Gallery 210

Lauren Greenfield: Thin
January 21-March 20

In “Thin”, internationally noted photographer Lauren Greenfield, documented the lives of patients at the Renfrew Center (a forty-bed residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders) in Coconut Grove, Florida. Her work confronts the intensely intimate and disturbing secrets of women with anorexia and bulimia. These illnesses often originate in the distortions and artifice of popular culture, and in the experience of individual girls and women with abuse, psychological stress, and trauma. The exhibition presents a clear and compelling look at this pervasive cultural problem through large-scale portraits, documentary photographs; art and journals; interviews; video and narrative texts. This exhibition was organized and traveled by the Dallas Women’s Museum.

www.laurengreenfield.com

Rumor of True Things
Paul Bush
January 21-March 20
Video

The Rumor Of True Things is constructed entirely from such moving image ephemera, including computer games, weapons testing, production lines, monitoring, and marriage agency tapes. Most of the moving images produced for science, industry, commerce, and medicine are seen only by specialized audiences, and are then discarded soon after they are made. The Rumor Of True Things is an anthropological portrait of a technologically based society obsessed with imaging itself

Art of the Book
Journals Then and Now
February 11-May 8

Gallery 210 is proud to present the exhibition The Art of the Book: Journals Then and Now. Organized by UM-St. Louis Professor in Art and Art History Marian Amies this program is the third in the “Art of the Book” exhibitions. The Art of the Book is an international traveling exhibition of artist book journals, diaries, letters presented in a variety of formats covering a period of over 500 years. It travels to universities at Bristol and Winchester. Research Fellows Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden (The University of the West of England, Bristol) and Linda Newington (Head of Special Collections, Winchester School of Art Library, University of Southampton) have co-curated the exhibition with Marian Amies. The exhibition will also include works from the Special Collections at Washington University, the St. Louis Mercantile Library, St. Louis Public Library and UM Columbia are participating in the exhibition.

This exhibition features An 84 page full color catalogue of the exhibition will be available at the opening reception. $20 donated to The Art of the Book
Scholarship fund supporting UM-St. Louis BFA students’ overseas book arts studies will entitle the donor to a free exhibition catalogue. Travel journals created by students supported by The Art of the Book Scholarship fund, who traveled to study book arts in Senegal, West Africa (2005) and to London (2008) are included in the exhibition.

Parental Advisory
Student Art Exhibition
April 1-April 24

Parental Advisory is annual exhibition of work by BFA candidates from Art and Art History Program at UM-St. Louis.

Worst Case Scenario 2003
John Smith
April 1-May 29

John Smith’s “Worst Case Scenario” looks down onto a busy Viennese intersection and a corner bakery. Constructed from hundreds of still images, with sinister undertones it presents situations in a stilted motion. . Through this technique artist makes the viewer aware of our intrinsic capacity for creating continuity, and fragments of narrative, from potentially unconnected events.

Portfolio:
Central Visual & Performing
Arts High School
May 7-May 29

The annual exhibition of work by graduating students from St. Louis’ magnet school for the arts features a cross-section of materials and media.