Museum and Gallery Information

THE ARTHUR AND HELEN BAER VISUAL ART GALLERIES
The Baer Visual Arts Galleries is located in the Centene Center for Arts and Education and is open 10 - 3 weekdays.

The Arthur and Helen Baer Visual Arts Galleries exhibits works or projects produced by Arts and Education Council funded organizations.

 

BRUNO DAVID GALLERY
The gallery is open free to the public and the hours are 10 AM to 5 PM Wednesday through Saturday and by appointment.

Yvette Drury Dubinsky: Dividing Time: New Work on Paper
Frank Roth: Narrative Patterns
Van McElwee: Alternity (Media Room)
May 14 to July 25

Yvette Drury Dubinsky's latest large chromogenic prints, show a continued fascination with the lines, textures and colors found in natural forms. By enlarging, isolating and enhancing what there is to see in common and less common vegetables and fruits, Yvette Drury Dubinsky shows in a simple way why artists and designers throughout time have used the natural world as inspiration for making art whether it is abstract or representational, sculptural or two-dimensional.

In the Project Room, photographer Frank Roth presents a new series of photographs titled "Narrative Patterns." The series began several years ago when Roth, a teacher of two-dimensional visual design for four decades, decided to lay claim to a personal art form and returned to photography, the medium he originally experimented with before beginning art school.

In the Media Room, video artist Van McElwee presents a single channel video titled "Alternity: A Figure in Manifold Space." This 6:48 minute video created in 2008 expands the vanishing point of linear perspective into a plane, allowing all potential events at that point to mingle freely on the surface of the screen.

 

CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST. LOUIS

Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space
May 8 to August 2

Recognized as one of the most important directors in film history, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman presents her key films and major installations, spotlighting the crossover genres of film and visual art. The five projects of this touring exhibition, including a newly commissioned film, span more than two decades of Akerman’s career, opening a window on to the shifting frames between fact and fiction.

 

Carey Young: Speech Acts
May 8 to August 2

For her first solo exhibition in an American museum, British artist Carey Young launches a series of “call center art works,” which connect visitors with live telephone operators taking calls from a customer service center headquartered in Saint Louis. Exploring the links between art and globalized commerce as well as the legacies of Conceptual Art, Young challenges our assumptions about how we each interact within our social, cultural, and legal institutions.

 

CRAFT ALLIANCE IN GRAND CENTER
Located in the new Big Brothers Big Sisters building right next to the Fox Theatre, Craft Alliance will be part of the Kranzberg Arts Center.

Robert Longyear: A Revisionist's Draft
June 5 to July 12

Craft Alliance Community Outreach Manager Robert Longyear presents his final artwork for his MFA from SIU-Edwardsville. Inspired by overlooked and cast-aside objects and places, Longyear's work reveals the uncommon and unexpected beauty that can be found all around us.

 

GREENBERG VAN DOREN GALLERY
A member of the Art Dealers Association of America, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary masters.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS ART (MOCRA)
Saint Louis University's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) is the world's first museum of interfaith contemporary art. MOCRA, officially opened in 1993, is dedicated to the ongoing dialogue between contemporary artists and the world's faith traditions.

Closed for the Summer.

 

PORTFOLIO GALLERY AND EDUCATION CENTER
Portfolio Gallery and Education Center presents and educates in the area of visual arts, focusing on the African-American visual artists at the local, regional and national level.

Charles Bibbs and Friends
June 28 to August 28

Opening reception: June 28th from 7:00 to 10:00 PM

 

PSTL WINDOW GALLERY
The PSTL Window Gallery is located within Pace Framing and is open 10 - 5 Tuesday through Saturday.

Bruce Burton: Observation and Formulation
July 10 to September 4

Observation and Formulation is a body of work that consists of images, sculpture, and installation, of seemingly unrelated and idiosyncratic materials and discarded artifacts.

On the surface the objects and images seem to be disconnected, but upon closer examination, a thread reveals itself through formal and conceptual connections.  A social environment begins to appear between the objects, images, and viewer.

Opening Reception
Friday, July 10, 2009, 6:00pm to 9:00pm

 

THE PULITZER FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts seeks to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of the relationship between contemporary art and architecture. Through its exhibitions and its collaborative programs with other cultural and educational institutions, the Foundation serves artists, architects, scholars, students, and members of the general public.

Ideal (Dis-) Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer
October 24 to October 3

The Pulitzer has joined forces with the Saint Louis Art Museum and Harvard Art Museum to present Old Master paintings and drawings from their collections. The selection comprises of artworks by renowned artists from the 14th to the 18th centuries, including Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pontormo, Giambattista Tiepolo, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Jean-Baptiste Greuze. The display of these works makes the Pulitzer galleries appear as reminders of historic spaces, such as the Grande Galerie of a seventeenth-century aristocrat or the interiors of Medieval and Renaissance churches.

 

SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART (SLUMA)
The Saint Louis University Museum of Art (SLUMA) enriches the aesthetic component of a SLU education through the display of diverse cultural worlds and the sponsorship of educational programs related to the arts.

Relics of a Glorious Past. Imperial Russian Artifacts from the Collection of James F. Cooper
February 27 to December 20

Reflecting a lifelong fascination with the religious and imperial traditions of Tsarist Russia, Dr. James F. Cooper has collected a singular array of religious icons and imperial artifacts illustrating more than three hundred years of Russian cultural history.

The faith of the Russian Orthodox church has found notable expression in the tradition of iconography. Cooper's decades-long passion for these remarkable expressions of belief and beauty has resulted in one of the great collections of Russian Orthodox icons held privately in the United States.

 

Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master
May 6 to August 16

By 1923, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) had established himself as a singular force in the avant-garde art communities on both sides of the Atlantic. Then, suddenly, after two decades of unparalleled innovation and tremendous controversy, he was reported to have quit making art in order to focus on his new passion: chess. Of course, Duchamp never quit being an artist; he was, however, thoroughly engaged in a radical redefinition of art that favored-much like chess-a more conceptual approach.

 

Master Drawings
Long Term Display

Drawings are immediate. They are often less than perfect, sometimes showing changes of mind. Others are preparatory, the first step to a final work which will be realized in oil, marble or bronze. It is in proximity to the artist and to the process of creation that makes drawings attractive. There is no intermediary in these works, whether machine and press, or committee for that matter. From the artist's eye to the paper before us, drawings whether incomplete or finished, evoke a quality something like that of a relic of old, touched and handled, seen and shaped, by one whose talent we celebrate.

 

SCHMIDT CONTEMPORARY ART
The gallery is open free to the public and the hours are Noon - 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday; 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Saturday and by appointment.

THE HISTORIC SAMUEL CUPPLES HOUSE
In 1888, wealthy St. Louis entrepreneur Samuel Cupples commissioned the prominent architect
Thomas Annan to design a magnificent mansion that would speak of Cupples' business success.
The house contains an extensive art collection of American and European paintings, religious artwork and decorative art.

The Eleanor Turshin Glass Collection
Part of the Cupples House Permanent Collection

Eleanor operated a jewelry factory that dealt mostly in precious metals. While traveling extensively to sell her products, she became interested in antiques, but most specifically, Eleanor became intrigued with glass. She went on to buy additional pieces that she knew would contribute to the value of her collection.

 

THE SHELDON ART GALLERIES
The Sheldon Art Galleries, located in the Emerson Galleries building, features rotating exhibits in six galleries, including photography, architecture, St. Louis artists and collections, jazz history and children's art. Artwork is also featured in The Sheldon's sculpture garden, visible from both the atrium lobby and the connecting glass bridge.

24 Hour Cure: Photographers Making a Difference
June 12 to August 15

This exhibition features a sampling of photographs taken on November 7, 2008 by local and regional photographers in support of the American Diabetes Association. Inspired by the well-known "A Day in the Life of..." photography project, photographers from St. Louis and beyond spent the day photographing their environment, families, neighborhoods and people for this unique snapshot of our vibrant region. All the photographs from this project have been donated by the photographers and proceeds from their sale benefit the American Diabetes Association.

 

Ann Coddington Rast: endless sky
June 12 to August 22

Champaign, Illinois-based artist Ann Coddington Rast employs fiber techniques from the traditional craft of basketry to create contemporary sculptural expressions and installations that explore how life experiences are sensed, evinced, accumulated and stored in the body. Her evocative work investigates corporeality, spirituality and the ephemeral, as well as the cycle of life: birth, aging and death.

 

Of Animals: Photographs by Frank Noelker
June 12 to September 5

Beautiful and often unsettling, Frank Noelker's photographs of animals have enthralled viewers for over 20 years. Presented in this exhibition is a retrospective of images from his Captive Beauty and Portraits series. For Captive Beauty, Noelker traveled to zoos in many parts of the world to capture images of the animals that are housed there. His Portraits series frames the noble faces of chimpanzees that are retired from biomedical research, the entertainment industry and the pet trade.

 

A Reflection of National History: Photographs of Berlin Architecture by Amy Metzger
June 12 to September 5

Photographer Amy Metzger explores the visible traces of 20th-century German history in the city's architectural landscape in this exhibition of photographs of some of Berlin's most important buildings. In these photographs, Metzger uses architecture as a lens through which to view German society at distinct points in history. The buildings she has photographed act as witnesses to history and reveal the vision and ideals of the political systems under which they were built.

 

Picture the Music: Director's Choice III
June 12 to September 19

Each year, the Saint Louis Symphony Volunteer Association sponsors Picture the Music, an art contest open to area children from kindergarten through 6th grade. In their art classes, participants are asked to respond to classical music selections in visual terms. Colorful and vibrant, the individual interpretations of musical pieces as by composers as diverse as Mozart, Beethoven, and Glinka, among others, are each a poignant and unique reminder that speaks eloquently to the ability of music to stir the soul and raise the spirit.

 

VAUGHN CULTURAL CENTER
Vaughn Cultural Center (VCC) is a forum for African American art, exhibiting regional and national artists and providing a venue for local poets and published writers.