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Mesh Magazine Mesh 2015-16 Mesh Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Magazine 2015–16 Front cover Inside front cover Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Barnaby Furnas: The Last Flood, installation Washington University in St. Louis: ACCUMULUS, view (detail), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, installation view (detail), Contemporary Art January 16–April 11, 2015. 02 Board of Directors Museum St. Louis, June 5–September 13, 2015. Letter from the Director Back cover Nomad Studio: Green Varnish, installation view (detail), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, May 23–September 27, 2015. The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) presents, supports, About and celebrates the art of our time. It is the premier museum in St. Louis dedicated to contemporary art. Focused on a dynamic array of changing exhibitions, CAM provides a thought-provoking program that reflects and contributes to the global cultural landscape. Through Mesh CAM Contents the diverse perspectives offered in its exhibitions, public programs, and educational initiatives, CAM actively engages a range of audiences New at CAM to challenge their perceptions. It is a site for discovery, a gathering place in which to experience and enjoy contemporary visual culture. 04 Innovation through Design 08 New & Noteworthy The Contemporary Art Museum Romanian Cultural Institute of Support for CAM’s education initiatives St. Louis is a non-profit, tax-exempt New York; Joan and Mitch Markow; and exhibition-related programs is organization. Exhibitions, programs, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V.; provided by Wells Fargo Advisors; The Year Ahead 10 Open Studios STL & Art:314 and general operations are privately Salon 94, New York; Mondriaan Fund; Middle Fund; Crawford Taylor Foundation; funded through contributions from Sally and John Van Doren; David Monsanto Fund; The Saigh Foundation; 14 Exhibitions 12 Visitor Grams generous individuals, corporations, Zwirner Gallery, New York; German individual donors in honor of Cossette public funders, and foundations. Culture Center at the University of Karanik; The Dana Brown Charitable 16 A Kind of Distance: Missouri–St. Louis; On Stellar Rays, Trust, U.S. Bank, Trustee; Employees General operating support is provided New York; Petzel Gallery, New York; Community Fund of Boeing St. Louis; Hurvin Anderson by the Regional Arts Commission; Grieder Contemporary, Zürich; Goethe- Nestlé Purina PetCare Company; Terry Whitaker Foundation; Emerson; Institut Chicago; and Jessica D. Weiss; Elissa and Paul Cahn; Pulitzer 21 Model Woman: Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; Silverman Gallery, San Francisco. Arts Foundation in conjunction with Trio Foundation of St. Louis; Gateway Marfa Dialogues / St. Louis; Dorte and Lisa Yuskavage Foundation; Arts and Education Council; Special thanks to the architectural Jim Probstein; and Neiman Marcus. It's Our Region Fund of the Regional digital fabrication design studio of 24 Great Rivers Biennial Business Council; Missouri Cultural the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Special thanks to Spectrum Reach; KDXH Trust Fund; the Board of Directors; Arts at Washington University in 88.1; The Advertisers Printing Company; 27 Scorched Earth: and Members of the Contemporary Art St. Louis; Ameringer McEnery Yohe Husbandmen; St. Louis American; U.S. Museum St. Louis. Gallery, New York; Carl Hammer Gallery, Art Company, Inc.; Hackett Security; Mark Bradford Year in Review Chicago; Galerie Barbara Weiss, Schlafly Beer; Urban Chestnut Brewing Co.; Support for CAM's exhibition program Berlin; Ivan Gallery, Bucharest; Jack Culinary Institute of St. Louis at Hickey 29 Interpretive Programs 36 2014–15 Highlights is provided by Jeanne and Rex A. Shainman Gallery, New York; College; Feast Magazine; Jordan Gaunce; Sinquefield. Support for specific Kansas City Art Institute; Madeleine STL Parent; and St. Louis Public Radio. exhibition programs is provided by Molyneaux; Pulitzer Arts Foundation; 31 Youth & Family 42 Annual Giving 2014–15 the Regional Arts Commission; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Design: Practise Programs Zach Feuer Gallery, New York; Peres D.C.; Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Print: The Advertisers Printing Company 44 Annual Report 2014–15 Projects, Berlin; Eve Steele and Steve Turner, Los Angeles; Tanya Photography: Jarred Gastreich, 33 Member Programs Peter Gelles; Marianne Boesky Gallery, Bonakdar Gallery, New York; and Tyler David Johnson, and Carly Ann Hilo New York; Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles; Fine Arts, St. Louis. Advertising: Lynn Pollak 34 Gala & Auction 46 CAM People 60 Visitor & Member Information Andrew Srenco, David Gantt Donald Suggs Chair Nancy Kranzberg Kate Warne Alexis M. Cossé, Katherine Lazar Pat Whitaker Board , Vice Chair Sandy Lehrer Jason Wilson ) Phyllis Langsdorf, Judith W. Levy Jackie Yoon detail ( Secretary Susan McCollum of Directors Matthew Fischer, Dennis McGrath Emeritus Treasurer Dean H. Mutter Barbara Z. Cook Rebecca Nelson Charles Cook 2015–16 , installation view , installation view Bradley Bailey David S. Obedin Eleanor W. Dewald Allen Barber Dorte Probstein Terrance Good Susan Barrett Emily Rauh Pulitzer Joan Goodson Mark Botterman Jacob W. Reby Marylen Mann Sarah Carlson Julian Schuster Isabelle Montupet Sima Familiant Rex A. Sinquefield Donna Moog Nomad Studio: Green Varnish Studio: Green Nomad 27, 2015. 23–September May Art Museum St. Louis, Contemporary 4 John Ferring Michael Staenberg Ann Ruwitch 5 Mesh 2015–16 Mesh Mesh 2013–14 Mesh Letter from the Director New at CAM Dear Friends, The seventh iteration of our Great Rivers Biennial offers an extraordinary snapshot of artistic talent right here What a year it has been! The Museum has engaged in our backyard, as seen through the lens of some of the audiences in important ways: we’ve been a forum for most important artists and curators nationally. CAM’s dialogue for many different communities and we’ve partnership with Gateway Foundation remains one of our continued to reimagine our extraordinary home, expanding deepest and closest, and it is a point of great pride to be the ways in which art can experienced—from Pedro the stage upon which these new faces enter the art world. Reyes’s participatory clinic to Nomad Studio’s green This year we hope to see you often and that you installation in the courtyard. Now, with the advent stay awhile—visiting and revisiting the works on view, of our new café, we’re transforming the way our visitors— participating in incredible opportunities to speak many of whom are neighbors—spend time here. directly with artists, and engaging in the myriad programs The year ahead offers ever-more wonderful for people young and old. As a free museum, now more opportunities to entice and engage audiences with the than ever, CAM invites St. Louisans to take advantage of work of a number of luminaries. Hurvin Anderson and all that we have to offer. Mark Bradford push the boundaries of painting to examine identity, culture, and the most relevant social issues. Manipulating mediums like fiber and clay in ways that surprise and delight us, Sheila Hicks and Arlene Shechet encourage us to explore the depths of materiality. Lisa Melandri Executive Director 6 7 Mesh 2013–14 Mesh Mesh 2013–14 Mesh Innovation through Design Thanks to the generosity of our local community, two new extraordinary site-specific installations have Nomad Studio: Green Varnish, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, May 23–September 27, 2015. graced the exterior of the Museum. Accumulus, installation in progress. Accumulus, installation view. 8 9 New at CAM at New New at CAM at New Accumulus Nomad Studio: Green Varnish, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, May 23–September 27, 2015. Composed of thousands of translucent, interlocking wire and plastic panels, Accumulus glistens weightlessly above CAM’s front entrance. On view June 5 through Green September 13, 2015, this site-specific installation was created by graduate architecture students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. The project is the culmination of a semester-long design process by the university’s Varnish digital fabrication design studio. Tucked away within the entry cantilever, Accumulus Designed by New York-based Nomad Studio, Green Varnish is largely concealed from a distance. It is only when is the first major, transformational installation in CAM’s court- viewed from below that one can truly appreciate the yard, on view May 23 through September 27, 2015. This translucent shapes reflecting the changing sunlight, undulating yet modulated field of thousands of tiny succulents dappling the sidewalk with prismatic effects. fills the 45-by-50-foot space, re-imagining the interior With its delicate accumulation of small forms and , installation in progress. courtyard as a lush, growing sculpture. Made possible by textures, the cloud-like installation provides a light-filled a generous Innovation Fund grant from the Regional Arts contrast to the concrete exterior of the building. In this Commission, Green Varnish represents an entirely new type transitional space, the hand-assembled units ultimately Green Varnish Green of exhibition for CAM—one in which landscape architects form a luminous mass that is as much about welcome and are commissioned to create a living installation. curiosity as it is about optics and perception. Headed by William E. Roberts and Laura Santín, Nomad With the guidance of lecturers Jason Butz and Studio is known for their innovative approach to combining Lavender Tessmer, the installation
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