William Shearburn Gallery

Katherine Bernhardt (b. 1975)
Shower Power, 2023
14 color lithograph, from an edition of 75 prints, each unique
50⅜ x 32¾ inches

In her Shower Power series, features the mischievous Pink Panther at the center. Bernhardt became fascinated with the Pink Panther when she stayed at the Pink Palace Hotel in Waikiki, Oahu. Upon all the pink inspiration, Bernhardt decided that she would add the Pink Panther to the cast of characters in her existing oeuvre.

It’s a wrap. A great week in Aspen for Intersect Aspen and Art Crush! We had a very successful fair and saw many old friends and met many new ones. Already looking forward to next year in the mountains!

Very pleased to have worked with the US Capital team on implementing a public art plan for the new and very beautiful Forsyth Pointe building in downtown Clayton. After an extensive search we commissioned this stunning Mads Christensen piece entitled Campfire. Check it out. It looks so cool at the entrance to the building.

Campfire, 2023
Aluminum, steel, LEDs, acrylic and custom software
Height above base: 10ft, diameter at base: 7ft

Tom Friedman’s super cool sculpture “Looking Up” being picked up from fabricator and transported to its new home on the Atlantic seaboard.

Happy 100th birthday to one of the great American artists of the 20th Century!

"When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything."

"The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved or square. I am less interested in the marks on the panels than the "presence" of the panels themselves. In "Red, Yellow, Blue," the square panels present color. It was made to exist forever in the present; it is an idea and can be repeated anytime in the future."

William Shearburn Gallery is excited to present "As Much Light as Shadows," an exhibition of recent work by Cayce Zavaglia.

This is Cayce's second solo exhibition at the gallery and will continue through June 30th.

Happy birthday to my dear friend and collaborator Bernar Venet! Congratulations on the recent installation at the Place Vendome in Paris. It is an honor to know you and to have shown your work for twenty five years!

Just got these two large scale prints in by Robert Longo. I have always loved these Men in the Cities works. Straight from Christian Bale’s apartment in American Psycho! Inspired in part by neo-noir cinema, rock star poses popularized by music videos, preppy men’s and women's clothing, and the rise of Wall Street, these pictures embody the spirit of the age in a way that few works ever managed to.

Eric and Gretchen, 1985
Lithograph
71 1/2 x 35 3/4 inches each
Printer's Proof

Inspiring studio visit with today. Previewing new work for our exhibition that will open in St. Louis on May 25th. New embroidery, cross stitch, cyanotype, and more.

Will be taking a very cool new lenticular piece to in April.

Congratulations to Catherine Howe whose work is featured in Architectural Digest.

I love the irreverence of Mel’s work. Of the moment, in your face and so true. Happy to present this one.

Mel Bochner (b. 1940)
Silence, 2022
Cast and pigmented paper
72 x 48 x 1 1/2 inches

In Bochner’s iconic Thesaurus Portraits, words are graphically expressed through his use of repetition, synonyms, slang, and expletives in bright colors. Through these works, Bochner hopes to explore how we as viewers perceive and interpret different types of information or ideas by blending the conventions of both language and art.

I became interested in the work of Charles Gaines when I sat on the selection committee for a proposed piece of public art for the Arch grounds in STL. Gaines’ proposal Moving Chains was the clear cut winner, but due to funding and other circumstances, the piece was never realized. Creative Time never abandoned the project and it has been realized and is currently installed on Governor’s Island in NYC.



Shearburn Gallery pleased to present the following new editions by Gaines.



Charles Gaines (b. 1944)
Numbers and Trees: Palm Canyon, Palm Trees, Series 4, Trees #1 - 4, 2021
Color aquatint, spitbite aquatint and chine colle with printed acrylic box
62 1/2 x 35 x 3 1/2 inches each
Edition of 35

William Shearburn Gallery is pleased to present photographer Michael Eastman's most recent body of work, New / Old Cuba. Eastman takes a look back at his breathtaking photographs of Havana interiors that were captured in 1999 but remained untouched until 2022. Check out the link to take a look at the catalogue.

https://issuu.com/shearburngallery4/docs/michael_eastman_new_and_old_cuba_in_f64ba3b23c4797

Great, exciting, incredible week in Miami for Miami Art Basel and all of the auxiliary fairs, dinners and parties. It's amazing how the cultural landscape of Miami has changed over the last 20 years. So much to do, so little time...

Michael Eastman large scale photograph featured in Architectural Digest. Congrats Michael!

Had an amazing studio visit yesterday with the very talented . Great new work in progress. Very much looking forward to an exhibition in the spring.

Incredible week in New York City looking at so much art. Exhausting and invigorating!

Richard Bosman (b. 1944)
The Chase, 1982
Oil on canvas
81 1/2 x 66 inches

BERNAR VENET (b. 1941)
12 Uneven Angles, 2021
Painted black steel
13 x 14 x 6 inches on 45 x 45 inch base
Artist Proof 1/3

Congratulations to Alex Katz on the occasion of your beautiful show at the Guggenheim!

Allan Graham (1943-2019)
Sorry, 2019
Oil on canvas
84 x 108 inches
Allan Graham, who sometimes used the name Toadhouse, was a contemporary American artist based in New Mexico. His work included sculpture, painting, poetry, and video. Graham worked with words and letters in many of his projects and had a keen eye for seeing words as shapes.

Beautiful fall day at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

MEL BOCHNER (b. 1940)
HUH, 2004
Oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
18 x 24 inches
Signed, titled, dated 2004 on the reverse; dedicated For Lisa, Happy Birthday! Love Me

Raymond Pettibon
Untitled (Hermosa Beach), 2019
Lithograph with hand-coloring
45 1/8 x 67 1/2 inches

Fall Install
Had fun re-installing the gallery today. Reunited two old St. Louis friends – Jerry Wilkerson and Ken Worley. Jerry painted in a contemporary Pointillism style that he called Dotillism. He loved food and pop culture and all things St. Louis. The garden painting from 1989 was one of his largest paintings. He and Ken Worley were best of friends and contemporaries. Ken sketched and painted the Missouri landscape for 40 years with great passion and thoughtfulness. This amazing large scale oil stick on canvas depicts the natural beauty of Rockwoods, just west of St. Louis. Love the drama and dialogue that these two pictures create.

The Hunt for Red October begins with the first game of the Cardinals’ postseason kicking off this afternoon! For a little inspiration, we look to a painting of Cardinals’ legend Bob Gibson by Stephen Dinsmore. GO CARDS!

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Wayne Thiebaud
Daffodil, 1979
Etching and aquatint
29 3/4 x 23 inches
Edition 33/50

Wayne Thiebaud (1920 - 2021) is famous for his colorful works of mouthwatering cakes, pies, pastries, and everyday items. While his work enjoys a broad appeal and evokes a distinctly American nostalgia, Thiebaud’s complex depictions of light and shadow give depth and strangeness to his deceptively simple compositions. Although he is often classified as an American Pop painter—and he was included in the two historic and groundbreaking shows of 1962 that established the movement—Thiebaud never embraced the mantle of Pop and preferred to describe himself as a traditional painter of illusionistic forms.

KIT KEITH: I LIVE ALONE
June 10 – July 16, 2021
Reception for the Artist, Thursday, June 10, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

William Shearburn Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new works on paper by legendary St. Louis artist Kit Keith. Inspired by outsider art and artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, Kit will often paint over found materials from thrift stores, old magazines and advertisements. This exhibition consists of over fifty female portraits, each one painted with acrylic on found onion skin letterhead and created over a few months’ time during the pandemic. Each portrait is reflective of the artist’s disposition on the day on which it was created. Whether happiness, angst, relief, contentment, frustration, anger, joy or loneliness, each portrait conveys in itself, a feeling.

Please join us Thursday evening, June 10th from 5:30 – 7:30 for a reception for the artist. The exhibition will remain on view through July 16.