Maturity and Its Muse: Celebrating Artistic Experience 2021

Please join Art Saint Louis for our new exhibit, Maturity and Its Muse: Celebrating Artistic Experience 2021, featuring works by 45 St. Louis regional artists from Missouri and Illinois.

Maturity and Its Muse: Celebrating Artistic Experience is presented April 19-May 20, 2021

Art Saint Louis presents Maturity and Its Muse: Celebrating Artistic Experience 2021, a multi-media juried exhibit presented in the Art Saint Louis Gallery at 1223 Pine Street in downtown St. Louis, MO. The exhibition is presented April 19 through May 20, 2021. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free & open to the public, no appointment required.

Graphic design by Emily Crull.This juried exhibit showcases the talents of 'Artists Informed by Time' -- artists aged 70+ -- who, by making art, share their thoughts & ideas about the world and themselves with us. For this exhibit, 157 artworks were submitted by 57 St. Louis regional artists for consideration by exhibition Jurors Lynn Friedman Hamilton and Lisa Bulawsky from which they selected 50 artworks in a variety of media by 45 artists from Missouri and Illinois for our show.

Artworks featured in this multi-media exhibit address myriad subjects and themes and are created in a wide array of styles, artistic techniques, and media. The theme of this exhibit is actually the artists themselves. The 50 artworks featured in our show include ceramics, collage, drawing, metal, painting, paper, photography, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, and more.

Congratulations to artists Robert Bolla, Cynthia Correll, and Sun Smith-Foret on the sales of their artworks featured in the exhibit. Sold works remain on view in the exhibition through May 20.

We invite you to view the 50 artworks in this exhibit in-person as well as in our Facebook album here.


Thanks to Producer Paul Langdon of HEC-TV for their video piece on the exhibition, which you can view here.

Serving as Jurors for this exciting exhibit were Lynn Friedman Hamilton and Lisa Bulawsky. Lynn Friedman Hamilton is Founder and Executive Director of Maturity and Its Muse, a St. Louis-based organization that engages older adults and celebrates aging. Lynn has spent more than a quarter of a century organizing social group activities for older adults through Maturity and Its Muse. Lisa Bulawsky is an award-winning internationally-exhibited artist whose works are included in public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad. Bulawsky is Professor and Chair of the Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art program in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Lisa is also Director, Island Press.

This year's exhibit is a follow-up to our 2018 and 2016 presentations and we are honored to have the opportunity to work with Maturity and Its Muse to present this 2021 show.

The Art Saint Louis Gallery is located in downtown St. Louis and is free and open to the public six days a week, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Masks and social distancing required. No appointment necessary for individuals or small groups. We do ask that larger groups and school groups This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to schedule an appointment so that we can be sure to accommodate. Art Saint Louis is operating in compliance with City of St. Louis, CDC and Missouri ArtSafe.

 
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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. Visit Downtown St. Louis.org's website for additional parking suggestions. You can also download the handy Parkmobile app, whereby you can monitor & pay your parking meter via your mobile phone.

Hourly parking is available in the PARK PACIFIC GARAGE with an entrance on the South side of Olive just West of Tucker. Parking is at your own expense-we do not validate. Pay for parking with cash or credit at machine in elevator bay (no more than 15 minutes prior to departure) OR by credit card upon exiting 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.

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

Some of the 50 artworks featured in the exhibit:

Wm. Daniel File, Manchester, MO. “Land Of…” 2020. Digital Photograph on Paper, 22”x22”. $1,500.	Phyllis MacLaren, Kirkwood, MO. “Dr. Denis Mukwege.” 2017. Mixed Media, 24”x20”. $900.	Best of Show Award of Excellence recipient: Bruce Morton, Bowen, IL. “MEN-Brian.” 2018. Photograph, Archival Pigment Print, 24”x18”. $500.
Kacey Cowdery, Webster Groves, MO. “Traffic.” 2020. Fiber, 30”x15”. $300.	Diane Reising, Webster Groves, MO. “Marking Time II.” 2020. Oil, Cold Wax Medium, 30”x24”. $950.	Barbara Marshall, Chesterfield, MO. “A View from Above.” 2020. Photograph on Paper. 22”x18”. $280.
Richard McAfee, St. Louis, MO. “At the Knees.” 2020. Charcoal, Pastel on Paper, 27”x36”. $360.	Sun Smith-Foret, Elsah, IL. “Infinity Circles Series #186.” 2020. Knotted Waxed Linen, Beads, 11”x11”x3”. SOLD.	Ruth Andre, Sikeston, MO. “The Meadow. 2020, Acrylic on Paper. 9”x12”. $250.
Jerry Benner, Ferguson, MO. “Havana Boxing Class #5.” 2017. Photograph on Paper, 18”x25”. $225.	Ronald Vivod, Collinsville, IL. “A Long Way to the City.” 2019. Photodigital Image, Inkjet Print on Paper, 22”x28”. $300.	Mary Ann Nye, St. Louis, MO. “Walls and Waves.” 2019. Metal, 48”x24”x14”. $675.