Duet
by Jane Birdsall-Lander
Exhibition Dates: Through December 2023
Location: Pre-security, Upper Level Ticketing Lounge
Water Music and Another Heart Song were inspired by Birdsall-Lander’s interest in poetry, music and the human condition. The two works share a common language of materials and theme. Their two voices are designed to perform a visual and thematic duet. The work is fabricated from wooden scythe handles called snaths, cello pegs, ebony, and, in the case of Water Music, dowels. Once built, the forms are bound with industrial waxed linen thread. Birdsall-Lander thinks of these pieces as sculptural poems because the forms and their details express ideas and emotions in a concentrated, imaginative, and powerful style akin to that of poetry. The titles are clues whispered to the viewer hinting at another layer of meaning.
About the Artist: Jane Birdsall-Lander
Jane Birdsall-Lander is an Artist and writer based in St. Louis. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and master’s degrees from both Washington University and Webster University in St. Louis. Her work can be found in private collections in California; Missouri; Illinois; New Jersey; Washington, DC; North Carolina; Michigan; Oregon; and New York and in public collections including Washington University’s Special Collections; the Writer’s Place in Kansas City, MO; the Mitchell Museum in Mt. Vernon, Illinois; and the Missouri Historical Society.
Birdsall-Lander has received Artist grants from the Forum for Contemporary Art (now CAM) and the Regional Arts Commission (RAC). In the St. Louis area she has had one-person exhibits at CAM, Duane Reed Gallery, the Kranzberg High Low Gallery, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art and the Schmidt Art Center.
In addition to her long-standing studio practice, curriculum writing and teaching practice, she is the author and designer of the Dictionary Poem Project (DPP). The DPP is an ever-expanding series of individual words with pronunciations, etymologies and graphics that each coalesce into a dictionary poem.
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