ON VIEW
See what is on view at regional art spaces in the St. Louis region.
Lines
by Mario Clarke
July 7 - August 28, 2026
Third Degree Glass Factory
Drawing from principles of line, balance, and composition, Mario creates works that exist between functional objects and sculpture. The flowing lines within his vessels twist, intersect, and diverge, reflecting the paths, relationships, and unexpected connections that shape our lives. Through intricate craftsmanship and layered patterns, he seeks to create work that rewards close observation and sparks a sense of joy, curiosity, and reflection.
Reverie in Tonalism - Tracey Mara and Harry Starr
July 8 - October 3, 2026
Heartland Art Club
Harry Starr and Tracey Maras embrace the aesthetics of Tonalism in their work. Starr creates a sense of metamorphosis in each of his photographs. Whether landscape or still life, his pieces evoke mystery, enchantment, and elegance. Maras conveys an atmosphere of serenity and peaceful tranquility in her pastel paintings. Regardless of subject matter, there is a connectedness to nature.
MindApps - Insights Within - Clayvon Wesley
July 31 - August 29, 2026
St. Louis Artists’ Guild
MindApps - Insights Within is a series that codifies the visual language of an interior monologue on reflection, integration, and aging. Where the cracked panes symbolize life’s hurts and traumas, healed and unhealed, and blank spaces, things willingly or unwillingly forgotten. Then, among those micro spaces are what Leonardo da Vinci calls “miracles of error,” the mental mistakes that lead to discovery and creation. While seen as atypical of his previous work, the series is heavily influenced by travels to Senegal, Egypt, and South Africa, where Wesley studied the Ndebele artwork of Dr. Esther Mahlangu.
Negentropic Landscape - Leslie Song
July 31 - August 29, 2026
St. Louis Artists’ Guild
Negentropic Landscape is a series of mixed media works that is inspired by concepts found in entropy and negentropy, using them as guides to explore movement, balance, and order. Leslie Song oscillates between meticulous planning and intuitive placement in each piece which allows for unpredictability in the final form, echoing the natural tendency of entropy to bring a measure of disorder in the process.
Order & Chaos Juried by Ethan Meyer
July 31 - August 29, 2026
St. Louis Artists’ Guild
Order and Chaos explores the tension between structure and spontaneity within abstract art. In abstraction, order may appear as symmetry, logic, or restraint, while chaos erupts as intuition, fragmentation, and unpredictability. Yet neither state exists alone. This exhibition invites viewers to consider how balance is negotiated and how beauty can arise from instability.
Wild Places - Noppadol Paothong
August 1 - September 23, 2026
Webster University’s Kooyumjian Gallery
Missouri-based photography icon, Noppadol Paothong is a conservation photographer and associate fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers. A staff wildlife photographer for the Missouri Department of Conservation, his work regularly appears in national publications including Audubon, Nature Conservancy and National Wildlife. For more than 20 years, Paothong has documented rare and endangered species.
In this new exhibition, Wild Places, Paothong contrasts spectacular intimate details with dynamic moments of our natural world made possible through his stunning, vibrant photography. Macrophotography of butterfly wings are exhibited alongside the expertly captured moments of dynamic and rarely seen animal behavior.
Low Vis - Evan and Stacey Studio
August 7 - September 13, 2026
Public Defender
Low Vis explores how the infrastructural systems that surround us usually go unnoticed even though they obscure the natural landscape. By isolating infrastructure from its usual context, these paintings invite closer attention to the systems that shape how we move, see, and inhabit the world.
This work began as an investigation into how infrastructure’s footprint provides basic human needs while at the same time obscuring the landscape. Low Vis evolved into a recognition of the role such systems play in our experience, safety, and quality of life. As Dr. Chachra writes, “Infrastructure is the physical manifestation of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good.” When carefully designed and accessible, it serves everyone. When poorly designed, neglected, or inaccessible, the negative impacts are widely felt.
Plane Sight - Group Exhibit Juror Amir Toosi
August 7 - September 13, 2026
Public Defender
Still
- Maddie Aunger
August 23 - October 17, 2026
Ethical Society of St. Louis
Maddie Aunger’s intimate acrylic paintings revolve around the domestic spaces she interacts with. Spurred by the sudden shift from working in her campus studio during graduate school, to painting at the dining room table during the beginning of the pandemic, Maddie found herself drawn to the windows in the living room. Quiet moments of solitude became essential to her practice.
Borrowed Time: Photographs by David R. Hanlon, 1990-2026
August 27 - September 22, 2026
St. Louis Community College - Meramec
Through examples selected from four portfolios by David Hanlon over 36 years of teaching photography at STLCC, this exhibition considers the nuanced character of environments that reflect our lives and memories, as well as the historical remnants that mark our time on this planet. Often using extended exposures, these photographs seek to explore the representation of time as it passes across multiple generations.
Quiet Forms - Phillip Finder
August 28 - September 24, 2026
Forest Park Contemporary Art Gallery
Quiet Forms is the latest work of sculptural ceramics from STLCC Ceramics instructor Phillip Finder. This show examines St. Louis’ industrial past and the vast production of architectural terra cotta, brick, clay pipe, roofing tiles and other materials, as well as the local resources that made that production possible.
Finder’s work utilizes blends of the same materials found in these industrial processes and reimagines the forms these materials can take on. The sculpture work embraces rectilinear forms influenced by the standardized masonry unit while showcasing the nuances of the local materials familiar to St. Louis’ built environment.
New Familiar Water - Tom Reed
August 28 - September 28, 2026
Bonsack Gallery at John Burroughs School
Tom Reed received his MFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa in 1998, studying under Keith Achepohl and Virginia Myers. After graduation, he moved to Chicago to work as a printer for Tony Fitzpatrick’s Big Cat Press. Through collaborations with Steve Campbell, he was invited to join Jack Lemon’s renowned Landfall Press, where he spent several years as lead intaglio printer.
The Wearer Worn - NC Qin
September 1 - October 31, 2026
Third Degree Glass Factory
NC Qin, based in Sydney, Australia, explores the histories of ancient battle artifacts with her primary medium of glass to prompt conversations on heritage and values. Appropriating the symbolism of glass and its associated fragility, risk and preciousness, she uses this medium as a lens to delve into psychological spaces.
What Do You Bring to the Table - Brenda Gilliam
September 11 - October 19, 2026
St. Peter’s Gallery
This body of work explores our relationship with others-what we bring to the table, built around food and the memories it stirs up. Food brings comfort, health, subsistence, abundance, communion, calm and so much more.
Soliloquy - Suzy Farren
September 13 - November 1, 2026
Kingsbury Gallery at Grace & Peace Fellowship
In a soliloquy, a character expresses inner thoughts out loud on stage. Similarly, this body of work expresses my intuitive self out loud. Starting with a coat of black house paint, I layer on additional paint and paper.
As I scrape and sand the surface, shapes and textures are revealed. A stroke of paint here, a found scrap there; the repetitive process of reflecting and responding eventually yields a finished piece.
Making Our Way
October 1 - November 4, 2026
The William & Florence Schmidt Art Center
Featuring artists Suzy Farren, Carlene Fullerton, Eden Harris, Jean Lopez, Sun Smith-Foret.