How can I buy a work by Stan Strembicki?

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

Where can I see work by Stan Strembicki in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment. His work is also in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

What does Stan Strembicki make?

Documentary photographs of New Orleans, including Mardi Gras flambeaux carriers and the Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina (A Matter of Faith, Memory Loss), and in-camera multiple-exposure portraits layered with historical artworks (Art History Revisited, 2025).

Where is Stan Strembicki based?

Stan Strembicki lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.

Has Stan Strembicki had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Art History Revisited (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.

Stan Strembicki

Stan Strembicki (born 1952) is a St. Louis-based photographer who has worked in New Orleans since 1984, photographing Mardi Gras and its flambeaux torch carriers for more than three decades. About a month after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 he began some fifteen years of work in the Lower Ninth Ward, including A Matter of Faith, on the neighborhood’s churches, and Memory Loss, on water-damaged family snapshots left behind in flooded homes.

His recent series Art History Revisited pairs portraits of St. Louis residents with historical artworks. Using in-camera multiple exposures, he layers models over reproductions from Janson’s History of Art and secondhand monographs, distressing the pages before photographing them in the studio; the sitters, of varied ages and body types, often choose the works they are layered with. He also makes portraits and still lifes in his studio at Washington University’s Tyson Research Center in Eureka, Missouri, where he is resident artist.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Strembicki studied with the photographer Bart Parker at the University of Rhode Island (BFA, 1975) and earned an MFA in photography at the California Institute of the Arts in 1977.

After teaching in Connecticut, Strembicki joined Washington University in St. Louis in 1982, where he coordinated the photography program, served as director of graduate studies and assistant dean, and founded the school’s study-abroad program in Italy, teaching workshops in Florence from 1990. He retired in 2018 and is professor emeritus of art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Exhibited in the United States and Europe, including at the Louisiana State Museum, his work is in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Saint Louis Art Museum. He received a Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1993, and in 2025 images from Memory Loss appeared in the Netflix series Katrina: Come Hell and High Water. Represented by Bruno David Gallery, he had his first solo exhibition there, Art History Revisited, from 13 September to 25 October 2025, with an accompanying catalogue.

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