Mar 29 Friday
Green Door Art Gallery is pleased to partner with Bobby Lessentine, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones, in presenting Upon Further Reflection, a collection of oil and cold wax paintings by Mark Witzling.
Join us for the opening reception on Thursday January 11, 2024, 5:00 – 7:00 pm. Meet the artist and enjoy refreshments while you view the exhibit.
Location: Edward Jones Office of Bobby Lessentine, CFP 3141 South Grand, St. LouisExhibit Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am – 5:00 pmPlease call before visiting: 314-772-5304
Emilee Chapman (Stanford University), author of Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2022), will present a talk entitled "What are Elections for and How Can we Make them Better?" at 10am, with brunch served from 9:30am. All are welcome!
Abstract: This talk invites us to think broadly about how elections contribute to the realization of democratic values. Much debate over election reform centers on questions about how we can gather the most accurate and equally representative information about citizens' preferences and how we can ensure that this information determines who gets to govern. But elections are not merely information-gathering exercises. We would have good reasons to continue our practice of voting even if we had better ways of ensuring that government reflects what the people want. This is because elections - and other occasions for popular voting - profoundly influence how citizens experience and relate to the otherwise very abstract notion of democracy. When elections are characterized by inclusiveness, equality, and a certain momentousness, they dramatize the nature of democracy as something that simultaneously depends on all of us and each of us. They also provide regular opportunities for citizens to perform their equal political agency. Understanding how these experiences and the political culture built around them contribute to a functional democratic system sheds new light on contemporary debates over electoral reform.
Green Door Art Gallery presents our newest art exhibit, Food For Thought, a celebration of the beauty and complexity of food, and the places and ways we interact with it. The exhibit features oil paintings by Cynthia Hamilton, Chloe Seyer, Michelle Streiff, and Da-vid Yates, and laser cut bamboo and batik fabric jewelry by Elsa Taricone. The artwork will be on display and available for sale March 6 – April 27, 2024
Join us for the opening reception on Friday March 15, 2024 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Green Door Art Gallery’s 36 resident artists will also be exhibiting and selling artwork in-cluding fused glass, mosaics, watercolor, oil and acrylic paintings, collage, mixed media, wood, pottery, textile art, jewelry and more. Green Door Art Gallery is located at 21 N. Gore in Old Webster Groves. Hours: Wednesday thru Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. www.greendoorartgallery.com (314) 202-4071
View outstanding mixed media collaborations between area St. Louis artists and Third Degree glass artists. The exhibition focuses on the refractions, reflections and overall beauty that glass can bring to any medium including textiles, wood, metal, paper, ceramics, and more.
Stop into Steve's to try special infused menu items on the 3rd Saturday of every month WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! Available for guests 21 and up only!
The Madrid-based artist Santiago Sierra presents "52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air" (2019) in the Saligman Family Atrium. Known for his provocative performance and installation art that deals with the topic of social inequities, the artist has created with this work a visualization of the toxicity of contemporary urban life.
Sierra created the 52 compositions—one for each week in a year—by placing adhesive-lacquered canvases on the floor in a building in Mexico City with the windows open, allowing the air to settle on them. Each week he removed one canvas and had a conservator permanently fix the sediment that had gathered on its surface. The result is a disturbing time-lapse of noxious accumulation. "52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air" refers not only to pollution in Mexico City but also to the increase of airborne contaminants in congested areas around the world.
Over the past three decades Sierra’s work has also focused on capitalist labor relations in art-world contexts to underscore their dehumanizing effects. In this work he does not replicate the human-on-human cruelty explored in his earlier works, but rather employs art as direct evidence of environmental degradation. Sierra’s canvases also turn our attention toward the systems of power responsible for these current conditions, making us see anew not just the air but also the policies that contaminate our bodies.
The exhibition is organized by Meredith Malone, curator.
In coordination with the exhibition "Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present," the artist Kahlil Robert Irving selected a series of contemporary video works to screen concurrently in the Kemper Art Museum’s Video Gallery. This is the second time the artist has curated a video series alongside a presentation of his own artworks. The seven videos he selected highlight intimate moments in time and space when Black people are present, emphasizing the fact that no matter the setting, “We are still here.” Locations range from a person's home, to family gatherings, to horseback riding in Oakland, California. These works are meant to remind some people that it is okay to be ourselves and to let others know that it is normal to see Black people participating in different acts or as a part of different metaphors. In today’s world, living is defined by adversity, resistance, and survival, all of which are inextricably linked to digital media. Digital media is variously used as a tool for protest, remembering passing moments , entertainment, and deception. The selected videos celebrate and acknowledge artistic practices that deploy a myriad of tools, technologies, and metaphors.
The participating artists are Lyndon Barrois Jr., Tony Cokes, Cameron Downey, Addoley Dzegede, Charles H. Lee, William M. Morris, Jefferson Pinder, and Tiffany J. Sutton.
"Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present" features the artwork of St. Louis–based artist Kahlil Robert Irving. Clay-based works are at the center of Irving’s multidisciplinary practice, which examines digital media, memory, race, and Black life as subjects embedded in his ceramic sculptures. This exhibition features Irving’s new sculptures, videos, and paintings that together consider our relationship to the city street as a place and a concept, while also challenging constructions of identity and culture in the Western world.
In her 1994 text "The Body in Pieces," art historian Linda Nochlin proposes the fragment as a metaphor for modernity. She argues that artists’ impulse to portray the human body as fractured emerged in the late 19th century from “that sense of social, psychological, even metaphysical fragmentation that so seems to mark modern experience—a loss of wholeness, a shattering of connection, a destruction or disintegration.” Taking inspiration from Nochlin, this exhibition assembles the work of a wide range of artists working during the first half of the 20th century who evoke this phenomenon, including Maya Deren, Jean Dubuffet, Fernand Léger, and Joan Miró. Through stylistic experiments in painting, sculpture, prints, photographs, and films, these artists and their peers searched for new ways to signal complex and sometimes fraught experiences of modernity.
By the early 20th century, Europe and the United States had experienced rapid modernization and industrialization. An accelerated pace of life led to new bodily experiences of the world and novel ways of depicting the human form. Artworks of this time reflect the sensorial overload of urban life, the sweep of high-speed travel, the repetitive motions of factory machinery, and the violent dismemberment caused by mechanized warfare. By incorporating these machine-like gestures into the act of making, artists yielded unprecedented corporeal representations. This exhibition is divided into sections that explore the varied techniques artists used to render the body in pieces, whether by deconstructing it into geometric shapes, dissolving it into daubs of paint, cropping it into photographic fragments, subjecting it to the destruction of the unconscious mind, or melting it into gestural brushstrokes.
The exhibition is curated by Dana Ostrander, assistant curator. The artworks in this exhibition are drawn primarily from the Museum's permanent collection.
Other Worlds - a juried art exhibit. See how local artists envision inhabitants, places and things from other worlds. The exhibit is free and will run from February 23 thru March 22.The Soulard Art Gallery voted as best gallery in the St. Louis Magazine A list 2021 thru 2023 as well as voted best gallery in the Riverfront Times in 2023 is a co-op art gallery located in Historic Soulard. With artwork by 13 resident artists, we offer a diverse collection of works, including painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography, and jewelry. The gallery also hosts a group exhibitions in the main gallery every month for artists to submit their work for display.Gallery hours are Thursdays 4-8 pm, Fridays and Saturdays 12-8 pm and Sundays 1-5 pm.