Gallery 210: Saturday, 24 August 2013
Exposure 16: Primal Forms is the latest in a series of group exhibitions featuring artists who live and work in the St. Louis metropolitan area This year we are proud to present an exhibition of work by Jane Birdsall-Lander, Melody Evans, and Jerry Monteith.
At first glance, Birdsall-Lander, Evans and Monteith's work appear to be thoroughly disparate from one another. Birdsall-Lander's repurposed wooden objects bound together with waxed linen thread seem to belong to a wholly different world than the flowing organic forms of Evan's ceramic pieces. And Monteith's tiny and bizarre bug-like attractors inspired by fly-fishing lures belong to an entirely different universe.
Despite the initial disconnect, the underlying theme of Birdsall-Lander, Evans and Monteith's work is a common one. Within each artist's meticulous attention to detail lies a fascination of the natural world. More specifically, they share an interest in communication on a basic, instinctual level. Birdsall-Lander's wrapped wooden forms explore the history of letterforms and the progression from pictographs inspired by natural environs to their more abstracted forms. The exotic attractors of Monteith's work seek to establish a more personal alphabet, with each attractor becoming an iconographic symbol. Evan's vessel forms are built upon a personal visual language, concerned with the non- verbal communication of ideas including the interaction and relationship of our bodies and the environments that we find ourselves a part of.
The artists' reception for Exposure 16 opens Saturday, August 24, 2013. There will be a panel discussion at 4 PM with a reception for the artists starting at 5PM and continuing through to 7 PM. Also featured at the opening in Gallery C is the video presentation Walt Disney Taxi Driver by Bryan Boycein.
Gallery 210 is on the University of Missouri- St. Louis at 44 East drive, TCC between the North UM-St. Louis Metro Station and 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@umsl.edu, For parking locations, directions, and campus map please visit http://gallery210.umsl.edu
At first glance, Birdsall-Lander, Evans and Monteith's work appear to be thoroughly disparate from one another. Birdsall-Lander's repurposed wooden objects bound together with waxed linen thread seem to belong to a wholly different world than the flowing organic forms of Evan's ceramic pieces. And Monteith's tiny and bizarre bug-like attractors inspired by fly-fishing lures belong to an entirely different universe.
Despite the initial disconnect, the underlying theme of Birdsall-Lander, Evans and Monteith's work is a common one. Within each artist's meticulous attention to detail lies a fascination of the natural world. More specifically, they share an interest in communication on a basic, instinctual level. Birdsall-Lander's wrapped wooden forms explore the history of letterforms and the progression from pictographs inspired by natural environs to their more abstracted forms. The exotic attractors of Monteith's work seek to establish a more personal alphabet, with each attractor becoming an iconographic symbol. Evan's vessel forms are built upon a personal visual language, concerned with the non- verbal communication of ideas including the interaction and relationship of our bodies and the environments that we find ourselves a part of.
The artists' reception for Exposure 16 opens Saturday, August 24, 2013. There will be a panel discussion at 4 PM with a reception for the artists starting at 5PM and continuing through to 7 PM. Also featured at the opening in Gallery C is the video presentation Walt Disney Taxi Driver by Bryan Boycein.
Gallery 210 is on the University of Missouri- St. Louis at 44 East drive, TCC between the North UM-St. Louis Metro Station and 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@umsl.edu, For parking locations, directions, and campus map please visit http://gallery210.umsl.edu
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