Bruno David Gallery: Friday, 25 March 2016

CARMON COLANGELO: Theory of Nothing

WILLIAM MORRIS: Immediacy of Distance
Media Arts Room

March 25 – May 21, 2016
Opening Reception:Friday, March 25, 2016 6 to 9 pm

Carmon Colangelo presents an installation that includes his newest body of prints, drawings, mixed media works and other ephemera inspired by cosmology and cartography, his recording of the everyday and other musings about the studio as a place of contemplation, making, play and production. Exploring the notion of connectivity, chance and disruption and in the age of social media, Colangelo translates, interprets, recodes and synthesizes his taxonomy of images and ideas that reflect universal themes and contemporary culture.

The exhibition will include a new series of prints in which Colangelo uses discarded laser off-cuts from architectural models as a “ready-mades” for printing. Over time, each iteration of Colangelo’s work has moved towards a greater clarity understanding the power of chance, juxtaposition, abstraction, color and composition in mapping the relational understanding of meaning. Wordplay is an essential element of Colangelo’s work and the Theory of Nothing is a satirical idea and project about trying to find a single equation to understand the universe (aka Theory of Everything) through the non-empirical form of art and exploring the concept of nothingness. In conjunction with the exhibition, Bruno David Gallery Publications will publish a catalogue of the artist’s work with an exhibition history and bibliography.

In the Media Arts Room, William Morris most recent work, entitled Immediacy of Distance, is an experimental documentary which uses super 8 film shot by the artist’s mother along with recordings of her recollections of growing up in a sharecropper's family in the Mississippi Delta. The project is an exploration of oral history, family, humanity, emotion and the universality of life experience as projected through the prism of his upbringing in the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood on the city’s North Side of St. Louis, Missouri.

The video work “Immediacy of Distance” represents the union of the two distinct paths taken by the artist in his work that now come together as one. During the 1980’s and 2000’s, Morris created abstract works that pushed boundaries of image, texture and sound interspersed with shorter documentaries that represented meditations on glimmers of truth and differing perceptions of daily life. In this current work, he is now bridging his abstractions and his viewpoints on life in a part of the city that has all but disappeared and yet remains undocumented. This new video sheds light on a community of successive displacements – starting with waves of African-Americans who migrated north to St. Louis from the South and continuing through the latter half of the 20th century as the Wells-Goodfellow area where he grew up has been all but abandoned and neglected over time. The work also, prompts a more universal examination of one’s changing relationship with his or her familial roots.

Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Saturday 10 am – 5 pm & by appointment

Bruno David Gallery
3721 Washington Blvd.
Saint Louis, MO 63108
314.531.3030
info@brunodavidgallery.com
WWW.BRUNODAVIDGALLERY.COM

Reese Gallery: Friday, 18 March 2016

REVERIE

artists NATE BETSCHART and JOANNA HOGE

from March 18th to April 16th

with the opening reception: Friday March 18th from 6pm to 9pm

Drift away in the upcoming exhibition, REVERIE, with NATE BETSCHART and JOANNA HOGE.  Joanna Hoge explores an ambiguous anatomy, where bodies are simultaneously incomplete and connected in a way that renders them open and amorphous.  Sewing over and through her compositions of floating figures, Hoge suggests the physical limitations of the body on the soul.  Daydreams darken in the clay work of Nate Betschart.  He hauntingly replaces once useful mechanical parts with porcelain counterparts.  Both artists explore the areas surrounding imagination, memory and desire.  Artist and illustrator Joanna Hoge, will be joining us at the opening reception.  

Hours: 1-4pm Wed & Sat or call for an appointment.

REEESEgallery

3410 Wisconsin Avenue

Saint Louis | MO | 63118

www.thereesegallery.com

314.954.7638

Bonsack Fallery: Friday, 8 April 2016

Clockwise from top left, Pilgrimage Marker (Denney), Hatchet Cluster (Jones), Winter Swine no. 5 (Allison), L’Aiguille Vert (Newman), Bogliasco 9 (Martin)

Burroughs faculty to exhibit in Bonsack Gallery

The John Burroughs School fine arts faculty, all of whom are practicing artists, will exhibit their work in a mixed media show in the Bonsack Gallery from April 8 through May 11.

·         Donya Allison will show a series of black-and-white acrylic wash drawings
created en plein air at farms in Indiana.

·         Andrew Denney will show Raku-fired ceramic sculptures inspired by the markers left at the base of the Bodhi Tree in the traditional Buddhist pilgrimage for enlightenment.

·         Howard Jones will display recent tool and furniture-based objects. 

·         Anne Martin will exhibit wash drawings as part of a continuing study from her work at the Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities in Bogliasco, Italy.

·         Andrew Newman will exhibit a series of mountain landscape photographs created primarily in locations he loves to climb.

All are invited to a reception hosted by the artists from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Friday, April 8, in the gallery. 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 MO.

Clayton Fine Art Gallery: Friday, 26 February 2016

Patrick Henning - Watercolors You are invited to our artist reception at Clayton Fine Art Gallery Friday February 26th, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Patrick Henning's delicate watercolor landscapes. Guest artists include John Marcum Oil paintings, Joseph Squires watercolors from Route 66, Randy Carrier metal sculpture, Jeff McKee stone sculpture, Stephanie Gibson photography  Exhibition Dates:  February 14th through March 26th Gallery hours Monday - Friday 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m, Sunday 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. Clayton Fine Art Gallery 21 N Bemiston Ave Clayton, MO 63105 www.claytonfineartgallery.com

Grafica Fine Art: Friday, 11 March 2016

Adventures in Color:

Landscapes, Figures & Florals

Allen Kriegshauser

Friday, March 11 Opening reception 6-9 pm

Thursday, March 17 "Deconstructing my own work" 5:30 to 7:30 pm

Friday, April 8 Closing reception  5-7 pm 

 Grafica Fine Art & Custom Framing7884 Big Bend Blvd.
St. Louis MO 63119

The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery: Friday, 19 February 2016

Opens this Friday February 19 from 6 to 8pm

Vienna-based Slovenian artist Eva Petrić  has wide ranging practice working in photography, video, performance, sound and installation.   Her Webster installation subDUCTion zone poetically looks at geological process and the environmental impact on the human heart, stating: "My lace assemblages from my Hematoma series, made from old recycled, inherited, rejected, treasured, given and bought at flea markets illustrate the skin of the sea and the sky. They appear as the organs of the sea, its coral reef ruptured and hurt, reflecting at the same time the sky with its skin of the ozone layer ruptured and hurting, consequently also our own personal skins of our bodies suffering." 

Ms. Petrić will speak about her work at noon in Sverdrup room 123, 8300 Big Bend Blvd. (the building adjacent to the Hunt Gallery.)

The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery

8342 Big Bend Blvd

63119

Duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 25 March 2016

James Marshall & Aaron Karp
March 25th - April 29th
Opening Reception Friday, March 25th, 5-8 p.m.

Duane Reed Gallery is excited to showcase the work of James Marshall and Aaron Karp. Although different in choice of medium, these two artists both create visually powerful work that masterfully utilizes texture and surface quality. Furthermore, the relationship between these two artists work in terms of content is equally compelling: Karp approaches his paintings from the perspective of simultaneously concealing and revealing, playing out the metaphor that relates directly to his process of building and fracturing layers of paint. James Marshall’s ceramic pieces explore the quality of the liminal nature they represent. These objects exist just past the threshold of the subliminal realm at the point of emergence and its resulting openness and ambiguity. This relationship, existent in both aesthetic and philosophy, establishes a narrative between bodies of work, making for an engaging and stimulating experience for the viewer.

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10-5pm.

Duane Reed Gallery

4729 McPHERSON AVE.

ST. LOUIS, MO 63108

314.361.4100

info@duanereedgallery.com

WWW.DUANEREEDGALLERY.COM

Bullivant Gallery: Friday, 11 March 2016

Opening Reception Fri, March 11, 5:30 - 8:30 pm Please join us at Bullivant Gallery on Friday, March 11 from 5:30pm - 8:30pm or Saturday, March 12 from 10:00am - 2:00pm for a fine art photography exhibit and print sale with proceeds benefiting the Missouri Botanical Garden's Shaw Nature Reserve. The exhibit features the work of three very talented photographers, Jack Curran, Bill Schwab, and Hans Strand, who have all spent considerable efforts documenting this extraordinary landscape. There will be a silent auction for one of the prints to raise money for the Shaw Nature Reserve to help them restore their property from the recent flood damage.                                                                                                   Bullivant Gallery Grand Center for the Arts        3321 Washington Blvd St. Louis, MO 63103

National Blues Museum: Saturday, 2 April 2016

The National Blues Museum is pleased to announce that the first traveling exhibition to arrive at the museum is H.C. Porter’s interactive portrait series titled “Blues @ Home: Mississippi’s Living Blues Legends.” Visual artist H.C. Porter created 31 paintings of Mississippi-based blues artists and has paired them with oral histories from each subject. The exhibition includes images of world-famous performers, including the late David “Honeyboy” Edwards, the late B.B. King, and Bobby Rush.

The 31 mixed media original portraits were created through a process involving black and white photography, silkscreen transfer, acrylic paints and prismacolor pencils that enable the artist to add vibrant detail and imagery to each picture. In addition to shooting each portrait, Porter was able to record the artists speaking about their lives and their talents. Segments of the interviews can be heard through a handheld audio wand that allows visitors to listen at their own pace as they view a portrait.

“Blues @ Home” will open to the public on the Museum’s opening day, April 2, 2016. It will remain on view through June 1, 2016, inside the Scott and Diane McCuaig and Family Gallery.

615 Washington Ave, 

St Louis, MO 63101

www.nationalbluesmuseum.org

Wash U Brown School: Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Celebrate the installation of  O N E E V E R Y O N E  by Ann Hamilton: An Art on Campus project at the Brown School Wednesday, March 2 6-7:45p, Thomas and Jennifer Hillman Hall 6p Reception  Caleres Lounge and Terrace, 3rd Floor Thomas and Jennifer Hillman Hall 6:30p Panel Discussion Clark-Fox Forum Thomas and Jennifer Hillman Hall Panelists: Ann Hamilton, Artist Tonya Edmond, Associate Professor of Social Work, Brown School De Andrea Nichols (BFA10, MSW14), Director, Civic Creatives and Community Engagement Manager, CAM St. Louis Cynthia Williams, Assistant Dean for Field Education & Community Partnerships, Brown School Moderated by Dr. Sabine Eckmann, Director and Chief Curator, Kemper Art Museum Above:   Ann Hamilton (American, b. 1956). Clarence, Bryan, and De Andrea, from O N E E V E R Y O N E · St. Louis, 2015. Photomechanical print in porcelain enamel on steel panel, 58 x 45 x 1". Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. University purchase, Art on Campus fund, Thomas and Jennifer Hillman Hall, 2015.

duet: Friday, 4 March 2016

Jarred Gastreich (St. Louis) and Christian Movila (Bucharest)

March 4-April 23, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, March 4, 6pm – 9pm

Jarred Gastreich and Cristian Movila come together at Duet as a reflection on the complicated relationship between subjectivity, meaning and cultural society as well as a touching dedication to the streets in which their photographs were shot. A special significance toward the “shooting” of a photograph also haunts the juxtaposition of artists. Gastreich was present as a photojournalist during the disturbances in St. Louis following the shooting of Michael Brown and he captures not only the tension of that time, but also the quieter moments. Movila was present in Paris during the Bataclan massacre and shoots the bewildered response to those events as they unfold. The personal significance of many of these photographs and their wider symbolic meaning collapses a world that has shattered and ceased to be and events as yet to be fully understood.

Further reading:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/photographer-cristian-movils-eyewitness-photos-attack-paris-and-its-aftermath-180957338/?no-ist

New Hours:  Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Noon - 5pm or by appointment

Duet

3526 Washington Avenue

Suite 300

St Louis, MO 63103

www.duetstl.com

Westminster Pres: Saturday, 20 February 2016

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Opening Reception 6-10 pm

 

Westminster Press presents Art. Work. The exhibition examines the relationship between craftsmanship, art labor, entrepreneurship, and fine art. The following participating artists have WashU affiliations: MFA candidate Kahlil Irving and Angela Malchionno of The Enamel Project.

Westminster Press

3156 Cherokee St.

Museum Blue: Friday, 19 February 2016

TOM REED: the-in-between. 
Opens Friday, February 19. 

Museum Blue

750 N. 16th Street

St. Louis

ARCADE Museum: Saturday, 5 March 2016

GARY PASSANISE. Selected Paintings: 1996-2016. 

Curated by Bruno David. Opens Saturday, March 5, 2016. 6-9 pm. 

ARCADE Museum

812 Olive Street

St. Louis, MO

Bruno David Gallery: Friday, 4 March 2016

LINDA SKRAINKA:Close to Home
(Project Room)
Opening Reception:Friday, March 4, 2016 6 to 9 pm

Bruno David Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Linda Skrainka In conjunction with the upcoming retrospective exhibition “ Linda Skrainka: Reflections” (March 4 – May 15, 2016) at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art (SLUMA), Bruno David is pleased to present in the Project Room a small exhibition of Skrainka’s work, titled “Close to Home.”

Linda Skrainka’s brush strokes reflected her keen observations of the life around her. Her acute meditations on her everyday life and natural forces transcend the personal and make large, exquisite tributes to architectural stasis and the universality of change. Her work is imbued with minute details that human eyes often fail to register, making her paintings and drawings a treasure of rediscovery.

Skrainka painted shadows and mirrored surfaces with intelligence and a thoughtful artistic sensibility to create pictures within pictures. Her art-historical background informs the work.

Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Saturday 10 am – 5 pm & by appointment

Bruno David Gallery

3721 Washington Blvd.

Saint Louis, MO 63108

1.314.531.3030

info@brunodavidgallery.com

WWW.BRUNODAVIDGALLERY.COM

The Sheldon Art Galleries: Friday, 4 March 2016

The Sheldon Art Galleries

Invite You to the Opening of Three New Exhibitions

Printmaking in St. Louis Now

An All-Gallery Exhibit

The exhibition is made possible in part by Northern Trust

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Frank Trankina: Superheroes and Night Stories

The Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery

The exhibition is made possible in part by Barbara and Arthur McDonnell

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Susan Hacker Stang: reAPPEARANCES

The Ann Lee and Wilfred Konneker Gallery

Friday, March 4, 2016

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

314.533.9900www.thesheldon.org

Yeyo Arts: Friday, 12 February 2016

 Friday, February 12th, 6-8pm
"Adventures and Experiments: A Photography Exhibition "

An exhibition of work by student photographers at STLCC Flo Valley.
Myesha Tyler, Tahjanee Starr, Butch Rias, Elizabeth Rhubeck, Melissa Hardy, Scott Westcott, Brayon Calvin, Jim Ponder

Yeyo Arts

2907 South Jefferson

ARCH Design: Thursday, 11 February 2016

Burt Remis Photography Valentine's Exhibition at ARCH Design, Artwork & Framing

Thursday February 11, 2016 from 4pm-8pm 

You are invited to the ARCH Design Showroom as we debut the new works of St. Louis photographer Burt Remis. Join us for a glass of wine surrounded by beautiful prints to get you and your sweetheart in the mood for Valentine's Day.

Sauver la nuit pour l'amour d'art.

"Save the Night for the love of art."

ARCH Design, Artwork & Framing

1188 Walters Way Lane

St. Louis, MO 63132

(314) 447-3300

Pulitzer Arts: Saturday, 6 February 2016

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ProtoLab Studio: Opening Reception

Sat, Feb 6; 4-5pm

A group of local teens will present a curated installation of 3D printed Kota models following a three-week intensive program with Rampant and Pulitzer staff. Using 3D printed models created in the Kota ProtoLab, the program considers what makes an object powerful in a contemporary context and invites new questions about the aesthetic choices of the original Kota artists

Foundry Art Centre: Friday, 18 March 2016

The Foundry Art Centre is pleased to announce the opening of three new exhibitions beginning March 18, 2016. In Gallery I and II, Impact examines the motivations behind an artist’s need to create. All artwork in Impact was juried by Jane Sauer. Impact’s opening reception is Friday, March 18 beginning with Jane Sauer’s gallery talk at 5:30pm.

Alongside Impact, sculptor J. Casey Doyle will exhibit his playful and intriguing artwork in Gallery III. Doyle’s work often portrays objects using unlikely media, such as curling ribbon, and explores the themes of gender and the concept of play. Linda Wilson’s tintype photography exhibition will be on display in the Ameristar Gallery as part of the Emerging Artist series.

Enjoy food and drinks while chatting with Impact’s participating artists at the opening reception Friday, March 18 from 5:30pm – 8:00pm, and be sure to head to the mezzanine level to visit with the Foundry Art Centre studio artists. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. All three of these exhibitions will open Friday, March 18 and close Friday, April 29, 2016.

Hours are Tuesday – Thursday from 10am – 8pm, Friday and Saturday from 10am – 5pm, and Sunday from 12pm – 4pm

520 North Main Center

historic Saint Charles, Missouri.

636-255-0270

www.foundryartcentre.org.

Insuarance Gallery: Saturday, 6 February 2016

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, Opening Reception, 7-11 pm

X

On View February 6-March 19

X, curated by JE Baker features work by artists who employ ambiguous forms and matter to evoke our sense of time and timelessness. It also includes sculptures and works on paper that seem to be in a state of suspended growth, erosion, or decay. 

Besides these offerings, visitors can enjoy Rafael E. Vera's durational performance If ever again to be something in the gallery from 7:30-9:30p during the opening reception. 

In addition, X, a sculpture created specifically for this exhibition by Jose Garza is installed outside the gallery on LAUNCH PAD. 

Insurance Gallery

1822 State St.

Granite City, IL

Kirkwood Public Library: Sunday, 7 February 2016

Art in the Library at Kirkwood Public Library will feature Lee Streett and Kate Warner in February and March in the Library's Gallery on the main level. The joint exhibit features art by the artists that reflects their love of nature and painting en plein air.  An after-hours reception will be held on Sunday, February 7, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m

Kirkwood Public Library

140 E. Jefferson Avenue

Downtown Kirkwood 

Kuehner Gallery: Friday, 12 February 2016

	Interpretations: The Biennial  High School Teapot Exhibition Kuehner Gallery a collaboration of Craft Alliance, Burroughs and students from area high schools

 Friday, February 12 through Wednesday, April 6

Please join us for opening receptions, 5:30 to 7:30 pm on the 12th

Evie Oglesby '16, Wheel thrown and hand-built teapot, Stoneware clay, glaze, Bamboo handle, 5.5"x6"x6"

Craft Alliance and Burroughs present The High School Teapot Exhibition ~ an extension of the 15th Biennial Teapot Exhibition featuring professional artists, currently on display at Craft Alliance. The show at Burroughs, which will include teapots made by students from 16 area high schools, celebrates student achievement, diverse approaches to clay and the strength of area high school fine arts departments.

	The Galleries are open 8 am to 5 pm, weekdays. The general public is welcome.

John Burroughs School 755 South Price Road St. Louis, MO 63124 (314)993-4040