How can I buy a work by Andréa Stanislav?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Andréa Stanislav. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Andréa Stanislav in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment. Her work is also in the collections of Weisman Art Museum and Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow.

What does Andréa Stanislav make?

Mirrored glass and steel sculptures, often with taxidermied animals; light-activated wall works of digital photographs, cut vinyl, glitter and refractive films in epoxy resin; and video installations such as Surmatants – Mars Rising (2021).

Where is Andréa Stanislav based?

Andréa Stanislav lives and works in New York, New York.

Has Andréa Stanislav had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Surmatants – Mars Rising (26 March to 18 June 2022); Cosmist Reconstructions (18 November 2017 to 20 January 2018) are among her exhibitions at the gallery. Catalogues can be read in the gallery’s Publications library at brunodavidgallery.com/publications.

Andréa Stanislav

Andréa Stanislav (born 1968) is a New York-based sculptor and video artist who also makes multimedia installations, collages and public art. Born in Chicago, she divides her time between New York City and Bloomington, Indiana. Her work examines the architecture of empire and holds beauty and horror in tension, and much of it draws on Russian Cosmism, the philosophy rooted in Nikolai Fedorov’s late-19th-century thought, and on Soviet space exploration.

Her wall works embed digital photographs, cut vinyl, glitter and refractive films in epoxy resin on board; she describes them as light-activated. Many sculptures pair mirrored glass and steel with taxidermied animals. Surmatants – Mars Rising (2021), a three-channel video installation made during a Mattress Factory residency in Pittsburgh, responds to the COVID-19 pandemic in three acts, with music by Jesse Gelaznik and dances performed by the Tamburitzans. Her public project Reflect has been staged from Brooklyn to Moscow.

Stanislav received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1990) and an MFA from Alfred University (1997).

After teaching at the University of Minnesota, Stanislav joined Indiana University Bloomington in 2018, where she is an associate professor of sculpture. Her awards include a McKnight Artists Fellowship (2010), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant (2021) and the 2015–16 Freund Teaching Fellowship at Washington University and the Saint Louis Art Museum, which led to her exhibition Currents 112: Convergence Infinité (2016). She has had solo exhibitions at the 21c Museum in Louisville and the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis and residencies at the Bemis Center and the Narva Art Residency, and her work is in collections including the Weisman Art Museum and the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow.

At Bruno David Gallery, her solo exhibition Cosmist Reconstructions ran from 18 November 2017 to 20 January 2018, with The Wishing Machine in the gallery’s Window on Forsyth, and the gallery later published a catalogue of the show with text by Masha Zavialova. She has since shown Blow Away (2020) and Surmatants – Mars Rising (2022) in the gallery’s New Media Room and has appeared there in group exhibitions including Small Worlds (2018) and ROUGE | RED (2021).

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