Piece of Paper Show Guide

Eldon Benz - Balance Jeff Sippel - Florals Leandra Spangler - Row,Row,Row

Jody Burke Baltzer, Andres Bardales, Adriana Barrios, Brent Becker, Stephanie Beisel, Samantha Burns, Keith Buswell, Emily Chase, Joe Chesla, Erin Cross, Amanda Durig, Nancy Exarhu, Vincent Fazio, Amy Firestone Rosen, Rick Holst, Spencer Hughes, Gracie Kennedy, Dong Kyu Kim, Ruth Kolker, Lisa Lofgren, Kate MacNeil, Mary Martin, Melanie Mowinski, Kyle Nobles, Larry Page, Alex Paradowski, Mary Jane Parker, Jody Paulson, Johnny Plastini, Erica Popp, Rosalyn Richards, Nichole Riley, Dennis L. Ringering, Elizabeth Rose, Allana Ross, Alix Anne Shaw, Betty Shew, Donna Stallard, Jacquelyn Strycker, Natalie Turner-Jones, Christiana Updegraff, Rhonda Urdang, Julie VonDerVellen, Julianne Wise, Danielle Wyckoff, Aly Ytterberg

Curated Gallery

Juried Gallery

Eldon Benz presents Balanced an exhibition of sculptures and photography that combine his art with his computer knowledge and skills. He describes his art as "Fun - Whimsy - Process."

Eldon has exhibited his art across Southern Illinois, including at the Biennial Southern Illinois at Cedarhurst. Eldon also has art on display at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The St. Louis Artists’ Guild proudly presents Piece of Paper. Paper is a versatile material that is at the core of contemporary art. It has unlimited surfaces, strengths, flexibilities, and accepts a multitude of medium.

Juror’s Statement

Jeff Sippel presents Florals a recent body of mixed media pieces and monotypes. Jeff is Professor of Printmaking, joined the faculty of the University of St. Louis, Missouri in 1998. Sippel is represented by Gruen Galleries in Chicago and his work is in numerous public and corporate collections on four continents, including the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France, and the Smithsonian National Museum of Art, Washington DC.

Leandra Spangler presents ROW, ROW, ROW an installation of 781 paper rowboats hung in columns from the ceiling by MoFA artist Leandra Spangler. Constructed from layers of paper, each boat is unique and individually named. It is a work in progress.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve as juror for the St. Louis Artists’ Guild’s exhibit entitled Piece of Paper. I have enjoyed seeing the works of so many artists, and thank everyone who entered this artistic forum.

It is important for artists to test their works in this way, and to see their art in context to others. It was a challenge to fit together works while considering the parameters of the interesting theme of works on/of/ about paper. Now, we have a truly interesting and beautiful selection of works to compare and consider in this light. I could literally “play with paper” to shape this show, and selected pieces which both honor the material and examine how paper is considered beyond being a neutral carrier of image. Many reflect the empty spaces where paper becomes part of the spatial construct inside the image, or the unusual margins offered. The materialness of paper lends itself to various manipulations. Collage, sewing, folding, and created structures are used. Artists are inherently attracted to the idea of paper’s fragility, it’s translucency, and it’s absorbent nature to capture stains, inks, and wax. They bring ideas that allude to and reverse paper’s tenuous state and the intent of paper, treating it as durable, sculptural, or presenting paper in out-of-context ways. Others work to emphasize this ephemeral nature of paper through its ubiquitous repetitive use and the quantities of sheets generated, reminding us of our own relationship to paper which we daily throw away as part of the detritus of living. Finally, viewers are charged to see the interrelationships between works by different artists where something flows between, as there are commonalities in the air and in our time. The versatility of paper as a medium to affect content surely is the message here.

Seeing and speculating on the way and why is the task of the viewers.

Karen Kunc UNL Cather Professor of Art

Jody Burke Baltzer Paper Mix, 2018 Recycled paper, metal, plastic and concrete 5" x 12" $444 St. Louis, Missouri eclecticforms.com

Andres Bardales Fania III triptych, 2017 mixed media 24" x 24" x 7.5" $3,600 Miami, Florida andresbardales.com

Adriana Barrios Handle With Care, 2018 handmade abaca sand paper and video projection 50" x 12" x 10" 11min video NFS Madison, Wisconsin adrianabarrios.weebly.com

Brent Becker Conundrum, 2018 bleeding art tissue, rice papers, fabric dyes, and conte crayons on copperplate paper 15” x 10” $400 Foristell, Missouri

Nancy Exarhu Drawing 2, 2018 drawing on paper 34" x 63" $800 Clayton, Missouri Samantha Burns Promise you'll stay, 2016 framed monoprint (french paper, ink, rice paper) 25" x 18.5" $500 Tampa, Florida

Emily Chase Yet Still, Hope, 2018 mulberry paper, acrylic paint, Swarovski crystals, buttons, crepe paper, watercolor, wire 28" x 24" x 12" $1,300 Tulsa, Oklahoma

Erin Cross Vision, 2017 pen and ink on drawing paper/pen, ink and paint marker on frosted mylar 24" x 18" $600 Lincoln, Nebraska erinmcross.com

emilychaseart.com

Stephanie Beisel Universal Particle/Particular Universe, 2017 waxed screen print 18" x 14" $350 Indianapolis, Indiana

Keith Buswell S? ?S, 2018 intaglio on copper plate paper with dai chiri 19" x 16" $200 Lincoln, Nebraska

Joe Chesla Untitled, 2017 iron, graphite,encaustic on paper 50" x 40" $4500 St. Louis, Missouri joechesla.com

exarhu.com, studioescargot.net

Vincent Fazio Art Hill West 1, 2017 Empire Bristol Board 13" x 16" $350 St. Louis, Missouri

Amanda Durig Existing in Space Together, 2018 etching on BFK paper with Kozo chine colle 22" x 16" $200 Lincoln, Nebraska

Amy Firestone Rosen Mod Squad, 2018 monoprints on paper 34" x 46" $900 / $300 each St.Louis, Missouri

Rick Holst Potters Circles: Effervescence, 2018 paper, ink, acrylic sheets 10" x 10" $450 Edmonds, Washington

Gracie Kennedy Fret, 2018 Paper and fabric 54" x 30" $500 Denton, Texas

Ruth Kolker Waterborne, 2018 mixed-media painting 27" x 21" $700 St. Louis, Missouri ruthkolker.com

paperlaine.com

Kate MacNeil Untitled I, 2018 etching 74" x 50" $1,000 Buffalo, New York knmacneil.com

r_holst@comcast.net

Melanie Mowinski The 50 Card Project, 2017 letterpress and other relief techniques on paper variable 3”x 5 “– 7”x 11” $500 Cheshire, Massachusetts melaniemowinski.com

Larry Page In-Ter-Lude No.1, 2018 bent folded and manipulated paper and graphite 36" x 24" x 2" $1500 Ballwin, Missouri m.facebook.com/LarryPage-Mixed-Media-Artist684577181600052/

Spencer Hughes Iconoclast Workbook, 2018 paper workbook on acrylic on collage 36" x 30" $100 Bethalto, Illinois facebook.com/saddhug6/

Dong Kyu Kim American Stitches, 2017 handmade needlework with paper receipts on Swiffer 55" x 36" NFS Fort Lee, New Jersey dongkyu-kim.com

Lisa Lofgren Suddenly Born into Color (threshold collage), 2018 abaca, mixed Asian papers, etching, relief, gum transfer, color pencil 48" x 84" x 28" $3,500 Bloomington, Illinois

Mary Martin Symphonic Sunset, 2016 acrylic, Japanese lace paper, tissue paper, and watercolor paper 16.75" x 29.25" $735 St. Louis, Missouri marymartinartstudio.com

Kyle Nobles 'You have to be okay', 2018 graphite and gesso on paper, mounted on panel 28.5" x 23.5" NFS Blaine, Minnesota

Alex Paradowski Packages, 2017 hand made paper and crochet thread 30" x 30" $1,500 St. Louis, Missouri

lisalofgren.blogspot.com

Mary Jane Parker Cat's Claw, 2016 cut paper 40" x 50" $1,900 New Orleans, Louisiana maryjaneparkerart.com

Johnny Plastini Trypophobia, 2017 organic handmade dyes on handmade recycled papers 57" x 22" NFS Fort Collins, Colorado

Rosalyn Richards Small Segments, 2017 painted paper, monoprint, collage 19.5" x 26" $850 Lewisburg, Pennsylvania rosalynrichards.com

Betty Shew Transition II, 2018 cast paper and thread 6.5" x 23" $225 St. Louis, Missouri Dennis L. Ringering Gesture, 2018 mixed media on paper 29" x 28" $2,500 Collinsville, Illinois ringeringstudios.com

johnnyplastini.carbonmade. com/

Jody Paulson Hennepin Avenue, 2018 inked paper collage on Cradled Board 18" x 24" $650 Carbondale, Illinois jodypaulsonart.com

Erica Popp 42 Feathers, 2016 Cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown prints on paper, linen tape, archival matboard 30" x 40" $1400 Clayton, Missouri ericapopp.com

Nichole Riley Perceived Memories, 2016 wax, paper, wood, ink varies: 84" x 60" x 60" $2,700 Kalamazoo, Michigan

Elizabeth Rose Form, 2017 intaglio, relief, Cyanotype, monotype 30" x 22" $2,200 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania erosegallery.com

papershew.com

Allana Ross Untitled (silhouettes, 1969), 2016 screenprint on mulberry papers, wood, bookbinding thread 36" x 25" $300 St. Louis, Missouri allanaross.com

Alix Anne Shaw Not Your Bride, 2016 paper dress including pockets for lit incense cones Dimensions variable $300 Chicago, Illinois anneshaw.org

Donna Stallard Cellular Abacas, 2017 handmade papers, monofilament line, blood viles, wooden frame 36” x 18” x 2” $350 Clarksville, Indiana dstallardstudio.com

Jacquelyn Strycker Folded Grid (02), 2018 RISO print on drawing paper 17’ x 11’ $200 Brooklyn, New York

Christiana Updegraff Phoneme, 2018 paper, copper, sterling silver, pearls, glass 7” x 5.75” x 2.25” $950 Gardena, California

Julie VonDerVellen Ataraxia, 2017 Hanji Paper, watercolor, embroidery thread 21” x 11.5” $1500 Milwaukee, Wisconsin julievondervellen.com

christianaupdegraff.com

daniellewyckoff.com

thestrycker.com

Natalie Turner-Jones The Five Stages of Reconciliation, 2017 Eco-printed Japanese Bush Honeysuckle, Linen, Original Text, Deadfall twigs 58” x 48” x 3” $450 OFallon, Missouri zenurbancoyote.com

Danielle Wyckoff Recitations: Neruda from 'Leaning Into the Afternoon', 2018 graphite on paper paper size: 1 15” x 11” $300 Grand Rapids, Michigan

Rhonda Urdang Sarah Boone Delivering Silver Plates to Josephine Smith 1823, 2017 Femmage with hand-cut found paper, historical photographs, doily 14” x 11” $1,400 Flagstaff, Arizona FlagstaffFeministArtProject. com

Julianne Wise It's Ok, 2018 7 color screenprint on paper 17” x 11” $120 St. Louis, Missouri

Aly Ytterberg Summer in Colorado, 2018 Paper 8”x10” $70 Ballwin, Missouri ytterbergstudio.com

jwiseart.com