Many artists use their artwork as a way to record their travels, both physical and temporal. All Roads Lead to Roam, a new exhibition series at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild, explores the ways visual artists represent and interpret their movements through space and time. All Roads Lead to Roam is inspired by the practice of derive (literally “drift” in French), a “technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances” developed by the Situationist artists and philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. Guy Debord wrote that “in a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.” Like a derive, the artwork in All Roads Lead to Roam will lead viewers to think about how they interact with their surroundings.
- Drift: A collaborative juried exhibition between the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and Art Saint Louis. The works in Drift emphasize movement through space and time and our relationship to the environment we inhabit. The opening reception for Drift at Art Saint Louis is Saturday, June 25th, 6pm to 8pm; the St. Louis Artists’ Guild’s reception is Sunday, June 26th, 1pm to 3pm. Juried by art critic and educator Ivy Cooper.
- Cache: An invitational exhibition featuring four artists exploring themes of time, space and movement. Kim Kordonowy will be exhibiting a series of paintings relating to her childhood memories of growing up in Japan. Eden Harris will be exhibiting a series of cut paper pieces evoking the change of the seasons. Amy Thompson will be showing works on paper illustrating systems for charting space. Gwyn Wahlmann’s installation of parachutes evokes feelings of human frailty and vulnerability.
- Connected by Process: A dual exhibition of work by Elizabeth Conn and Marlene DiFiori Locke. Conn and Locke’s artwork are connected both by their interest in a multilayered process of creating and by their themes of “controlling the uncontrollable,” such as the wind, junk mail, and romance. By making sculptures and paintings out of events that seem to happen randomly, these two artists are ordering their world into a safer, concrete, and more controlled environment.
- Solo Gallery: Paintings by Jeremy Rabus.