Past Exhibitions
FASTx2 at White Flag Projects
May 17 - June 21, 2008
BFA/MFA SHOW
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Cinema Zero
May 10 - May 10, 2008
An evening with Amy Granat & Friends
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EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF/GOD AGAINST ALL
March 15 - April 19, 2008
Curated by Hesse McGraw
Featuring Tim Hyde, Jill Magid, Lilly McElroy, Zachariah Rockhill, Marco Boggio Sella, and artist-in-residence Eric von Robertson.
Other Links:
EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF press release
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Brendan Monroe: NODES in the Library
March 15 - April 19, 2008
Opening reception Sat. 3/15/08 7-10 PM
Other Links:
Brendan Monroe PR
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JASON PETERS: NO MORE/NO LESS
February 29 - March 1, 2008
TWO DAYS ONLY
Opening reception Friday evening, February 29, 7-10PM
Closing celebration Saturday evening, March 1, 9 PM
WHITE FLAG PROJECTS IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE A SPECIAL SHORT-TERM EXHIBITION:
JASON PETERS: NO MORE/NO LESS
FEBRUARY 29 & MARCH 1, 2008
TWO DAYS ONLY
Opening reception Friday evening, February 29, 7-10PM
Closing celebration Saturday evening, March 1, 9 PM, featuring live musical performances by Ribbons of Song from Grand Rapids, Michigan and others. Doors at 8 PM.
White Flag Projects is pleased to announce a large-scale sculptural installation by New York City based artist Jason Peters. This special short-term exhibition will open with a reception Friday evening, February 29, from 7-10 PM, and will be on view again Saturday March 1 from 12-5 PM. A free closing celebration will feature live musical performances in the darkened gallery space on Saturday evening, March 1. Bands scheduled to perform include Ribbons of Song from Grand Rapids, Michigan and others.
For NO MORE/NO LESS Peters will construct several massive sculptures based on his approach of using readily available and uniform materials to compose larger forms. The largest of these works is comprised of hundreds of interconnected and internally illuminated plastic buckets that hang from the gallery ceiling, creating twisting forms that illuminate the room and seem to move as viewers move beneath it. Peters will also present a large spherical sculpture comprised of hundreds of inflatable inner tubes.
Peters says of his work: “I use found objects because they help redefine prescribed meanings and values, especially when assembled into entirely different structures. The question I want the viewer to ask is, "Are these familiar objects just as recognizable when serving an entirely different purpose? And just as important, does their transformation modify their value?”
Jason Peters received his BFA in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999. His exhibitions include one-person shows at Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, California, and Supreme Trading in Brooklyn, New York. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, Mattress Factory in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, d.u.m.b.o. arts center in Brooklyn, New York, and Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Linnea Spransy: ALL SYSTEMS GO
January 12 - February 16, 2008
LINNEA SPRANSY: ALL SYSTEMS GO
White Flag Projects is pleased to present All Systems Go, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Linnea Spransy. Spransy’s work is remarkable in its overt complexity, fastidious workmanship, and unlikely palette. A typical work begins with the artist devising a beautifully arbitrary system that reveals its almost biological magnificence as the artist follows her applied rules to their conclusion. All Systems Go will include paintings, drawings, and preparatory works which will allow viewers to fully consider the artist’s process. Linnea Spransy received her MFA in Painting from Yale in 2001. Her previous exhibitions include shows at Christine Wang Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, The Erdman Art Gallery at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, and Nordica Gallery in Kunming, China.
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Zach Kleyn: Meditations on Limitations/One-Hour Sculptures
January 12 - February 16, 2008
Library Exhibition
Zach Kleyn‘s “One-Hour Sculptures” began as the artist’s studio exercise in using one hour of a day to re-imagine components of failed sculptures and other detritus into new works. The resulting objects were photographed and dismantled, their existence briefly noted and their various parts returned to stock of the artist’s materials. For his exhibition Meditations on Limitations/One-Hour Sculptures Kleyn has reconstituted several of these ephemeral works from their original components, focusing the viewer’s attention on the humor and improvisation inherent to his work. Zach Kleyn lives and works near Los Angeles. He received his BFA from Biola University in 2004.
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THE GREAT ESCAPE: NEW ART FROM LONDON curated by Katrina Hallowell
November 17 - December 22, 2007
Opening Reception Saturday evening, November 17, 7-10
White Flag Projects is pleased to present THE GREAT ESCAPE: NEW ART FROM LONDON, featuring artists Kate Atkin, David Blandy, Richard Galpin and Adam Humphries. For decades London has been forerunner in fashion, music, literature and art, and it continues to produce some of the most innovative creators of our time. Inspired by a bombardment of imagery, culture and history, the four emerging artists featured in this exhibition each create work that draw upon their physical landscape as a way of exploring historical, political and cultural issues. By abstracting, distorting and reinterpreting their environment, the work of these artists reflects London’s climate of excess and its impact on individuals.
The intricate draftsmanship of Kate Atkin’s drawings provides an entryway into the world of mysterious associations. Atkin begins with photographs of natural landforms, from which she then isolates a component of to create an ambiguous object. Vacillating between the precise and exaggerated, Atkin’s creations make the natural world seem unnatural. Her renderings of plant mutations take on an uncanny quality that sometimes resemble anthropomorphic forms in their abstraction. Atkin currently lives and works in London. She received and MA in Photography Fine Art from the Royal College of Art, London.
David Blandy’s use of video and performance humorously investigates issues of identity. Through the appropriation of lyrics and styles taken from popular culture music and movies, the artist turns himself into composite of his environment. Blandy’s work deals with the slippage between the personal and public persona, and in videos where the artist journeys through distinctively English settings, we explore a world of contrasts between who we are and what we are. Blandy currently lives and works in London. He received an MA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Fine Arts in 2003.
Richard Galpin’s architectural reconstructions reduce building structures to their most basic forms. A former woodcarver’s apprentice, Galpin's technique consists of using a surgical scalpel to remove photographic emulsion and reveal abstracted frameworks of the buildings and city streets of London. The end product are structures that reference the past through its modernist aesthetic, the present through the use of existing buildings, and the future in its radically minimal approach. Galpin currently lives and works in London. He received an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 2001.
White Flag Projects’ first ever artist-in-residence, Adam Humphries has used St. Louis as the inspiration for his continued exploration of indigenous debris. Carved from Styrofoam, a material inherently associated with waste, Humphries creates works that elevate objects that are usually discarded or overlooked, to monumental stature. During his time in St. Louis, he has studied the history of the city and engaged with its landscape to produce a body of work that deals with the social, economic and political issues specific to the area. Humphries currently lives and works in London. He received an MA in sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London.
Curator Katrina Hallowell earned her MA in Contemporary Art in 2005 from the Sotheby's Institute of Art, London. She was the 2006-2007 Romare Bearden Fellow at the Saint Louis Art Museum, and currently works for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.Other Links:
Great Escape/Brackin Press Release
Adam Humphries' website
David Blandy's website
Richard Galpin's website
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SEANN BRACKIN: TIME-SPACE TRAVEL DEVICE MADE FOR THE UNIFICATION OF HUMANITY
November 17 - December 22, 2007
Opening Reception Saturday evening, November 17, 7-10
Seann Brackin’s consciousness-altering Time-Space Travel Device Made for the Unification of Humanity encapsulates the viewer within its steel and wood structure, where videos, faceted mirrors, and speakers surround them in order to inspire “a euphoric awareness and mental expansion.” In discussing his work Brackin simultaneously refers to science-fiction ideals and ancient Aztec and Mayan imagery of “shaman spirit voyages in which the shaman is accompanied and often morphs mind and body…”
Brackin received his MFA Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California and his BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.
Other Links:
Great Escape/Brackin Press Release
brackinworld.com
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Craig Norton: 127 RACIST DRAWINGS/Barry Anderson: Treebeasties
October 13 - November 10, 2007
Opening Reception Saturday evening, October 13, 7-10PM
White Flag Projects is pleased to announce its next exhibitions, CRAIG NORTON: ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN RACIST DRAWINGS with BARRY ANDERSON: TREEBEASTIES in the Library. The exhibitions will open with a reception Saturday evening, October 13, from 7 to 10 PM, and continue through November 10. Craig Norton will discuss his work in a gallery talk Monday, October 29 at 7 PM.
Other Links:
Norton/Anderson Press Release
barryanderson.com
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TINYVICES curated by Tim Barber
September 8 - October 6, 2007
Opening reception Sat. Sept. 8, 7-10 PM
TINYVICES is curated by New York-based photographer and curator Tim Barber. Barber is the former photo-editor of VICE MAGAZINE, and is the founder of tinyvices.com, the internet phenomenon which debuted in 2005 as a showcase for new photography. TINYVICES features photography and drawings by over 50 artists, including Ryan McGinley, Richard Kern, Thatcher Keats, Jerry Hsu, Leigh Ledare and Boogie. Ryan McGinley was the youngest artist ever to be given a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a monograph of Richard Kern’s photographs was published in April by Taschen. Previous incarnations of Barber’s TINYVICES exhibition have been seen in London, Paris, Tokyo, Mexico City, and at Spencer Brownstone Gallery in New York.
Other Links:
TINYVICES press release
www.tinyvices.com
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Jaimie Warren: DON'T YOU FEEL BETTER in the Library
September 8 - October 6, 2007
Opening reception Sat. Sept. 8, 7-10 PM
JAIMIE WARREN: DON’T YOU FEEL BETTER features new photographs by Kansas City-based artist Jaimie Warren. Warren is known for her raw style of snapshot photography documenting her Mid-western community, combining striking color tones with an endearing sense of humor. Warren has exhibited her work in numerous exhibitions around the United States and internationally, including exhibitions in Berlin, London, Beijing, and Osaka, Japan.
Other Links:
Don't You Feel Better Press Release
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FAST TIMES AT WHITE FLAG PROJECTS
June 2 - July 1, 2007
MFA/BFA INVITATIONAL
For the final exhibition of our inaugural season we are organizing FAST TIMES AT WHITE FLAG PROJECTS, an exhibition of no more than 12 promising student artists chosen by a jury of local art professionals who have no academic affiliations. All student artists working toward their MFA or BFA degrees at St. Louis area schools are eligible, including: Fontbonne University, Jefferson College, Lindenwood University, Maryville University, McKendree College, St. Charles Community College, St. Louis Community Colleges at Florissant Valley, Forest Park, & Meramec, St. Louis University, Southern Illinois Universities at Carbondale & Edwardsville, University of Missouri St. Louis, Washington University, & Webster University.
Jurors for the exhibition are Paul Ha, Director of The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Katrina Hallowell, Bearden Fellow at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, Director and Curator at The Sheldon Galleries, and artist Erik Spehn. Judging will be conducted from no more than 6 JPEGS or printed images and nothing else, with all identifying information as to the names and schools of the artists withheld. Submissions will be accepted through March 21, with selected artists announced April 14, 2007. Submitted work may have been previously exhibited in school-sponsored and departmental exhibitions. FAST TIMES AT WHITE FLAG PROJECTS will open with a reception June 2, 2007 and continue through July 1, 2007.
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Submission Guidelines
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TRUCK: KC/STL EXCHANGE
April 14 - May 19, 2007
KANSAS CITY ARTISTS IN ST. LOUIS/ST. LOUIS ARTISTS IN KANSAS CITY
With the goal of opening an improved dialogue between the visual arts communities in Kansas City and St. Louis, White Flag Projects and Kansas City’s Urban Culture Project are cooperating to organize TRUCK: A Kansas City/St. Louis Exchange Exhibition, a pair of exhibitions to be mounted in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri. The artists chosen to represent each city in the other were arrived at through gallery visits, studio visits, and an open call to artists. The artists from St. Louis to be exhibited in Kansas City were selected by new media artist and Urban Culture Project Curatorial Advisory Board member Barry Anderson. The artists from Kansas City to be exhibited in St. Louis were selected by White Flag Projects Director Matthew Strauss. The exhibition of Kansas City artists in St. Louis will open April 14 at White Flag Projects, and the exhibition of St. Louis artists in Kansas City will open the following Friday, April 20 at Urban Culture Project’s brand new 2500 square foot La Esquina exhibition space.
The artists selected to represent St. Louis are: Brandon Anschultz (painting), Sarah Colby & Kim Humphries (installation/sculpture), Cameron Fuller (installation), Jamie Kreher (photographs), Ron Leax (sculpture), Megan & Murray McMillan (video), Daniel Raedeke (sculpture), Ernest Trova (prints/collage) and Ann Yeager (painting). Commenting on the selection process, curator Barry Anderson said, “When this project began, I had only a vague notion about the art scene in St. Louis. During the selection process I was able to see a large sampling of the diversity of media and ideas coming from St. Louis artists and I was thoroughly impressed. I hope that the final group of artists represents this variety and opens up a continuing dialogue with the Kansas City art community.”
The artists selected to represent Kansas City are: Callyann Casteel (sculpture), Archie Scott Gobber (sculpture), Anne Pearce (watercolors), DeAnna Skedel (sculpture/installation), Jesse Small (sculpture), Sean Ward (painting), and James Woodfill (sculpture/installation). “The energy in KC has a very different character than what we’ve got it St. Louis. Kansas City seems much younger and edgier in a lot of ways, and for the most part I was looking for things that I don’t see coming from St. Louis too often. I’m more interested in contrasting the scenes in the two cities than trying to arrive at a representative sampling…” said WFP Director Matthew Strauss.
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Megan & Murray McMillan/CHANNELBONE
April 6 - April 7, 2007
TWO DAYS ONLY
White Flag Projects is pleased to announce its fourth project series exhibition, Megan & Murray McMillan: CHANNELBONE, a video installation. The exhibition will open with a reception Friday evening, April 6, from 7-10 PM, and will be on view again Saturday April 7 from 12-5 PM.
CHANNELBONE is a structure of blue cloud-like forms suspended from the gallery’s ceiling in coiled plastic piping covered with a formed plastic skin. As the audience enters the gallery, they immediately encounter the huge installation, which almost completely fills the space. Ducking under the form, they see contained within the installation a projected 2-minute video of a staged surrealist performance. In the video, a curtain opens to reveal two chess players who inhabit the proscenium of an Eisenhower era auditorium. Behind them, a cast of tango dancers and veterans with spinal cord injuries dance through a grid blue balloons to an Argentine tango.
Megan and Murray McMillan have collaborated as video, installation and performance artists since 2002. They recently were artists-in-residence in Barcelona, Spain and are the beneficiary of several awards including grants from the Dallas Museum of Art and Purdue University. They recently represented the United States in the 2005 Bolivian Biennial in La Paz, Bolivia.
Megan McMillan completed graduate work in Art History and Critical Theory at California State University Long Beach. Murray McMillan has an MFA in Transmedia from The University of Texas at Austin. The McMillans currently live and work in St Louis, Missouri where Murray teaches at Webster University. They have been married since 1997.
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GRANDPA'S GHOST & JAMES FOTOPOULOS
April 1 - April 1, 2007
The Prairie Drone Refractions & Christabel
White Flag Projects is pleased to announce its third project series exhibition, GRANDPA’S GHOST: the prairie drone refractions, and JAMES FOTOPOULOS: christabel, Sunday evening, April 1, 2007 at 8PM.
White Flag Projects in association with Phosphorus Recordings is very excited to further expand the parameters of art gallery experience in St. Louis with this unique audio/visual immersion featuring the first St. Louis screening of James Fotopoulos' film Christabel (based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and previously seen only has part of his exhibit at the 2004 Whitney Biennial), followed by the first St. Louis performance in three years from Grandpa's Ghost (featuring Bill Emerson, Jack Petracek, and Eric Hall, with telephone contributions from Ben Hanna) including new video works from Fotopoulos created especially for this exhibition.
In The Prairie Drone Refractions, a performance/installation designed by Hall, Grandpa’s Ghost will perform four 15-minute movements. Each movement will be recorded and then played back during the following movements through a different pair of speakers. By the final movement, eight circularly arranged speakers will broadcast all four layers simultaneously, culminating in an over-dubbed, multi-channel, surround-sound work exploring texture, harmonics, polyrhythm, and the acoustic character of the space itself.
Grandpa’s Ghost was formed in 1995 by Ben Hanna and Bill Emerson and have released 7 albums, collaborated on 3 DVDs, and contributed to 8 compilations. While Emerson lives in Pocahontas, IL and Hanna currently lives in NYC, both record, either separately or together, as Grandpa's Ghost, and frequently utilize performers from across the country. In recent years Grandpa’s Ghost has involved different combinations of New York's Tobi Parks (The Star Death, Is That You?) St. Louis' Jack Petracek, Chicago’s Christopher Dee (The Conformists), and St. Louis-based Eric Hall. Grandpa’s Ghost were chosen by the readers of the St. Louis Riverfront Times as the "Best Eclectic/Uncategorizable Band,” for three straight years between 2001-2003, and The Village Voice has called them “…one of America’s best bands."
Chicago-based artist James Fotopoulos' works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Whitney Biennial 2004, Belgium Contour Biennial for Video Art 2005, The Museum of Modern Art, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The London Film Festival, The Sundance Film Festival, The Walker Art Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum.
Selected Reviews:
"...Fotopoulos's sparse, primitive work on 16-millimeter has given way to a green-screen-driven video-compositing style all his own... 'The thing with video is it's so easy that it allows you an almost surgical level of doing things that film never did,' Fotopoulos said. 'With digital, I can work like I draw - it's that free.'" -Paul Cullum, The New York Times
"...James Fotopoulos, the massively prolific Chicagoan who at the age of 29 possesses a filmography of features, shorts, installations and indescribables soon to number in the triple digits... an artist fully embracing digital imaging and photographic technologies in his recent work...he truly does use the technology to control every element himself and compares the process favorably with the freedom he experiences drawing." -Spencer Parsons, Emulsion Magazine
"James Fotopoulos may well be one of the few creative giants of early 21st century cinema." -Maximilian Le Cain, Film Ireland
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DEAN KESSMANN/plastic on paper
February 24 - March 31, 2007
Library Exhibition: BRANDON ANSCHULTZ/round
Dean Kessmann’s photographs of common plastic shopping bags are utterly transformative, replacing their subject’s vulgar ubiquity with a sense of grandeur and timelessness. Kessmann invests his imagery simultaneously with a sense of sculptural form, painterly manners and conceptual purity, the results of which force the viewer to reexamine their notions of both beauty and preciousness.
DEAN KESSMANN: Plastic on Paper is accompanied by a full-color exhibition catalog with an essay by Kristen Hileman, a Washington DC-based curator specializing in contemporary art, who currently works for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Dean Kessmann is an Assistant Professor of Photography at The George Washington University in Washington D.C. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, The Liberator, and The Washington Post. His most recent exhibitions include one-person shows at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Conner Contemporary Art in Washington D.C.
Known primarily as a painter and printmaker, Brandon Anschultz is inaugurating the White Flag library as an independent exhibition space with his small show of five sculptures entitled ROUND.
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Linnea Spransy with Zach Kleyn in the Library
January 12 - February 16, 2008
Opening Reception Sat. Jan. 12, 7-10 PM
White Flag Projects is pleased to announce its next exhibitions, LINNEA SPRANSY: ALL SYETEMS GO with ZACH KLEYN: MEDITATIONS ON LIMITATIONS/ONE-HOUR SCULPTURES in the Library. The two one-person exhibitions will open with a reception Saturday evening, January 12, from 7 to 10 PM, and continue through February 16, 2008.
LINNEA SPRANSY: ALL SYSTEMS GO
White Flag Projects is pleased to present All Systems Go, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Linnea Spransy. Spransy’s work is remarkable in its overt complexity, fastidious workmanship, and unlikely palette. A typical work begins with the artist devising a beautifully arbitrary system that reveals its almost biological magnificence as the artist follows her applied rules to their conclusion. All Systems Go will include paintings, drawings, and preparatory works which will allow viewers to fully consider the artist’s process. Linnea Spransy received her MFA in Painting from Yale in 2001. Her previous exhibitions include shows at Christine Wang Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, The Erdman Art Gallery at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, and Nordica Gallery in Kunming, China.
ZACH KLEYN: ONE-HOUR SCULPTURES/MEDITATIONS ON LIMITATIONS
Zach Kleyn‘s “One-Hour Sculptures” began as the artist’s studio exercise in using one hour of a day to re-imagine components of failed sculptures and other detritus into new works. The resulting objects were photographed and dismantled, their existence briefly noted and their various parts returned to stock of the artist’s materials. For his exhibition Meditations on Limitations/One-Hour Sculptures Kleyn has reconstituted several of these ephemeral works from their original components, focusing the viewer’s attention on the humor and improvisation inherent to his work. Zach Kleyn lives and works near Los Angeles. He received his BFA from Biola University in 2004.
Other Links:
Spransy/Kleyn Press Release
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Modular: New Art from Los Angeles
January 6 - February 10, 2007
Featuring Hollis Cooper, Danny Jauregui, Nicole van Beek, Louisa Van Leer, Kevin Wingate, and Bari Ziperstein
Opening Reception Saturday afternoon, January 6, 2-6PM
White Flag Projects is pleased to announce its third exhibition, modular: New Art from Los Angeles. The exhibition brings together six emerging artists living and working in one of the most important cities for art in the United States, and explores its radically fragmented visual culture that seems to simultaneously threaten its residents with the risks of the city spinning off into space or collapsing in on itself.
Each work in the exhibit is set in the complex structure of the city itself, Los Angeles being the constant factor influencing each artist’s work. modular is arranged as a kind of construction kit, assembling a structure of young LA artists working through the same social, visual, architectural and natural landscapes as individual artists producing work related more by shared experience than shared philosophies. Each of the artists embraces an IKEA-like philosophy of art-making: simple construction methods and inexpensive materials, all employed toward objects which are ideally modern and seemingly disposable. modular attempts to define a fragmented style which is manifest in the sprawling city of Los Angeles itself, synthesizing the languages of architecture, geometry, furniture design, and biology to express distinctly fractured perspectives and deceptively complex art.
Located in a spectacularly renovated industrial building in the burgeoning Grove neighborhood of St. Louis, White Flag Projects is a not-for-profit alternative art gallery established to improve the environment for contemporary visual arts in St. Louis by facilitating meaningful exhibitions of quality work by progressive local, national, and international artists.
Biographies:
Hollis Cooper received her Post Baccalaureate Certificate in 1998 from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 2006 she graduated with an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Her recent exhibitions include; Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, 2006; Supersonic, Barnsdall Art park, Los Angeles, 2006; Scale, Gallery 825, 2006 and Best Laid Plans, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, 2005.
Danny Jauregui received his BFA in 2002 from Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2005, he received his MFA from University of California – San Diego. His group exhibitions include Working on Paper: From Drawings to Ammo, Bank, Los Angeles, 2005. Vanilla Bomb, Class C Gallery, California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, 2004; Shift, Acuna Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, 2004; Summary, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, 2004 and Pasale, Estacion, Tijuana, 2004.
Nicole van Beek received her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York. Her group exhibitions include Spatiotemporal Transforms, College of Creative Studies Gallery, Santa Barbara, 2006; 159.333333333, Gallery 1434, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006.
Louisa Van Leer received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and in 2006 completed her MFA at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California. Her selected exhibitions include: Emergent: New Directions in Sustainable Art and Design, Rhode Island School of Design, 2005; and Sweet Substitute, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 2005.
Kevin Wingate received his BFA from Webster University, St. Louis. In 2003 he completed his MFA at University of California, San Diego. His selected exhibitions include Vanilla Bomb, Class C Gallery, California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, 2004; Supersonic, Art Center College of Design’s Wind Tunnel, 2004; and RS2, University of California, Irvine, 2003.
Bari Ziperstein received her BFA from Ohio University, Athens. In 2004 she received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California. Her selected group exhibitions include Sprawl, Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 2006; LA Art Girls, Anna Helwing Gallery, Culver City, California, 2005; and Pareidolia, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA, 2004.
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THE KIM HUMPHRIES NEW YEAR'S EVE HOT TUB PARTY
December 31 - January 1, 2007
An Evening of Art and Activity Organized By Kim Humphries
Sponsored by Henry Plumbing Supply and Jacuzzi Premium Showroom with support from Critical Mass for the Visual Arts
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Personal Logics
November 4 - December 16, 2006
Brandon Anschultz, Jerald Ieans, Eva Lundsager, Daniel Raedeke, Ernest Trova
White Flag Projects is pleased to announce its second exhibition will be a group show of leading St. Louis-based artists titled PERSONAL LOGICS: approaches to the abstract, featuring paintings by Brandon Anschultz, Jerald Ieans, Eva Lundsager, Daniel Raedeke, and Ernest Trova. PERSONAL LOGICS brings together five accomplished artists at different stages of their careers, allowing the viewer to appreciate and compare the varied styles, techniques, and intentions of each. PERSONAL LOGICS is conceived as a conversation between painters, through both a panel discussion between the artists, and by proxy through the paintings on view in the gallery. The exhibition will provide an opportunity for those familiar with the local art scene to investigate the surprising vitality of non-objective painting in a third-tier art city, while also serving as a first-rate induction for those who are unfamiliar. PERSONAL LOGICS is the only exhibition on the White Flag schedule comprised exclusively of art produced locally. The exhibition will open with a reception Saturday, November 4 from 2-6 PM, and the artists will participate in a panel discussion moderated by gallerist Jim Schmidt Thursday, December 7 at 7PM.
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Press Release
Ieans Website
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Live Action
October 27 - October 29, 2006
Performance Event
LIVE ACTION will include both scheduled and ongoing performances, indoors and out, assuring that there will be something different to see every hour. Highlights promise to include the St. Louis collective Nosey Parker's The Socratic Western which will involve the artists driving a living, breathing horse and schooner into the gallery as they analyze perceptions of the Old West, and Berkeley, California artist J. Michael Deane's I am not the devil. The devil is on the phone. Do you want me to tell him you're not here?, an interactive installation comprised of repeated telephone calls from Satan to gallery-goers. Jason Wallace Triefenbach, winner of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis' Great Rivers Biennial 2006, concludes the festivities with his latest work, "DREAM WARFARE: Storming the Gates of Eden".
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Bill Smith: Structures and Systems
September 16 - October 21, 2006
Opening reception Saturday, September 16, 2006 from 12-5 pm.
Lecture and demonstration Thursday, October 12 at 8 pm.
White Flag Projects is pleased to announce St. Louis' newest alternative art gallery will open September 16, 2006 with an exhibition by Illinois-based experimental sculptor Bill Smith. Relying on his training in both art and science, Smith's work synthesizes his acute observations of nature and an intensive approach to mechanical engineering, resulting in a fascinating group of kinetic art that exists somewhere between a highly sophisticated sculptural practice and elegant scientific experimentation.
Bill Smith's sculpture combines natural and manmade found objects, including rare-earth magnets, glass beads, and insect specimens, resulting in profound meditations on both the nature of manufacture and nature itself. One work features a vertical progression of elaborate hubs, its hypersensitive wire limbs in constant motion, at once regulated by internal magnetic fields and provoked into cascades of movement by the slightest shift in the air currents around it. Another work consists of found maple seeds threaded on a steel wire, forever rising and falling at the whim of a small floor mounted fan and the surrounding environment. The sound of the maple seed's rotations are amplified by a sensor at the wire's end and played over a loud speaker, the sound of the spinning seeds overlaid with a recording of poet Carl Sandburg reading 'The People Yes'.
One does not have to fully comprehend Smith's biomathematical foundations and resulting three-dimensional algorithms to appreciate his astounding perspective on nature and natural systems. For all of its overt complexity, Smith's work is in the end so beautiful because it is based in absolute truth. Smith recognizes that 'experiencing complexity is at the root of our perception of natural beauty,' and this remarkable body of work insists that the viewer attempt that same recognition.
Bill Smith's art is highly unusual, and it is the result of an unusual combination of training and talents: Smith holds a BS in Biology, an MFA in Sculpture and a technical degree in Diesel Mechanics. He has been exhibiting his work for 12 years throughout the U.S. and Canada, including shows at Art Chicago, The Chicago Cultural Center and Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica, California. His work will also be included in the 5th Biennale de Montreal in 2007.
Bill Smith/ Structures and Systems opens September 16, 2006 with a reception for the artist from 12-5 pm. The artist will discuss his work and host a demonstration of works not otherwise on view during the exhibition Thursday evening October 12 at 8 pm.Other Links:
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