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Tasha Nicolé Burton: When the Womb Is Tender
Tasha Nicolé Burton (b. 1981) is an emerging multidisciplinary artist living in St. Louis, MO. Burton is a self-taught photographer and visual artist who uses various mediums to interrogate, examine, and re-imagine social issues like race, mobility, access, and equality. Her work is human-centered, providing space for new discoveries that can lead society to work better together. She uses images and tangible objects to reveal how we utilize self-awareness to unlearn or course-correct our social interactions. Through dedicated research and a study of the human mind, her work prioritizes an ease of understanding and aims to provide a viewer with an alternate perspective. By looking deeper, her practice's goal is to activate change by telling a story that challenges what we have been conditioned to accept. She hopes to generate an appreciation and respect for another person’s struggles, successes, livelihood, agency, and spirit. She has exhibited work with Flood Plain, The Kranzberg Arts Foundation, The Griot Museum of Black History, and University of MO - St. Louis. She is the recipient of The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Grant, Shift Consulting LLC Mini-grant, and the Black Women Photographers x Nikon USA Grant.
From the artist:
"Tenderness holds two capabilities: one that expresses pain when touched and one that expresses nurturance in response to that pain. These two instincts are formulated and built to alert the consciousness that something is hurt and requires care. In the context of When the Womb Is Tender, we see the progression of this instinct as it evolves. Uterine fibroids can exist for some time in the womb before showing any signs or symptoms. These signs can be a heavier-than-usual cycle or worsening period cramps. For some, these non-cancerous tumors cause no issues and calcify in the uterus. For many, it causes unbearable pain, fatigue, and depression. You may know some of these people and yet not know that they go to lengths to disguise their condition. These people tend to their bodies seemingly around the clock to ease and subdue their discomfort. This journey comes with intense feelings of embarrassment and shame. The transition from symptoms to bulging and then to scars, as evidenced by surgical procedures, is very challenging and can often feel like navigating a choppy tide in a canoe with only one ore. Then there is the work of proactiveness, the constant worry, and the bias within a failing healthcare system that lies in the scope of being a black or brown person in America. There is post-operative depression, body dysmorphia, and in many cases, coping with the new reality of never bearing children. While everyone’s journey is different, they share a familial relationship with tenderness in the womb. This relationship traverses between the sufferer (self) and carer (also self) for months and sometimes years. Deeply consider the vulnerability before you and the incredible strength required to be intimate and share this tendering with you. With this, I offer a phenomenon for the tender womb that we say in unison: "I joyfully receive the mending of my body. And so it is."
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Sacred (R)evolution: Lainie Love Dalby June 17-July 7, 2023
The images that make up Sacred (R)evolution are universal, tapping into the nature of the cosmos and all that is, relating to our intimate connectedness with others and all of life, and reminding us of who we are and to whom we belong. Each gesture, symbol, image and element weaves together healing through deep meaning, allowing us to access the depths of our own being (both individually and collectively) and to mine the beauty and wisdom of the soul.
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Dail Chambers: Figure/Ground
February 10 - April 7, 2023
Dail Chambers (she/her) is a post medium, migratory artist. She is a spiritual worker and ethnographic researcher. Her practice consists of a legacy of social art, photography, and conceptual art. In the past two years she has exhibited at the World Chess Hall of Fame with the Radiant Gambit, Keith Haring exhibition, the August Wilson Center and Mattress Factory as a member of Sibyls Shrine, an arts collective and residency program, co- facilitated the Fannie Lou Hamer House, an artist retreat, has been awarded as an Arts Matters Fellow and lives a daily practice of transformation.
With deep ties to her ancestral roots and traditions, she works through all mediums, including social art. In this body of work she explores her own ancestral connection to North Saint Louis, giving life to a part of society that is oftentimes overlooked. She uses remnants of vacant homes, media and spiritual matter to create experience, sculpture and a documentation of land. As a sustainable environmentalist, found objects are at the forefront of her visual language.
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Neeka Allsup's
SECRET PLANET
Neeka Allsup was born in the back of a toy store to two rogue scientologists. She was the mascot in highschool and received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an oil painter and muralist, working with ideas from self analysis, "after a vivid dream, I will look up what the symbols could represent because I am interested in how the subconscious shows us metaphors about our life through symbolism.
From the artist:
"There are stories of what it is like on the secret planet from people who have been there. But these people can exaggerate and make things up from their own imaginations!
The Reality of the secret planet can only be experienced by you.
Someone might tell you that you will love the secret planet, because they loved it. Someone who hated it might tell you that you will hate it. They could influence your thoughts and opinions with their thoughts and opinions! You could talk to someone who knows you and the secret planet well and can give you an unbiased view- that would be as close as you could get without actually going there. Or you can see the secret planet for yourself, and let your own experience inform what you think."
November 11, 2022 - January 3, 2023
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SANCTUM: A solo exhibition by Jen Wohlner
Jen Wohlner was born in Illinois in 1988. She received her BFA from the University of Southern California in 2010 and will receive her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2024. Wohlner has exhibited in a solo exhibition at the Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Wohlner has been included in group exhibitions at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, CA and the Angad Arts Hotel in St. Louis, MO. Jen Wohlner lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.
Sanctum is Jen Wohlner’s first solo show in St. Louis. Sanctum is an exhibition of pen and colored pencil drawings as well as ceramic sculptures. Sanctum addresses the repetitive architecture and planning of modern residential communities and the isolated individuals who inhabit them.
The drawings demonstrate a harsh endurance and obsession via precise pen lines and meticulously filled, almost machine-like, blocks of colored pencil. The drawings’ subject matter — homes, neighborhoods, the sun, mazes, religious messaging — invites viewers to reflect on the private, protective or exclusionary spaces in their domestic communities and neighborhoods. The ceramic sculptures are figurative and fluid. Wohlner’s bright, glossy glazes create a nostalgia for vintage and mid-century vases popular in domestic decor. And her restrained use of human characteristics in the sexualized figures produce confusion about the sculptures’ gender and anatomy. Sanctum is a reflection on the unknowability and darkness of domestic, private, individual spaces.