as a sign painter in a small shop in North St. Louis County called B&N Signs. "I always had a clean separation between the two ways of thinking when I worked at B&N, Jarvis says. I did signs during the day, then after work I developed another way of looking at the world through my personal art. The lines of separation aren't so clear now that I am self-employed." He left the sign shop three years ago and has since grown his own business by hand painting enameled signs and wall murals. "My sign painting shares time with my artwork these days," Jarvis says.

The 3 Rectangular shaped works, from which the show at Concrete Ocean is titled, are the collaboration of the sign painting Phil Jarvis and his curious inner artist. On these three substrates are the combined disciplines from both worlds. "I like this new direction, Jarvis says. I can see a fresh world of exploration released by this new internal conversation." Concrete Ocean Art Gallery will display these new works side by side with the irregular shaped canvases Phil Jarvis is so well known for.

Admission is always free and we will also be serving up complimentary gourmet appetizers from "Crabcakes Creative".

Concrete Ocean Art Gallery
314 497 0199
2257 S. Jefferson Ave. @ Shenandoah
St. Louis, MO 63104
http://www.concreteoceanart.com
314-448-1796 or 314-497-0199

Duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 16 September 2011

LIA COOK & LANNY BERGNER
Join us for an opening reception Friday, September 16th from 5-8 PM to meet the artist
Exhibition runs September 16th ­ October 15th, 2011
Gallery Hours Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 5

Lia Cook creates weavings that explore the complex relationship between visual image, sensory stimulation, and emotional identification. Her artistic investigations have followed diverse approaches that are expressed in her various series, including Big Baby, Un/Mask, Traces, Binary Traces and Face Maze, all created from 2000 to the present. Cook weds the early 19th century Jacquard weaving technique with contemporary digitial technology. Beginning with slides, photographs or video stills, she develops her imagery, couples it with digital technology, and creates specifically designed weaves that allow her to build the image thread by thread. The digital pixel becomes a thread that when interlaced with another becomes both cloth and image at the same time. This woven image brings with it many of the sensual experiences that we associate with cloth.

Lanny Bergner is a nature inspired mixed media sculptor, fiber and installation artist who creates organic sculptural constructions and site specific installation environments out of inorganic manmade materials. By using hands-on processes of coiling, fraying, twisting, wrapping, glueing and knotting, Bergner transforms industrial screening, wire, silicone and monofilament into organic constructions.

4729 McPherson Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63108
314.361.4100
info@duanereedgallery.com
www.duanereedgallery.com

Cecille R. Hunt Gallery: Friday, 16 September 2011

Hunt Gallery at Webster University to Present Jillian Conrad: On Tenterhooks
Opening Reception Friday, Sept. 16, 2011

Webster University's Hunt Gallery is pleased to present Jillian Conrad: On Tenterhooks as its inaugural exhibition for the 2011-2012 season with an opening reception on September 16, 2011 from 6­8 at 8342 Big Bend Blvd. The exhibition will remain on view until October 14. On Tenterhooks will be Conrad's first exhibiting in St. Louis and will feature new, site-specific work made this past summer while in residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California.

Known for infusing raw, utilitarian materials with aesthetic integrity, Conrad negotiates the distinctions between two-dimensional images and the three-dimensional world. This new body of work will explore perimeters of an absent object while suggesting the centrality and wholeness of an object present.

The exhibition is guest curated by Marie Heilich. Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm or by appointment

CECILLE R. HUNT GALLERY
Visual Arts Studio Webster University
8342 Big Bend Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri, 63119

Los Caminos: Saturday, 10 September 2011

Doing Easy
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 10th, 7-10pm
September 10th – October 15th, 2011

On the evening of Saturday, September 10th, Los Caminos will kick off the fall exhibition season with Doing Easy, a group exhibition featuring the work of Glen Fogel, Dani Kantrowitz, Gregg Louis, Mike Schuh, and Matthew Strauss. In the exhibition, curator Cole Root examines each artist’s work in relationship to The Discipline of DE, a short story by renowned St. Louis poet William S. Burroughs. The Discipline of DE originally featured in Burroughs’ 1973 publication Exterminator!, which explains:

"DE is a way of doing. It is a way of doing everything you do. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE.”

The philosophy of “doing easy” is not simply a minimal approach to art making, but requires calculated, precise execution. Throughout the exhibition the artists restructure time and effort according to their own systems of logic, revealing their artistic philosophies with each gesture and action.

Los Caminos
2649 Cherokee Street
St. Louis, Missouri 63118
www.loscaminosart.com

Atrium Gallery: Friday, 16 September 2011

Michael Marshall + John Schwartzkopf
"New Studio Works"
Opening September 16th, Reception 6-8 p.m.

Atrium Gallery announces the Opening of the Fall Season with an exhibition, "New Studio Works: Michael Marshall-Monoprints + John Schwartzkopf-Sculpture." Featured will be a selection of new prints Marshall has produced using complex procedures with oil based media and overlapping stencils. They are fresh and intriguing and have very different qualities than his traditional paintings. The composition, as well as the bright and nuanced color come together in an accomplished body of work.

John Schwartzkopf's new works are also a departure from previous constructions, with very fluid, lyrical free-standing sculptures. He is using his favored wood combinations along with some newer materials. Both artists are revealing exciting new explorations currently happening in their studios!

The exhibition opens Friday, September 16th with a reception for the artists from 6 to 8 p.m. Also presented will be Gallery Talks by the Artists, Saturday, September 17th at 11:00 a.m.

Exhibition runs through October 22nd. Regular hours: Wednesday - Saturday: 10 - 6, Tuesday by appointment

Atrium Gallery
4728 McPherson Ave.
Saint Louis, MO 63108
314.367.1076
www.atriumgallery.net

Gallery 210: Thursday, 8 September 2011

The next Gallery 210 exhibit at the University of Missouri–St. Louis will examine the modern and contemporary responses of African American artists to the U.S. South. “Southern Journeys: African American Artists of the South” will be on display Sept. 8 to Oct. 1 in Gallery 210. An opening reception will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 8.

African American artists have long pondered their connection to the South. They might have encountered the region as a literal space “below the Mason-Dixon line” or have experienced as a “place” of mind dreams, memories, spirit history or culture. These cultural “griots” tell multilayered stories in the form of drawings, paintings, sculptures, prints and mixed-media pieces.

The 54 artists in the exhibit have differing geographical ties to the South. Some were born there and have remained. Others have moved beyond its borders. Many who have never lived there have experienced it in one form or another, such as through vacations or while on business.

Whatever the experience, responses to the South still define these artists’ works. Some of the artists featured in the exhibit will include Radcliffe Baileu, Richmond Barthe, Romare Bearden, Beverly Buchanan, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence and Faith Ringold.

The Stella Jones Gallery in New Orleans organized “Southern Journeys.” Regular gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Gallery 210
UMSL’s North Campus
1 University Blvd
St. Louis MO 63121
http://gallery210.umsl.edu

Art St. Louis: Friday, 16 September 2011

Graphic design by Karen Pauls.

Fiber Focus 2011

September 6-October 13, 2011

Main Gallery, Art Saint Louis

FREE Opening reception 6-10 p.m., Friday, September 16, 2011

FREE Juror's Gallery talk 1:30-1:50 p.m., Saturday, September 17, 2011

Art Saint Louis presents our biennial fiber/textile art exhibition open to artists in Missouri and the eight Midwestern regional states that border us: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. We are proud to announce that our 2011 exhibit is Lia Cook.

Luminary Center for the Arts: Friday, 9 September 2011

Main Gallery: FORMAT Group Exhibition
Installation Space: Ann-Maree Walker, Almost like being there
Opening reception: Friday, September 9th from 6-9pm
On view September 9, 2011- October 21, 2011
Wednesday-Saturday from 12-6pm

Main Gallery: FORMAT
On September 9th, The Luminary opens its fall season with an exhibition exploring the malleability of material and experience emerging from online culture. FORMAT features some of the most prominent and engaging artists working with the particularities of web aesthetics, forms of online experience and the interaction between the physical and digital environment. With work ranging from animated GIF's recast as zoetropes to the experience of navigating Geocities made into an immersive, human-scale installation, the exhibition presents an impressive range of net art embedded in physical space. Participating artists include Greg Borenstein and Scott Wayne Indiana, Paul B. Davis, Elna Frederick, Martijn Hendricks, Jon Rafman and Krist Wood. For full bios, please visit us online here.

Installation Space: Ann-Maree Walker, Almost like being there
A new site-specific installation by Ann-Maree Walker, Almost like being there, will open simultaneously in the Installation Space. Almost like being there is a series of small interactive installations situated within the former chapel space that will create a kind of choreographed performance exploring the ritual of conforming one’s body to an environment.

THE LUMINARY | CENTER FOR THE ARTS
www.theluminaryarts.com
4900 Reber Place
Saint Louis, MO 63139

Kemper Art Museum: Friday, 9 September 2011

Fall Opening Celebration
Friday, September 9, Public Reception, 7-9 pm

Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art from Germany and Tomás Saraceno: Cloud-Specific.

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Washington University Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1214
St. Louis, MO 63130
314.935.4523

Norton's Fine Art & Framing: Friday, 16 September 2011

Opening Night: Friday, September 16th: 6 - 8pm

The opening reception coincides with St. Louis' regional "Innovations: A Biennial Textile Event - 2011". More info on Innovations here

Throughout her career, Suzanne Galli Koenen has experimented with many types of media including watercolor, acrylic, art quilts, and fiber. Her newest show truly illustrates that there are “No Limitations” of what she can do. With a focus on sustainability and reuse, Suzanne incorporates fiber “bits and scraps” from projects into various artwork. Pieces not to be missed include her Color Play Series, Rope Vessels, Hooked Fabric Hangings and Mosaic Landscapes.

Norton's Fine Art & Framing
2025 S. Big Bend Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63117
314-645-4040
http://www.NortonsFineArt.com

Craft Alliance in the Kranzberg Arts Center: Friday,16 September 2011

FREE Opening Reception on Friday, September 16, 6-8pm
September 16, 2011 – January 2012

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

Craft Alliance (CA) is pleased to announce the opening of artist duo Guerra de la Paz’s exhibition Follow the Leader, 6pm - 8 pm on Friday, September 16, 2011, at Craft Alliance’s gallery in the Kranzberg Arts Center. Cuban born artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz have worked together as Guerra de la Paz in Miami, Florida, since 1996. Using discarded clothing as an integral medium in their work, Guerra de la Paz reinvents historic ideas and classic icons while commenting on modern culture.

Follow the Leader is an installation named after the popular children’s game where the leader moves around while the followers have to mimic the leader’s actions. Inspired by the subtle message behind this activity, Guerra de la Paz touches on the similarities between this game and the pecking order in contemporary society. The recycled clothing allows them to portray different status levels within a community. They examine the roles of ranking figures and depict the masses by accumulating piles of garments, exposing a delicate mutual dependence in the struggle for power and control.

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