Take advantage of these warmer days and treat yourselves to a visit to all 4 Central West End galleries, which have held opening events over the past month. There is such a variety of work on view, including cowboys. abstracts, portraiture, and a contemporary take on Tarot Cards.
In and Of at Philip Slein Gallery:
There was a homecoming of sorts at Philip Slein Gallery as Eva Lundsager, a former St. Louisan, who has shown her work with the gallery for the past 15 years, and Cecily Carew brought their paintings to St. Louis from Boston.
Eva Lundsager’s Time and Distance 3, oil on canvas, 58 x 78 inches, photo courtesy of Julia Featheringill
Boston-based Lundsager, above, lived in St. Louis when her husband Paul Ha was director of CAM (2002-11).
The exhibition also includes paintings by Cecily Carew, who is photographed above with CWEnder Alison Ferring. This is the first time the Boston-based painters have exhibited together, though they are friends and, interestingly, Carew was once Lundsager’s student.
Carew’s Bridging, acrylic on yupo, 44 x 62 inches, photographed by Julia Featheringill.
In an article in the Boston-based journal Misstropolis, the gallery’s curator Jim Schmidt, explained that In and Of presents two abstract painters, two generations, two diverse approaches to media, two moods, yet with such similarities that it seems as though each could have produced the other’s oeuvre had she have come from a different time and place or might have somehow emerged from the other’s body, mind, and soul.”
Gallerist Philip Slein, middle above.
Artist Joan Marie and her husband were dressed as colorfully as the paintings.
In and Of at Philip Slein Gallery, 4735 McPherson, open Thurs. – Sat. 11 to 4, will remain on view until March 27.
At Houska Gallery:
Kansas-city based artist Nick Erker, middle above, si exhibiting his paintings, Portraits of the In-Between.
Left: Erker’s Parade of Ambition, oil on panel, 24 x 18 inches. Right: Mistresses of Mayhem, oil on canvas, 76 x 48 inches.
Erker’s Night Rider, watercolor on panel, 36 x 36 x 1.5 inches.
Erker’s Leaving the Nest, oil on panel, 36 x 36 inches.
Houska Gallery, 4728 McPherson, Tues. – Sat. 11 to 4. Current exhibition will remain on view until March 29.
Jordan Scott Gaunce Into the Æther features acrylic on basswood panels, 24 x 24 inches.
Gaunce’s acrylic on basswood panels, 16 x 16 inches.
Also at Duane Reed, Alessandro Gallo exhibition The Fool’s Journey features the artist’s take on Tarot Cards, stoneware, 16.5 x 9.5 x 2 inches, examples of 3 of the 28 total pieces below.
Gallo’s You Can’t Always Get What You Want, stoneware and mixed media, 25 x 10 x 10 inches.
Duane Reed Gallery, 4729 McPherson, Tues. – Sat. 11 to 4. Current exhibition closes March 29.
Jeremy Booth’s Sweat & Blood and Brock DeBoer’s No Bull opened on Friday, February 7.
photo courtesy of Suzy Gorman
Brock’s In Sight, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches. The Kentucky-based artist says of his work: “I want to pay respect to the people who truly live that lifestyle and so if I can capture that in my piece of art, I think I’ve done my job.”
photo courtesy of Suzy Gorman
Booth photographed with his wife, Tabitha, and children between left, Move Along, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches, and right, Sweat and Blood, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 inches. 
photo courtesy of Suzy Gorman
From left, Square One’s gallerists Max Berman & Ted Collier, Jeremy Booth, Brock DeBoer, and Square One’s Tanner Steslow.
photo courtesy of Suzy Gorman
Peering in at Brock DeBoer and his exhibit of ceramic sculptures. From Square One’s website: “DeBoer draws influence from his midwestern upbringing combined with the ever-changing and vastly diverse landscape of Los Angeles and the rural landscape of Joshua Tree.”
photo courtesy of Suzy Gorman
DeBoer’s Pure Mohave, porcelain, glaze, luster & steel rod, 64 x 12 x 12 inches.
DeBoer’s Silver Belly, porcelain, glaze, accessories, 3 1/2 x 13 x 11 3/4 inches.
Square One Gallery, 4814 Washington Ave., Ste. 312 & 330, 9 to 5 Mon. through Fri, open on weekends by appt. Current exhibition closes next Friday, March 7.