The Rep celebrates the season with “Cooking, Carols and Cocktails,” a 4-episode web series showcasing food, music and community. Meet beloved local personalities, tour some of St. Louis’ favorite restaurants, take a cooking class, toss in a coordinating cocktail and experience the best music The Lou has to offer – all from the comfort of […]
Ethiopian artist Elias Sime (born 1968) creates large-scale modular artworks from discarded technological material such as electrical wires, circuit boards, motherboards, and computer keys. Sime breaks, weaves, collages, and burns these materials to create abstract images that suggest nature, urban views, and even figures. Contemporary artist Elias Sime’s use of the detritus of technological progress […]
Storm of Progress: German Art after 1800 from the Saint Louis Art Museum presents the Museum’s world-class collection of German art of the last 200 years. From Romanticism in the 1800s to the eclectic globalism that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, this exhibition highlights how art, politics, and history are inextricably […]
Literature, language, and philosophy are at the core of Buzz Spector’s work. He is a contemporary Conceptual artist who explores the aesthetic possibilities of language, paper, and books. Buzz Spector: Alterations spans the artist’s career from the 1970s to the present and includes drawings, altered books, postcard assemblages, collages, and more. Spector is internationally recognized […]
Atrium announces an upcoming exhibition “Duo.” Included will be work by internationally recognized woodcut artist Karen Kunc, accompanied by a selection of handblown glass by regional artist and her late husband, Kenny Walton. Kunc has been at the forefront of woodcut printing almost her entire 40-plus year career. She has shown at Atrium for over […]
Approached through a lens of reordering and discovery, sculptor and installation artist Carlie Trosclair’s site-responsive installations create new topographies and narratives to highlight structural and decorative shifts that evolve over a building’s lifespan. Her select artist residencies include: Joan Mitchell Center (LA), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (NE), MASS MoCA (MA), chashama (NY), Oxbow (MI), […]
The Sheldon Art Galleries funded and sent five cameras along with a mission team to Malema, Mozambique in March 2020. The mission team worked with the youth choir from the Malema evangelical station of the United Methodist Church, who produced the photography included in this exhibit. The team was also able to fund the making […]
Exploring the significance of mankind’s relationship to nature, Newth’s work examines the often overlooked and intimate effects we have on our surroundings. For centuries humanity has used nature, in all its forms, as an expendable resource. From pollution and consumption to environmental degradation and species extirpation, we affect, and in turn are affected by, the […]
This exhibit features three St. Louis artists, who each explore a different approach to the fundamental concepts of drawing. Kit Keith’s wistful portraits have the appearance of being from another era. Inspired by outsider art, old advertisements and thrift store finds, Keith creates work reminiscent of a time when everything was done by hand. Sandra […]
The third in a series that celebrates St. Louis’ multicultural communities, this exhibit offers a glimpse into the dramatic and regional traditions of Eastern cultures – China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia and Tibet, and into the lively masquerade traditions of Oceania – Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. Drawn from the Hartenberger World Music Collection, musical […]
Relief consists of two separate bodies of work, drawings and wall sculptures created in the city of St. Louis during the COVID-19 pandemic. The drawings are the product of a couple of hours spent daily by the artist in the very early morning over the past seven months. This regular practice over the pandemic months […]
Jen Everett is an artist from Southfield, Michigan currently working in St. Louis, Missouri. Her practice encompasses lens-based media, installation and writing. New Arrangements is comprised of two recent bodies of work: Redoubled/Something We Carry and Unheard Sounds, Come Through. Each series engages notions of Black knowledge production, care and interiority using gestures of collection […]