Email Author Jessica Baran

2012 Stories by Jessica Baran

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  In the Galleries - Providential Journey: The Art of Brother Mel CLOSES May 27 at SLUMA

  published May 24, 2012

  This ample survey of work by Florissant-born artist Melvin Meyer (he earned his nom de pinceau the old-fashioned way — he's a Marianist... More >>

• Chris Kahler

  published April 26, 2012

  In this exhibit Illinois-based artist Chris Kahler pushes his signature irradiated palette to new levels of saturation, creating dense... More >>

• In the Galleries - In the Still Epiphany CLOSES October 27 at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

  published October 25, 2012

  New York-based Gedi Sibony translates his celebrated stock in trade — spare, elegant installations of found objects — into a... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Here I Am CLOSES MAY 26 at PSTL Gallery

  published May 24, 2012

  The lament of the rhinestone cowboy. This solo show by St. Louis-born, New York-based artist Larry Krone collects performance memorabilia from a... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Currents: Chelsea Knight CLOSES July 1 at the Saint Louis Art Museum

  published June 28, 2012

  In this two-part body of work — the latest installment of SLAM's Currents series — New York-based artist Chelsea Knight... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Chris Kahler: Recent Paintings CLOSES May 5 at Bruno David Gallery

  published May 3, 2012

  In this exhibit Illinois-based artist Chris Kahler pushes his signature irradiated palette to new levels of saturation, creating dense... More >>

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  Sign of the (Old) Times: Bill Christman preserves St. Louis history in dazzling new show

  published April 12, 2012

  Something almost has to disappear in America before it becomes revered," says Bill Christman, gesturing unnecessarily toward a wall teeming... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Pacer CLOSES April 22 at CAM (Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis)

  published April 19, 2012

  From a crude metal hook tenuously anchored by a thin brass tube, a mass of chartreuse paint dangles above a jagged, clay-colored paint form, from... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Contemporary Icons: Recent Art from Bulgaria CLOSES May 5 at Webster University

  published May 3, 2012

  This post-Soviet bloc survey makes a compelling case for art's worth, even in a society (ours) purportedly free of cultural regulations. Playing... More >>

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  In the Galleries - An Orchestrated Vision (Photography) CLOSES May 13 at the Saint Louis Art Museum

  published May 10, 2012

  Focusing on large-scale contemporary photography, this show identifies a new, prevalent strain whose practitioners eschew traditional realism... More >>

• In the Galleries - The Longshot CLOSES April 7 at PSTL Gallery at Pace Framing

  published April 5, 2012

  As the title suggests, St. Louis artist David Burns Smith saw little hope for anything above dross in his 365 project, in which he snapped a... More >>

• In the Galleries &ndash Equivalents CLOSES April 7 at Good Citizen Gallery

  published April 5, 2012

  Via several hundred iPhone snapshots, St. Louis-based photographer Jamie Kreher presents a chronicle of a full, lived year. Kreher has arranged... More >>

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  In the Galleries &ndash Where Are You Now? CLOSES March 31 at Duane Reed Gallery

  published March 29, 2012

  The lure of the open road is a distinctly American preoccupation that never fails to abide as the ultimate existential metaphor. St.... More >>

• In the Galleries – Something Happened CLOSES March 31 at the Luminary Center for the Arts

  published March 29, 2012

  A retrospective of work made by nine former residents in the Luminary Center for the Arts' studio program? Bound to be a scattershot affair,... More >>

• In the Galleries: Oh! You Pretty Things and On Another Note... CLOSES March 17 at the Artists' Guild

  published March 15, 2012

  For this installment in an exhibition series that explores the relationship between sound and image, Adrian Aquilino assembled this small suite of... More >>

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  In the Galleries – Liquid Terrain: Works on Paper by Eva Lundsager CLOSES August 18 at the Sheldon

  published August 16, 2012

  A chronicle of dots, washes, saturated color fields and explosive fissures of ink, this survey of St. Louis-based painter Eva Lundsager's... More >>

• In the Galleries - NEW: Success CLOSES February 29 at Isolation Room/Gallery Kit

  published February 23, 2012

  Founding Fathers-brand American pragmatism confronts The Apprentice-era febrile careerism in St. Louis-based artist (and 2010 Great Rivers... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Spirit and History CLOSES March 4 at the St. Louis University Museum of Art

  published March 1, 2012

  Born in 1896 in a cottage on the campus of the Tuskegee Institute (his father was the first dean of the English department), Nathan B. Young Jr.... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Two Sides of a 45 CLOSES March 9 at Des Lee Gallery

  published March 8, 2012

  Though it ranges from sculpture to video to painting, this show of work by three graduates of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts —... More >>

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  In the Galleries - Figure Studies CLOSES April 22 at CAM (Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis)

  published April 19, 2012

  For this refreshingly unassuming and clear-eyed exhibit of recent drawings, prints and mixed-media works on paper, curator Dominic Molon selected... More >>

• In the Galleries - Joy Wade CLOSES March 2 at the Metropolitan Gallery

  published March 1, 2012

  Using a hybrid technique somewhere between painting and collage, St. Louis artist Joy Wade assembles realist portraits that celebrate African... More >>

• In the Galleries - John Stezaker CLOSES April 23 at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

  published April 19, 2012

  With surgical precision, British collagist John Stezaker grafts together seemingly incongruous elements from early-twentieth-century film stills,... More >>

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  In the Galleries: Nikki and Jan, closes February 18 at Los Caminos

  published February 16, 2012

  This spare, evocative exhibit by local artist Jake Cruzen consists of a trio of bare halogen bulbs, each of which is screwed into a socket that's... More >>

• In the Galleries - Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler: Single Wide CLOSES March 25 at the SLAM

  published March 22, 2012

  A woman in a flannel shirt fixes her hair at a dressing table as a clock loudly ticks. The camera sweeps around to reveal the setting: a... More >>

• Life Saver

  published January 19, 2012

  Life Saver: As impossibly light or heavy as the exhibit's title sways, Missouri painter Damon Freed plays to both ends of the... More >>