Email Author Jessica Baran

2009 Stories by Jessica Baran

• Featured Review: Time Well Spent

  published June 24, 2009

  Time Well Spent As curator Tom Reed states in his exhibition preface, the focus of this show is on the time spent creating the artwork... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published June 17, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Kit Keith: Present to Past Reviewed in More >>

• Featured Review: Kit Keith: Present to Past

  published June 17, 2009

  Featured Review: Kit Keith: Present to Past Discarded mattresses, leather-bound books and LP cases, canning jars, a toy steak carved out... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published June 10, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Christopher Orr & J. Parker Valentine & Rezi Van Lankveld Reviewed in More >>

• Featured Review: Christopher Orr & J. Parker Valentine & Rezi van Lankveld

  published June 10, 2009

  Featured Review: Christopher Orr & J. Parker Valentine & Rezi van Lankveld This trio (from London, New York and Amsterdam, respectively)... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published June 3, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Currents 103: Claudia Schmacke Reviewed in More >>

• Featured Review: Currents 103: Claudia Schmacke

  published June 3, 2009

  Currents 103: Claudia Schmacke Time is rendered physical in this site-specific installation, Time Reel. Schmacke, a Berlin-based... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published May 27, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master This thorough and engaging re-examination of the father of conceptual art's... More >>

• Featured Review: Craig Norton: Shot and Killed

  published May 27, 2009

  Craig Norton: Shot and Killed A reporter, photo-realistically rendered in Bic pen and collaged wallpaper, instructs us that the United... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published May 20, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space Reviewed in More >>

• Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space

  published May 20, 2009

  Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space An explicit treatment of film as art, this survey of two decades' worth of the Belgian... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published May 13, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Constellate... More >>

• Featured Review: Constellate

  published May 13, 2009

  Constellate Sarah Paulsen and Eric Repice populate this small gallery space with riotous, inclusive paintings that commemorate and... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published May 6, 2009

  Opening Joel Meyerowitz, Vintage/Modern: Color Work 1976-2008 Reviewed in More >>

• Featured Review: Joel Meyerowitz, Vintage/Modern: Color Work 1976-2008

  published May 6, 2009

  Joel Meyerowitz, Vintage/Modern: Color Work 1976-2008 The fields of Tuscany, Cape Cod's seaside and the Gateway Arch appear, here, as... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published April 29, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Jill Downen: Hard Hat Optional Reviewed in More >>

• Featured Review: Jill Downen: Hard Hat Optional

  published April 29, 2009

  Jill Downen: Hard Hat Optional A hybrid of supple and severe forms, this installation of pristine plaster shapes and construction-grade... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published April 22, 2009

  Newly Reviewed yield Reviewed in this... More >>

• Featured Review: yield

  published April 22, 2009

  yield Curator Dana Turkovic sees the craft of weaving as an extended metaphor for formalist abstraction in this group show of paintings... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published April 15, 2009

  Newly Reviewed In the Tradition Drawing on the printmaking medium's master-and-apprentice roots, this group show of... More >>

• Featured Review: Arny Nadler

  published April 15, 2009

  Arny Nadler This exhibition of sketches and studies for the large-form sculpture series Beacons, which debuted this past fall at... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published April 8, 2009

  Newly Reviewed American Interiors: Photographs by David R. Hanlon Reviewed in More >>

• Featured Review: American Interiors: Photographs by David R. Hanlon

  published April 8, 2009

  American Interiors: Photographs by David R. Hanlon These oblique photographs of unpopulated interiors capture the peculiar poetics of... More >>

• Photos: Wall Ball 2009 at Third Degree Glass Factory

  published Apr 06, 2009

  It's been said that the arts suffer in a weak economy, but the sixth-annual Wall Ball on Saturday seemed to thoroughly disprove that claim. Filling Third Degree Glass Factory with 45 participating art... More >>

• It Is What It Is: A Bombed-Out Car from Baghdad Arrives in the Loop

  published Apr 01, 2009

  British artist Jeremy Deller's cross-country traveling art show It is What it is: Conversations About Iraq, spent Tuesday afternoon parked in front of Vintage Vinyl in the Delmar Loop.The project made... More >>