Art St. Louis XXXVII, The Exhibition

Art St. Louis XXXVII, The Exhibition November 6-December 16, 2021

Please join Art Saint Louis for Art St. Louis XXXVII, The Exhibition our 37th annual exhibition featuring new artworks by 52 regional artists from Missouri and Illinois.

Graphic design by Emily Crull.

We are pleased to present Art St. Louis XXXVII, The Exhibition, our annual all media, all styles, all subjects/themes, all techniques exhibition. For this year's 37th annual exhibit, 446 artworks in all media were submitted by 117 St. Louis regional artists for consideration by Juror Dana Turkovic from which she selected 56 artworks by 56 artists from Missouri and Illinois for our exhibition. This multi-media exhibit includes ceramics, collage, digital media, drawing, handmade paper, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, and wood. Art St. Louis XXXVII, The Exhibition is presented November 6-December 16, 2021. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Closed Sundays & holidays. Dates and hours subject to change. School groups, clubs, and large groups: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . We respectfully request that groups give us two weeks' advance notice so that we can properly staff the exhibit for your visit..   For the safety of Gallery visitors as well as for our Staff, we offer these PROTOCOLS & SAFETY MEASURES in accordance and compliance with City of St. Louis health mandates and CDC recommendations: •    All guests over age 5 must wear a mask; •    Social distancing is recommended; •    Guest sign-in at our reception desk; •    Sanitizing Stations are available throughout our space; •    Staff regularly cleans surfaces and other areas throughout the day; •    Schools, clubs, or any group larger than 10, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . We invite you to view images of all the featured artworks in this exhibit in our Facebook album here. You'll also find Gallery & installation photos from the show as well as photos of some of the featuerd artists with their works. Congratulations to Robert Bolla, Ken Church, Greg Kluempers, Michelle J. Streiff, and Thomas Wyrsch on the sales of their works from this exhibit. We are honored to have the opportunity to work with Dana Turkovic as Juror for this year's exhibit. Dana Turkovic is Curator at Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis. Turkovic received her MFA from Goldsmiths College-University of London in curatorial studies (2005) and BFA from Webster University, St. Louis (1998). She has organized exhibitions in Athens, Baku, London, Los Angeles, New York and Oxford, UK. Turkovic was chosen as Guest Curator by the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition for “Art 365,” a triennial of Oklahoma artists. During her 10-year tenure at Laumeier, she has curated over 20 exhibitions and overseen acquisitions and commissions by Sam Falls, Ken Lum, Tony Tasset, Odili Donald Odita and Marie Watt. Her projects at Laumeier focus on the conservation, production, installation and interpretation of public art and monumental sculpture.

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Art Saint Louis is located at 1223 Pine Street in downtown St. Louis. 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 ($20), so don't let your meter expire. Visit Downtown St. Louis.org's website for additional parking suggestions. You can also download the handy Parkmobile app, whereby you can pay for and monitor parking meter via your mobile phone.

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 The 56 featured artists in Art St. Louis XXXVII, The Exhibition are:

Art St. Louis XXXVII, the Exhibition
Juror's Statement

“As a curator, I continue to be in awe of the way visual artists interpret the world around them. As a juror of this year’s 37th annual Art St. Louis, The Exhibition, I had the difficult task of selecting from a talented group of artists. Thankfully, those submissions represented a multiplicity of creative voices which made the process inspiring and fun.
Art St. Louis XXXVII, The Exhibition hosts a strong showing of works by a talented group of regional artists exploring a wide range of media including ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, and textiles. My approach to jurying the exhibition was to choose, from a submission of over 400 artworks, the strongest pieces, in concept and fabrication, to communicate the talent of each individual artist and their ideas. Because of the range of mediums, styles and concepts, I embraced the challenge to consider the perspectives and interests that would create a cohesive exhibition that represents the diversity of the art making in this area with respect to the mission of this gallery with a long history of dedicated service to its audience and arts community members.
After spending time reviewing each of the individual works and looking at the overall submissions, eventually a stylistic dialogue occurred and I simply responded to a visual conversation that seemed to emerge from the artist’s work, whether figurative or abstract. A number of works, are representative of the lush landscape around us and the unique and historic architecture of our city. Some, experiment with materials in an elegant balance with concept that is at once playful and dramatic. Others, are reflections on the new world we now live in, with meditations on our past, present and future.
Considering the many challenges the past year-and-a-half have presented to us, I am happy to see that the artists have continued in their pursuits and production of new work. The artists assembled here embrace their practices, and as an exhibition, communicate the importance of the arts and its role in developing healthy and vibrant communities.
There is a great deal of complexity and diversity of ideas in the individual works that were submitted. I hope that my selections bring to light the wealth of artistic talent represented here and celebrates the mission of Art Saint Louis and its role in supporting artists.
I am grateful to Art Saint Louis for this opportunity to review the submissions and to really get to know better the talented artists and witness the skill and passion of artists in our region.”

— Dana Turkovic, Curator, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis

Some of the 56 artworks featured in Art St. Louis XXXVII:

Livia Xandersmith, University City, MO. “Please Stand By.” 2021. Oil, Screen Print on Canvas, 34.5”x28.5”. $1,000.	Lisa Hilton, Creve Coeur, MO. “On My Mind.” 2021. Clay, Slip, Oxide, Wash, 14”x11”x6”, 5 lbs. $975.	Connie LaFlam, St. Louis, MO. “never more.” 2019. Photograph with Resin, 37.5”x25.5”. $600.
Award of Excellence recipient Michelle J. Streiff, Wildwood, MO. “Brush Works.” 2021. Oil on Panel, 13”x11”. Sold.	Robert Dandino, Ballwin, MO. “Tribulation.” 2021. Mixed Media Assemblage, 25”x22”x6”. NFS.	Steve Springmeyer, St. Louis, MO. “distraction.” 2019. Digital Photograph on Paper, 26”x26”. $225.
Robert Kokenyesi, Godfrey, IL. “Oceanated Pliers.” 2021. Ceramic, Pliers, 3”x8”x5”. $200.	Michael Bruner, Mascoutah, IL. “Julia.” 2021. Pencil, Powdered Graphite on Arches Paper, 17”x14”. $900.	Tim Eberhardt & Chris Eberhardt, St. Louis, MO. “God and Adam.” 2019. Stainless Steel, Electronics, 33”x23”x4”. $4,000.
Michael Anderson, Belleville, IL. "Powell Hall.” 2021. Oil on Canvas Panel, 36”x30”. $900.	Lorraine Cange, St. Louis, MO. “Rebirth (make whole again).” 2018. Raku Fired Clay, Copper Wire, 15”x11”x10”. $400.	Ann Miller Titus, Quincy, IL. “Dreaming the Garden.” 2021. Textile, 27”x21”. $800.