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Radio Resistance

May 29, 2021 John Tomlinson
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As a major component of the exhibition Stories of Resistance, Radio Resistance assembles the voices of intersecting local and global agents of change. Artists featured in the exhibition are paired with figures from the past, present, and future of St. Louis, coming together to transmit messages of dissent.

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Stories of Resistance

May 29, 2021 John Tomlinson
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Stories of Resistance explores artistic forms of resistance from across the world. Through visual narratives, artists amplify and bring to focus the multitude of conditions that ignite and inspire people to resist. The exhibition activates the entire museum space, inside and out, with video, photography, drawing, sculpture, painting, and installation.

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Pretty Paper Playthings - Amy Firestone Rosen

May 28, 2021 John Tomlinson
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“Pretty Paper Playthings” is an exhibition of a suite of prints depicting life-size paper doll lingerie structures. The print suite combines monoprinting and collage techniques on layered, fibrous surfaces. Pattern and texture feature heavily in the work. The installation of the mixed media monoprints that become a life-size paper doll book.

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It Was All Very Queer

May 28, 2021 John Tomlinson
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The St. Louis Artists Guild is proud to present 'It Was All Very Queer,' a national juried exhibition examining contemporary queer artists residing within the United States. The exhibition will examine contemporary queer artists’ work which investigates identity, social norms, inclusivity, and the celebration of being queer.

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Oliver Lee Jackson

May 28, 2021 John Tomlinson
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Oliver Lee Jackson is known for creating complex and layered images in which figurative elements—or what he calls “paint people”—emerge from abstract fields of vibrant color. Jackson’s practice is informed by a deep understanding of global art history—from early modern European painting to African art.

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Architectural Photography from the Collection: 1850–2000

May 28, 2021 John Tomlinson
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Architectural Photography from the Collection: 1850–2000 traces the representation of architecture over a period of 150 years, presenting significant examples of photographic prints and illustrated books by European and American artists. Drawn primarily from the Museum’s permanent collection, the works on display in the exhibition create journeys through expanses of both geography and history.

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Signed in Silk: Introducing a Sacred Jewish Textile

May 28, 2021 John Tomlinson
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In 2019 the Museum acquired this splendid Torah Ark Curtain (Parokhet), an 18th-century Italian tour de force of needlework and rich metallic embroidery on a shimmering azure-blue silk ground. This artwork is the centerpiece of and the inspiration of this exhibition which brings together a selection of devotional textiles used in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim contexts.

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Nubia: Treasures of Ancient Africa

May 28, 2021 John Tomlinson
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With works spanning more than 2,000 years, Nubia: Treasures of Ancient Africa offers insights into the kingdoms that inhabited what is today the Sudanese Nile Valley. Through a majestic display of art and objects, this exhibition offers new ways of understanding Nubia’s history and contemporary relevance.

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Text and Visual Language

March 23, 2021 John Tomlinson
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The St. Louis Artists’ Guild is hosting Text & Visual Language, a national juried exhibition examining contemporary artists’ utilizing text and language within their art. Language is a powerful tool. And no one understands that better than artists who thoughtfully utilize text to make a statement and draw out emotion.

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dictated by various speeds by Blaine Deutsch

March 23, 2021 John Tomlinson
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Deutsch is a painter, printmaker, designer, producer, cyclist, conversationalist, writer, and seeker of inspiration. Her daily intent is to further my skills as a storyteller, image maker, and amateur quantum physicist. She believes art of all genres are essential, for they are the purest documentation of our moment in time. Works included examines the in between moments.

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Methods and Materiality: Women Artists Working with Abstraction

March 1, 2021 John Tomlinson
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Methods and Materiality: Women Artists Working with Abstraction showcases abstract work made by innovative women artists from the 1960s to the 2000s, highlighting the artmaking process itself as a subject of the work.

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Currents 119: Dana Levy

March 1, 2021 John Tomlinson
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Israeli artist Dana Levy is known for poetic video, sculpture, and print installations that explore place, displacement, and migration by exposing the tensions among architecture, nature, the environment, and human history. In Currents 119: Dana Levy, the artist presents three new works concerned with landscape and memory.

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Buzz Spector: Alterations

March 1, 2021 John Tomlinson
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Literature, language, and philosophy are at the core of Buzz Spector’s work. He is a contemporary Conceptual artist who explores the aesthetic possibilities of language, paper, and books. Buzz Spector: Alterations spans the artist’s career from the 1970s to the present and includes drawings, altered books, postcard assemblages, collages, and more.

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Judith Shaw - fault lines

August 23, 2020 John Tomlinson
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Judith Shaw - fault lines is a print and photographic series that captures intricate tire patterns created by construction machinery and heavy-duty vehicles. It explores the impact of a constantly shifting world on a forever changing landscape.

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Focal Point

August 23, 2020 John Tomlinson
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Focal Point is a juried exhibition focuses on how photography can be pushed to its fullest potential. Submitted works did not have to be purely photography but could be mixed media. A photographic element needed to be present for the work to be considered.

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Balance

July 9, 2020 John Tomlinson
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Balance is an exhibition by four area artists featuring Jerry C. Williams’ ceramics, Mark Witzling’s abstract paintings, Diane Tessman’ fiber art, and Garry McMichael’s realist paintings. It seems this exhibition could not have been planned for a better time. We are desperately trying to find and keep our lives in balance.

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Power in Check: Chess and the American Presidency

July 6, 2020 John Tomlinson
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Power in Check: Chess and the American Presidency showcases a variety of politically-themed chess sets from the World Chess Hall of Fame’s permanent collection. This redux of 2012’s exhibition offers a look at how the “royal game” of chess has fascinated American presidents for over 200 years.

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Storytellers - Art Saint Louis

June 21, 2020 John Tomlinson
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Storytellers is an multi-media juried visual art exhibition featuring artworks that tell stories or are inspired by or are about the written word including poetry, literature, nonfiction, artists’ books, stories, narratives, fiction, and more.

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Golf the Galleries

June 21, 2020 John Tomlinson
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Take a trip to The Sheldon for family fun this summer. The nine-hole mini golf installation features individually designed holes from artists, designers and architectural practices. Daringly inventive and fiendishly difficult, test your golfing skills to see how fast you can make it around the course!

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Voting Daughters

June 20, 2020 John Tomlinson
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Voting Daughters is an exhibition aimed at celebrating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. This exhibition called on artists, regardless of gender identity, to comment on the ways women’s voices affect our contemporary landscape.

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