FREAK SHOW Mixed Media and Drawings by William H. Thielen

June 13 - July 19, 2025

Opening Reception: June 13, 6:30-8pm

Gallery Talk: June 13, 6-6:30

Curated Gallery

The issues behind my work are personal and autobiographical. I work with them because they are an attempt to find my own true identity in a divisive social structure. Abstraction allows me the greatest possibility of encapsulating the emotional intensity surrounding my subject matter.  Over the years I have come to realize that emotions can be best portrayed with the use of two simple things: color and materials.  These items can best describe the dilemmas that consume my life. Black and white must be there.  Even though the world is filled with shades of gray, society moves us toward the extremes.  You’re either for or against something; there is no room for compromise; you must be all-in; agree with me or you’re a traitor. Color is entirely about emotions.  They are something we all have, yet many people avoid them.  We are told not to trust them; they make you weak if you show or act on them.  The are truly an abstract concept which so many fear, which is why they hold so much power. The materials I use are by choice; they hold a second class position in the art world.  This helps to reinforce/elevate the overall statement of the piece. These works are about extremes and the tension that is created when opposites are thrust together.  The opposites may conflict, but need each other to define each other. These pieces are about looking for emotional truth in a post-modern world.

Making History - Threads of Time 1925-2025 presented by the Weaver’s Guild of St. Louis

June 13 - July 19, 2025

Opening Reception: June 6, 6:30-8pm

Juried Gallery

The Weavers' Guild is proud to be the second oldest weaver’s guild in the United States. Currently celebrating their 100th anniversary, the guild's history began when weaving classes were added to the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in 1917 by Director Edmund Wuerpel and students joined together to officially create the Weavers’ Guild of St. Louis in 1925/26.  This active group of contemporary textile artists ranges from fiber enthusiasts to novice weavers as well as professional production weavers.  Today, the Weavers' Guild of St. Louis has grown to nearly 300 members and is proud of the legacy left by our talented weavers and fiber artists over the decades.

Agora by Jade Nguyẽn

June 13 - July 19, 2025

Opening Reception: June 13, 6:30-8pm

Gallery Talk: June 13, 6-6:30

Ramp Gallery

Agora is a documentary series that explores traditional Vietnamese marketplaces, examining how these spaces reflect Vietnamese life through the desires, needs, interconnectivity, and humanity of its people. The market exists as a place to foster connection, a celebration of community, and a microcosm for the multilayered flavors of Vietnamese culture. The instantaneous nature of photography captures fleeting pockets of life that burst through narrow sidewalks and makeshift stalls of sumptuous goods, crinkled money, and passing shadows in dynamic compositions and vibrant colors. From amiable chatters to growling motorbikes, different tones of human activity form a cacophony of the streets, where the chaos becomes familiar and strangers become kin.

Radiant Aberrance by Sarah Knight

August 1 - 30, 2025

Curated Gallery

Radiant Aberrance showcases three series of work from Knight. These works will explore how the boundaries of a “vessel” can be pushed in ceramics, containing the only intangible element of light using non-clay materials to create a sense of flux and transmutation. The title Radiant Aberrance refers to the intangible and tactile duality of being queer, as well as the play of non-ceramic materials in ceramic works. This body of work stems from my experiences with connecting trans and queer survival to ecological resilience, ceramic flux, and material transmutation. It will ask how material and light can allow visitors to engage with sensory representations of color, texture, material, and time and share a personal experience with the ways the LGBTQIA+ community persists, radiant, in both ephemeral and physical spaces.

A Quiet Composition

August 1 - 30, 2025

Juried Gallery

This juried exhibition (emphasizes) balance, simplicity and a measured minimalistic approach in creating abstract art. A quiet composition might manifest itself through limited color palettes, simple shapes , and an emphasis on both the positive and negative spaces (surfaces). The spaces within the composition become as important as the content itself and encourages a deeper engagement from both artist and viewer, reflective of a visually meditative experience. Overall, a Quiet Composition is about finding beauty in simplicity, stillness and balance. Artists are encouraged to interpret A Quiet Composition broadly and in their own distinctive voice, using a variety of artistic mediums including: mixed media, painting, collage & photography.

Juror - Michael Shemchuk

Michael Shemchuk is a mixed media artist working from his studio in Albany CA. He received a BA degree in photography from the Academy of Art San Francisco in 1980. His creative journey began in1985-1998 as an applied arts craftsman. In 1998 Shem segued into his fine art practice when his child ,Chet came into the world. Shemchuk is a self taught artist in the mixed mediums of paper and paint, gypsum and paint and collage. His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions and shows since 1998 and most recently at Bryant Street Gallery Palo Alto CA. And SOPA gallery Kelowna BC Canada in 2024. His work is held in several private collections and the permanent collections of Triton Museum CA and Flint Art Museum MI.

Journeys of the Southwest by Scott Heinemeier

August 1 - 30, 2025

Ramp Gallery

Whether pushing paint across a canvas or framing a subject within my camera lens, my intention is to convey a mood, emotion, and context in a single image that sparks the viewer’s imagination. The genesis of Journeys of the Southwest collection came from the desire to flee life’s daily stress. The grand visuals and the enormity of the terrain changed my reference point in life. I would spend a decade, 2010 through 2020, flying and driving thousands of miles across Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Texas, documenting the region.

Built Over Time by Henry Moyerman

September 19 - October 18, 2025 

Curated Gallery

Built Over Time presents a new body of work alongside a reflection on the decade-long evolution of Henry Moyerman’s artistic practice. The exhibition pairs large-format photographs with the original LEGO sculptures they depict, continuing Moyerman’s journey into perspective, scale, and transformation. What began as a broad exploration, through figurative forms, mosaics, minimalist structures, abstract landscapes, and macro photography, has gradually developed into a refined visual language, defined by repetition, monochromatic restraint, and spatial ambiguity.

Today, Moyerman constructs small-scale sculptures from LEGO bricks and photographs them with meticulous precision to create images that evoke monumental architecture. These works subvert expectations of scale and material, prompting viewers to ask: Is it a sculpture, a building, a photograph, or something else entirely? Built Over Time emerges from years of iterative experimentation. The resulting images strike a balance between restraint and awe, inviting viewers to reconsider their perception of space, form, and perspective.

STLAG Members Exhibition

September 19 - October 18, 2025 

Juried Gallery

The St. Louis Artists' Guild is proud to present our annual members exhibition, an all media and theme exhibit. 

Solo Exhibition by Jim Trotter

September 19 - October 18, 2025 

Ramp Gallery

Jim will present a collection of AI generated images of various themes and concepts exploring the advancement in technology to achieve interesting and various outcomes.