Email Author Jessica Baran

2011 Stories by Jessica Baran

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published May 12, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Featured Review: Honor Awards 2011 Curated by Marilu Knode, director of Laumeier Sculpture Park, this... More >>

• Featured Review: Honor Awards 2011

  published May 12, 2011

  Featured Review: Honor Awards 2011 Curated by Marilu Knode, director of Laumeier Sculpture Park, this group exhibition features work by... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published May 5, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Alison Jackson: Kate and Wills In grainy resolution, as though through a covert camera, Prince William... More >>

• Featured Art Review: Georges Rouault: Miserere et Guerre

  published May 5, 2011

  Featured Art Review: Georges Rouault: Miserere et Guerre This bifurcated suite of 58 etchings by the anomalous French Catholic artist... More >>

• Featured Review: Wandering Thomas

  published April 28, 2011

  Featured Review: Wandering Thomas Titled after Caravaggio's The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, this exhibit by Chicago-based... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published April 28, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Portion Control Close-up photographs of elemental food items comprise this first solo exhibit by local... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published April 21, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Featured Review: Currents 105: Ian Monroe Washington University alum Ian Monroe returns as this year's... More >>

• Featured Review: Larry Fink: Attraction and Desire -- 50 Years in Photography

  published April 14, 2011

  Featured Review: Larry Fink: Attraction and Desire — 50 Years in Photography This generous survey of the notable Brooklyn-born... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published April 14, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Eyedeas Washington University art school dean Carmon Colangelo assembles a group of recent works on... More >>

• Artist Tom Friedman goes back to where it all began: high school

  published April 7, 2011

  You see a lot of sitcoms when people go back to their high school reunion and they always regress," says artist Tom Friedman. "They... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published April 7, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Return of the Outlaw (Printmakers) The beast is back, though with less roar and more, well, skilled... More >>

• Grab grassy this moment your I's

  published March 31, 2011

  It is difficult to create a sense of cohesive inevitability from a music stand, fluorescent light, electrical cord and a metal can and to make... More >>

• Featured Review: Jimma!

  published March 31, 2011

  Featured Review: Jimma! Los Angeles-based painter Jay Lizo makes a present-day icon of the much- maligned former U.S. president —... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published March 31, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Featured Review: Jimma! Los Angeles-based painter Jay Lizo makes a present-day icon of the... More >>

• Feaured Review: Saturday the Birds Fell from the Sky

  published March 24, 2011

  Feaured Review: Saturday the Birds Fell from the Sky The End of Days will arrive in spectral hues straight out of Repo Man. So... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published March 24, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Dreamscapes This exhibit subtly trains the viewer to navigate the Pulitzer's inimitable space as though it... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published March 17, 2011

  Ongoing Brutal Truths Printmaker Tom Huck plumbs the dark night of America's soul via his back-roads hometown of Potosi.... More >>

• Featured Review: Poems by Bobby Thiel

  published March 17, 2011

  Featured Review: Poems by Bobby Thiel In this elegant suite of collaborative works on paper by local artists Gina Alvarez and Jana... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published March 10, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Brutal Truths Printmaker Tom Huck plumbs the dark night of America's soul via his back-roads hometown of... More >>

• Featured Review: Thea Djordjadze & George Maciunas

  published March 10, 2011

  Featured Review: Thea Djordjadze & George Maciunas For this Front Room exhibition, co-curators Mel Trad and Mari Dumett couple George... More >>

• Featured Art Review: Grab grassy this moment your I's

  published March 3, 2011

  Featured Review: Grab grassy this moment your I's It is difficult to create a sense of cohesive inevitability from a music stand,... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published March 3, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Featured Review: Grab grassy this moment your I's It is difficult to create a sense of cohesive... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published February 24, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Christina Shmigel: This City, Daily Rising A weathered wooden child's chair is stacked atop its twin,... More >>

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  Featured Review: Ghost: Elizabeth Peyton

  published February 24, 2011

  Featured Review: Ghost: Elizabeth Peyton Like one of her closest forebears, Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Peyton made a name for herself as a... More >>

• Featured Review: Paris Dream'n

  published February 17, 2011

  Paris Dream'n In this show of drawings and paintings, local artist Jamie Adams displays salon-style, a mythical sub-world of... More >>