Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
Negentropic Landscape By Leslie Song
Curated Gallery
July 31 - August 29, 2026
Opening Reception: July 31 | 6:30-8 pm
Artist Talk: July 31 | 6-6:30 pm
Negentropic Landscape is a series of mixed media works that is inspired by concepts found in entropy and negentropy, using them as guides to explore movement, balance, and order. Song oscillates between meticulous planning and intuitive placement in each piece which allows for unpredictability in the final form, echoing the natural tendency of entropy to bring a measure of disorder in the process.
In her practice, she has largely been working with the Korean color system, obangsaek, as an additional layer to explore balance throughout this series. The five colors of obangsaek – blue, red, yellow, white, and black – are rooted in yin/yang philosophy as well as a symbolic representation of harmony and balance. Each piece reflects her journey for balance and invites the viewer to explore their relationship with order and disorder in their lives.
MindApps – Insights Within By Clayvon Wesley
Ramp Gallery
July 31 - August 29, 2026
Opening Reception: July 31 | 6:30-8 pm
Artist Talk: July 31 | 6-6:30 pm
MindApps - Insights Within is a series that codifies the visual language of an interior monologue on reflection, integration, and aging. Where the cracked panes symbolize life’s hurts and traumas, healed and unhealed, and blank spaces, things willingly or unwillingly forgotten. Then, among those micro spaces are what Leonardo da Vinci calls “miracles of error,” the mental mistakes that lead to discovery and creation. While seen as atypical of his previous work, the series is heavily influenced by travels to Senegal, Egypt, and South Africa, where Wesley studied the Ndebele artwork of Dr. Esther Mahlangu.
The canvas flat board houses the MindApp's circuitry, firing synapses, consciously and subconsciously, and walking the viewer through micro-spaces of confusion, memory, reflection, and resolution into a broader narrative of understanding and commonality between people. Each micro painting in each square is, in essence, a new beginning. This movement is slow and deliberate. As a Futuristic Surrealist, he is interested in developing artwork as pathways to traverse the universe in search of his individual place and purposes.
We discover ourselves in many ways as we evolve from imperfection to perfection. We discover our humanity and our ability to connect with our past, present, and—hopefully—a promising future of humanism. This spiritual connectivity to the divine cosmology in which we live is what Wesley, as an artist, is expressing.
Order and Chaos
Juried Gallery
July 31 - August 29, 2026
Opening Reception: July 31 | 6:30-8 pm
Order and Chaos explores the tension between structure and spontaneity within abstract art. In abstraction, order may appear as symmetry, logic, or restraint, while chaos erupts as intuition, fragmentation, and unpredictability. Yet neither state exists alone. This exhibition invites viewers to consider how balance is negotiated and how beauty can arise from instability.
Juror: Ethan Meyer
Ethan Meyer (born 1990) is a painter and mixed media / fiber sculptor. He graduated with his BA in Studio Art from Webster University, St. Louis in 2013. He has worked for Duane Reed Gallery since 2015; and has been in the role of Gallery Director since 2020. His work, both in painting and sculpture, involves networks of intricately connected, overlapping, and morphing shapes and patterns, reflecting the complex and ever-changing nature of one’s own consciousness. Meyer’s work may be found in collections across the US as well as Canada, England, Germany, and New Zealand.
Juried Artists:
Bill Abendroth, Damon Andrew, Angie Antonakis, Hailey Baker, Matt Ballou, Jane Barrow, Dawn Benson, Eldon Benz, Canyon Bowden, Yvonne Nagy Brazel, Paul Burkhardt, Andrew Chalfen, Mark Clark, Stephen Da Lay, Miguel de Aguero, Gabe Drueke, Alice Floros, Gaye Gambell-Peterson, John Goessmann, Terry Jackson, Gina Lee Robbins, Leo Luttrull, Dina Perlasca, Sarah Rangel, Megan Rieke, Tate Skinner, Hannah Smith, Michelle Smith, Susan Sontag, Monique Stauder, Bit Thompson, John Urso.
Lost in Transcreation: An inquiry into belonging with Ria Unson and Hope Ainsworth
Curated Gallery
September 4 - October 10, 2026
Opening Reception: September 4 | 6:30-8 pm
Artist Talk: September 4 | 6-6:30 pm
Through a “call and response” process, two multidisciplinary artists create a collection of work based on a series of prompts around the themes of identity and perception and how these concepts shape their lived experiences as Filipina-Americans. Through 2D and 3D work with paint, glue, found objects, and textiles, Hope and Ria explore what it means to be translated, mediated, or just be confusing. What kind of material remains when two women engage in an excavation of third culture? How does their ongoing conversation mirror a broader one as it relates to meaningful connection across cultural collision?
River Life By Rita Chu
Ramp Gallery
September 4 - October 10, 2026
Opening Reception: September 4 | 6:30-8 pm
Artist Talk: September 4 | 6-6:30 pm
River Life explores the Missouri, Mississippi, and Current Rivers through flow, perception, and place. Created while paddling these waterways, the photographs begin as quiet encounters with shifting light, weather, water, and the built landscape. Over time, these moments become outward reflections on my own inner landscape.
The river reveals both tenderness and tension. Sunrise, fog, wind, and sand speak to impermanence, uncertainty, and renewal, while towboats, locks, and dams trace the enduring relationship between people, industry, and the natural world. Moving between the visible and the unseen, River Life invites viewers to consider the river as both a physical place and a space where observation, reflection, and change unfold.
St. Louis Artists’ Guild Members Exhibition
Juried Gallery
September 4 - October 10, 2026
Deadline to enter: August 1, 2026 at Midnight