What's the Use? opening at Snowflake

Time	Saturday, June 18 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location	Snowflake 3156 Cherokee Street (at Compton)
More Info	Snowflake Gallery is pleased to present the first St. Louis based exhibition of the works of Wonder Koch and Eliza Newman-Saul. The artists, long time friends, share an interest in creating artworks that tell stories. Though both artists write as part of their practice, this exhibition focuses on their object based works. 'What's the Use?' is a study of insufficiencies--both personal and global. In each bad decision we make is the often painful consequence of our own action and its reverberations into the society as a whole. "My great grandfather sent a postcard that reads: Fire Sweeps Horwell Today, Thursday Dec 9, 1915. Our hotel is gone. Loss is great. 'What's the Use.' In honor of this event I ask myself a similar question daily..." Eliza Newman-Saul's drawing and video focus on classical images of the sea as a point of searching, loss and longing. The collection of drawing of sunken ships and the video work together as an installation titled "To My dear Impotent World." Culling headlines from sources including Fox News, presidential declarations of war, instructions for breaking a World of War Craft addiction or submitting a proposal to DARPA’s Polymer Ice Program, The Story of the Eye as well as phrases heard screamed from car windows, Wonder Koch has created an unwieldy, tactile news ticker. Freed from television, “Ticker” subverts propaganda into the kind of news you can get from poetry. www.snowflakestl.com