ELAINE BLATT: Natural Phenomena (Main Gallery)
JILL DOWNEN: Hybrida Drawings (Project Room)
WYNE GELEYNSE: Kit 1A: Collected Book (Project Room)
(Jun 06, 2008 to Jul 05, 2008)
Opening Reception: Friday, June 6, from 6 to 9 pm.
ALEX COUWENBERG: Working Space (Main gallery)
SHAWN BURKARD: Over and over and over (Front room)
JILL DOWNEN: Cornerstone (New Media Room)
Project Room: CONTROLLED CHAOS: Laura Beard, Joan Hall, Kelley Johnson, Cindy Tower and Chris Kahler
(Apr 25, 2008 to May 31, 2008)
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles based painter Alex Couwenberg. Alex Couwenberg: Working Space, is his first exhibition in St. Louis. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Peter Frank accompanies this exhibition.
For several years, Alex Couwenberg has forged a unique reputation in California by producing a distinctive body of work that is a product of his obsession with the process of painting. Born and raised in Los Angeles and Orange County, Alex Couwenberg was exposed to many of the visual elements that create the So Cal terrain. The subject matter in his work comes from a deep appreciation of the aesthetic associated with the Southern California culture.
In the Front Room, Shawn Burkard, a young artist from St. Louis is showing his recent work in an exhibition titled Over and over and over. Burkard's work has been variously described as Pop Art, because of its source from functional objects and incorporation of commercial and industrial materials; and as Minimal Art, because of its geometric forms and solid presence.
In the New Media Room, multidisciplinary artist Jill Downen premieres a short video titled Cornerstone. Downen, known for her white on white wall installations of abstracted bodily forms emerging from architecture, continues to draw on the idea that the human body shares an interdependent relationship to buildings. The three-minute video zooms in on a stack of real bricks on the artist's own body. The simple act of breathing, under the weight of building materials, captures a moment of time that is humorous, visceral, and vulnerable. While Downen's art is rooted in site-responsive installation, "Cornerstone" is a recent video project characteristic of her interdisciplinary approach to uncover new aspects of established boundaries.
In the Project Room, a grouping of paintings by Cindy Tower, Joan hall, Laura Beard, Kelley Johnson and Chris Kahler.
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LESLIE LASKEY: WORK
(Mar 14, 2008 to Apr 19, 2008)
The current exhibition Leslie Laskey: Work is in three parts. Portraits (Front Room), Hinge (Main Gallery), Woodland Sketches (Project Room). In the New Media Room, an excerpt of the documentary "Forty-seven Views of Leslie Laskey" directed and produced by Lulu Gargiulo and David Wild. The short clip will be showing Leslie Laskey working in his studio.
In the hit-or-miss world of contemporary art, longevity in itself is a virtue. Leslie Laskey's lengthy biography can at times read like the artistic history of the 20th and 21st century. Now in his eighties, Laskey remains a working artist-and a central and engaging one at that. Longevity is one thing, but combine that with integrity and a drive to continually advance contemporary art and you have an (St. Louis) artist who has long been in our midst and deserves our admiration.
Leslie Laskey demonstrates again that working in the studio is crucial to a creative mind and longevity. His new work explores and engages us in images found in things and places. Showing us how they work, finding sensuality in surfaces and rich mystifying colors. Laskey never separates his art from its viewer as he always engages them in the process of his work.
Born in Michigan in 1921, Laskey served in a combat unit in Europe and was among the troops that landed on Omaha Beach early on 1944 D-Day. Leslie Laskey is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. Laskey studied at the Institute of Design in Chicago (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) with founder and American Bauhaus pioneer Lászlò Moholy-Nagy and Indiana University. He currently divides his time between St. Louis and Manistee, Michigan.
A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Robert W. Duffy accompanies this exhibition.
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FOUR ACES: Large-Scale Prints from Four Universities
(Feb 01, 2008 to Mar 08, 2008)
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibit FOUR ACES: Large-Scale Prints from Four Universities. The works exhibited are from 48 graduate students and faculty members of Washington University in St. Louis - Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts; Louisiana State University College of Art and Design, University of Texas - Austin; and University of Wisconsin - Madison.
THOMAS SLEET: Traces
(Dec 07, 2007 to Jan 12, 2008)
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibit Thomas Sleet: Traces in the Main Gallery, featuring large wall relief sculptures composed of cement, natural and synthetic fiber, recycled materials, acrylic, and earth pigments.
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CHRIS KAHLER: VIRAL
(Oct 19, 2007 to Dec 01, 2007)
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibit CHRIS KAHLER: VIRAL in the Main Gallery, featuring paintings that combine the role of the artist as a scientist and poet, soothsayer and oracle.
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JOAN HALL: FROM WHENCE WE CAME
(Oct 07, 2007 to Nov 06, 2007)
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibit JOAN HALL: FROM WHENCE WE CAME in the main gallery, featuring large-scale, sculptural prints that are thickly layered with handmade paper, pulp, and printing ink.
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FRANK SCHWAIGER: MYTHOLOGIES
(Jul 20, 2007 to Aug 25, 2007)
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibit MYTHOLOGIES by multimedia artist Frank Schwaiger.
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ERNEST TROVA: INSINUATIONS
(May 25, 2007 to Jun 30, 2007)
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibit ERNEST TROVA: INSINUATIONS in the main gallery, featuring new collage-based prints by St.Louis most celebrated artist.
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YVETTE DRURY DUBINSKY: Cité des Arts: Mixed Media
(Apr 20, 2007 to May 19, 2007)
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibit Cité des Arts: Mixed Mediaby multimedia artist Yvette Drury Dubinsky in the main gallery and in the New Media Room.
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PETER MARCUS: Horsehead Series
(Mar 16, 2007 to Apr 14, 2007)
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibit Horsehead by Peter Marcus in the main gallery.
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KELLEY JOHNSON: Recent Paintings
(Feb 09, 2007 to Mar 10, 2007)
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibit: Dreaming by Kelley Johnson in the main gallery.
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JENNA BAUER: Thunder Fields
(Jan 05, 2007 to Feb 03, 2007)
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibit: Thunder Fields by Jenna Bauer.
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