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JUDY PFAFF | Bruno David Gallery

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:05:17 +0000

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 what art can be. A fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Buzz Spector and Kara Gordon accompanies the exhibit. Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-making, Pfaff is known for creating exuberant, sprawling sculptures and installations that weave landscape, architecture, and color into a tense yet organic whole. A pioneer of installation art in the 1970s, Pfaff synthesizes sculpture, painting, and architecture into dynamic environments in which space seems to expand and collapse, fluctuating between the two- and three-dimensional. Pfaff’s work is a complex ordering of visual information composed of steel, fiberglass, and plaster as well as salvaged signage and natural elements such as tree roots.

JUDY PFAFF: “Recent Work” (Main Gallery)

Carmon Colangelo: “Seven Days in O Land O” (Front Room)

Jill Downen: “Midsection” (Project Room)

Monika Weiss: “Abiding (Proba Wody)” (New Media Room)

Bruno David Gallery

3721 Washington Boulevard

Saint Louis, Missouri | brunodavidgallery.com

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JUDY PFAFF | Bruno David Gallery

Monika Weiss | Abiding (Proba Wody)

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:10:47 +0000

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 surroundings. Many of her often-risky performances with immersions in different liquids provide sensory deprivation and have almost meditative aspects. [Aneta Szylak in "You Won't Feel A Thing: On Panic, Obsession, Rituality and Anesthesia", Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany, 2007].

Bruno David invites you to meet the artist, and preview

the exhibition on Friday, January 27, 2012 from 5 to 9 pm

Front Room | Carmon Colangelo | Seven Days in O Land O

Main Gallery | Judy Pfaff: Recent Work

Project Room | Jill Downen: Midsection

Media Room | Monika Weiss: Abiding (Proba Wody)

Exhibition on view: January 27 – March 3, 2012

3721 Washington Boulevard

brunodavidgallery.com

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Monika Weiss | Abiding (Proba Wody)

Carmon Colangelo | O Land O | Bruno David Gallery

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:07:08 +0000

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 to meet the artist, and preview

the exhibition on Friday, January 27, 2012 from 5 to 9 pm

Front Room | Carmon Colangelo | Seven Days in O Land O

Main Gallery | Judy Pfaff: Recent Work

Project Room | Jill Downen: Midsection

Media Room | Monika Weiss: Abiding (Proba Wody)

Exhibition on view: January 27 – March 3, 2012

3721 Washington Boulevard

brunodavidgallery.com

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Carmon Colangelo | O Land O | Bruno David Gallery

Light Diet

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:18:13 +0000

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 life might seem to the future realities in artificial intelligence, there is a bridge across the gap. ”Light Diet” looks to construct and reform this bridge.

Damon Freed, Shawn Burkard & Dickson Beall

Bruno David Gallery | December 2, 2011 – January 20, 2012

Arched Art Now Review

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Light Diet

West End Word | Charles Schwall: Source Confluence

admin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:38:46 +0000

Charles Schwall, in his St. Louis studio, talks about his exhibition titled “Source Confluence” featuring a 17 foot wide installation composed of nine separate panels.

See Dickson Beall review: West End Word, Oct. 21, Charles Schall at Bruno David Gallery.

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West End Word | Charles Schwall: Source Confluence

StLouisan LIVE | Simon Kelly, Kelley Johnson & Bruno David

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:43:06 +0000

This is the launch of StLouisan, recorded Monday, Oct. 3, 2011 from 8-9 pm/ central time.

Featured video is Simon Kelly, the curator of St. Louis Art Museum exhibition Monet’s Water Lilies. Kelley Johnson, artist and Bruno David, gallerist are guests. Music is from today and yesteryear, including Ella Fitzgerald.

Because the opening slide was recorded for more than 30 minutes prior to the webcast, drag the progress bar in 39 minutes to cue the tape to the beginning of the webcast. Then hit Play.

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StLouisan LIVE | Simon Kelly, Kelley Johnson & Bruno David

Kemper Art Museum | Tomas Saraceno: Cloud-Specific

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:46:50 +0000

Tomas Saraceno draws on botany, spider anatomy, physics, clouds and Buckminster Fuller and creates an installation like nothing you’ve ever bounced on, jumped on, rolled over, or seen before.

Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis

Through Jan. 9, 2011

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Kemper Art Museum | Tomas Saraceno: Cloud-Specific

Artist Designed Tees

admin — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:21:46 +0000

Want to own a Damien Hirst? We’re not talking sharks in a tank, but butterflies on a Tee.

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Artist Designed Tees

Kristen Bartel | Aisle 1 Gallery

admin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:29:02 +0000

Kristen Bartel opened her exhibition of meticulously crafted works at Aisle 1 Gallery, the newest gallery on Cherokee Street.

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Kristen Bartel | Aisle 1 Gallery

Third Degree Glass Factory | Third Friday

admin — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:09:57 +0000

Glass making demonstrations at the Third Degree Glass Factory’s “Third Friday” event combined with their stunning gallery of glassware, entertainment by fire dancers, live music and a combination photography/sculpture exhibit of dancers for a fiery finish to the work week and hot ticket to begin the weekend.

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Third Degree Glass Factory | Third Friday