The Luminary Center for the Arts: Fridays, 25 October - 17 December 2013
We Are
Organized with NURTUREart (New York)
On view October 25th-December 17th, 2013
Exhibition to preview new space at 2701 Cherokee Street, St. Louis 63118
There will be opening receptions every Friday night from 6-8pm during the series. For more details on the dates and times of each opening, visit http://theluminaryarts.com/featured/we-are.
The Luminary is pleased to present a series of preview exhibitions in our soaring new gallery space at 2701 Cherokee Street in St. Louis, MO. The pop-up exhibitions will take place in the evolving space throughout the Fall, offering a unique glimpse into both the organization and the artist's approaches to the possibilities and constraints of the format.
We Are is a unique exhibition series curated by Marco Antonini, Director of New York-based gallery NURTUREart, that exists somewhere between a festival, short-term residency program and a pop-up exhibition. The series involves seven one-week shows by St. Louis based artists and curators that acts as a statement of identification with the people that make up our community. The fast-paced exhibition features some of the most compelling artists and curators in St. Louis and will be housed in The Luminary’s unfinished new space, using the gallery’s in-progress status as an opportunity to experiment more fully with their work.
In a collaboration with The Luminary, curator Marco Antonini organized dozens of studio visits with area artists, galleries, and curators to explore the diverse community at work in the region, from which the seven participants were chosen as a wide-ranging representation of the forms of work taking place locally. From a series of abstracted photographs of The Luminary’s new building in transition, to selections from one of the most acclaimed collections of outsider and vernacular art, We Are offers a vibrant portrait of art in St. Louis today that continues to expand over the duration of the show.
The series will open on October 25th with David Johnson’s Your Walls Aren’t That White, Part 3, a new body of photographs focused on the concept of transitional architecture, and how space is transformed between past venues for commerce to a new exhibition space. Johnson focused the debris and residue of the building’s past, while compositions are formally composed to reference the future programing as a space for visual art. In a larger context, for Your Walls Aren’t That White, Part 1 and Part 2, Johnson previously photographed the interiors of Boots Contemporary Art Space and the apartment gallery Los Caminos. All exhibitions take place in the Cherokee neighborhood, an area of the city in the process of a rapid revitalization, using this context to think about how two very different kinds of transition, one nested in the other, can be represented in a series of images.
This will be followed by a group show on November 1st, Move Forward! (New Tires Change Everything) curated by Netta Sadovsky and featuring work by Lyndon Barrois, JaNae Contag, Cassie Jones, Robert Long and Matthew Rosenfeld. Jeremy Kannapel will present a solo show of Super 8 film and dense collage work on November 8th followed on the 15th by an engaging series responding to infamous earthworks and their affect on the environment by Laurencia Strauss. On November 22nd, artist and collector John Foster will present a curated selection from his extensive collection of self-taught art and vernacular photography. Lastly, the series will conclude with a solo show by Peter Pranschke on December 6th and Michael Behle’s enigmatic sculpture and video exhibition Start all over, re volla trats on December 13th. .
The Luminary Center for the Arts
4900 Reber Place
Saint Louis, MO 63139
www.theluminaryarts.com
Organized with NURTUREart (New York)
On view October 25th-December 17th, 2013
Exhibition to preview new space at 2701 Cherokee Street, St. Louis 63118
There will be opening receptions every Friday night from 6-8pm during the series. For more details on the dates and times of each opening, visit http://theluminaryarts.com/featured/we-are.
The Luminary is pleased to present a series of preview exhibitions in our soaring new gallery space at 2701 Cherokee Street in St. Louis, MO. The pop-up exhibitions will take place in the evolving space throughout the Fall, offering a unique glimpse into both the organization and the artist's approaches to the possibilities and constraints of the format.
We Are is a unique exhibition series curated by Marco Antonini, Director of New York-based gallery NURTUREart, that exists somewhere between a festival, short-term residency program and a pop-up exhibition. The series involves seven one-week shows by St. Louis based artists and curators that acts as a statement of identification with the people that make up our community. The fast-paced exhibition features some of the most compelling artists and curators in St. Louis and will be housed in The Luminary’s unfinished new space, using the gallery’s in-progress status as an opportunity to experiment more fully with their work.
In a collaboration with The Luminary, curator Marco Antonini organized dozens of studio visits with area artists, galleries, and curators to explore the diverse community at work in the region, from which the seven participants were chosen as a wide-ranging representation of the forms of work taking place locally. From a series of abstracted photographs of The Luminary’s new building in transition, to selections from one of the most acclaimed collections of outsider and vernacular art, We Are offers a vibrant portrait of art in St. Louis today that continues to expand over the duration of the show.
The series will open on October 25th with David Johnson’s Your Walls Aren’t That White, Part 3, a new body of photographs focused on the concept of transitional architecture, and how space is transformed between past venues for commerce to a new exhibition space. Johnson focused the debris and residue of the building’s past, while compositions are formally composed to reference the future programing as a space for visual art. In a larger context, for Your Walls Aren’t That White, Part 1 and Part 2, Johnson previously photographed the interiors of Boots Contemporary Art Space and the apartment gallery Los Caminos. All exhibitions take place in the Cherokee neighborhood, an area of the city in the process of a rapid revitalization, using this context to think about how two very different kinds of transition, one nested in the other, can be represented in a series of images.
This will be followed by a group show on November 1st, Move Forward! (New Tires Change Everything) curated by Netta Sadovsky and featuring work by Lyndon Barrois, JaNae Contag, Cassie Jones, Robert Long and Matthew Rosenfeld. Jeremy Kannapel will present a solo show of Super 8 film and dense collage work on November 8th followed on the 15th by an engaging series responding to infamous earthworks and their affect on the environment by Laurencia Strauss. On November 22nd, artist and collector John Foster will present a curated selection from his extensive collection of self-taught art and vernacular photography. Lastly, the series will conclude with a solo show by Peter Pranschke on December 6th and Michael Behle’s enigmatic sculpture and video exhibition Start all over, re volla trats on December 13th. .
The Luminary Center for the Arts
4900 Reber Place
Saint Louis, MO 63139
www.theluminaryarts.com
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