Stephen Balkenthol
Traveling show at Forum for Contemporary Art
November 17, 2000 – January 6, 2001

“A woman stands on a narrow ledge. At her back are impossibly sheer, high walls. One step forward, the ledge falls off abruptly. She does not shrink away from the edge, or cry out, or jump off. She does not spread her arms and fly away.”
- Excerpt from essay by Charles Desmarais

Exhibition was organized by the Contemporary Arts Center in collaboration with the Forum for Contemporary Art – St. Louis and the David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University. Introductory essay by Charles Desmarais, 23 color illustrations and a recent chronology on the artist, softcover, 8 in. x 8 in.
Catalog available $12

Doug Ischar: User
Traveling show at Forum for Contemporary Art
19 November 1999 – 8 January 2000

“Ischar refers to Julia Kristeva and semiotics, and especially to her idea that a mood is a stage preceding language. According to Kristeva, poetry is the place where language originates and vanishes. In this oscillating motion poetry not only reveals the boundary of the self, but the self as boundary.”
- Excerpt from essay contributed by Gertrude Sandqvist

Produced in collaboration with Institute of Visual Art inova, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Malmö Art Museum, Sweden and the Forum for Contemporary Art – St. Louis. Introduction from Peter Doroshenko, essays provided by Catherine Lord, Ivo Mesquita, Marilu Knode, Gertrude Sandqvist, and John Paul Ricco. Additionally artist biography, exhibition details and bibliography with checklist of exhibition works and 37 color illustrations, softcover, 8 ¾in. x 10 ¼in.
Catalog available $18

Michael Rees: Artificial Sculpture with Chris Burnett
November 19, 1999 – January 8, 2000

“In his Artificial Sculpture exhibit, Rees presents us with rhizome Y-branches with program designed protuberances, cantilevered out at different lengths, angles and weights from a constructed wall in all their density of traditional sculpture, juxtaposing them to the floating computer design grid on the facing wall which produced the pieces.” - Excerpt from the essay by Jay Murphy

Essays by Mel Watkin and Jay Murphy, with additional material from Michael Rees and Chris Burnett
CD-Rom $12

CPLY: The Art of William Copley
March 26 - May 15, 1999

"More than forty years ago CPLY (William Copley, very much an American) began his art (in Los
Angeles, of all places). The art soon came to be signed "CPLY" (explained by the artist as being necessary to avoid confusion with America's distinguished 18th-century Copley - as though this were necessary). By blind instinct or uncommon sense (for CPLY these amount to the same thing), he was born artistically as a natural Surrealist." - Excerpt from the essay by Walter Hopps

Foreword by Elizabeth Wright Millard and Roseann Weiss with an essay by Walter Hopps and a selection of letters between the artist and Ann Doran, also includes artist’s biography. 20 pages, 8 color illustrations, paper, 7 ½ in. x 8 ½ in.
Catalog available $10

Walk the Walk: Mentoring Youth in Art
March 27 - May 16, 1998

"The purpose of Walk the Walk: Mentoring Youth in Art was to walk students from the Forum for
Contemporary Art's (FCA) youth program, New Art in the Neighborhood (NAN), through the process of creating an exhibition. During the 1997-98 exhibition season FCA brought nationally recognized artists Danny Tisdale, Kara Walker and Philemona Williamson to join our roster of St. Louis art professionals as NAN Artists-in-Residence." - Excerpt from the essay by Elizabeth Wright Millard

Introduction by Elizabeth Wright Millard, essays from Mel Watkin, Roseann Weiss and Stacey B. Robinson. Pamphlet containing three separate color brochures detailing each artist, their work and their NAN assistants, paper, 10 in. x 7 ¼ in.
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On the Wall: Selections from the Drawing Center
August 28 - October 31, 1998

"This exhibition presents the work of four artists whose work has shown recently at The Drawing Center in New York. The four artists chosen by myself and Ann Philbin represent some of the most exciting work done at the Drawing Center in the past two years. Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen and Shahzia Sikander spent several weeks in St. Louis creating their marvelous installations. Mel Watkin, FCA curator, and Drawing Center Curator Beth Finch worked together to bring two of William Kentridge's best known drawing projections to this exhibition" - Excerpt from the essay by Elizabeth Wright Millard

Introduction by Elizabeth Wright Millard, essays by Mel Watkin and artist’s statement by William Kentridge. 9 pages with illustrations of each artist’s work, paper, 8 in. x 9 in.
Catalog available $10