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Gallery 210 showcases iconic modern furniture
As director of design for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, George Nelson created some of the most well-recognized modern furniture of the 20th century. His work will be featured in a new exhibit at UMSL's Gallery 210.
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The man who helped usher in the age of the office cubicle is among the designers whose work will be on display at the University of Missouri–St. Louis’ Gallery 210. From Feb. 23 to April 7, the gallery will present “Design from Herman Miller.” The exhibit will feature selected works from designers who created for the Herman Miller furniture company. They range from mid-century iconographic designers George Nelson and Charles Eames to contemporary designers Yves Béhar and Studio 7.5, based in Berlin.
Aside from helping design the cubicle, Nelson is considered one of the founders of American Modernism. He designed much of the 20th century’s most iconic modernist furniture, including the Omni Wall Unit. Eames, a St. Louis native, is best known for the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, which has been in continuous production since its introduction.
Many people are probably already familiar with the work of Studio 7.5 but just don’t realize it. This group of designers, including Claudia Plikat, Roland Zwick, Carola Zwick, and Burkhard Schmitz, is responsible for the highly successful Mirra and Setu office chairs.
Yves Béhar designed the laptop design for One Laptop per Child, the world’s first $100 laptop. The founder of fuseproject, a San Francisco based design agency, he also created the Leaf Personal Light for Herman Miller.
An opening reception for “Design from Herman Miller” will be from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 23. The exhibition is made possible with support of Herman Miller and in part with grants from the Missouri Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Admission is free and open to the public.
Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday or by appointment. For directions and more info, visit the Gallery 210 website.
The 427 Gallery debuts in Ferguson this Friday
Today it's just a real estate office, but on Friday evening, Ferguson's Pearce Neikirk & Partners will be transformed into a new art gallery.
There are dozens of reasons why I love my new job as a real estate agent, but probably the main one is getting to work with my broker, Pearce Neikirk. After 28 years in the business, he recently opened his own office in the heart of downtown Ferguson’s Citywalk district. And from day one, he started dreaming of creative uses for the space, with a focus on how it could best benefit the community.
With the closing of the NAC gallery up the street, and two big ol’ walls just sitting there empty, some kind of art venture seemed like the best idea. So when I started digging up all kinds of interesting treasures from my own collection, the answer was pretty obvious… Let’s open an art gallery!
Fast forward a month or so and our new endeavor is finally ready for its big debut. Starting this Friday, the simply-named “427 Gallery” (@ 427 S. Florissant Road) will begin hosting regular exhibits, with a new show every 4-6 weeks.
Our first show is called “Five Room House” and it features beautifully rendered architectural drawings from 1940, created by the late Delmar Loveall of Florissant. Mr. Loveall was an Air Force pilot and barbershop chorus singer who taught shop class in the Special School District for many years. I discovered his amazingly detailed drawings at an estate sale sometime around 2004, and I’m thrilled to finally be able to share them.
You can see Mr. Loveall’s work during various weekend hours throughout February, or just make it easy and come to the opening gala this Friday. Why not grab a drink at Cork or Ferguson Brewing and then walk on over…
“Five Room House” opens February 3 with a reception from 7-9pm. All are welcome! The 427 Gallery is located at 427 S. Florissant Road in the Streetcar Lofts.
International Poster Exhibition debuts at UMSL
During the Chicago International Poster Biennial, opening this week at UMSL's Gallery FAB, 92 award-winning posters from 21 countries will make their very first traveling debut. This poster is called “C’est L’été,” or "This is Summertime."
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For the first time in its history, the Chicago International Poster Biennial show will be on display outside of Chicago.
Gallery FAB on the campus of the University of Missouri–St. Louis is serving as host for the Second Chicago International Poster Biennial Finalists Exhibition. The exhibit will run through April 12 and feature 92 of the 175 finalist posters created by award-winning international poster artists from 21 countries around the world.
Jennifer McKnight, associate professor of art at UMSL, organized this special exhibition with Lance Rutter, director of the Chicago International Poster Biennial.
“If you came out last year to see the CIPB Juror’s show, you are going to love this collection of winning posters from the 2010 Chicago Poster Biennial Finalists show even more,” McKnight said.
Gallery FAB hosted the CIPB Juror’s show in fall of 2011.
The exhibit’s opening reception will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19. Lance Rutter, CIPB director, will attend the reception, and CIPB2 posters by acclaimed New York graphic artist Paula Scher and CIPB2 catalogues will be available for purchase. CIPB2 was the Second Chicago International Poster Biennial, held in 2010.
Gallery FAB is at 201 Fine Arts Building at Rosedale Drive and Florissant Road, 63121. All exhibits at the gallery are free and open to the public. Regular hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call 314-516-6967 or visit umsl.edu/~art
Gallery 210 showcases African-American artists
"Doll" by Nina Buxenbaum is one of more than 50 pieces displayed in Gallery 210's ongoing exhibit featuring African-American artists from the South.
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Open through October 1st, the current Gallery 210 exhibit at the University of Missouri–St. Louis will examine the modern and contemporary responses of African American artists to the U.S. South. It’s called “Southern Journeys: African American Artists of the South.”
African American artists have long pondered their connection to the South. They might have encountered the region as a literal space “below the Mason-Dixon line” or have experienced as a “place” of mind dreams, memories, spirit history or culture. These cultural “griots” tell multilayered stories in the form of drawings, paintings, sculptures, prints and mixed-media pieces.
The 54 artists in the exhibit have differing geographical ties to the South. Some were born there and have remained. Others have moved beyond its borders. Many who have never lived there have experienced it in one form or another, such as through vacations or while on business.
Whatever the experience, responses to the South still define these artists’ works. Some of the artists featured in the exhibit will include Radcliffe Baileu, Richmond Barthe, Romare Bearden, Beverly Buchanan, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence and Faith Ringold.
The Stella Jones Gallery in New Orleans organized “Southern Journeys.” It is a program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Art Alliance; the Missouri Arts Council; and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Center for the Humanities at UMSL and the Regional Arts Commission provided additional support.
Gallery 210 is on UMSL’s North Campus, 1 University Blvd. in St. Louis County (63121). Regular gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. More information: http://gallery210.umsl.edu, 314-516-5976
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