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Cultural Arts
Galleries/Exhibits
The public is invited to view new exhibits and meet the artists at receptions held each month at the Renaud Spirit Center.
Gallery hours: 5:15A to 10:00P Monday - Thursday; 5:15A - 9:00P on Friday; 7:00A - 7:00P on Saturday; and 10:00A to 5:00P on Sunday.
Current exhibit
Jami Schoenewies
Through August 31
Medium: photography
Jami Schoenewies’ realistic, thought-provoking compositions incorporate black birds, eggs, houses, blueprints, airplanes, thread, worms and dandelions as symbols.
For example, “The thread is a symbol for how we use hope…Sometimes hope can bind us, especially if it is the only thing left,” said Schoenewies. “The egg is the symbol for that most deepest struggle, whatever the viewer needs it to be.”
Birds and airplanes in particular “have profound meaning in my work,” she said. The birds – magpies – are posed in various stages, from complex thought to the split second before the “fight or flight” response. “These cunning and sometimes thieving birds have obvious advantages over their antagonists, the pitiful yet necessary worms,” she said.
The photographs in the exhibit were selected from her ongoing project to document the fate of the houses remaining in her old neighborhood, the former Carrolton subdivision in Bridgeton, MO. The houses were bought for the expansion of a runway at Lambert Airport. (The project is posted online at www.56housesleft.wordpress.com.)
Overall, her paintings, drawings and photos are metaphors for conflict, she says. “From tension to resolution, or surrender to overcoming, the works loosely illustrate the stages of interactions between warring factions.”
Upcoming exhibits
Keith Jennings
September 12 - October 26
Medium: painting
Keith Jennings teaches art at Rock Creek Elementary School in O’Fallon. As an artist, he works in both oil and mono prints, with works in the abstract that hint at landscape. His non-objective work has a strong focus on color and texture, bordering on the sculptural.
Often, his pieces are cut, pierced, or burned to achieve this effect. Jennings is also a frequent collaborator with fellow teacher and artist Diane Papageorge.