Gallery Talk
All Ages / February 12 / 10:30 a.m. / Aronson Fine Arts Center / Free / RESERVATION REQUIRED
Join Laumeier on the opening day of our spring exhibition, Salutary Sculpture, for a discussion with the curators and exhibition artists Tom Condon, Hope Ginsburg, and James Sterling Pitt.
Please note that in accordance with the current St. Louis County Face Covering Order, all visitors ages 5 and older are required to wear a mask while inside the Aronson Fine Arts Center. Additionally, artist travel plans may change due to the pandemic.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
SALUTARY (adjective): “Producing a beneficial effect” or “promoting health”
Salutary Sculpture features a selection of eight artists who use sculpture, photography, video, drawings, and performance to explore art’s capacity as a therapeutic tool for adaptation, recovery, and rehabilitation. Many of the artists gathered came to their current work through a process of their own physical and/or psychic recovery. On view February 12 - May 15, 2022.
“Laumeier is in a unique position to help promote well-being through art and through nature. The artists assembled here address a range of personal experiences and research interests, and each artwork in the exhibition reveals the power of art as a therapeutic tool. We hope visitors will find inspiration in how these artists use their creativity as a way to heal the body and mind and as a process to work through individual—and sometimes societal—trauma and tackle adversity.” - Dana Turkovic, co-curator
Image features:
Tom Condon, Second Cousins Twice Removed, 2019. Chemigram on Fiber Paper. 20 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the artist, Richmond.
James Sterling Pitt, Untitled, 2021. Acrylic on ceramic and wood. Approximately 6.5 x 6 x4 inches. Courtesy of the artist, Eli Ridgway Gallery, Bozeman, MT, and Ratio3, San Francisco, CA.
Hope Ginsburg, Solo Land Dive: Dunkan Desert, 2015. Single channel video. 4 min 59 sec. Camera: Dylan Halpern, Sound: Joshua Quarles. Courtesy of the artist, Richmond.
