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.

Recession Rejuvenations
June 11 to August 28, 2010

 

CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST. LOUIS

Great Rivers Biennial
April 30 to August 8

A collaboration between the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Gateway Foundation.

Martin Brief, Sarah Frost and Cameron Fuller

 

CRAFT ALLIANCE IN THE KRANZBERG ARTS 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.

Traces of Time and Presence: Tom Dykas, Michael Parrett, Erin Vigneau Dimick, 2009 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition
June 18 to August 15

Craft Alliance is proud to present Traces of Time and Presence , featuring the 2009 Artists-in-Residence at Craft Alliance in Grand Center: Tom Dykas (clay), Michael Parrett (metals) and Erin Vigneau Dimick (fiber). Traces of Time and Presence showcases these artists' in-depth artistic investigation during their residency at Craft Alliance in Grand Center.

 

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.

 

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.

PACE FRAMING/PSTL GALLERY
The PSTL Gallery is located within Pace Framing and is open 10 - 5 Tuesday through Saturday.

Upside Down Clouds: Solo and collaborative works by Gena Sophia and Jason Wallace Triefenbach
June 15 to July 31

Gena Triefenbach explores language, identity, and trauma in works that bridge the figurative and the abstract. For upside down clouds she evokes and interprets her recurring dreams in prints and drawings inspired by surrealist technique and "raw" or "primitive" art.

Brother Jason utilizes a cross-disciplinary approach to art making that results in works of hybridity and instability. His research into hermeticism, sexuality, and public space is distilled here via assemblage and song.

 

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.

stylus: a project by Ann Hamilton
July 9 to January 15

As a visual artist whose contributions to contemporary art span three decades, Ann Hamilton's installations are notable in part for their capacity to weave a broad palette of media into engaging sensory environments. Noted for a dense accumulation of materials, her installations create immersive experiences that respond to the architectural presence and social history of their sites, while also engaging the public with broad questions of what it means to assemble in such spaces. Hamilton's installation stylus, created specifically for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, was conceived as both a sanctuary for listening and a laboratory for experiments in collective vocal exercises.

 

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.

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.

Nothin' but the Blues: Art by Area Students
February 19 to August 14

Organized as a companion to the Legends of St. Louis Blues Music exhibit in the History of Jazz Gallery, this exhibit celebrates the rich legacy of blues music through vibrant works of art in many media.

 

Wallace Herndon Smith
June 4 to August 21

This exhibition features an overview of paintings by St. Louis artist Wallace Herndon Smith. Born in St. Louis in 1901, Wallace Smith was a traditional painter who absorbed the visual language of artists like Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, and Edward Hopper. Smith was fluent in many subjects including still-lifes, landscapes, interiors, and portraits. The artist’s strength was in capturing psychological nuances, and the exhibit has been selected to illuminate this area of his work.

 

Jay Wolke: Architecture of Resignation
June 4 to September 4

Since 1999, Jay Wolke has captured the complexity of a landscape called the Mezzogiorno in southern Italy. What he found in this storied landscape is an elaborate set of physical, social and political structures, manifesting in an extraordinary fusion of visual information. On one level, the images he creates are referential and documentary—but on another level they are about what is hidden and implied. These large-scale color photographs tell stories that expose the rise and fall of various colonial, political and commercial powers, as well as the inspired, but often faltering, inventions of ambitious individuals.

 

Erik Spehn: Tape Drawings
June 4 to September 18

Since 2007, many of Erik Spehn's paintings have involved applying strips of masking tape to the surface of his canvases, then painting over them, peeling them off, and taping and repainting again and again. Over time, Spehn recognized that the discarded tape might offer a new avenue of formal investigation, so he began to make works on paper by applying the used tape to matboard. Each piece echoed the specific paintings on which he was working, but visually these "drawings" became a distinct and separate body of work.

 

Scott Raffe: Circus Flora
June 4 to September 18

Oklahoma-based photographer Scott Raffe has photographed Circus Flora for more than a decade. A selection of portraits of Circus Flora performers taken with his iPhone reveal the photographer's passion for the circus, as well as his mastery of the craft of photography.

 

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.