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2012 Stories by Jessica Baran

• CLASP

  published September 6, 2012

  This fall Craft Alliance in Grand Center (501 North Grand Boulevard; 314-534-7528) presents the group show CLASP, curated by local... More >>

• Sudden Glare of the Sun

  published September 6, 2012

  Leslie Hewitt, a New York-based artist, presents sculptural photographs that incorporate politically trenchant imagery in this new exhibition... More >>

• Desert -- Performed

  published September 6, 2012

  In Rosa Barba: Desert -- Performed, the Berlin-based artist installs sculptural films that investigate the American desert as a... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Chuck Webster: Little Big Paintings CLOSES December 21 at Phillip Slein

  published December 20, 2012

  Chuck Webster: Little Big Paintings While their scale shifts radically from the very-small to the mega-size, the paintings in this... More >>

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  NEW In the Galleries: eARThworks 2012

  published November 29, 2012

  NEW In the Galleries – eARThworks 2012: art for an endangered planet "When one tugs at a single string in nature, he finds it... More >>

• My Land / Your Land

  published September 6, 2012

  New York-based artist Jonathan Horowitz creates a bipartisan fantasia in the Contemporary Art Museum (3750 Washington Boulevard) lobby, coloring... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Patrick Graham CLOSES December 16 at MOCRA

  published December 13, 2012

  Patrick Graham: Thirty Years — The Silence Becomes the Painting Composed of exquisitely agonized and delicately searching marks,... More >>

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  In the Galleries - NEW: How to Build a World That Won't Fall Apart CLOSES November 10 at the Luminary

  published November 8, 2012

  The first in a series of exhibitions, presented at the Luminary Center for the Arts' temporary space on Cherokee Street and devoted to... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Curiouser and Curiouser CLOSES December 2 at the Hinge

  published November 29, 2012

  Mixing antique doll heads with abstract paintings, 19th-century parlor chairs, a video installation and some truly grotesque handbags fashioned... More >>

• NEW In the Galleries - How to Build a World That Won't Fall Apart

  published November 1, 2012

  The first in a series of exhibitions, presented at the Luminary Center for the Arts' temporary space on Cherokee Street and devoted to... More >>

• B. Wurtz

  published September 6, 2012

  At White Flag Projects (4568 Manchester Avenue; 314-531-3442), a solo exhibit of sculpture opens on September 8, by the New York-based artist... More >>

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  In the Galleries - NEW: Alternative Cloud Research at Hoffman LaChance

  published October 25, 2012

  Seven painting-scale digital prints-on-canvas comprise this exhibit by Chicago-based Vadim Gershman, each depicting a variation of airy... More >>

• In the Galleries - Rosa Barba: Desert - CLOSES December 30 at CAM

  published December 27, 2012

  Rosa Barba: Desert – Performed The Mojave Desert is a template for nostalgic and futuristic imaginings in this survey of... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Nowhere Backwards CLOSES November 17 at Des Lee

  published November 15, 2012

  This group show featuring three printmakers — Cranbrook artist-in-residence Randy Bolton, University of Kansas professor Michael Krueger,... More >>

• In the Galleries - Mark Making CLOSES November 30 at SLU Museum of Art

  published November 29, 2012

  Mark Making: Prints from Wildwood Press Massive in scale, intricate in imagery, wildly inventive in technique, the prints that comprise... More >>

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  In the Galleries - B. Wurtz CLOSES October 20 at White Flag

  published October 18, 2012

  B. Wurtz The material vocabulary of New York-based artist B. Wurtz's sculpture (exhibited at White Flag Projects in a retrospective... More >>

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  In the Galleries - John Zinsser CLOSES October 27 at Philip Slein

  published October 25, 2012

  John Zinsser: Zero Guilt Tangled, undulating oil paint strokes, rendered in a single hue, lie thickly over a flat coat of enamel in a... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Leslie Hewitt: Sudden Glare of the Sun CLOSES December 30 at CAM

  published December 27, 2012

  Two multipart works comprise this elegant, nuanced exhibit by New York-based artist Leslie Hewitt. Blue Skies, Warm Sunlight (2011) is a... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Joan Hall: Marginal Waters CLOSES October 13 at Bruno David Gallery

  published October 11, 2012

  When it comes to works on paper, Washington University professor Joan Hall is a kind of alchemist. Liberated from any conventional notion of... More >>

• In the Galleries: Re-Domestic CLOSES September 23 at Gallery 210

  published September 20, 2012

  Exposure 15: Re-Domestic The 2012 installment of this annual, locally focused group show features three artists who variously revise,... More >>

• In the Galleries: Biotextural Landscapes at Good Citizen

  published September 20, 2012

  Biotextural Landscapes In four large-scale works, sculptor and University of Alabama instructor Craig Wedderspoon wrests buoyancy out of... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Without Boundaries: Transformations in American Craft CLOSES October 21 at Craft Alliance (U. City)

  published October 18, 2012

  Updating the premise of Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, Paul J. Smith's seminal 1986 exhibit at the American Craft Museum in New... More >>

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  In the Galleries - White Cloud Lament CLOSES October 21 at the Artists' Guild

  published October 18, 2012

  Drawing upon an earlier iteration of St. Louis, when it was enthralled by steam power and aspired to be the "New York of Middle America,"... More >>

• Stephanie Pippin: 2012 Riverfront Times MasterMind Award Winner

  published August 23, 2012

  When Stephanie Pippin began volunteering at a local bird sanctuary, she harbored grand ambitions of communing with the majestic avians at the... More >>

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  Past Made Present: Creative history in the making

  published August 23, 2012

  Nothing brands this fall's visual-arts season more remarkably than the fact that it's taking place alongside the presidential election. And... More >>