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Located on the first floor of the Cultural Resource Center, The Gallery is committed to exhibiting the work of local artists and fostering opportunities for curators living in the St. Louis region. By special invitation, guest curators compose group exhibitions, each featuring works that explore a specific discourse. RAC accepts proposals for exhibitions on a rolling basis. Please click here to view our gallery policy.
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Gallery hours:
Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday , Noon - 5:00 p.m.
Current Exhibit
Music from the heART
From the Thirteen Squared
Friday, May 11 - Saturday, June 23, 2012
Opening Reception
Friday, May 11 l 5:30 to 7:30 PM
There is no gallery talk for this exhibition.
"The Songs She Played; The Ones She Never Did" by Jane Isenberg
Curator: Thirteen Squared
Artists: Cynthia Berg
Elizabeth Concannon
Susan Dietz-Schmidt
M.J. Goerke
Jane Isenberg
Ellen Klamon
Ruth Kolker
Nancy Kurten
Emily Long
Marcy Saphian
Ida Steinberg
Harriet Thomas
Kay Wood
With a background in math and printmaking, it's no wonder that Jeff Sippel, an artist in the printmaking exhibition "If a Print is Shown, Will Someone See It?" at The Gallery at the Regional Arts Commission (RAC), views printmaking in terms of solving problems. "There aren't solutions to every problem," he acknowledges, "but I always enjoy a good challenge."
With regard to art, Sippel enjoys figuring out which elements (colors, objects, or composition) will be most important in his final prints. His work combines balance, illusion, and the evocative quality of abstraction.
Like Sippel, Stephen Da Lay, curator of the exhibition, is also drawn to mathematics. He is interested in how numbers make and predict patterns relating to symmetry. For the past five years, he has been creating a series of three-dimensional polyhedrons with printed images on their surfaces.
This exhibition includes two other printmakers, Bob Hartzell and Rudy Zapf. Hartzell's itinerant life led him from northern Missouri to Chicago and most recently to St. Louis. He recently organized the "Lights along the Cherokee" project that corresponded with the SGC International Conference, the largest print organization in North America, held in St. Louis in March 2011. A graduate of RAC's Community Arts Training Institute, Hartzell has been involved with Art Saint Louis, Artica, CAMP, the Rock and Roll Craft Show, and Medusa's Craft Menagerie.
Zapf is a printmaking and mixed media artist who has taught in the St. Louis area for the last 20 years at such organizations as the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Center of Creative Arts (COCA), Laumeier Sculpture Park, and St. Louis Community College-Forest Park. She uses symbols in her work to tell intensely personal stories and address themes of loss, hope, childhood memories, and the rediscovery of love.
"If a Print is Shown, Will Someone See It?" encompasses many printing methods including serigraphy, intaglio, woodcut, and waterless lithography. The title of the show asks the viewer to engage in the process of scrutinizing the art and to question the artists' points of view.
The exhibition opens at RAC on Friday, January 20 from 5:30 - 7:30pm and is free and open to the public. It continues through March 3.
More informationPast Exhibits
Exploring the Figure: Photographs by Jerry Levy and Stan Strembicki
November 18, 2011 - January 7, 2012
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