Bruno David Gallery: Friday, 6 September 2013
Leslie Laskey: Windows
Jill Downen: Three-Dimensional Sketchbook (Front Room)
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 2013, 5-9 pm
September 6-October 5, 2013
Leslie Laskey is not only one of the most successful and experienced working artists in the St. Louis area, but an innovative artist whose work never fails to make an impact on how its viewers perceive things. His new and engaging creations often have people walking away seeing something through fresh eyes. Previously, his work S.E.N.T. Security Envelopes Now Tampered (exhibited in 2011) consisted of collaged envelope pieces and guided viewers to a new way of thinking about their mail. Windows, however, as its name implies, invites its viewers to peer through windows. Each individual piece is a stepping-stone to thinking about windows and the series will change the way you have come to know them, too.
Windows tend to be just ordinary things. They are so common around us and in our lives that we seldom really appreciate their nature of keeping rain out, letting light in, protecting us, or subtly and quietly reflecting back images of what surround them. They frame the world like a series of photographs. Laskey creates this notion in his work, occasionally abstracting these ideas and transforming the windows and what they represent into beautiful reminders of how we view our world each day. He is fascinated by the changing frame and focus: whether a window is allowing us to peer into a space or out of one, whether we are looking through it, at what it is reflecting, or perhaps at the window itself, whether it is broken or whole, there is a kind of majesty to them. Windows act as a transitional ledge between two spaces that can be symbolic of so much more.
This series has been thirty-two years in the making for Laskey. His media of choice is ever changing, as is always characteristic of his work. In this body of work, he incorporates collage, oil paint, acrylic, and crayon. It is this variety of media and style that adds to the engaging quality of his work and its impact on his viewers. Without a doubt, Windows will offer a new approach to looking through to the other side and make you appreciate just how significant they can really be.
In the Front Room, the gallery presents an exhibition by Jill Downen titled Three-Dimensional Sketchbook. Jill Downen’s new work offers a look into the intimate processes she employs in the studio to develop ideas and plan large scale installations. The art invites viewers to survey Downen’s work from a new and unexpected perspective. The project features a cabinet of drawers displaying models crafted from plaster, basswood, paper and gold leaf. The small scale of these sculptures explores a reversal of the experience that viewers generally have with Downen’s monumental installations. The inverted scale and assembly of the maquettes as miniature installations, each in its own drawer, result in a reconsideration of the forms in relationship to each other, the body and to Downen's art making practice overall.
Downen’s art is a focused investigation of the symbiotic relationship between the human body and architecture expressed in temporal installations, drawings, and models. Her art envisions a place of interdependent relation between the human body and architecture, where the exchanging forces and tensions of construction, deterioration, and restoration emerge as thematic possibilities.
Downen will be part of a group exhibition titled Place is the Space curated by Dominic Molon at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. The opening for the exhibition is on Friday, September 6, 2013 at 7:00 PM.
Public Hours: Wednesday through Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Jill Downen: Three-Dimensional Sketchbook (Front Room)
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 2013, 5-9 pm
September 6-October 5, 2013
Leslie Laskey is not only one of the most successful and experienced working artists in the St. Louis area, but an innovative artist whose work never fails to make an impact on how its viewers perceive things. His new and engaging creations often have people walking away seeing something through fresh eyes. Previously, his work S.E.N.T. Security Envelopes Now Tampered (exhibited in 2011) consisted of collaged envelope pieces and guided viewers to a new way of thinking about their mail. Windows, however, as its name implies, invites its viewers to peer through windows. Each individual piece is a stepping-stone to thinking about windows and the series will change the way you have come to know them, too.
Windows tend to be just ordinary things. They are so common around us and in our lives that we seldom really appreciate their nature of keeping rain out, letting light in, protecting us, or subtly and quietly reflecting back images of what surround them. They frame the world like a series of photographs. Laskey creates this notion in his work, occasionally abstracting these ideas and transforming the windows and what they represent into beautiful reminders of how we view our world each day. He is fascinated by the changing frame and focus: whether a window is allowing us to peer into a space or out of one, whether we are looking through it, at what it is reflecting, or perhaps at the window itself, whether it is broken or whole, there is a kind of majesty to them. Windows act as a transitional ledge between two spaces that can be symbolic of so much more.
This series has been thirty-two years in the making for Laskey. His media of choice is ever changing, as is always characteristic of his work. In this body of work, he incorporates collage, oil paint, acrylic, and crayon. It is this variety of media and style that adds to the engaging quality of his work and its impact on his viewers. Without a doubt, Windows will offer a new approach to looking through to the other side and make you appreciate just how significant they can really be.
In the Front Room, the gallery presents an exhibition by Jill Downen titled Three-Dimensional Sketchbook. Jill Downen’s new work offers a look into the intimate processes she employs in the studio to develop ideas and plan large scale installations. The art invites viewers to survey Downen’s work from a new and unexpected perspective. The project features a cabinet of drawers displaying models crafted from plaster, basswood, paper and gold leaf. The small scale of these sculptures explores a reversal of the experience that viewers generally have with Downen’s monumental installations. The inverted scale and assembly of the maquettes as miniature installations, each in its own drawer, result in a reconsideration of the forms in relationship to each other, the body and to Downen's art making practice overall.
Downen’s art is a focused investigation of the symbiotic relationship between the human body and architecture expressed in temporal installations, drawings, and models. Her art envisions a place of interdependent relation between the human body and architecture, where the exchanging forces and tensions of construction, deterioration, and restoration emerge as thematic possibilities.
Downen will be part of a group exhibition titled Place is the Space curated by Dominic Molon at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. The opening for the exhibition is on Friday, September 6, 2013 at 7:00 PM.
Public Hours: Wednesday through Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
3721 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108
314.531.3030
info@brunodavidgallery.com
www.brunodavidgallery.com
St. Louis, MO 63108
314.531.3030
info@brunodavidgallery.com
www.brunodavidgallery.com
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