Coinciding with Residency Retrospective, Something Happened, Luminary Resident Katherine McCullough opens the new site-specific installation Pools. Pools is a reflection on the fleeting temperament of the material world through the medium of paint. To me, this space is about stillness– devised both through it’s history as a meditation chapel, and the enveloping quiet of [...]
The Luminary Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the second installment of our residency retrospective exhibition, Something Happened, which opens on Friday, February 24th from 6-9PM. Something Happened will feature work created by our artists-in-residence throughout 2011 as a way to create a dialogue between our studio and exhibition programs and further the engagement of the [...]
On April 13th, Matthew Paul Isaacson will open Cherry Dance, a new site-specific installation consisting of hundreds of Maraschino Cherries suspended from a monofilament grid. The piece was conceptualized from the artist’s childhood experience of working and living on a 1,500 acre industrial fruit manufacturing farm in Northern Michigan. The primary crops were several varieties [...]
˚ Andrew James + Stephen Cartwright April 13th – May 11th Opening Reception on April 13th from 6-9pm On Friday, April 13th from 6-9pm, The Luminary presents ˚ (read as: “Degree”), a two person exhibition featuring Andrew James and Stephen Cartwright. Both James and Cartwright track and translate external measurements such as the [...]
On Friday, November 4th from 6-9pm, Brett Williams will open FeedBack, a new site-specific sound installation in the Installation Space that utilizes vocal microphones and an oscillating fan to create undulating feedback and percussive effects in the reverberant arched room. FeedBack is a self-replicating system that shifts over time as it filters the sound of the [...]
Recently Possible: Objects of the Future November 4th-December 2nd, 2011 Opening Reception from 6-9pm on Friday, November 4th Recently Possible: Objects of the Future, The Luminary’s final exhibition of the 2011 season, explores the concept of ‘new media’ from a literal perspective of technological development, innovative concepts and radical consumer products primarily drawn from the [...]
Photo by Jason Gray On Friday, September 9th, from 6pm-9pm Ann-Maree Walker will open Almost like being there in the Installation Space. The new site-specific installation, Almost like being there, is a series of small architectural interventions situated within the Luminary’s Installation Space- a former meditation chapel. The engagement between the viewer and the work [...]
FORMAT September 9th-October 21st Opening Reception from 6-9pm on Friday, September 9th with an artist talk by Paul B. Davis On September 9th, The Luminary opens its fall season with an exhibition exploring the malleability of material and experience emerging from online culture. FORMAT features some of the most prominent and engaging artists [...]
Now in its second year, The Luminary’s annual fundraiser, FORM Contemporary Design Show, will take place on August 12-13, 2011 at The Temtor Building in South St. Louis. FORM is presented by The Luminary as a forum for exceptional designers to showcase their work, connect with a community of other designers and sell directly to supporters. FORM [...]
On Saturday, July 30th, from 10am-4pm Gabriel Dawe will open Plexus no. 8 in the Installation Space. The new site-specific installation continues the artist’s exploration of thread and fibers as loaded materials implicating the complicated construction of gender and identity in his native Mexico. The Plexus series utilizes everyday sewing thread expanded from human to architectural [...]
Installation Space John Early: Terra Firma June 10th-July 22nd Opening Reception from 6-9pm on June 10th John Early’s new site-specific installation, Terra Firma, stems from a recent documentary chronicling the career of BMX rider Mat Hoffman, who has devoted much of the past twenty-five years to launching himself and his bike to unbelievable and unprecedented [...]
Analogue June 10th-July 22nd Opening Reception from 6-9pm on June 10th Analogue brings to the forefront the concept that contemporary culture is perceived through a discontinuous series of analogies rather than a linear narrative. Finding in the commercial landscape a language of representation and reference, the five artists in Analogue make use of common cultural [...]
INSTALLATION SPACE: CHARLES GICK April 8th-May 20th Charles Gick will present a new site-specific installation entitled, Three Clouds in Waiting in The Luminary Installation Space. Three Clouds places Gick’s paintings within a barren landscape created by a thick slab of dried mud, offering new resonances between painting, sculpture and the natural environment. Presented in the [...]
HOW TO DISAPPEAR April 8th-May 20th Opening Reception from 6-9pm on April 8th You want to go beyond making yourself disappear: You want to make it seem as if you never existed. -Seth Price, How to Disappear in America The Luminary Center for the Arts is pleased to present the international group exhibition How to [...]
On Friday, February 4th from 6-9pm, Lauren Frances Adams will open The Nymph’s Reply, a painting-based installation that combines Elizabethan decorative tropes and John White’s watercolors of native Algonquin Indians as a vehicle for exploring American post-colonialism. Finding inspiration in Sir Walter Raleigh’s pastoral poem of the same title, the installation is simultaneously visually seductive and chaotic, [...]
