Bruno David Projects: Thursday, 5 March 2015

HEATHER BENNETT: Four Stories
March 5 – April 11, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5, 2015 6 to 9 pm
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Keri Robertson and Bruno David are pleased to present a new exhibition of recent photographs by Heather Bennett. Four Stories is composed of what seems to be a few vignettes, each told through a series of photographs. The image structure suggests familiar narrative tropes where there are actually only symbols. Symbols which form an assumed arrangement, a situation that is easily read and fitted into our reality of images, past and present. Upon closer inspection, however, the story is full of holes. What at first seems obvious, is only hinted and does not carry through. The settings have an artificiality, the time period is hazy and inconsistent and the emotional import is unclear. Something is amiss, slightly outside of the lines. The artist employs storytelling as a tool, claiming the use of pathos, parody, dark humor, desire, all as indicators of a story that doesn’t really exist but to outline the subject, a subject traditionally positioned as an object. The revelation of the embodied female subject is achieved through a kind of denial.

Putting herself in these sexualized stereotypes, Heather Bennett questions the credulity of our simple clichés which are segregated from connection and consideration. The artist’s own image is a structural quotation of past feminist artworks while functioning as another tactic to slyly highlight the subject. She acts not as a self but as a representation of the artist which marks the critical component of the work. Her presence doesn’t quite belong, an interloper in a scene we thought we understood. The women in her photographs inhabit ordinary roles, remnants of a time, yet they faintly resist. There is an individuality warped by boundary, seeping through our myopic categorization. That familiar language fails to sum them up. In defiance of their limited place, they subtly direct the scene; wriggling under mythical constraints, veiling truth, but still asking us to believe them.
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Images: Heather Bennett: Crush, 2011, 42 x 63 inches, digital print on Somerset Velvet, (edition of 3); Heather Bennett: On the Road, 2013, (diptych) 28 x 42 inches each, digital print on premium luster, (edition of 3). © 2015 Bruno David Gallery and Bruno David Projects. All International Rights Reserved. Works of individual artists remain the intellectual property and are copyrighted by their respective authors. No unauthorized reproduction, all rights reserved. Gallery approval must be granted prior to reproduction.

Hours: Wednesday & Saturday Noon to 5:00 pm. Also open by private appointment

BRUNO DAVID PROJECTS
1245 South Vandeventer Avenue
Saint Louis, MO 63110 USA
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Art St. Louis: Friday, 6 March 2015

VARSITY ART XIX

OPENING MARCH 6

Make plans to join us for our next exhibition, our 19th annual "Varsity Art" exhibition. The show opens Friday, March 6, 2015, with a free reception from 6-8 p.m. and the exhibit remains on view through March 26.

"Varsity Art XIX," will feature original artworks in a variety of media by 34 undergrad and grad level art students representing 17 St. Louis area universities and colleges from Missouri and Illinois. Art Saint Louis works with art Professors who select two students to represent their department and institution. The exhibit demonstrates the skills of the student-artists as well as their Professor & instructors. The show features ceramics, drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, and more. For a sneak preview of the exhibition, view our Facebook album.

Highlights from our "Varsity Art XIX" Meet the Artist video shoots with the participating students on February 19, 20 & 21. Pictured: Barbara St. John, Forrest Knoll, Arianna Azzopardi, Sarah Loynd. Photos by Robin Hirsch-Steinhoff.

The 17 institutions and 34 artists participating in "Varsity Art XIX" are:

Graphic design by Kathy Duffin.

East Central College: Nick Brobst,Katelynn McGuire

Fontbonne University: Elizabeth Tran, Elizabeth Willey 

Greenville College: Gracia Heilmer, Maggie Tarr

Jefferson College: Rachel Balentine,Jodi Woolsey

Lindenwood University: Arianna Azzopardi, Holly Brewer

Maryville University: Alex Busbey, Sarah Loynd   

McKendree University: Lindsey N. Mathenia, Jacqueline Ruiz 

St. Charles Community College: Anastasia Eien Carpenter,Megan McCully

St. Louis Community College Florissant Valley: Brandon De ShaHeather Semore 

St. Louis Community College Forest Park: Erika Pursley,Barbara St. John

St. Louis Community College Meramec: Forrest Knoll, Todd Zimmerman 

St. Louis Community College Wildwood: Vicki Hefty, Veronica Knysh 

Saint Louis University: Allison Morris Lesch, Jessica Park

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville: Carrie Gillen, Sarah Lorentz 

University of Missouri-St. Louis: Lindsey Melickian, Jon Slade

Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis: Morgan Dowty, Catalina Ouyang 

Webster University: Destini Johnson, Evan Smith

Please join us for our 19th annual exhibition highlighting St. Louis' finest universities and colleges art Professors and faculties and their undergrad & grad level art students in "Varsity Art XIX," opening next week, March 6, and running through March 26, 2015. FREE & open to the public M 7 a.m.-4 p.m., Tu-F 7 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Green Door art gallery: Friday, 13 March 2015

“Blue Steel," watercolor by Paul Jackson

“Taste of Augusta, MO”

March 4 through May 3, 2015
Opening Reception: March 13, 2015   Time: 5 – 9 pm

Green Door art gallery - “Taste of Augusta, MO” featuring foods, spirits and plein air artwork created in and around the quaint community of Augusta, Missouri. As well as large watercolors by Paul Jackson, wearable bags and purses by Johanna Prinz, jewelry by Donna Fox and Mary Barge and 30 other artists will be available from March 4 thru May 3, 2015.  Reception Friday, March 13, from 5-9 pm.

Green Door art gallery
21 N. Gore
Webster Groves, MO 63119
www.Greendoorartgallery.com
(314) 402-1959

The Sheldon Art Galleries: Friday, 6 March 2015

The Sheldon Art Galleries

Invite You to the Opening of Three New Exhibitions:

Christner: 50 Years of Shaping

the Built Environment in St. Louis

Bernoudy Gallery of Architecture

50 Years of Magic: Bob Kramer’s Marionnettes

AT&T Gallery of Children’s Art

Dive into the Dream: Drawings by Bill Perry

The Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery

Friday, March 6, 2015

5 – 7 p.m., complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres

Galleries Open until 9 p.m.

For First Fridays in Grand Center

The Sheldon Art Galleries

3648 Washington Boulevard

St. Louis, MO 63108

314.533.9900

www.thesheldon.org   

White Flag Projects: Friday, 6 March 2015

May Gallery: Friday, 27 February 2015

Vincent Cianni: Gays in the Military

JB and Torrey © Vincent Cianni

27 February - 27 March 2015

with a talk by Mr. Cianni Friday
27 February, 3 pm, Sverdrup 123

Opening Reception Friday, 27 February, 5-7 pm

Using images and narrative, Vincent Cianni describes how his work documenting gays in the military broadened his own perspective of understanding and accepting the differences of others. Watch Mr. Cianni's TED Talk here

The May Gallery

8300 Big Bend Blvd.

St. Louis MO 63119

1-314-246-7673

http://www.webster.edu/maygallery

Gallery at RAC: Friday, 6 March 2015

The Gallery at RAC Presents Empire State II
Join us at the opening reception on Friday, March 6th from 5:30 – 7:30pm, and at our gallery talk on March 13th. There will be a short reception at 5:30pm, and the artists will begin speaking at 6:00pm.

Empire State II, the second in a series of exhibitions curated by Damon Davis. Empire State II is a group exhibition featuring the work of Kevin McCoy, Stan Chisholm, Damon Davis, Christopher Burch and Lenard Blairthat. It explores the American empire and its capitalist culture. This exhibit will investigate the concepts of social structures, racial oppression and classism.

GALLERY HOURS: Monday through Friday from 10am - 5pm; Saturday and Sunday 12 - 5pm. All events are free and open to the public.

The Gallery at the Regional Arts Commission (RAC)

6128 Delmar Blvd. 63112 (across from The Pageant)

Free parking behind The Pageant or metered street parking

Cathy Gregory Studio Gallery: Friday, 20 February 2015

nora othic: pastels and paintings

February 20 to March 28, 2015

Opening reception Friday, February 20, from 6 to 9 pm

Draft Horses and Men, pastel on paper

Nora Othic will be exhibiting pastels and paintings. Her strong drawing skills and evolving style has led some to describe her work as “regionalist-like” similar to Thomas Hart Benton or Grant Wood. This contemporary regionalist’s work presents rural farm scenes, small town landscapes and prize farm animals; all icons of mid-America. Many of her works are pure storytelling with the pride of her subjects self-evident – plus a dash of tongue-in-cheek humor. The majority are rendered with pastels whose textural qualities fit her subjects well. See more of Nora's work.

Cathy Gregory Studio Gallery

2000 South 39th Street

Saint Louis, Missouri 63110

314-773-3935

info@cathygregory.com

cathygregory.com

get directions

Clqy & Cotton: Friday, 20 February 2015

Clay & Cotton Kirkwood

159 West Argonne Drive

St Louis, MO 63122

(314) 394-1400

info@clayandcottonkirkwood.com

http://clayandcottonkirkwood.com/calendar-events

Duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 27 February 2015

BREAKS, SEAMS, AND BOUNDARIES

February 27th − April 4th

Opening Reception Friday, February 27th from 5-8 pm

Duane Reed Gallery invites you to Breaks, Seams, and Boundaries, an all-media group exhibition highlighting the gallery’s premier artists and their distinctive content and material treatments. 

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10-5pm.

The gallery is filled with broken glass, blown-out vases, cut and woven vinyl records, horns blasting porcelain flora, tattered books uprighted, their spines against the camera lens. While these processes suggest aggressive handling of materials, artists like Cassandria Blackmore and Steven Lee take great care to break their work with grace and focused intent. Seams are honored in the hand-quilted photographs of Luanne Rimel, the sculptural paper-scapes of Katherine Glover, or the tapestry-esque woven sculptures of Pohlman/ Knowles or John Garrett. Boundaries become debatable as sculptures rest like paintings on panels, drawings narrate obscure personal lore upon ceramic vessel walls, African totems are reimagined, and paintings are jigsawed into amoebic shapes.

Beckoning to ideals of fragility, repair, impermanence, and the lines that bind and separate, Breaks, Seams, and Boundaries covers an expansive array of artists that break expectations and assert new perspectives to our shifting realities.

DUANE REED GALLERY

4729 McPHERSON AVE.

ST. LOUIS, MO 63108

info@duanereedgallery.com

314.361.4100

WWW.DUANEREEDGALLERY.COM

Gallery 201: Saturday, 21 FEbruary 2015

Meghan Grubb House of Stories February 21- April 11, 2015 Gallery 210, University of Missouri-St. Louis The exhibition opens Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 4PM with a panel discussion with artists' Meghan Grubb and Joe Chesla and in the Gallery 210 Auditorium. A public reception for the artists will be held from 5PM to 7PM Blending analog and digital technologies, Meghan Grubb makes works of sculpture, installation, photography and video that explore how powerful non-physical responses may be elicited by the experience of physical phenomena. Continually seeking to know what intuition is made of, and to better understand how fear, wonder, and astonishment are called forth, Meghan engages with the physical and visceral aspects of non-rational, non-present, and intuitive responses like anxiety. Her work develops from practices in art and architecture, research into perceptual psychology, optics, and the natural environment, and seeks to address unease in the relationship between humans and the physical spaces we inhabit. 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. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM.  Gallery 210 on the University of Missouri-St. Louis 44 East Drive, TCC (314) 516-5976 suhret@umsl.edu umsl.edu/~gallery

Atrium Gallery: Friday, 20 February 2015

"Wintry Mix"
Meet the Artists Evening
Friday, February 20th 6 – 8 p.m.

Please join us as we continue our celebration of "Wintry Mix" with a reception to "Meet the Artists" on Friday, February 20th, 6 – 8 p.m. Jerome Hawkins and Fredrick Nelson will be here to greet our guests and tell us a bit about their works form this exhibition. We look forward to seeing you on the 20th!

Note: Parking will be available in the East Lot of the Pierce Arrow Building until 8:30 p.m.

Exhibition continues through March 7th.

Thursday - Saturday: 10 - 5, Tuesday and Wednesday by appointment

4814 Washington Ave. (Central West End)
St. Louis, MO 63108
314.367.1076
www.atriumgallery.net
atrium@earthlink.net

Philip Slein Gallery: Friday, 27 February 2015

PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM:
A SURVEY OF ABSTRACT PAINTING TODAY FROM THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE

Opening reception Friday, February 27th, from 6-8PM.
Show runs through March 28th.

Tim McFarlane, An Adjustment of Means, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 inches 

In 1975 Bernie Taupin and Elton John wrote “Philadelphia Freedom,” their tribute to the “Philadelphia sound” made famous by the Delphonics, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Thom Bell, and the Spinners. The lyrics reflected the surge of patriotism anticipating our country’s upcoming 1976 Bicentennial, which had such deep roots in Philadelphia.  Forty years later we see the emergence of another group of Philadelphia artists, this time a group of abstract painters. Each asserts his or her individual voice, yet as a group they create a solid counterpoint to New York on the East Coast and Los Angeles on the West. These artists are: Charles Burwell, Tim McFarlane, Steve Riedell, Rebecca Rutstein, and Erik Spehn. Painting in the Cradle of Liberty is as vibrant today as anywhere in the country and this exhibition hopes to raise awareness. Free from the pressures of the more traveled centers, the independence of these artists, their freedom, allows them to shine their special light.
Also on view in the library, recent works on paper by Greg Edmondson in collaboration with COCA.

PHILIP SLEIN GALLERY

4735 MCPHERSON AVE 

SAINT LOUIS, MO 63108 

WWW.PHILIPSLEINGALLERY.COM  

Hunt Gallery: Friday, 6 February 2015

Envisioned Worlds

Lithographs from the Hokes Archives

Curated by Beauvais Lyons

Opening Reception:

 Friday February 6, 2016 from 6 to 8 pm

Artist Lecture: Friday February 6, 2016 at noon in Sverdrup rm. 123 Webster University

Beauvais Lyons, the self-appointed Director of the Hokes Archives, derives his influences from encyclopedias, historical documents and novellas by authors including Jorge Luis Borges. The Hokes Archives – founded in 1901 – is a prominent historical preservation organization dedicated to the fabrication and documentation of rare and unusual cultural artifacts. The Hunt Gallery is proud to present the current traveling exhibition from the Hokes Archives in the newest show “Envisioned World.”

Cecille R. Hunt Gallery

8350 Big Bend Blvd.

St. Louis MO 63119

The Green Center: Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Villa Duchesne High School Printmaking Exhibit Opening Reception
February 17, 2015 5:00-7:00 pm
Exhibit:  February 17-March 27, 2015  

High school students from Villa Duchesne have created relief prints with a focus on landscapes, animals and insects.

View more artwork by these artists on our website.

The Green Center

8025 Blackberry Avenue

St. Louis, MO  63130

Mildred M. Cox Gallery: Thursday, 5 February 2015

 

CREATOR-RECORDER:
Landscapes & Junkscapes by Sarah Carmody

Opening: Thursday, 2/5 4-6PM at the Mildred M. Cox Gallery, William Woods University, Fulton MO. Show runs through 3/2. 



This show is an amalgamation of works created over the past 4 years which examine the degree to which humankind is part of the natural world. Some of the images personify elements of nature by seeking out “human” qualities and applying human references to them. Conversely, human-made "junkscapes" emulate elements of nature. In all instances, as photographer, Carmody assumes the role of "creator" by extracting "vignettes" of existence and manipulating them as desired; while at the same time being a documentarian/recorder of what has already been created. 

The  images are captured using a technique called high dynamic range (HDR) a technique that produces the perception of exaggerated detail and tonal range. HDR is achieved by shooting the same image at various exposures, combining them, and then selectively enhancing and de-emphasizing elements as desired. The images are then printed on either metallic paper or actual metal which imbue the images with a luminescent, three-dimensional quality.

Driving directions to the university and map to the gallery:
http://www.williamwoods.edu/about/visitor_information/driving_directions.html

Encounter #24: 63102.20131012.0616, archival inkjet print, 30 x 40 inches, 2013

The Bonsack Gallery at John Burroughs School will feature “Atopia,” a collection of
photographs by Jennifer Colten, from February 13 through April 8, 2015. All are invited to an
opening reception from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Friday, February 13.

The photographs present a depopulated world that implies that some event has occurred. Colton
says, “These photographs suggest an aftermath. The sites are not remarkable for their drama, but
noteworthy because of their banality. These are places mostly unnoticed and vulnerable
where the visible marks and traces left behind could easily be erased, removing any
certain marker of its history. As we navigate our environment attempting to reconcile our
relationship to the land, we might in fact discover that nature moves on — certainly altered by
our presence yet, with utter disregard to our existence.”

Regular gallery hours are 8 am to 5 pm, weekdays.

The Bonsack Gallery
on the campus of John Burroughs School
755 South Price Road
Ladue.

Atrium Gallery: Friday, 6 February 2015

"Wintry Mix"
"HOT GROG" Reception
Friday, February 6th 6 – 8 p.m.

Elizabeth Thach, "Overflow," 2010     oil and tempera on panel     12 7/8" x 16 15/16"

Please join us for our first event celebrating "Wintry Mix." We will be entertaining you with an evening reception, Friday February 6th, 6 – 8 p.m.  Enjoy our winter setting with work from 22 artists and warm up with "Hot Grog."

Exhibiting Artists: Lore Bert, Suzanne Caporael, Carl Goldhagen, Jerome Hawkins, James Kuiper, Karen Kunc, Cameron Martin, Lika Mutal, Stephen Namara, Fredrick Nelson, Kirk Pedersen, Harry Roseman, Doug Salveson, Randall Shiroma, Janet Sorokin, Katy Stone, Adam Straus, Francisca Sutil, Christopher Tanner, Elizabeth Thach, Mary Joan Waid, William Yonker

W look forward to welcoming you for this warm up evening featuring work celebrating the season and a warm drink as well.

Note: Parking will be available in the East Lot of the Pierce Arrow Building until 8:30 p.m.

Exhibition continues through March 7th.



Janet Sorokin, "Moonscape," 2000, acrylic collage, 20 1/2" x 16 3/4"

Thursday - Saturday: 10 - 5, Tuesday and Wednesday by appointment

4814 Washington Ave. (Central West End)
St. Louis, MO 63108
314.367.1076
www.atriumgallery.net
atrium@earthlink.net

Kirkwood Train Station: Thursday, 5 February 2015

Art at the Station

Sharon Wyman:  Watercolors

February 2 to March 2, 2015

Opening Reception:  Thursday, February 5, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.

City of Kirkwood139 S. Kirkwood RoadKirkwood MO 63122