BRUNO DAVID GALLERY, St. Louis MO USA - William Conger, Michael Byron, Judy Child, Kelley Johnson, Bunny Burson - May 4 > June 17, 2017 @bdavidgallery

William Conger, Michael Byron, Judy Child, Kelley Johnson, Bunny Burson

BRUNO DAVID GALLERY

7513 Forsyth Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63105 USA

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May 4 > June 17, 2017

William Conger, This / That

In Gallery 1 , the gallery presents an exhibition titled “ This / That .” of recent paintings by W illiam Conge r . This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. In conjunction with the exhibition, Bruno David Gallery Publications will publish a catalogue of the artist’s work with an exhibition history and bibliography.
William Conger continues his lifelong investigation of formal non - representational abstraction (This) nuanced by the suggestion of illusionism to evoke an ambiguous welter of private and cultu ral memories, allusions, feelings, places and events (That).
Conger is a Chicago - based artist whose work has been ex hibited extensively in museums since 1958. Museum collections include Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East lansing, MI ; Mary & Leigh Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Jonson Collection, Albuquerque, NM; DePaul Uni versity Art Museum, Chicago, IL; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, The Univ ersity of Ge o rgia, GA ; Tarble Museum, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston IL; Madsion Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Loyola University Art Museum, Chicago, IL. He is professor emeritus of art and theory and practice at Northwestern University.
Conger earned a B . F . A . from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N W in 1960 and a M . F . A . from University of Chicago in 1966 .

Bunny Burson, And Still I Rise

In the Window on Forsyth space , t he gallery prese nts an installation titled “ And Still I Rise ” by Bunny Burson . This is artist’s fourth so lo exhibition with the gallery.
Bunny Burson will create an installation of swirling shards of the actual confetti, which had been loaded into air cannons and were to have fallen from the glass cei ling at the J avits Center had Hillary Clinton become President on November 8, 2016.
This exhibition can be seen 24/7 from Forsyth Boulevard an d will be on view through August 12 , 2017.
Her recently completed limited edition artist book, Hidden in Plain Sight , is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art/Frances Mulhall Achilles Library , Princeton University/Firestone Library, Smith College/Neilson Library, The Library of Congress, The St. Louis Art Museum, Washington University's Olin Libr ary, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, TheTemple Israel Museum, The Memphis Brooks Museum and the Perez Art Museum Miami.
Bunny Burson , born in Memphis, TN. , received a B.A. in French from Tulane University, which included a year at the Sorbonne in Paris. S he earned a B.F.A. from the Memphis College of Art and an M.F.A. from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis . Her work has been exhibited nationally and interna tionally, including in New York City , Memphis, Nashv ill e and Leipzig, Germany. A wards include an artist residency at the Cité Internat ionale des Arts in Paris and the Washington University School of Art Award for Distinction in 2013. She lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.

Michael Byron, Framed Abstractions 2005-2012

In Gallery 3 , the gallery presents an exhibition titled “ Framed Abstractions 2005 - 2012 ” by Michael Byron . This is the artist’ second solo exhibition with the gallery. The paintings, which have never been exhibited in St. Louis, are inspired by the organic geometry of the borders present in Indian miniatures. The artist has taken this decorative embellishment as a primary compositional element that operates at the crossroads of the geometric and the gestural. The results are both formally rigorous and lyrica lly poetic . In conjunction with the exhibition, Bruno David Gallery Publications will publish a catalogue of the artist’s work with an exhibition history and bibliography.
Michael Byron’s work is included in the museum collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art St. Louis; the St. Louis Art Museum; the Tamayo Museum, Mexico City; and the Museum Boymans - Van B euningen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, among others.
Byron was born in Rhode Island and received his M.F.A. from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 1981. His inclusion in the Museum of Modern Art’s An International Survey of Recent Painting and S culpture in 1984 marked the beginning of his international career. After participating in the 1989 Whitney Biennial, he moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he lived and worked for five years. While in Amsterdam, he participated in group and solo exh ibitions there and in Germany, France, Sweden and Spain. Four publications focusing on his work have been published and since his return to the United States in 1994, and his work has been exhibited in 22 solo exhibitions, in five two - person shows and in 5 2 group exhibitions in the United States and Europe, eight of which were at museums. He lives and works in Saint Louis, Missouri and is a professor of art at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Judy Child, Revelations

In Gallery 2 , the gallery presents an exhibition titled “ Revelations ” by Judy Child . This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. In conjunction with the exhibition, Bruno David Gallery Publications will publish a catalogue of the artist’s work with an exhibition history and bibliography.
As a painter, Judy Child, has always been fascinated by how versatile paint can be. This new series of paintings explores that versatility. She left behind brushes, palette kniv es and, most importantly, color. By stripping away color and narrative, she focuses on the natural beauty of serendipitous and complex configurations of the paint.
The physical act of pouring and manipulating the paint plus the effects of gravity and the drying process determine the outcome of her paintings. In these new paintings, she searches, explores and anticipates something she want s to see but has not seen before. Each day she goes to her studio excited to see what her process reveals. The unpredictable journey of the paint creates the fractures and informs the natural and dynamic surfaces.
Judy Child lives and works in St. Louis and has shown her work locally, regionally and nationally. She received her B.S. from Colby Sawyer College and attended Boston University. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for th e Arts individual artist grant.