Opening of new exhibition by Leslie Laskey and Jill Downen on September 6, 2013

Bruno David Gallery’s 8th Season starts with a solo exhibition by Leslie Laskey titled “Windows” and an exhibition by Jill Downen in the Front Room titled “Three-Dimensional Sketchbook.” The opening night is Friday, September 6 from 5 to 9 pm. The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is also having an opening and Grand Center has the First Fridays as well.
I Hope you can come and see art. Bruno

Leslie Laskey is an innovative artist whose work never fails to make an impact on how its viewers perceive things. His new and engaging creations often have people walking away seeing something through fresh eyes. Previously, his work S.E.N.T. Security Envelopes Now Tampered (exhibited in 2011) consisted of collaged envelope pieces and guided viewers to a new way of thinking about their mail. Windows, however, as its name implies, invites its viewers to peer through windows. Each individual piece is a stepping-stone to thinking about windows and the series will change the way you have come to know them, too.

Jill Downen’s new work offers a look into the intimate processes she employs in the studio to develop ideas and plan large scale installations. The art invites viewers to survey Downen’s work from a new and unexpected perspective. The project features a cabinet of drawers displaying models crafted from plaster, basswood, paper and gold leaf. The small scale of these sculptures explores a reversal of the experience that viewers generally have with Downen’s monumental installations. The inverted scale and assembly of the maquettes as miniature installations, each in its own drawer, result in a reconsideration of the forms in relationship to each other, the body and to Downen’s art making practice overall. Downen is currently part of a group exhibition titled Place is the Space curated by Dominic Molon at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. READ MORE