White Flag Projects is an independent art gallery located in the Grove neighborhood of STL which aims to "facilitate meaningful exhibitions by progressive international, national, and local artists." Today I went to their exhibition "Another Kind of Vapor" which takes it's name from a William Pope.L piece that is featured in the exhibit.
The exhibit closes today so no one will be able to take advantage of this posting (well, probably no one will read it either so there's that) but it is certainly worth stopping by the space to check out if you can before it closes today at 5. The space itself is quite small, but admission is free and there was some great art so that's nothing to complain about. I viewed the whole gallery before I saw the exhibition program at the front desk and had to review the entire exhibit.
That beautiful piece that shows the Hollywood sign in faded sepia against a cream background? It was printed with Pepto-Bismal and caviar.
That jar of dead flies? They were collected at a Dieter Roth exhibit from 1970 in which he filled twenty or so suitcases with two tons of cheese and let it go rancid, breeding flies and maggots that got the gallery in trouble with the health department and almost closed down.
The mission of this exhibition was to move towards organic painting and art making that decays and changes meaning and form over time. A large piece right at the front door was painted with peanut butter liquid detergent sits among the remnants of dried pieces of the work that have fallen off over the course of the exhibit.
After the show closes today the next exhibit will be of Amy Granat and will open on September 8th so it'll be a bit of time before we can enjoy another show at White Flag Projects
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