Solo Gallery Past Exhibitions
Solo Gallery exhibits work by top artists from St. Louis and the Midwest. See the work of both established favorites and rising stars in the Solo Gallery at the St. Louis Artists' Guild.
River Road
A solo exhibition by Gwyn Wahlmann. More info coming soon.
Quilted Equations
Quilted Equations is a solo exhibition by Dawn Ottensmeier.
Working with textiles and connecting bits of cloth and pieces of thread satisfies my desire for a creative process that allows the various parts of my life to co-exist. The separateness I sometimes experience dissolves when I find ways to make connections through art. The parts fuel each other and offer insight, inspiration, coherence, and acceptance. Details and symbols from my professional life can merge into creative acts of construction and embellishing. Fabric from family and friends can playfully integrate into a quilt. Homage can be paid to a special person, place or favorite poet.
Perhaps more important is the repetition of stitching, offering a doorway to something deeper, more subtle, more powerful. This meditative act leads my mind and body into an almost sacred, devotional practice where no stitch is ever the same twice. The connective threads unify, offering a sense of wholeness.
My textile constructions rely on personal histories embedded and held in ‘used cloth.’ I prefer to work with recycled cloth, giving the fabric a chance to express transformation through a relationship with the past and the present. What emerges from the interaction is sometimes a surprising and revealing result. What gets altered is oftentimes myself.
Paintings by Jeremy Rabus
An exhibition of abstract paintings by Jeremy Rabus. Expanding and refining his technique of layering passages of light and dark, vivid and neutral color, Rabus' approach to painting encompasses both chance and control, free association and orchestration. These works set aside decorative flourishes, and are stripped down to more iconic and monumental compositions. Rabus' aim is to use abstraction to transform the viewer's reality. The brief transport to a suddenly different visual dimension and the immediate sense of recovery is the rare experience Rabus seeks.
I Breathe. I Walk.
I Breathe. I Walk. is an installation by Kristin Fleischmann that strives to understand the self as a symbiotic being defined by human relationships. Poetic metaphors, autobiographical content, and organic formalism discuss the nature of human relationships and the inescapable weight and lightness of being, specifically addressing issues of love, loss, and the fragility of relationships. Metaphors for the city are brought together with images of nature, forms that reference the body, and words in order to draw parallels of the city with human psychology.
Repetition and absence allow the viewer to conjure an imaginative space, setting up opportunities for self reflection. Visual sets of organic forms and the meditative movement of the leaf in the video connect the visual poetry of nature with the intangible world of the mind. I breathe. I walk. contains the painful realization that along with the lightness and joy of love comes vulnerability and loss, and discusses the beauty, pain, and struggle to understand and care for the self.
The text is a compilation of writings from Helene Cixous, Italo Calvino, and my personal journals.
Etchings by Stan Gellman
An exhibition of small etchings by St. Louis artist Stan Gellman.
Artist Statement
Graphic work involves drawing, engraving, and lettering as well as often striking imagery. As a graphic designer and printmaker, I understand this visual medium and how it conveys a message implicitly. And it is all put down with ink on paper. These are the elements I need to embrace my form of art. Deep-etch intaglio printing provides me with both the immediacy of graphic art in conjunction with the hands on fun of printmaking. Free to record and react to the places I see I am now more than ever an artist utilizing a lifetime of acquired skills to see the world in an ever changing but always new light.
Scenes Through the Heartland During Naptime
Scenes Through the Heartland During Naptime is a solo exhibition by Rick Dunn. Dunn will create an installation that is composed of a series of individual objects, which are formally distinct, but designed to be viewed as a whole. The installation will be informed by the paradoxes inherent in the global consumer culture in which we live.
Ink Vehicles!
Ink Vehicles! is a solo exhibition by Dan Zettwoch. Zettwoch's work represents a love of history, folk icons, gross local food, punk rock, popping eyeballs, and of course, hot rods. Dan will exhibit a series of illustrations, comic books and posters all created in the close confines of his apartment.
Dan will also teach a two-day workshop where he will show off his mostly self-taught, low-fidelity silk-screening process. He'll go from ink drawings on paper to burnt stencils on screens to multi-colored prints on paper, fabric, or whatever the participants desire.
For more information, please visit danzettwoch.com.
Pieces
Pieces is a solo exhibition by Phil Jarvis. Using wood, metal, plastic and paint, Jarvis will assemble thirteen individual paintings to form a collective composition.
Phil Jarvis, a Graduate of the School of Fine Arts at Washington University, has been studying painting for over 40 years and is the recipient of many awards and honors. In addition, he has been a professional sign artist and mural painter for over 30 years.
The Beauty of Order: Andromeda in Eros²
The Moi Solo Gallery hosts the The Beauty of Order: Andromeda in Eros2, a solo exhibit by Kathleen Ahner.
Developed much as a woven tapestry, the images and poetry of The Beauty of Order: Andromeda in Eros2 marry as warp and weft of a single body. Neither an illustrated narrative poem nor a series of annotated etchings, the two forms marry as equal partners, ebbing and flowing, mysteriously forming a genetically distinct archetypal body; and as in any other marriage, subject to the themes of union common to us all: darkness, light, freedom, loss. The archetype of the human heart mirrors that of the cosmos: poem and print speak in one voice.
Kathleen Ahner grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where she is a practicing poet and artist. She received her BA in English/Creative Writing, poetry, from Saint Louis University and her MA in Creative Writing/poetry from San Diego State University. She has taught high school and college level English and is currently taking classes toward a degree in fine arts. This is her first solo exhibit.
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