ARTS & CULTURE NOW
"An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography" is a compelling survey of photographers that emphasizes the artists' complex scene setting and directing from behind the camera rather than on capturing or mirroring the world in front of it. The works blur the lines between fact and fiction. The exhibition is curated by Eric Lutz, Assistant Curator of prints, drawings and photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum, and is on view … [Read more...]
Curator Karen Butler talks with StLouisan. John Stezaker, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis until April 23, is London artist Stezaker’s captivating and unsettling transformation of classic movie stills, vintage postcards, magazines and book illustrations by his inverting, slicing and collaging them into compelling new images. Sam Fox School, Washington University … [Read more...]
Curator Robert Gero talks with StLouisan. Balázs Kicsiny: Killing Time, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis until April 23, is Hungarian installation artist Kicsiny’s chilling conflation of a military, restaurant and knife-throwing act into a time-warped performance and investigation of protection, service and daily ritual. Sam Fox School, Washington … [Read more...]
Balázs Kicsiny, a Budapest-based contemporary artist works in mulptiple media, sculpture, film, performance, and painting. Kicsiny creates haunting, large-scale installations, or "frozen performances," that draw on the languages of theater, philosophy, and the visual arts. This well-known artist explores dichotomies of time and space, motion and stillness, history and modernity. As the 2011-12 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist, … [Read more...]
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to present Judy Pfaff's first solo exhibition in St. Louis since her exhibition Currents 41 at the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1989. Although internationally renowned as one of the pioneers of installation art, the exhibition at Bruno David Gallery, Recent Work exhibits her adroitness in creating smaller works of art. Melding several kinds of media and methods of art-making together, Pfaff redefines the capacities of … [Read more...]
In Midsection, Jill Downen employs the metaphoric relationship between bodies and buildings in an installation of sculptural forms. The torso, specifically from the bust to the navel, takes on the role of sculpted building blocks situated in relation to the space of the gallery. Jill Downen's art is a focused investigation of the symbiotic relationship between the human body and architecture expressed in temporal installations, drawings, and … [Read more...]
The video work titled "Abiding (Proba Wody)" - (Trial by Water) is by Monika Weiss. Aneta Szylak writes, "Monika Weiss combines traditional techniques such as drawing with performance, video and sound installations. The perpetual aspect of her performances, their slowness, repetitiveness are very much experience oriented. Abiding (Proba Wody), (1999-2000) deals with ritual immersion and separates the performing subject from her usual … [Read more...]
Carmon Colangelo, Dean of the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, explores the homogenization of American life in a sequence of two-sided prints, inspired by a visit to Orlando Florida. “O Land O” is a playful pastiche and amalgamation of abstract maps, highways, hotels and Disneyesque images of city life. The prints were created at at Flying Horse Editions in Orlando. Bruno David invites you … [Read more...]
An investigation of the relationship between past and present. Through this exploration, this video looks to to portray the human experience of change through light and sound. Working with light and movement in space, the video aims to transcend the subject matter. We are constantly moving, constantly burning and replenishing. This process of constant change is beautiful, elegant in its own right. As disparate as the past traditions of the still … [Read more...]
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