The Monday Club: Sunday, 7 November 2021

 Frieda Lopinot: A Life in Art

November 1 - December 13

Public Reception Sunday, November 7, 2-4 pm

(Proof of vaccination, masking & social distancing practiced.)

For more info aschuck@sbcglobal.net or riverfever51@hotmail.com

The Monday Club

37 S. Maple Ave.

Webster Groves MO 63119

(Entrance on Cedar Ave.)

William Shearburn Gallery: Thursday, 21 October 2021

Robert Motherwell, Untitled, 1971, Acrylic on canvas, 15 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches

ROBERT MOTHERWELL: OPENS

October 21 - November 24, 2021
Opening Reception, Thursday, October 21, 5 - 7 pm

In the late 1960s, Robert Motherwell embarked on what became known as his Open series. Focused upon the theme of the window, these intimate and meditative works create a metaphor for the relationship between the inner and outer worlds. Often consisting of a single block of color broken up with several vertical and horizontal lines, these works exemplify his conceptual and philosophical standpoint, his strong ties to minimalism and his role as a seminal Abstract Expressionist.

Robert Motherwell, who lived from 1915-1991, has been characterized as one of the most important artists of the Post-War era. He became known as the leading figure of the Abstract Expressionists and the New York School (a term coined by him), both for contributing to and for defining the movement with his impressive body of work and his far-reaching intellect.

William Shearburn Gallery

665 S. Skinker Blvd.

St. Louis, MO 63105

314.367.8020

info@shearburngallery.com

www.shearburngallery.com

Sheldon Art Galleries: Friday, 5 November 2021

Tate Foley – In Shadows

Bellwether Gallery of St. Louis Artists

Dissemination of information is of great interest to Tate Foley. He engages with far-reaching formats including newspapers, printed bills, religious tracts and other various printed ephemera as it explores real, tangible, ubiquitous contact rather than idiosyncratic experience. Questions about access to art have been a large focus of his work in recent years.

Brett Williams - Minimal

Gallery of Music

Brett Williams never learned to play a musical instrument. This has affected his work in that he strives to create his own music. Heavily influenced by the American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Williams has made it his mission to create working machines that can make sound through lo- and hi-tech methods.

Carly Slade - Rat Race

Gallery of Photography

Slade believes that buildings and the spaces they occupy are vessels. They hold within them residue of the lives that have passed through them, while their outsides are reflections of their time and place. By freezing these historical markers in miniature form, Slade’s buildings are constructed in 2-point perspective to keep a record of the space’s journey: from its life-sized 3D form, to a 2D online record, and back again to 3D in miniature. Free Gallery Talk with Carly Slade: Saturday, November 6 at 11 a.m.

Abbey Hepner - Redacted Landscapes

Bernoudy Gallery of Architecture

Redacted Landscapes investigates radioactive sites across the U.S. through aerial photographs of uranium disposal cells and uranotypes of sites that transport nuclear waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. Hepner’s artistic practice examines health, technology and our relationship with place through photography, performance, video and installation-based work. She frequently works at the intersection of art and science, investigating biopolitics and the use of health as a currency. Free Gallery Talk with Abbey Hepner: Saturday, November 20 at 11 a.m.

Virtual/Visual: The Art of Remote Learning

Grand Center Arts Academy Student Work 2020-2021 AT&T Gallery of Children’s Art

During the 2020-2021 school year, the Grand Center Arts Academy’s Visual Department worked hard to transition their in-person curriculum to a remote learning format during the pandemic. Teachers created art kits for every student that were specifically designed for each assignment in ceramics, painting, drawing, printmaking and graphic design. The exhibit features works and presentations created through virtual teaching and demonstrations.

Emmett Merrill - Tornado

Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery

Emmett Merrill uses the lithographic process to create narrative prints which combine Americana imagery with myth. The prints deal with the emptiness of the American landscape, the derivation of ghost stories, Art History objects and highway rest stop culture.

Jane McKenzie - Nocturnes

Konneker Gallery

Jane McKenzie’s work over the last several years focuses on nocturnal observations from her backyard or apartment window, painted each night between sunset and midnight. This body of work has evolved into an investigation of urban backyard habitat and the vital function urban greenspaces and small backyards have in our lives and in the current climate crisis.

Parish Gallery: Friday, 22 October 2021

After MANY months staying dark, the Parish Gallery is reopening with an exhibit of figurative drawings by Douglas Simes.  The exhibit will be available for viewing October 19 through December 18, and there will be a reception Friday, October 22, from 6 to 8 p.m.  

 From Douglas: I am a draftsman.  My project is the figure and portrait.

My life in the arts includes work in architecture and professional acting, disciplines that inform my drawing practice in cogent ways.  My inner architect trusts in anatomy as a fundamental generator of bodily form and keeps vigil over issues of perspective and compositional design.  The actor in me seeks to establish a rapport with my subject that reveals a connection both intimate and palpable.  

I work in graphite, ink pen, sanguine pencil and black chalk.  My drawing technique references Renaissance and Baroque masters; it is grounded in the revelation of gesture, structure and topology.  I strive for precision, both in the details of form and psychological expression.

When COVID precluded life drawing, I embarked on a series of “memory” drawings, expanding and reimagining images from family snapshots taken in 50’s and 60’s.  This acutely personal expedition recently explored the face of my mother captured in a moment of midlife depression.  

Whether from life or a photographic source, the act of drawing is an act of engagement.

 Parish Gallery in Trinity Episcopal Church

600 N. Euclid

at the corner of Euclid and Washington in the Central West End