Art St. Louis XXXIII, The Exhibition

Art St. Louis XXXIII, The Exhibition November 11 - December 21, 2017. FREE opening reception Saturday, November 11, 6-8 p.m.

Please join Art Saint Louis for Art St. Louis XXXIII, The Exhibition featuring new artworks by 51 St. Louis regional artists from Missouri and Illinois.

Graphic design by Emily Amberger

Art St. Louis XXXIII, The Exhibition is our 33rd annual juried visual art exhibition featuring artworks in all media, all subjects, all styles, all themes, and all techniques. For this year's exhibit, over 436 artworks in all media were submitted by 108 St. Louis regional artists for consideration by Juror Dan Anderson, from which he selected 53 artworks by 51 artists from Missouri and Illinois for the final exhibition. This 33rd annual exhibit includes artworks in a variety of media, including collage, drawing, fiber, glass, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. We invite you to view images of all of the artworks featured in this exhibit in our Facebook album here. After the show opens we will post photo highlights from the opening reception. The exhibit is presented November 11 through December 21, 2017. Please join us for our free opening reception on Saturday, November 11, 6-8 p.m. We will have a brief Juror's Gallery Talk and Awards presentation around 7 p.m. Regular gallery hours are Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Closed Sundays and holidays, including November 23-26 for Thanksgiving holiday & weekend. We are very honored to have the opportunity to work with Dan Anderson, internationally exhibited and collected ceramic artist based in Edwardsville, IL. Dan is Professor Emeritus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where he began his teaching career in 1970 and retired in 2002 as Professor of Ceramics and Chair of the Art Department. Anderson holds a B.S. in Art Education from University of Wisconsin-River Falls (1968) and M.F.A. in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI (1970). He has received numerous awards, including multiple NEA Individual Artist Fellowships, and has participated in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions over the past fifty years. A practicing studio artist, he participates in dozens of exhibits annually. Dan's work is represented by nine galleries across the United States.

PARKING RECOMMENDATIONS

There are parking METERS on Pine Street and Olive Street & other nearby streets. Parking meters run 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Fines are steep ($15-20), so don't let your meter expire. If you park at a meter for the reception, remember that meters operate in downtown until 7 p.m. on Saturday. For additional parking suggestions, download a free Downtown Parking Guide here. You can also download the handy Parkmobile app, whereby you can monitor & pay your St. Louis city parking meter via your mobile phone.


Hourly parking is available in the PARK PACIFIC GARAGE on Olive just West of Tucker. Parking is at your own expense. For garage parking, pay by cash via a machine in elevator bay no more than 15 minutes prior to departure OR the easier way is to pay by credit card upon exiting the garage. Be sure to take your parking receipt/ticket with you when you exit your car to visit the Gallery or you won't be able to get back in to the garage to get to your garage. Your parking ticket is your key to get back in to the garage. Art Saint Louis does not validate parking.



The Gallery is easily accessible by PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION with MetroLink and MetroBus with MetroBus stops on Olive Street and Tucker right near the building.

 The 51 featured artists in Art St. Louis XXXIII are:

Meet featured artists Lon Brauer, Miguel de Aguero, Kathryn Neale, & Terry Vermillion in the Gallery Satuday, December 9, 11 a.m. FREESPECIAL EVENT
COFFEE WITH THE ARTISTS: SATURDAY GALLERY TALK
Saturday, December 9, 11 a.m.    FREE

Please join us at Art Saint Louis on Saturday, December 9, at 11 a.m. and meet several of the featured artists in Art St. Louis XXXIII, The Exhibition.

Guests can enjoy complimentary coffee tastings courtesy of Catalyst Coffee Bar while the artists talk about their works on view in the exhibit, discuss the media that they use and the various techniques that they apply to making their form of artwork. The artists may also bring in samples of their other works or also present a demo of their particular media & techniques. Guests will walk with the artists through the Gallery as they talk about their works on view in the exhibition. This event is FREE & open to the public.

Meet the following artists at 11 a.m. on Saturday, December 9 and hear them discuss their featured works:
• Lon Brauer
• Miguel de Agüero
• Kathryn Neale
• Terry Vermillion

Juror's Statement


  "Art Saint Louis (ASL) in downtown St. Louis, Missouri is one of the few professional venues where regional artists are afforded an opportunity to enter a juried exhibition to showcase their finished creative efforts. I was extended an invitation to jury "Art St. Louis XXXIII, The Exhibition" and very much looked forward to the review process. I was not disappointed. There was more than an ample amount of artwork to choose from and the artworks that I selected by 51 Missouri and Illinois artists, I believe, will provide viewers with much to enjoy and ponder.
  I anticipated that the artwork that would be submitted would give me an accurate survey of the current “art scene” within a 250-mile radius of St. Louis, MO. About halfway through on the first go-round of the blind jury review it became crystal clear that this exhibition was going to have more paintings in the show than any other art medium because of the inordinate number of paintings that were tendered. I’m not certain why there were more painters entering paintings in "Art St. Louis XXXIII, The Exhibition."
  I’ve always been grateful for the keen eyesight I feel I was born with. My eyes have proven an invaluable resource to me as an artist. So many times, in fact, that a long time ago I stopped counting the number of times I had relied on my “peepers” in a myriad of artistic situations. Even today, I pride myself with visiting an opening reception of an exhibition and being able to immediately pick-out the best piece in the show. My eyes, coupled with my 50 years as a passionate artist/educator, were extremely helpful in choosing the pieces in this exhibit.
  Like a majority of artists, I have certain prejudices. There are certain qualities of art that I like better than others. I’m fond of artwork that is mysterious, unusual, quirky, skillful, timeless, beautiful, and one-of-a-kind art that emotes a magnetic quality that pulls me into the artwork. Finding one’s “voice” in their art can come seemingly overnight for the lucky artist but for others, like myself, the search can take years, decades or even an entire career. The rewards of finding one’s own voice can be very liberating and inspiring. In my own experience, once I discovered what I wanted to create, my mind has been running and my hands have been crawling. I have enough ideas for new pieces to last me a lifetime or two.
  In most juried exhibitions, there will be dual emotions of happiness and sadness. Elation if you were accepted and disappointment, or worse, if you were rejected. I try to be flexible in my thinking when I submit my work to juried exhibits and treat my exhibition record as a learning curve when entering competitive shows. I understand that one juror may look kindly on my work and accept it while another, equally qualified jurist will take a dim view of my artwork and reject it. Such is life. The bottom line for me is to trust in my gut instinct and to keep on being a productive artist. So, my advice is to keep making new work in your studio as often as and as much as you can.
  Congratulations to the artists in "Art St. Louis XXXIII, The Exhibition" and continued success with your future endeavors."

— Daniel Anderson
Edwardsville, Illinois
October 2017

Some of the 54 artworks featured in Art St. Louis XXXIII, The Exhibition:

Jim Burwinkel, St. Louis, MO. "Exit." 2017. Steel, Light, 41”x11”x11”. $1,200.	Christine Giancola, Florissant, MO. "Windows at Night III, New York City." 2017. Photograph, Digital Print, 20”x24”. $500. This work was selected by Juror Daniel Anderson for an Award of Excellence.	Michael Gesiakowski, University City, MO. "Untitled." 2017. Clay, Slip, Underglaze, Glaze, 9”x4.5”x3.5”. SOLD. This artwork was selected by Juror Daniel Anderson for an Award of Excellence.
Julie Snidle, St. Louis, MO. "Elixir." 2017. Oil, Wax on Panel, 24”x18”. $700.	David Brodsky, Springfield, IL. "Midnight Jazz at Leoncini." 2014. Photograph, 19”x19”. $325.	Marceline Saphian, Chesterfield, MO. "Orbs No. 2. 2017. Monotype/Montage, 27”x22”. $750.
Jim Trotter, Creve Coeur, MO. "Two Dancers." 2016. Photograph, Giclée on Canvas, 40”x25”. $585.	Kathryn Neale, Ballwin, MO. "Ode to Cy." 2015. Acrylic, Chalk Paint, Mixed Media on Panel, 72”x48”. $6,000.	James Wilson, Farmington, MO. "Bathers on Black River." 2016. Oil on Canvas, 60”x48”. $8,000.
Donna Hasegawa, St. Louis, MO. "Winter into Spring." 2016. Mixed Media on Canvas, 12”x12”. $225.	Jody Paulson, Carbondale, IL. "For the Hope Chest 2020: Warming." 2017. Inked Collage, 16”x16”. $650.	Linda Horsley, St. Louis, MO. "Recovery." 2016. Oil on Canvas, 40”x40”. $2,000.