Jessica Bremehr

Jessica Bremehr is an interdisciplinary artist working in St.Louis, Missouri. She received her BFA from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2014 and her MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University St. Louis in 2021. Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited internationally at Gallery II in Tel Aviv, Israel, nationally at the NARS Foundation in NYC and Make Projects in State College, PA, and locally at the Lambert International Airport, Houska Gallery, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Urbarts, ReeseGallery, and TechArtista. Bremehr’s murals can be found around town at Indo, Sado, The Vandy, and Peabody Plaza.

If I were anything but human, I would be a plant; a long appendage who wiggles their way from dirt toward maturity and shifts daily with the direction of the sun. I reflect this daydream in my sculptural beings made from found objects and furniture covered in handmade paper clay. The playful forms reflect a child’s world; a world filled with symbols, shapes, and size. In my visual playground, house plants integrate with the sculptural beings living in a symbiotic relationship, mutually benefitting off one another. The vivid colors vibrate the senses in the way a flower uses visual cues to attract a pollinator. The repetitive designs and undulating forms prompt meditative states to contemplate our own bodies in space, while promoting reverence for the microscopic and commonplace natural wonders of the world around us.

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Matt Gray

Matt Gray is a self-taught artist living and working in South St. Louis City. His drawings and prints have been exhibited at TechArtista and the Cherokee Print Bazaar. Gray has designed illustrations for bands, show flyers, and restaurants in St.Louis. He took a break from sculpture making to focus on his vintage shop GrayMart Online where you can find vintage goods, hand painted clothing, and oddities. Gray is back in the studio resurfacing his larger than life paper mache sculptures of mundane objects and situations.

My daily life looks like a really long errand: wake up, feed my cat, drink coffee, stop by thrift stores and junk outlets, basement studio, rinse and repeat. Along this very long errand, I look for treasures among seas of garbage, which might not be anything to someone else but quickly become inspiration for my drawings and sculptures. I create everyday objects from everyday materials including cardboard, paper, glue, joint compound, and flour. Each object holds a close human association celebrating, yet memorializing the mundane of life's errand.

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Jessica Lynn Hunt

Jessica Lynn Hunt is a visual artist, educator, and curator born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, where she presently resides. Hunt received her MFA in 2018 from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and currently teaches Sculpture at John Burroughs School. She is the Assistant Director for the Bonsack Gallery in Ladue, Missouri. She is the recipient of the Jose Jimenez Public Art Award and Regional Arts Commission Support Grant. She is currently a studio member of Dibling Dublios.

I have long been fascinated by the complexities of interpersonal relationships—specifically, how we create, maintain, or destroy our relationships with others. As a result, I’ve become consumed with collecting experiences rooted in human interaction. My work examines the intricacies of these dynamics with others and how they slowly shape our behaviors, beliefs, and ways of being over time.

I primarily start by constructing or modeling a hard armature covered by a softer textile skin. Often, you’ll see two or more forms in a single work as a nod to the relationship. Forms range from representational to ambiguous, and color is used to further highlight the idea. 

I am searching for empathy in our increasingly chaotic and polarizing world. By pairing contrasting colors, forms, and textures, I aim to highlight the spectrum in-between and create a different point of entry for the viewer. One that allows for a more empathetic understanding of the relationship and experience, regardless of who is part of the work.

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Justin King

Justin King is a St. Louis-based painter and sculptor. He creates animals and pop-influenced sculptures from unexpected media such as cardboard and paper-mâché. His animal busts fool your eye into believing they’re cast bronze, while his cardboard sculptures surprise you with their details and form. 

Justin works out of his home studio in the historic neighborhood of Tower Grove Heights, where he lives with his wife, son, and dog. Commissions are available through the Gallery.

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Jen Wohlner

Jen Wohlner was born in Illinois in 1988. She received her BFA from the University of Southern California in 2010 and will receive her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2024. Wohlner has exhibited solo at Wildfruit Projects in St. Louis, the Saint Kate in Milwaukee, and the Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles. Wohlner has been included in group exhibitions at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, CA and at Houska Gallery and the Angad Arts Hotel in St. Louis. Jen Wohlner lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri. Jen Wohlner's website is jenwohlner.com, and her Instagram is @jensface.

Jen Wohlner’s detailed pen and colored pencil drawings, ceramic sculptures and Internet art address the repetitive architecture and planning of modern residential communities and the isolated individuals who inhabit them.

The drawings demonstrate a harsh endurance and obsession via precise pen lines and meticulously filled, almost machine-like, blocks of colored pencil. The drawings’ subject matter — homes, neighborhoods, the sun, mazes, religious messaging — invites viewers to reflect on the private, protective or exclusionary spaces in their domestic communities and neighborhoods. The ceramic sculptures are often figurative and fluid, but other times, they function more like trophies and awards. Wohlner's Internet art continues investigations into the themes above and often includes poetry and live video. Jen's art is a reflection on the unknowability and darkness of domestic, private, individual spaces.

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