Young Artists’ Showcase

February 28 - March 29, 2025

Opening Reception: February 28, 2025 | 5-7 pm

Award Announcements: February 28 | 6:15 pm

Young Artists’ Showcase is a juried, all-media exhibition of artwork created by high school students between 15 and 19 years old residing within 150 miles of the St. Louis Artists’ Guild.

Juror: Emmett Merrill 
Emmett Merrill (Born 1993, Kansas City, MO) received BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2015, and his MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2020. He manages the lithography studio at Grafik House, a fine art printmaking studio in downtown St. Louis, MO. His prints can be found in the public collections of the Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, as well as the Bradbury Art Museum. In the last two years, he has had solo exhibitions at Monaco USA, Buckham Gallery, Wonderfair and the Sheldon Arts Center. Since 2023, his work has been featured in 21 group and juried exhibitions across the country.

Juried High Schools

Belleville East High School, Belleville West High School, Brentwood High School, Clayton High School, Eureka High School, Incarnate Word Academy, John Burroughs School, Kirkwood High School, Ladue High School, Lafayette High School, Mehlville High School, MICDS, Nerinx Hall High School, Pacific High School, Parkway South High School, Parkway West High School, Principia School, Rosati-Kain Academy, St. John Vianney High School, St. Joseph's Academy, Timberland High School, Villa Duchesne High School, Westminster Christian Academy, Whitfield School, and Windsor High School.

Afro-Futurism: Black In All Spaces

February 28 - March 29, 2025

Hazelwood Southeast Middle School showcase their artwork inspired by Afro-Futurism.

Chaotic and Harmonious - Ladan Bahmani and Brian Patrick Franklin

April 18 - May 24, 2025

Curated Gallery

Opening Reception: April 18 | 6:30-8:30 pm

Chaotic and Harmonious, an exhibition of the collaborative work of Ladan Bahmani and Brian Patrick Franklin, contemplates the role of repetition in mass communication and its influence on the creation and destruction of meaning. Abstract text and short fiction work together to present a narrative leading through the entire mixed-media installation, as patterns and imagery borrowed from illuminated manuscripts in the artists’ Persian and Irish backgrounds instill the language with a weight of meaning, reverence, and authority intrinsic to those historical books. 

Over the course of each paragraph, recognizable letterforms rise and fall from fields of noise to create short phrases just barely decipherable. As the text oscillates between being legible and being illegible, words continually appear, break down, dissolve, and transform into new phrases. Each message stands alone in its ambiguous intent, while at the same time, connecting with the phrases in neighboring works. As viewers move from one composition to another, the phrases they uncover string together to form a unique poetry of their path and point toward the collective power in language and meaning. While the disruptions in each letterform disconnect us from the language that we are familiar with, the repeated structure of the text provides just enough clues to encourage the reader to decode each now-abstract phrase. 

‘living- language- land’ Inspired

April 18 - May 24, 2025

Ramp Gallery

Opening Reception: April 18 | 6:30-8:30 pm

SAQA KS-MO-OK Regional members (primary and secondary) were asked to select at least one word and create one or more art quilts inspired by that word based on their research and creative voice. Works were limited to a dimension combination of 12” and/or 24”, either 2D or 3D. Many people signed up for multiple words. In the end, we collected at least two art quilts per each of the 26 words, resulting in a total of 54 artworks. A total of 20 artists from 7 different states participated.

FREAK SHOW Mixed Media by William H. Thielen

June 13 - July 19, 2025

Curated Gallery

The issues behind my work are personal and autobiographical. I work with them because they are an attempt to find my own true identity in a divisive social structure. Abstraction allows me the greatest possibility of encapsulating the emotional intensity surrounding my subject matter.  Over the years I have come to realize that emotions can be best portrayed with the use of two simple things: color and materials.  These items can best describe the dilemmas that consume my life. Black and white must be there.  Even though the world is filled with shades of gray, society moves us toward the extremes.  You’re either for or against something; there is no room for compromise; you must be all-in; agree with me or you’re a traitor. Color is entirely about emotions.  They are something we all have, yet many people avoid them.  We are told not to trust them; they make you weak if you show or act on them.  The are truly an abstract concept which so many fear, which is why they hold so much power. The materials I use are by choice; they hold a second class position in the art world.  This helps to reinforce/elevate the overall statement of the piece. These works are about extremes and the tension that is created when opposites are thrust together.  The opposites may conflict, but need each other to define each other. These pieces are about looking for emotional truth in a post-modern world.

Making History - Threads of Time 1925-2025 presented by the Weaver’s Guild of St. Louis

June 13 - July 19, 2025

Juried Gallery

A Retrospective of invitational works of Weaver’s Guild members works from 1925-2025.

Trades of the Street by Jade Nguyẽn

June 13 - July 19, 2025

Ramp Gallery

Trades of the Street is a photographic series on traditional markets in Việt Nam that provides an intimate perspective on the robust regional productions and the highly interpersonal, communitarian commercial practices exist in many Southeast Asian communities. The series embraces the lyrical mode of photography that utilizes dynamic lines, motion blur, and skewed perspective to amplify the sense of movement, life, and ephemerality in public spaces. The photographs speak to not only the physical appearance of the market but also the experience of immersing oneself into the Vietnamese everyday life full of sounds, smells, textures, patterns, colors, movements, and energy.

Radiant Aberrance by Sarah Knight

August 1 - 30, 2025

Curated Gallery

Radiant Aberrance showcases three series of work from Knight. These works will explore how the boundaries of a “vessel” can be pushed in ceramics, containing the only intangible element of light using non-clay materials to create a sense of flux and transmutation. The title Radiant Aberrance refers to the intangible and tactile duality of being queer, as well as the play of non-ceramic materials in ceramic works. This body of work stems from my experiences with connecting trans and queer survival to ecological resilience, ceramic flux, and material transmutation. It will ask how material and light can allow visitors to engage with sensory representations of color, texture, material, and time and share a personal experience with the ways the LGBTQIA+ community persists, radiant, in both ephemeral and physical spaces.

A Quite Composition

August 1 - 30, 2025

Juried Gallery

This juried exhibition (emphasizes) balance, simplicity and a measured minimalistic approach in creating abstract art. A quiet composition might manifest itself through limited color palettes, simple shapes , and an emphasis on both the positive and negative spaces (surfaces). The spaces within the composition become as important as the content itself and encourages a deeper engagement from both artist and viewer, reflective of a visually meditative experience. Overall, a Quiet Composition is about finding beauty in simplicity, stillness and balance. Artists are encouraged to interpret A Quiet Composition broadly and in their own distinctive voice, using a variety of artistic mediums including: mixed media, painting, collage & photography.

Juror - Michael Shemchuk

Michael Shemchuk is a mixed media artist working from his studio in Albany CA. He received a BA degree in photography from the Academy of Art San Francisco in 1980. His creative journey began in1985-1998 as an applied arts craftsman. In 1998 Shem segued into his fine art practice when his child ,Chet came into the world. Shemchuk is a self taught artist in the mixed mediums of paper and paint, gypsum and paint and collage. His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions and shows since 1998 and most recently at Bryant Street Gallery Palo Alto CA. And SOPA gallery Kelowna BC Canada in 2024. His work is held in several private collections and the permanent collections of Triton Museum CA and Flint Art Museum MI.

Journeys of the Southwest by Scott Heinemeier

August 1 - 30, 2025

Ramp Gallery

Whether pushing paint across a canvas or framing a subject within my camera lens, my intention is to convey a mood, emotion, and context in a single image that sparks the viewer’s imagination. The genesis of Journeys of the Southwest collection came from the desire to flee life’s daily stress. The grand visuals and the enormity of the terrain changed my reference point in life. I would spend a decade, 2010 through 2020, flying and driving thousands of miles across Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Texas, documenting the region.

Solo Exhibition by Henry Moyerman

September 19 - October 18, 2025 

Curated Gallery

Moyerman explores the interplay of scale, perspective, and human emotion through meticulously crafted sculptures composed of thousands of LEGO bricks. This intricate, repetitive process involves iterative creation and relentless problem-solving, supported by his background as an engineer. Inspired by Donald Judd's use of simple forms and repetition, alongside Barbara Kruger's conceptual artistry, my work blends minimalism and postmodernism, incorporating diverse artistic themes.

STLAG Members Exhibition

September 19 - October 18, 2025 

Juried Gallery

The St. Louis Artists' Guild is proud to present our annual members exhibition, an all media and theme exhibit. 

Solo Exhibition by Jim Trotter

September 19 - October 18, 2025 

Ramp Gallery

Jim will present a collection of AI generated images of various themes and concepts exploring the advancement in technology to achieve interesting and various outcomes.