The Arts Happen Here
Arthur and Helen Baer Visual Arts Gallery
The Arthur and Helen Baer Visual Arts Gallery allows grantees and tenants the opportunity to increase their visibility in the community through use of this space. From established artists to students creating their work for the first time, this gallery space has become a central hub for artists and patrons alike.
Current Showcase
Centene Center for Arts and Education resident, St. Louis ArtWorks, is now featuring paintings by their Fall 2011 Apprentices in the Arthur and Helen Baer Visual Arts Gallery. "Wings of Pollinators" explores the importance of earth's pollinator in the lobby, and the second floor has paintings from the Common Ground group that reflect an exploration of Buddhist art and values.
The gallery is open 10:00 am - 4:00 pm weekdays and during special events. If you are interested in exhibiting your artwork, please contact Maria Straub.
Recent Exhibition
Dawson Morgan’s 2-D photography work features figurative abstract, using ceramic form as the muse. This interesting concept uses light and shadow to explore the curves within her work. Morgan’s photographic medium is an essential tool for supporting her submissions and marketing within the art world. In 2010 she submitted photographs to get her ceramic works into a show. The gallery director requested that the submission photographs themselves be included on their own merit in Morgan’s show, resulting in a body of photographic work that she focuses, literally on ceramic form.
“The passion in my work is evident through the technical care and artistic manipulation in developing sculptural clay form. How a piece interacts with light and our environment is an important factor, becoming a strong feature much like color or size. I often incorporate shadow as an element in the piece and sculpt with open space on my work table to build the
See previous exhibitions here.