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.

Kelley Johnson: Recent paintings
Iris Nesher: Project Room
Gary Passanise: Front Room
Barry Anderson: Media Room
September 10 to November 6

Bruno David Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Kelley Johnson. The exhibition "Recent Paintings" includes paintings of complex abstract landscapes. A fully illustrated color catalogue with writings by James Yood and Vara Lyons accompany the exhibition.

 

CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST. LOUIS

Richard Artschwager: Hair
September 10 to January 2

A maverick who began his career as a cabinet-maker, Artschwager has influenced countless other artists with a wide-ranging body of work that includes sculptures, paintings, prints, photographs, installations, drawings, and furniture pieces that merge the machine-made with the hand-made. Over the past four decades, his work has been variously described as Pop Art, because of its derivation from utilitarian objects and incorporation of commercial and industrial materials; as Minimal Art, because of its geometric forms and solid presence; and as Conceptual Art, because of its cool and cerebral detachment.

 

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.

Smarter/Faster/Higher: Works by Elizabeth Keithline
August 27 to January 16

Elizabeth Keithline will activate the Craft Alliance gallery space in the Kranzberg Arts Center, Grand Center by drawing the viewer into a current of figures traversing the space. Smarter/Faster/Higher consists of 26 woven wire human figures that cross the Gallery from south to north. Crawling from a group of wire trees on one side, they slowly begin to walk, then run, then stretch to ascend the opposite wall. On that wall, the same group of trees is arrayed, but this time, as drawn by a Drawbot, a machine that has reproduced exactly a photograph of the trees on the south wall.

 

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.

James Rosen: The Artist and the Capable Observer
September 26 to December 12

 

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.

Mary Jo Bang: Until Was
September 10 to November 6

 

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.

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.