A modest attempt to list gallery openings in the visual arts in St. Louis
(Searching by date is probably the best way to find all events for a particular day)
JILL DOWNEN
Speak Truth
DANIEL RAEDEKE
Playlist
RACHEL YOUN
Neither Fruit Nor Flower
DAMON FREED
Town & Country
MONIKA WEISS
Metamorphosis | Nirbhaya
Media Room
Public Hours: Tuesday through Saturday: 11-5, and by appointment
Bruno David Gallery
7513 Forsyth Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63105
314-696-2377
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3x3 PopUp with Marilynne Bradley, Allen Kriegshauser and Patrick Murphy
Friday, Dec. 3
The art will be up all day - from 10 am
The artists' reception is from 4 to 7 pm
Saturday, December 4
11 am to 3 pm
Three artists / Three media
Marilynne Bradley - watercolor
Allen Kriegshauser / oil
Patrick Murphy / woodcuts
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Publish or Perish! November 19, 2021 – January 14, 2022.
Please join us Friday, November 19th at The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery from 5:00pm to 7:30pm for exhibition opening of: Publish or Perish!
Special Guest speaker: Michael
Schneider will join us from Tokyo via Zoom at 6:00pm
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://webster-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsde6tqzorH9ynTdLIXVHg4VgCO2_4jfT1
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Publish or Perish! Will exhibit prints, objects and video works by professors and assistants in the Printmaking Laboratory at Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan. The long history of printmaking in Asia builds a strong foundation for the work that is currently being created at the Printmaking Laboratory of the Tokyo University of the Arts and the present exhibition suggests how globalization and digitalization have expanded that tradition. For centuries printmaking as a medium has served as a means to publish and to spread ideas, to enter into the social discourse and political arena.
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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
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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.
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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.
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.
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There will be an informal gallery conversation at 1:15pm.
Looking at this project with a wider lens: “Rebuilding with New Language” is the on-going opportunity Macklind Appliance and its sister organization, Colorbridge Art, aim to provide the St. Louis Community.
Focusing in: We look to quilting, painting, photography, language, lithography, drawing and collage from Tasha Burton, Eugenia Alexander, Tiffany Sutton, Laura Nugent, Gary Passanise, Wyndi DeSouza, Garry Noland and Stan Chisholm.
Final gallery hours: Wednesday/Thursday 4 to 6pm, Saturday 10 to 2pm.
Artist talk 1:15pm, Light reception and drawing materials available for children and adults.
Join us in viewing Blueprint this week and learn more about these community art projects. Gallery proceeds benefit Colorbridge Art. Artwork details available upon request.
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About 35 paintings of landscapes, boat paintings, cityscapes will be on view throughout the gallery space, both oil and watercolor paintings.
There will be an opening reception from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. All are invited. Although the event is free, you are asked to register.
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Justin Bailey: Traces I was Here
Opening reception: Friday, September 17, 5-8 pm.
Exhibition of furniture and object designs. The show will run until October 22, 2021.
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"The University Collects: Highlights from the Permanent Collection"
A University's collection reflects its history and heritage, the information contained in an image serving as a significant source of research for new knowledge and interdisciplinary links for study and community.
Through the leadership and generosity of several alumni and friends as some of the region's foremost art collectors, Webster University has amassed a survey of work by historically important artists for exhibition, enrichment, and for study. Including works by James Brown, Marilyn Minter, Faith Ringgold, and Warhol, the curated works in this exhibit, "The University Collects", have not been available for view by the public, some for over 30 years. Join us in the Main Gallery of Arcade Contemporary Art Projects on the first floor of Webster's Gateway Campus, to gather in celebration, gratitude and to be inspired and challenged by these enduring gifts of visual art.
Masks required. 5:30-8:30 pm.
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KIT KEITH: I LIVE ALONE
THROUGH JULY 16, 2021
CLOSING RECEPTION, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 5 - 7 PM
Inspired by outsider art and artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, legendary St. Louis artist Kit Keith will often paint over found materials from thrift stores, old magazines and advertisements. This exhibition consists of over fifty female portraits, each one painted with acrylic on found onion skin letterhead and created over a few months’ time during the pandemic. Each portrait is reflective of the artist’s disposition on the day on which it was created. Whether happiness, angst, relief, contentment, frustration, anger, joy or loneliness, each portrait conveys in itself, a feeling.
William Shearburn Gallery
665 S. Skinker Blvd.
St. Louis MO 63105
314.367.8020
info@shearburngallery.com
www.shearburngallery.com
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OPENING SATURDAY AT BRUNO DAVID GALLERY
Bilingual: Abstract & Figurative (Group Exhibition)
Chris Rubin de la Borbolla: Toxic Love (Window on Forsyth)
Exhibits open Saturday, June 12, 2021. 4-8 pm.
Many artists will be present and available to talk about their work.
Bruno David is pleased to announce a group exhibition by artists from Bruno David Gallery’s roster alongside a selection of established and emerging artists across various media. BILINGUAL: ABSTRACT & FIGURATIVE will present abstract and figurative works in order to showcase parallel theoretical and philosophical concerns.
Bruno David Gallery
7513 Forsyth Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63105
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KIT KEITH: I LIVE ALONE
June 10 - July 16, 2021
Reception for the Artist, Thursday, June 10, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
William Shearburn Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new works on paper by Kit Keith. This exhibition consists of over 50 female portraits, each one painted on found onion skin letterhead and created over a few months’ time during the pandemic. Each portrait is reflective of the artist’s disposition on the day on which it was created. Whether happiness, angst, relief, contentment, frustration, anger, joy or loneliness, each portrait conveys in itself, a feeling.
William Shearburn Gallery
665 S. Skinker Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63105
314.367.8020
info@shearburngallery.com
www.shearburngallery.com
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LESLIE LASKEY: Then & Now
SARA GHAZI ASADOLLAHI: Gummies Tame Stones
SARA GHAZI ASADOLLAHI: Cast (Media Room)
HEATHER BENNETT Blueprint Kit for Lilly (Window on Forsyth)
Exhibition Dates: March 27 – May 29, 2021
Opening Reception will be Saturday, March 27th, from 3 to 8 pm (No appointment necessary.) To maintain safety standards and social distancing, masks will be required, and a reduced number of attendees will be allowed in the gallery at one time. Free indoor parking.
Then & Now, an exhibition by Leslie Laskey. Laskey, who is 100 this year, has the ability to create and inspire, as well as challenge and amuse become ever more apparent with each exhibition.
Gummies Tame Stones, an exhibition of new paintings by Sara Ghazi Asadollahi. “Alienation” is defined as "a withdrawing or separation of a person or a person's affections from an object or position of former attachment;" a detachment from the origin yet connected to it through invisible bonds, formally or conceptually. This body of work Gummies Tame Stones considers the concept of alienation and the dynamic between alienated objects and figures in empty spaces. Empty and abandoned spaces play a significant role in her work. Referencing an "original world," empty spaces provide a detachment from time and space and highlight the relationship between the objects within. The architectural forms in these paintings are painted from the sculpture pieces (made of cement and plexiglass) inspired by bunkers and abandoned places. Detached from their source, they represent fragments that simultaneously belong to the world of their origin and are torn from the real object of the derived milieu. Alienation could happen in different stages of life due to some internal or external changes, a separation from self, family, society, or community. Whatever the reason, it creates a pause in the status quo and leaves a void in the psyche. The void which opens a space for the alienated objects to challenge, embrace and deal with the estrangement. The gap is created to be filled with the representation of fragments, vacillating between a passage to the future and a world of fetishes.
Blueprint Kit for Lilly by Heather Bennett is an installation in the gallery’s vitrine space, WINDOW ON FORSYTH (Downtown Clayton, viewable 24/7). Photographic images have traditionally depicted space, revealing people and objects, they are the stuff of illusion. They are also things. At the intersection of these identities is a kind of gooey vacillation as we look at and through a photographic image in contemporary culture. This work seems to depict exactly what the series title, Photos of Gifts, describes, however, objects are often wrapped with magazine images complicating illusionistic space, as well as, obscuring object identities. Women acting as objects for magazine advertisements are subtly transformed here to the focused subjects of the images only to then be flattened, inextricable from the object portrait, as they are wrapped around that object and tied with a bow. The subject/ object reversal of the female form gets a sea-sickening treatment. The small act of wrapping a gift becomes a potent metaphor, exploding within its supposedly quiet, often assumed to be feminine place. In this window installation, a candied vacuousness is implied, even embraced. Glossy lips and curled pink ribbons float over a dusky pink carpet mimicking a cloying set for Teen Vogue. We don’t expect to find the critical here playing precocious as it winks and sways and just barely, gazes back.
Cast, a video work by Sara Ghazi Asadollahi, examines chance and accident. It indicates a rule in video games in which the world is not fully programmed, and the background is not an accessible part of the game, unless there is a connection to the next move/stage. The set design in the video was created using a painting and a sculpture by Sara Ghazi Asadollahi. Both came from her last body of work exploring the concept of ruins and abandoned places in a dystopian science fiction mode. Following the video games rule above, abandoned places featured a similar function in relation to the world: while still a part of the world, they have lost their original function. Like a sleeping monster, they are hiding in the background of the world as if waiting to be provoked by an accident to return to a banal cycle of the world.
Public Hours Tuesday-Saturday 11-5 pm, and by appointment. Closed Sundays and Mondays.
Bruno David Gallery
7513 Forsyth Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63105
info@brunodavidgallery.com
https://www.brunodavidgallery.com
https://www.artsy.net/bruno-david-gallery
314.696.2377
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BUZZ SPECTOR: Paper made and unmade
CHARLES SCHWALL: Sea Lover
Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective WADE: Media Room
Exhibition Dates: January 30 – March 13, 2021
Due to the pandemic, the Opening Reception will be Saturday, January 30th, from 2 to 8 pm.
This new exhibit at Bruno David Gallery, brings together Buzz Spector’s torn paper works from the 1990s, including the series, Painting, and selected Author works, with recent works of handmade paper produced at three studios over the past three years; Megan Singleton in St. Louis, Helen Frederick in Silver Springs, MD, and Joan Hall in Jamestown, RI. The handmade paper works have not previously been exhibited.
Sea Lover is an exhibition by Kansas City-based artistCharles Schwall. It is an exploration of two material languages, paint and textiles; the exhibition is comprised of large canvas paintings and sewn fabric appliqué pieces. By placing these two material languages (two material bodies of knowledge) in conversation with one another, the work investigates concepts of surface, gendered space, fluidity, and overall softness. The aesthetic trajectory in the work is one of openness, growth, the expansion of organic systems, and morphology. The conversation between paint and textiles occurs in various ways, such as painted forms that depict cloth, pattern, and textiles; use and reference of the vocabulary of sewing, such as folding and creasing, seaming, tucks, and pleats; and a semi-transparent use color, similar to a veil of fabric, in that it simultaneously hides and reveals. Many of the works also explore fabric’s innate water-like quality, such as the way cloth moves, ruffles, and twists in space. The title of the Sea Lover exhibition is inspired by concepts from French philosopher Luce Irigaray, who explores the complex, and sometimes controversial, relationship that exists between the feminine and the fluid. In this sense, the Sea Lover exhibition interrogates and critiques modernist structures through the point of view of water. In the paintings, organic forms break open, spill forward, and emerge from either the center or the outside edge of the picture plane. Shapes and patterns break free and/or split apart; fold inward and/or wrap around; and open in ways that evoke the growth or birth process. There is interaction of various parts, yet emptiness remains central to the picture plane of each canvas. The work seeks to create places of openness, of a relation to the other; a generative place where birth and rebirth can continuously prevail. Through these visual actions, the works embody a womb-space, a gendered space that reveals possibilities of multiple states of transition.
Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective creates original works of art through a collaborative process. Through non-violent collective action, artists work with 16-24-year-old urban youth to create systemic social change. Story Stitchers collect local stories, reframe, and retell them through art, writing and performance to promote understanding, civic pride, intergenerational relationships, and literacy. The video WADE in the Media Room comments on the history, endurance, and fellowship of St. Louis’s African American citizens. The purpose for all Story Stitchers programs is to promote a better educated, more peaceful and caring region through storytelling. A core creative group of professional artists and African American youth generate original work through a unique form of “urban storytelling” that includes hip hop, spoken word, photography and videography and disseminate new works through public presentations and performances. The Collective’s body of work focuses on gun violence prevention and topics related to public health issues including education on safe practices during the Covid-19 pandemic. Story Stitchers’ programs are driven by the interests and concerns of low-income, black youth and as a result have focused on gun violence since 2014. Gun violence is a pressing public health crisis that consumes the attention of the engaged youth. Youth can work through their pain and loss and be a force multiplier, impacting families, schools and neighborhoods. Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective piece WADE is a work from the multi-year project entitled, The WHY of MY City. The WHY of MY City captures and documents black history through written word and art and gives audiences insight into neighbors’ lives. (5:48 minutes, one-channel color video with sound)
Public Hours Tuesday - Friday 11 - 6 pm, Saturday 11 - 5 pm and open by appointment. Closed Sundays and Mondays.
Bruno David Gallery
7513 Forsyth Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63105
info@brunodavidgallery.com
brunodavidgallery.com
314.696.2377
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Saturday, September 12, 2020. Noon-6 pm
William Morris
MICHAEL BYRON: The Wheel of Fortune & How to Build a Ghost
WILLIAM MORRIS: The Protest Project (Media Room)
PATRICIA OLYNYK: Oculus (Window on Forsyth)
CHRIS KAHLER: SHIFT
Fall Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 11 AM-6 PM - Saturday: 11-5 PM
Admission to the gallery is free, safe, and open to all!
Bruno David Gallery
7513 Forsyth Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63105
info@brunodavidgallery.com
http://www.brunodavidgallery.com
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Join us for our Virtual Opening Reception on April 17th @ duanereedgallery.com IG: @reedgallery FB: @duanereedgallery https://www.artsy.net/duane-reed-gallery |
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