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)
Recent Press: Nature, Place, Body & Architecture by Dickson Beall in the WestEnd Word (Link)
SAVE THE DATE: Gallery Talk by Carmon Colangelo at Bruno David Gallery. Saturday, February 18 at 4pm.
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. A video of Judy Pfaff exhibition at Bruno David Gallery. January 2012. (Video Link)
In the Front Room, the gallery presents an exhibition, titled Seven Days in O Land O by Carmon Colangelo. This collection of prints investigates the phenomenon of globalization and the disappearance of local culture and the gradual homogenization of American life. Inspired by a seven-day trip in Orlando, it was originally conceived to be seven interrelated, recto-verso prints that could be bound together and folded in a sequence that is suggestive of a road map. A fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Katherine Van Uum and Theo Lotz accompanies the exhibition. The prints were created at Flying Horse Editions. A video of Carmon Colangelo exhibition at Bruno David Gallery. January 2012. (Video Link)
In the Project Room, the gallery presents an exhibition, titled "Midsection" by Jill Downen. In Midsection, 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 project room. 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. Jill Downen is a 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow. A video of Jill Downen exhibition at Bruno David Gallery. January 2012. (Video Link)
In the Media Room, the gallery presents a video work titled "Abiding (Proba Wody)" - (Trial by Water) 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]. A video-interview of Monika Weiss on her exhibition at Bruno David Gallery. January 2012. (Video Link)
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