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615 N. Grand Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63103

314-575-2648 

http://www.schmidtcontemporaryart.com  

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615 N. Grand Blvd. St. Louis MO 63103

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  • 2011 | Best Art Gallery to Die in the Past 12 Months

    When Jim Schmidt closed the doors of his Grand Center gallery earlier this year, it marked the end of an era. For decades Schmidt had provided St. Louisans access to the work of local, national and international artists of every medium, with a scrupulous eye for elegant minimalism and obsessional craft. Considered in retrospect, the exhibits illustrate Schmidt's singular way of seeing: an abstract vision with formalist leanings, but one that always defers to nature as an endless source of... More »

  • 2010 | Best Gallery Exhibition

    This solo exhibition by local artist Erik Spehn featured a suite of large-scale paintings deploying his signature abstractions of obsessively woven textures, but with new strains of scarlet and underpaintings of golden maize. The added color infuses depth and a kind of emotional narrative to work otherwise intent on the study of restrained, process-oriented subtlety. Thin strands of cut canvas, or lines of paint pooled between taped-off guidelines, created textile-like surfaces, tight... More »

  • 2007 | Best Gallery Show

    Anyone lucky enough to glimpse St. Louis painter Erik Spehn's spring show at Schmidt Contemporary Art was treated to an eyeful of one of our town's strongest talents working at his meticulous best. For his first solo show in seven years, Spehn flooded Jim Schmidt's Grand Center gallery with painstakingly precise canvases. Composed of contrasting thin vertical lines offset by horizontal stripes, the pictures were rendered with only the subtlest chromatic variation. Many had an op-art feel... More »

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