Flood Plain: Saturday, 23 February 2019

Vincent Stemmler: Armature opens with a public reception on Saturday, February 23, 6-9pm. The exhibition will remain on display until Saturday, March 23.

Featuring the work of Vincent Stemmler, “Armature” features ceramics, sculpture, and multimedia work that explore the personal and cultural legacies of industrialization, mechanization, and mass production. Combining mass-produced objects and trash with natural materials such as clay, dirt and grass, Stemmler recasts these industrial (by)products as main characters in an alternative, fragmentary history of late capitalism. Playing off this multi-perspectival facet of the artist's work, the show’s title harnesses the several, seemingly contradictory, meanings of the term “armature,” which simultaneously connotes both underlying frameworks or structures and also armor or physical or spiritual defenses. Rather than working to conceal or resolve this tension, Stemmler’s sculptures make themselves at home in this point of disjuncture, inviting the viewer to do the same.

Open gallery hours are held Saturdays, 12-5pm, or by appointment.

Flood Plain

3151 Cherokee Street

St. Louis 63118