Keith Haring: Radiant Gambit features artwork by Haring, a world-renowned pop artist known for his art that proliferated in the New York subway system during the early 1980s. The exhibition includes a never-before-seen private collection of Haring’s works and photographs of the artist, bespoke street art chess sets from Purling London and newly-commissioned pieces by Saint Louis artists, all paying homage to the late pop culture icon.

Douglass Freed: Mystical Light

Douglass Freed paints luminescent oil paintings where he finds the grey area between traditional landscape painting and its abstraction into color fields. He captures the mystical light found in natural atmospheric effects: the haze in the distance on humid summer days.

Arny Nadler: New Work

Arny Nadler’s work investigate the body in a state of ambiguous metamorphosis. Many works begin as individual parts that are eventually grafted together in a manner that nods at structural order but disregards anatomical and proportional correctness.

Michael Byron: The Wheel of Fortune & How to Build a Ghost

Byron’s new work expands the boundaries of traditional collage through digital techniques of image generation and print layering, the artist produces digital collages on a large scale that embody the dense stacking of contemporary visual experience.

Chris Kahler: SHIFT

This vibrant new series of abstractions further expands upon the dynamic interplay between organic linear networks and hard-edge geometry that has come to characterize Chris Kahler’s unique work.

William Morris: The Protest Project

The video "The Protest Project" examines the inherent bias of television news and its coverage of two watershed and simultaneous events-the COVID-19 pandemic and the worldwide outcry following the death of George Floyd.

Patricia Olynyk: Oculus

Bruno David is pleased to present a sculpture installation "Oculus" by Patricia Olynyk in the gallery’s vitrine space, WINDOW ON FORSYTH (First shown at Palazzo Michiel dalle Colonne in Venice, Italy.) This exhibition will be Olynyk’s fourth exhibition with the gallery.

Pleasure is All Mine, a solo exhibition of Lola Ogbara, is a compilation of works (sculpture, collages, and photographs) that uses ‘othered’ and grotesque rhetorics as a visual aesthetics; alongside, pleasure activism frameworks to imagine a unique lens in which Western society views the Black feminine experience as whole and with full agency. I attempt to reconstruct viewership by transcending tensions of hyper-visibility and invisibility. Exploring moments that alter the power dynamics of the gaze, I use distorted images while blurring the line between object and body to disrupt the gaze.

Art Saint Louis presents "Art St. Louis XXXV, The Exhibition" is our 35th annual juried exhibition featuring 52 artworks in all media, themes, subjects, techniques, and styles by 52 artists from Missouri, Illinois & Indiana. On view November 9-December 23, 2019.

The show opens with a free reception Saturday, November 9, 5-7 p.m. with Awards presentation at 6 p.m.

Free artists' gallery talk Saturday, December 7, 10-11:15 a.m.

Gallery hours M-F 8 a.m.-4 p.m. & Sat. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Closed Thanksgiving holiday & weekend.

Our exhibit Juror was artist and art educator Jason Bly. Mr. Bly resides in Wichita Falls, TX where he is Assistant Professor of Art at Midwestern State University teaching painting and drawing (since 2017). Previous experience includes teaching at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2009-2017) and Lewis and Clark Community College (2009-2017). Bly also served as Director of Exhibitions at the Edwardsville Arts Center (2013-2017), a non-profit gallery which hosts regional shows and offers educational opportunities. His paintings have been exhibited in solo, invitational, and juried shows, primarily throughout the Midwest and Southern U.S. He holds his MFA in painting from SIUE (2007) and MA and BA degrees from Eastern Illinois University (2003, 2004). http://jasonbly.com/

Awards for this exhibition will be selected by Shannon Bailey. Shannon Bailey is Chief Curator, World Chess Museum, St. Louis, MO (since 2010). Bailey holds a BA in Art History and Museum Studies from Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA (1999) and MA from Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Museum of Art Joint Program in Art History & Museum Studies (2000). Previously she served as Director of Institutional Giving (2009-2010) and Manager of Institutional Giving (2008-2009) at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (2008-2010); Gallery Director, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX (2005-2007); Researcher, Huntingdon County Historical Society, Huntingdon, PA (1999-2000); and Assistant Director of Campus Activities, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA (1999-2000). She has also served as Adjunct Professor for Saint Louis University, Stephen F. Austin State University, Cuyahoga Community College, and Lecturer, Cleveland University. As a Curator, she has created over 25 exhibitions for World Chess Museum and 17 exhibits for Stephen F. Austin State University's Griffith Gallery and The Cole Center @ The Old Opera House. Shannon has juried several exhibitions in the Midwest region. https://worldchesshof.org

52 FEATURED ARTISTS
Bill Abendroth, Highland, IL www.Billabendroth.com
Ann K. Aurbach, St. Louis, MO www.annkphotography.com
Natalie Avondet, Manchester, MO www.natalieavondet.com
Jill Beyder, St. Louis, MO https://jillbeyderphotography.com
Sophie Binder, St. Louis, MO www.sbinderdesigns.com
Lon Brauer, Granite City, IL www.lonbrauer.com
Donna Broyles, Alton, IL
Lorraine Cange, St. Louis, MO www.lecfineart.com
Joanna Chavez, St. Louis, MO
Nicole Cooper, Richmond Heights, MO www.nicolecooperartist.com
Stephen Da Lay, St. Louis, MO www.blackandwhitepress.org
Amelia Dean, Columbia, MO
John Den Houter, Edwardsville, IL www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/art/about/faculty/denhouter.shtml
Kalven Duncan, Pevely, MO
Diane Epstein, Columbia, MO www.dianeepstein.net
Mark Appling Fisher, St. Charles, MO www.markapplingfisher.com
Christine Giancola, Florissant, MO www.christinegiancolaphotogaphy.com
Jon Hall, St. Louis, MO http://jhallart.com
Abbey Hepner, Troy, IL www.abbey-hepner.com
James Hildebrand, St. Louis, MO http://absolutearts.com
Netra Bahadur Khattri, Maplewood, MO
Adam Sea Klein, St. Peters, MO www.adamseaklein.com
Ken Konchel, St. Louis, MO www.kenkonchelphoto.com
Terry Lay, St. Louis, MO
Suzanne Keith Loechl, Champaign, IL
Tina Marlow, Collinsville, IL
Barbara Marshall, Chesterfield, MO http://barbaramarshall.weebly.com/
Michael Matney, Troy, IL
Jordan McGirk, St. Louis, MO http://jordanmcgirk.com
Christina McNealy, Troy, IL
Rob Millard-Mendez, Evansville, IN http://robmillardmendez.com/
Fatemeh Nichols, Fenton, MO
Alex Paradowski, Granite City, IL www.alexparadowski.com
Chuck Ramsay, St. Louis, MO www.chuckramsay.com
Bob Rickert, Chesterfield, MO www.bobrickertphotography.com
Diane Reising, Kirkwood, MO www.dianereisingartist.com
Janice Rockwell, Macomb, IL http://earthairwater.com
Alan Sandler, St. Louis, MO
Marceline Saphian, Chesterfield, MO www.marcelinesaphian.com
Anthony Scheffler, St. Louis, MO www.anthonyscheffler.com
James Scheller, Staunton, IL www.jimscheller.com
Annie Scheumbauer, St. Louis, MO www.artistannie.com
Sarah Smelser, Bloomington, IL http://sarahsmelser.com
Nathan Smith, Edwardsville, IL https://nathansmith504.wixsite.com/website
Ann Miller Titus, Quincy, IL www.annmillertitus.com
Jerry B. Walters, Farmington, MO
Ramsay Wise, Columbia, MO
Jared Witherspoon, St. Louis, MO
Lydia Wood, Webster Groves, MO www.lydiawood.com
David M. Yates, Edwardsville, IL www.davidmyates.com
Niles Zee, St. Louis, MO http://nileszphoto.com/
Barbara Zucker, Clayton, MO

ABOUT ART SAINT LOUIS
Located on the ground floor of the historic and beautifully renovated Park Pacific building at 1223 Pine Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, Art Saint Louis is home to one of the most popular and frequently visited exhibition spaces in the entire St. Louis region. Our current space was created in 2013 and builds upon the organization’s 35-year success in connecting St. Louis regional artists and audiences, the 2,700 square foot space Gallery boasts a year-round series of professionally juried group exhibitions showcasing the best of the region’s contemporary visual art. Highlighting each exhibition, Art Saint Louis opening receptions are a cultural mainstay in downtown St. Louis and are followed throughout the run of each exhibit with extensive viewing hours Monday through Saturday and an average of over 500 visitors per week. Uniquely designed as a gallery/café hybrid, the space is also the one and only café home of Catalyst Coffee Bar, making it a cultural and social destination like no other in the St. Louis region—we own the Coffee Bar & all sales benefit Art Saint Louis. Find Art Saint Louis on Facebook and view highlights from our previous exhibits in our photo albums.

Flood Plain is pleased to announce their upcoming exhibition ACRE x Flood Plain: Alex Younger and Alican Camcı, which runs October 26-November 16, 2019 with a free public reception on Saturday, October 26 at 6-9pm. The exhibition marks the debut of Flood Plain’s ongoing partnership with ACRE (Artists' Cooperative Residency & Exhibition), a Chicago-based artist residency program. For the 2018-2019 cycle, Flood Plain hosts fiber artist, writer and sexual assault activist Alex Younger and sound artist Alican Camci.

ACRE x Flood Plain: Alex Younger and Alican Camcı will remain on display until Saturday, November 16. Open gallery hours will be held each Saturday from 12-5pm or by appointment.

About ACRE:

Founded in 2010, ACRE is a non-profit organization based in Chicago designed to support emerging artists develop, discuss and present their artistic practices.

As a community-coordinated effort to provide emerging artists with an accessible, equitable, and interdisciplinary residency and exhibitions program, ACRE has welcomed over 1,000 visual artists, sound artists, musicians, performance artists, writers, curators, scientists, chefs and others to its Wisconsin and Illinois communities.

ACRE’s residency takes place every summer in rural Southwest Wisconsin.

Further information about ACRE is available at https://www.acreresidency.org.

About the artists:

alican çamcı’s output includes works for small and large ensembles, electro-acoustic compositions, solo instrumental music, and sound installations. His recent works feature an investigation of sound as a potentially documentary medium. He seeks to explore this aspect through the use of field and speech recordings, found sounds, everyday materials in relation to the performative dimension introduced by the musicians in a live situation.

A native of Istanbul, Turkey, he studied composition at the Peabody Conservatory with Michael Hersch. Currently he is a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Chicago, where he continues his studies with Augusta Read Thomas, Anthony Cheung, and Sam Pluta. In addition to his studies there, he has received further instruction from composers such as, Clarence Barlow, Carola Bauckholt, Pierluigi Billone, Beat Furrer, Georg Friedrich Haas, Isabel Mundry, Alberto Posadas, and Matthias Spahlinger in masterclasses and academies such as ManiFeste 2017, Forum des Jeunes Compositeurs 2016, Impuls 2015, among others. His music has been performed by ensembles such as Ensemble Dal Niente, ECCE, eighth blackbird, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Mise-en, International Contemporary Ensemble, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Oerknal!, Spektral Quartet, the [Switch~ Ensemble], and soloists such as Jerfi Aji, Miranda Cuckson, Gleb Kanasevich, Ciro Longobardi, Andrew Nogal, Heather Roche, Eva Zöllner, and Stas Venglevski. In addition to his concert music, his collaborative work with the Turkish filmmaker and media artist Deniz Tortum have been featured in festivals and exhibitions such as Sharjah Biennial Istanbul Offsite 2017, IFF Colombo 2014, SXSW 2013, !F Istanbul 2013, and 22nd Istanbul Short Film Festival. For more information, visit https://alicancamci.com.

Alex Younger was born to stubborn intellectuals in Oakland, California and raised in the Capital District of New York State, surrounded by books, cameras, and looms. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Swarthmore College in 2012 with an Honors Major in English Literature with an emphasis on gender tropes in Shakespearean and contemporary American literature and a Course Major/Honors Minor in Studio Art. She became a sexual assault activist in 2015, after the college adjudication of her case resulted in a punishment of 10 days of probation. In 2018, she received her MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been shown internationally and across the United States, including Chicago, New York City, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Lodz, Poland. She and her cat Mickalene live on Chicago’s North Side, where they continue to be willful and surrounded by books, cameras, and looms.

From June 2019 to May 2020, Alex is an Artist in Residence at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. For more information, visit https://www.ayoungerartist.com.