BRENT GREEN
(July 26 – August 10)

A Pennsylvanian with deep West Virginia ties, Brent Green makes films that are eccentric, delicate, anarchic, both melancholic and hopeful. Touching upon bygone traditions of American oral-histories and dark fables, Green creates handmade, stop-motion animated works from drawings, found props, and handcrafted characters. At the Contemporary, Green will premiere his newest film Gravity was Everywhere Back Then as a work-in-progress, for which he will create a life-size environment in the Front Room. In conjunction with his two-week exhibition, Green will also perform live, narrating his new film alongside a live band musical score.

General support for the Contemporary's exhibitions program is generously provided by the Whitaker Foundation; William E. Weiss Foundation; Regional Arts Commission; Arts and Education Council; Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; Nancy Reynolds and Dwyer Brown; and members of the Contemporary Art Musuem St. Louis.