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FRANK SCHWAIGER
SIGNALS
bruno david gallery
FRANK SCHWAIGER Signals
October 29 - December 17, 2022 Bruno David Gallery 7513 Forsyth Boulevard Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, U.S.A. info@brunodavidgallery.com www.brunodavidgallery.com Founder/Director: Bruno L. David This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition “Signals” at Bruno David Gallery. Editor: Bruno L. David Catalogue Designer: Jenny Rong and Hazel Tao Designer Assistant: Claudia R. David Printed in USA All works courtesy of Frank Schwaiger and Bruno David Gallery Photographs by Bruno David Gallery Cover image: Installation view (Rock a Bye and Pool II) 2022 First Edition Copyright ©2023 Frank Schwaiger and Bruno David Gallery All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the written permission of Bruno David Gallery
CONTENTS
QUOTE BY FRANK SCHWAIGER AFTERWORD BY BRUNO L. DAVID CHECKLIST AND IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION BIOGRAPHY
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“Looking is a passive act: Seeing is an active act: it is focus. A signal prefigures an action. Look and then see. Allow it to move into you.” -Frank Schwaiger
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AFTERWORD BY BRUNO L. DAVID
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I am pleased to present, Signals an exhibition by Frank Schwaiger. This is Schwaiger’s sixth exhibition with the gallery. Signs, symbols, signals: they control the way we interpret our visual world. The influx of data we receive would overwhelm us were it not for the brain’s ability to edit and focus. Frank Schwaiger’s art is about the fun of looking and then learning by seeing. Frank Schwaiger’s art has been widely exhibited. He is a graduate of the Washington University in St. Louis, School of Architecture (Now the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts), and received his Master from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where he worked with Buckminster Fuller. He lives and works in St. Louis. Support for the creation of significant new works of art has been the core to the mission and program of the Bruno David Gallery since its founding in 2005. I am deeply grateful to Jenny Rong and Hazel Tao, who gave much time, talent, and expertise to the production of this catalogue. Invaluable gallery staff support for the exhibition was provided by Taylor Anderson, Jacob Hughes, Beth McDonald, Jada Ivy, Benjamin Levine, David Luo, and Sammy Wood.
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CHECKLIST & IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION
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Play Ball 2017 Acrylic on board 37 x 38 1/2 inches (94 × 97.8 cm)
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Sun Rise 2017 Acrylic on board 35 x 35 inches (88.9 × 88.9 cm)
X-Ray 2017 Acrylic on board 41 x 41 inches (104.1 × 104.1 cm)
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(Detail) 18
Enough? 2018 Acrylic on board 28 x 25 inches (71.1 × 63.5 cm)
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(Detail) 20
Winter’s Tale 2021 Acrylic on board 20 x 28 inches (50.8 × 71.1 cm)
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Icon XIII 2018 Acrylic on board 25 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (64.8 × 54.6 cm)
Fishy 2016 Acrylic on board 38 x 23 1/2 inches (96.5 × 59.7 cm)
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(Detail) 24
A Little White Lie 2017 Acrylic on board 25 x 13 1/2 inches (63.5 × 34.3 cm)
X-Ray 2017 Acrylic on board 41 x 41 inches (104.1 × 104.1 cm)
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In the Woods 2018 Acrylic on board 19 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches (49.5 × 57.2 cm)
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Standing Woman 2022 Bronze 21 1/2 x 6 x 7 inches (54.6 × 15.2 x 17.8 cm) Edition of 5
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Ikon #26 2018 Acrylic on board 27 x 23 inches (68.6 × 58.4 cm)
Domino 2017 Acrylic on board 51 x 39 inches (129.5 × 99.1 cm)
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Acrobat 2021 Acrylic on board 72 x 24 inches (182.9 × 61.0 cm)
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Rock a Bye 2022 Lime stone 15 x 31 x 17 inches (38.1 × 78.7 x 43.2 cm)
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Aphrodite 2018 Acrylic on board 31 x 25 1/2 inches (78.7 × 64.8 cm)
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Look 2020 Acrylic on board 23 x 19 inches (58.4× 48.3 cm)
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New Year 2018 Acrylic on board 30 x 26 1/2 inches (76.2 × 67.3 cm)
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Bad Boy 2018 Acrylic on board 24 x 21 inches (61 × 53.3 cm)
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Ikon: Requiem 2018 Acrylic on board 32 x 27 inches (81.3 × 68.6 cm)
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Pool II 2017 Acrylic on canvas 55 1/2 x 180 inches (141 × 457.2 cm)
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Meditation 2022 Acrylic on board 41 x 35 inches (104.1 × 88.9 cm)
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Pool I 2017 Acrylic on canvas 55 1/2 x 180 inches (141 × 457.2 cm)
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Requiem 2019 Acrylic on panel 37 1/16 x 42 15/16 inches (94 × 109.2 cm)
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Sphere 2022 Solid Stainless Steel 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (11.4 × 11.4 x 11.4 cm)
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#11: Ikon 2018 Acrylic on board 27 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches (69.9 × 57.2 cm)
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ARTISTS Antonio Ainscough Sara Ghazi Asadollahi Barry Anderson Laura Beard Heather Bennett Lisa K. Blatt Michael Byron Ben Brough Quinn A. Briceno Bunny Burson Lisa Bulawsky Judy Child Carmon Colangelo William Conger Alex Couwenberg
Terry James Conrad Jill Downen Damon Freed Yvette Drury Dubinsky Douglass Freed Adrian Gonzalez Richard Hull Mee Jey Kelley Johnson Chris Kahler Leslie Laskey Justin Henry Miller James Austin Murray William Morris Arny Nadler
Yvonne Osei Patricia Olynyk Charles P. Reay Daniel Raedeke Tom Reed Frank Schwaiger Eric Minh Swenson Char Schwall Christina Shmigel Thomas Sleet Buzz Spector Andrea Stanilav Cindy Tower Mario Trejo
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