The Luminary and The Partnership for Downtown are pleased to present the 3rd annual Post Performance Series, a series of free art installations and performances at the Old Post Office Plaza in Downtown St. Louis. The Post Performances will pair innovative visual artists and musicians to create site-specific, one-time performances that are free and open [...]
Whole City: St. Louis organized by Works Progress The Luminary Center for the Arts Temporary Gallery at 2644 Cherokee Street, St. Louis 63118 May 4 – May 25, 2013 Opening Reception on May 4th from 7-9pm Part of the How to Build a World That Won’t Fall Apart Exhibition Series Whole City is a month-long project by [...]
A modest occupation curated by Abigail Satinsky/threewalls The Luminary Center for the Arts Temporary Gallery at 2644 Cherokee Street, St. Louis 63118 March 15 – April 12, 2013 Opening Reception on March 15th from 7-10pm Part of the How to Build a World That Won’t Fall Apart Exhibition Series Economics, which Lord Keynes had hoped [...]
Social Security, a group exhibition in collaboration with Cosign Projects, Los Caminos, Pig Slop, Proper Gallery and PSTL Gallery November 30th, 2012 – February 1st, 2013 Opening Reception on November 30th from 7-10pm at a temporary exhibition space at 2644 Cherokee Street Social Security is a constellation of 5 ‘gallery kits’ individually curated by area alternative [...]
How to Build a World That Won’t Fall Apart, part 1 October 19th, 2012 – November 10th, 2012 Opening Reception on October 19th from 7-10pm at a temporary exhibition space at 2644 Cherokee Street “For me, the fundamental question is to explore the possibility of maintaining spaces of play. To discover how to produce forms [...]
FORM 2012 We are proud to announce the third annual FORM Contemporary Design Show on September 28th and 29th. The annual furniture, functional object and architecture show has quickly developed into one of the central independent design events in the nation, promoting contemporary design in an exciting, accessible format. FORM 2012 will expand [...]
How to Build a World That Won’t Fall Apart Exhibition Series October 2012 – June 2013 The idea of emancipation implies…that there are always several spaces in a space, several ways of occupying it, and each time the trick is knowing what sort of capacities one is setting in motion, what sort of world [...]
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 [...]
