Past Virtual Exhibitions

New Perspectives in Drawing and Painting

A Virtual Exhibition

December 1 - 31, 2020

The St. Louis Artists’ Guild is proud to present artists working in drawing and painting techniques. Over the past 50 years, drawing has been elevated from a supporting role to a primary medium, ranking alongside painting as a central art form. Despite its long history, painting continues to evolve and excite, with new generations taking it in unexpected directions. A central pillar of artistic practice, painting also has an enduring appeal for collectors and still dominates the art market. This exhibition takes the conversation forward, showcasing artists working in drawing and painting media that are bringing contemporary topics, issues, and aesthetics to traditional practices.

Jurors Statement: Justin Henry Miller

It was a great honor and pleasure to jury the New Perspectives in Drawing and Painting virtual exhibition for the St Louis Artists Guild. I would like to thank Zackary Petot for organizing this exhibition as well as the participants for sharing their artwork. I was extremely impressed with the number of exceptional pieces submitted. Jurying the show down to around 60 works was a difficult task to say the least. When judging a show based in the traditions of drawing and painting, I am typically looking for a marriage of technique, creativity, and content. After several reviews of the entries, I began to realize that most entries successfully met this criteria,so I had to expand my basis for accepting work to also include ingenuity. As an educator, I often tell my students that definition of what a painting or drawing can be in 2020 is broad. Several of the works I accepted to this show utilized non-traditional materials or substrates for creating their work. I appreciated the merging of drawing and painting with sculptural, installation, digital, and performative vernaculars. The pieces I selected that relied on more traditional drawing and painting mediums, showed inventiveness with their imagery,compositions, and material application. In summation, I like to be surprised by the artwork I look at and see something I have never seen before. I feel that many of the pieces selected for this show successfully do just that. Congratulations to all the accepted artists! I hope the audience enjoys viewing this exhibition as much as I did jurying it.

Warmest Thanks

Justin Henry Miller, Painting Area Head & Gallery Coordinator

Department of Art and Design

Southeast Missouri State University

Participating Artists: Vanessa Adelman, Antonio Ainscough, John Armstrong, Sarah Arriagada, Michael Banning, Samantha Bares, Emily Bartolone, Chris Beaty, Grace Bonwich, Marilynne Bradley, Modris Braslins, Leora Brook, Linnie Brown, Owen Brown, Keith Buswell, Ann Dawkins, Jo Jasper Dean, Sara Drescher, Jessica Dunne, John Dyess, Tamara Eberle, Dina Fachin, Anne Feiza, Ana Fleming,Marta Jubany Fortino, Yee Lick Eric Fung, Haleigh Givens, John Hampshire, David Hannon, Hurieh Heravi, Hwahyun Kim, Katelynn Knick, Katherine Knight, Daria Lawson, Gena Loseto, Violet Luczak, Sarah Marjanovic, Stephen Mauldin, Kathryn Ann Miller, Therese Mulgrew, Danielle Muzina, Katie Neece, Marqusha Oliver, Nikki Painter, Andre Ramos-Woodard, Hannah Sanders, Whitney Sanford, Vera Scekic, Douglas Simes, Michelle Streiff, Susie Tenzer, William H. Thielen, Saman Wijesooriya, Chris Wubbena

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Art in Isolation

St. Louis Artists’ Guild is proud to host our first online exhibition Art in Isolation!

Art In Isolation features artists residing in the United States working in two-dimensional art.  Artists were asked to respond with work interpreting the title in their own way.

Jurors Candice Corgan and Taro Takizawa

Candice Malyn Corgan is an interdisciplinary artist from the Midwest. She was born in 1990, in Kenner, Louisiana but grew up in southern Missouri running around farms and watching the Simpsons, with little to no supervision. She received her BFA from Southeast Missouri State University (Cape Girardeau, Missouri), where she specialized in printmaking. This love of process led her to study at Tamarind Institute of Fine Art Lithography (Albuquerque, New Mexico), where she received certificates as a Tamarind Trained Printer and Tamarind Trained Master Printer. She received her MFA from Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2019 and currently is working in New York City as a studio assitant.

Taro Takizawa is an artist who focuses on printmaking, wall vinyl installations, drawings and 2D designs. Born in Japan, he has been making images connecting what he has experienced in Japan where he grew up and, in the U.S. since he moved here in 2002 and currently resides. His works contains both western and eastern aesthetics with appreciation of traditional printmaking processes and mark making. He is fascinated with blending the boundaries of contemporary studio practice and traditional processes, printmaking and installations, influenced by traditional Japanese patterns from textile designs, architecture and crafts. 

He received with his BFA with a printmaking emphasis from Central Michigan University in 2011, and MFA in printmaking from Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2017. Recent awards includes, Gamblin Emerging Artist Award, ArtPrize Artist Seed Grant from Frey Foundation, Awagami Paper Award from Awagami Factory, Living Arts of Tulsa Fellowship from Andy Warhol Foundation, and Saltonstall Fellowship. Takizawa has recently participated in Syracuse University Turner Semester in LA, Los Angeles, CA, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in Ithaca, NY, and Morgan Conservatory AIR in Cleveland OH. Currently he is a Visiting Assistant Professor at PrattMWP and an Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY.

Participating Artists:

Madeline Bartley, Zoe Beaudry, Eldon Benz, Robert Bolla, Jody Boyer, Kacey Cowdery, Francis Dayton, Tamara L. Eberle, Michael Faris, Shannon Ferguson, Amy Firestone-Rosen, Shelby Fleming, Brenda Gilliam, Tyler Griese, Rebecca Griffith, Sarah Kathryn Hix, Sean Hoisington, Lauren Howard, Chloe Irla, Izosceles, Raili Janses, Amber Koprin, Terry L. Landon, Alejandra Lopez, Jennifer Markowitz, Sheila Michael, Vlado Nedkov, Alex Paradowski, Marceline Saphian, Kate Shannon, Erika Shiba, Rossie Stearns, Susie Tenzer, Jake Welsh, Connor Young.

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