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BALÁZS KICSINY: Killing Time

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:51:31 +0000

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, Kicsiny worked with Sam Fox students to create this extraordinary work, a new installation at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Balázs Kicsiny: Killing Time, durated by Robert Gero, will be on view from January 27 through April 16, 2012.

Current Exhibitions | Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Sam Fox School – Washington University in St. Louis

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BALÁZS KICSINY: Killing Time

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

Jill Downen | Midsection

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:07:10 +0000

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 models. Her art envisions a place of interdependent relation between the human body and architecture, where the exchanging forces and tensions of construction, deterioration, and restoration emerge as thematic possibilities. Jill Downen is a 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow.
Bruno David invites you to meet the artist, and preview
the exhibition on Friday, January 27, 2012 from 5 to 9 pm

Exhibition on view: January 27 – March 3, 2012
3721 Washington Boulevard
brunodavidgallery.com

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Jill Downen | Midsection

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

Untamed | Craft Alliance

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:18:47 +0000

Stefanie Kirkland, Director of Exhibitions at Craft Alliance talks about “Untamed” the current show at the Delmar Loop location.

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Untamed | Craft Alliance

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

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts | Reflections of the Buddha

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:57:48 +0000

MORE: Click title / Video password: westendword | and read my Review, Nov. 15, 2011

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Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts | Reflections of the Buddha

Peter Voss on Artificial Intelligence and the Calorie Restriction Diet

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:24:54 +0000

Peter Voss, founder of Smart Action talks about artificial intelligence and a calorie restriction diet. Be sure not to miss the very smart telephone recording–at the end of this video.

I was recently at the CR Society Conference in Las Vegas, so be watching for more videos on StLouisan about the healthy way of Calorie Restriction.

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Peter Voss on Artificial Intelligence and the Calorie Restriction 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