Studio Window Series
by Margaret Keller
Exhibition Dates: October 20205 – October 2026
Location: Post-Security, E Concourse
The relationship between nature, our culture, and technology is the subject of my art. I look at the environment, the climate crisis, and our filtered experience of nature in this digital age. In my Studio Window Series, an imaginary view through my studio window examines natural disasters such as tornadoes, lightening, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and avalanches, along with disasters generated by human misuse of nature.
Each disaster enters the interior space and incapacitates the electronic devices we are so dependent on, including cell phones, laptops, music players, and coffee makers. The only survivors of these disastrous events are insects. At around 625,000 species, insects bridge exterior and interior spaces. They are able to cohabit and manage a more highly evolved response to threats from nature than humans are capable of. Cockroaches, spiders, ants, fireflies, and others are inserted into these scenes as unobtrusive beings of intricate beauty and adaptation in the face of overwhelming odds.
About the Artist: Margaret Keller
Margaret Keller is a St. Louis-based installation artist whose work focuses on the environment and has been exhibited by over fifty galleries, museums, and public institutions. Projects, installations, and commissions include Riverbend at The Gateway Arch National Park via Critical Mass for the Visual Arts; Botanica absentia at The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Leaning on Nature at The Mitchell Museum of Mt. Vernon, Illinois; Eyes Wide Open for STNDRD Gallery; BJC Hospital, Square/Block, The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, The Forsyth School, and The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center, among many others. Keller has taught studio art full-time at both Meramec-STLCC and Washington University, as well as curating and reviewing contemporary art exhibitions. Her critical writing has been featured in Art in America, New Art Examiner, All the Art, and temporary art review, among others.
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