Arcade Gallery Presents Marilynne Bradley: 'Straddling the Line of Propriety' March 11-April 15

Webster University's Department of Art, Design & Art History (DADAH) invites you to join us in a celebration of the evolution of Marilynne Bradley's practice and her continued contributions to St. Louis and the Webster University communities.

From March 11-April 15, DADAH's Arcade Contemporary Art Projects will exhibit a retrospective of the work of Marilynne Bradley, Straddling the Line of Propriety. The exhibit provides an unique view of the artist's career as a professional who came of age in the 1950s and '60s and vigorously continues to create today, as a woman and mother, as well as the impact of her career as an art educator.

Opening Reception March 11

An opening reception will be held from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Friday, March 11, at the Arcade Contemporary Art Projects, located on the first floor of Webster's Gateway Campus at 812 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63101.

The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. For inquiries, contact Francesca Passanise at curcurufrancesca@webster.edu.

Gallery Hours

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Straddling the Line of Propriety Exhibit

The exhibit explores Bradley's unique skill and approach, which developed in part through training in her BFA from Washington University, her MFA from Syracuse University, and her MAT from Webster University. It also explores Bradley's professional roots that took shape in the 1960-70s in architectural drafting and illustrations for fashion advertising, magazine and romance novel covers, spanning into her profession as an art teacher and teaching art educators at the university level (at Webster University). It continues into what Bradley is most renown for: her ever-evolving practice as an award-winning watercolorist, capturing via her dreamlike brushstrokes and style, a unique visual commentary of her world, with a particular eye on moments and places now only existing in memory, frozen in time and iconography of St. Louis culture.

The exhibit continues as it explores the past decade of Bradley's work, in which she has revisited the architectural style and geometric forms in works that provide color with prismatic dimensional power as she compares the evocative parallels of both natural and human-made structure.

Arcade Contemporary Art Projects
Webster University Gateway Campus
812 Olive Street
St. Louis, MO 63101

Open Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.