Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

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Great Rivers Biennial 2012

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) and Gateway Foundation are pleased to present the fifth edition of Great Rivers Biennial. Opening on Friday, May 11, 2012, this exhibition demonstrates how artists based in the St. Louis area dynamically engage with the issues, stylistic tendencies, and techniques that define the contemporary art and culture of our time. The Great Rivers Biennial 2012 winners are David Johnson, Asma Kazmi, and Mel Trad, who have developed individual projects in photography, multimedia installation, and sculpture, respectively.

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Cryptic at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

Cryptic: The Use of Allegory in Contemporary Art, with a Master Class from Goya
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
May 20 – August 14, 2011
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition called Cryptic: The Use of Allegory in Contemporary Art, with a Master Class from Goya. This exhibition will feature the work of six contemporary artists – Folkert de Jong, Hiraki Sawa, Allison Schulnik, Dana Schutz, Javier Tellez, and Erika Wanenmacher – paired with works by Spanish master Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. Organized by CAM and curated by Santa Fe‐based independent curator Laura Steward, the exhibition will run from May 20 through August 14, 2011, and be accompanied by a CAM‐produced publication and series of diverse public programs.

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Manon de Boer at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

Manon de Boer: Between Perception and Sensation
Saint Louis Art Museum
January 21 – May 1, 2011
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents the first major exhibition in the U.S. of the work of acclaimed Dutch, Brussels-based artist Manon de Boer.
Manon de Boer (b. 1966, Kodaikanal, India) has crafted a unique and influential cinematic language that for over a decade has been defined by narratives of time, memory, and the relationship between sound and image. Central to her work is a keen focus on the temporal dimensions of portraiture, as she depicts friends, writers, dancers, composers, and musicians on film to capture the nature of memory and the passage of time. Alongside a documentarian strain that threads through her work, De Boer has also reconceived the structures of sound and musical composition to explore how they transform cinematic perception.

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Richard Aldrich at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

Richard Aldrich and the 19th Century French Painting
Saint Louis Art Museum
January 21 – May 1, 2011
Over the past decade, Richard Aldrich (b. 1975, Virginia) has assiduously orchestrated an eclectic body of work that reveals, in all its variation, a consistent sensibility: a keen appreciation for the complex disposition of painting and its potential to reveal the intimate and nuanced experiences that exist outside language. For his first solo museum exhibition, on view from January 21, 2011 through May 1, 2011, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents nearly twenty of the artist’s large-scale works, produced over the last several years that span abstraction, figuration, “object-paintings,” and text-based canvases.

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Elad Lassry: Sum of Limited Views (St. Louis, USA)

Elad Lassry: Sum of Limited Views
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
September 10, 2010 – January 2, 2011
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is pleased to present a new exhibition by Tel Avivborn, Los Angeles-based artist Elad Lassry. Featuring recent and new works, this exhibition will be the artist’s first major museum monograph in the United States.

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Richard Artschwager: Hair (St. Louis, USA)

Richard Artschwager: Hair
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
September 10, 2010 – January 2, 2011
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is proud to present an exhibition of works by the widely acclaimed American artist Richard Artschwager, in the first focused look at the artist’s exploration of rubberized horsehair.

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