Kuehner Gallery Opening

The Kuehner Gallery of John Burroughs School will feature sculptures by Jerald Jacquard from April 13 through May 8.

In his career as a sculptor, Jacquard has elevated model-making from a mere step in the process (from artistic vision to final completion of a full-scale work) to an end unto itself, where the model is the completed vision. His works reflect an ongoing conversation on balance and proportion, color and shape, size and scale.

As Jacquard himself puts it, “Models give the artist a creative insight and freedom from the everyday world ... They allow me to compare ideas, and they show me which ideas not to make larger. Having the advantage of previewing unknown ideas, I feel models have an exponential stimulating affect on the creative mind.”

Jacquard received a Guggenheim Fellowship for monumental sculpture and a Fulbright Scholarship to study bronze casting in Florence. He has staged more than a dozen one-man exhibitions over his 40-year career, and his work can be found in the permanent collections of museums such as the Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University, the Kalamazoo Institute of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

All are invited to a public reception hosted by the artist from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Friday, April 13. A concurrent opening of an exhibit in the school’s Bonsack Gallery will feature the works of Burroughs fine arts faculty. Regular gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays. The exhibits are free to the public. For more information, contact Anne Martin by phone (314/993-4040, ext. 258) or by e-mail.

The Bonsack and Kuehner Galleries are not-for-profit educational galleries on the campus of John Burroughs School, 755 South Price Road in Ladue.