How can I buy a work by Joe Chesla?

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

Where can I see work by Joe Chesla in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment.

What does Joe Chesla make?

Sculpture in glass, porcelain, fishing line and graphite that explores transparency, translucency, balance and reflection, and rust and salt prints in which corroding steel plates leave their imprint on paper.

Where is Joe Chesla based?

Joe Chesla lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.

Has Joe Chesla had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Weighted (13 September to 25 October 2025) is one of his exhibitions at the gallery. Catalogues can be read in the gallery’s Publications library at brunodavidgallery.com/publications.

Joe Chesla

Joe Chesla (born 1962) is a St. Louis-based sculptor who uses glass, porcelain, fishing line and graphite to explore transparency, translucency, balance and reflection, and the fragility of presence and loss. He also makes rust and salt prints, in which corroding steel plates leave their imprint on printmaking paper.

Weighted, his 2025 exhibition at Bruno David Gallery, brought together sculptures of porcelain, glass vessels, glass shelves and plastic string with a series of unique digital prints.

Born in Minneapolis, Chesla received a BS from the University of Wisconsin–Stout in 1984 and an MFA from Utah State University in 1998, with further study at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the University of Minnesota and the Kansas City Art Institute. He worked as a preparator at the Walker Art Center and the Kemper Museum and as a production potter in Shigaraki, Japan. Since 2002 he has taught at St. Louis Community College at Meramec, where he is Professor of Fine Art and coordinates the sculpture program.

He has exhibited across the United States and in Japan, France and Poland, with solo exhibitions including Lying Heavy at the Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis (2017) and Surrendering the Moment at Galeria Antresola in Chorzów, Poland (2016). He has been an artist in residence at Pays’Art in Marnay-sur-Seine, France, the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Cow House Studios in Ireland and Harvestworks in New York. His awards include a Regional Arts Commission Artist Support Grant, Utah Arts Council grants and the Jon Morgan Fellowship.

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