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ROBERT PE T TUS 8 mn / 20 sec
bruno david gallery
Robert Pettus 8 min / 20 sec
November 2 - December 21, 2019 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 “Robert Pettus: 8 min / 20 sec” at Bruno David Gallery. Editor: Bruno L. David Catalogue Designer: Lily Hollinden and Grace Ray Designer Assistant: Claudia R. David Printed in USA All works courtesy of Robert Pettus and Bruno David Gallery Photographs by Bruno David Gallery Cover image: 8mn/20 sc, V, 2018. Archival print, dye ink. 29 x 24 inches First Edition Copyright ©2020 Robert Pettus 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 AFTERWORD BY BRUNO L. DAVID CHECKLIST AND IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION BIOGRAPHY
AFTERWORD BY BRUNO L. DAVID
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I am pleased to present 8 min / 20 sec, an exhibition by Robert Pettus. This is Pettus’s second exhibition with the gallery. Robert Pettus continues to investigate time, light and it’s source the Sun, in a new series of photographs 8 min / 20 sec as this is the time it takes for light to travel from the Sun to Earth. Much of Pettus’s work in inspired by an interest in the effects of time. Pettus uses a minimalist aesthetic that arrests the formal qualities of light as it falls upon and defines the forms in his photographs. His work not only alludes to the essence of time and memory, but also effectively encapsulates those fleeting moments that usually go unnoticed. Robert Pettus was born in 1938. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis’s School of Architecture and currently lives and works in Tucson, AZ and St Louis, MO. Pettus’s photographic works have appeared in major architectural magazines including: Architectural Record, Architecture, Domus, Japan Architecture, and featured in The New York Times Sunday Magazine. His recent exhibitions include shows at: Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2006), Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (2003), Chicago Architectural Foundation, Chicago (2002); Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis (2001), and Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona (2000). Pettus has contributed significantly to a number of publications for the Landmark Association of St. Louis and is the recipient of a grant from the Ford Foundation to photograph historic railroad stations throughout the nation. His work is found in several public and private collections including St. Louis Art Museum, MO, Library of Congress, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., and the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 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 NYC in 1984 (St. Louis, 2005). I am deeply grateful to Lily Hollinden and Grace Ray, who gave much time, talent, and expertise to the production of this catalogue. Invaluable gallery staff support for the exhibition was provided by Taylor Fulton, Sara Ghazi Asadollahi, Lauren Mann, Eliza Reinhardt, and Zoe Duncan.
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CHECKLIST & IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION
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8 mn/ 20 sc, III 2018 Archival Print, Dye Ink 29 x 24 inches (73.7 x 61 cm)
8 mn/ 20 sc XIII 2017 Archival Print, Dye Ink 29 x 24 inches (73.7 x 61 cm)
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8 mn/ 20 sc, V 2018 Archival Print, Dye Ink 29 x 24 inches (73.7 x 61 cm)
8 mn/ 20 sc IX 2016 Archival Print, Dye Ink 45 x 23.5 inches (114.3 x 59.7 cm)
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8 mn/ 20 sc, VIII 2016 Archival Print, Dye Ink 29 x 24 inches (73.7 x 61 cm)
Untitled V (8 min. 20 sec. Series) 2008 C-Print mounted on aluminum panel 44 x 44 inches (111.8 x 111.8 cm)
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8 mn/ 20 sc, XII 2019 Archival Print, Dye Ink 29 x 24 inches (73.7 x 61 cm)
Untitled III (8 min. 20 sec. Series) 2008 C-Print mounted on aluminum panel 44 x 44 inches (111.8 x 111.8 cm)
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8 mn/ 20 sc, VII 2018 Archival Print, Dye Ink 29 x 24 inches (73.7 x 61 cm)
Untitled VI (8 min. 20 sec. Series) 2008 C-Print mounted on aluminum panel 44 x 44 inches (111.8 x 111.8 cm)
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8 mn/ 20 sc, VIII 2018 Archival Print, Dye Ink 29 x 24 inches (73.7 x 61 cm)
8 mn/ 20 sc, VI 2018 Archival Print, Dye Ink 29 x 24 inches (73.7 x 61 cm)
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Untitled VIII (8 min. 20 sec. Series) 2008 C-Print mounted on aluminum panel 44 x 44 inches (111.8 x 111.8 cm)
8 mn/ 20 sc, IV 2018 Archival Print, Dye Ink 29 x 24 inches (73.7 x 61 cm)
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8 mn/ 20 sc, XI 2018 Archival Print, Dye Ink 29 x 24 inches (73.7 x 61 cm)
Untitled XII (8 min. 20 sec. Series) 2008 C-Print mounted on aluminum panel 44 x 44 inches (111.8 x 111.8 cm)
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8 mn/ 20 sec, II 2018 Archival Print, Dye Ink 24 x 29 inches (61 x 73.7 cm)
Untitled XIII (8 min. 20 sec. Series) 2008 C-Print mounted on aluminum panel 44 x 44 inches (111.8 x 111.8 cm)
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8 mn/ 20 sc, I 2018 Archival Print, Dye Ink 29 x 24 inches (73.7 x 61 cm)
Untitled XV (8 min. 20 sec. Series) 2008 C-Print mounted on aluminum panel 29 x 29 inches (73.7 x 73.7 cm)
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8 mn/ 20 sc, XII 2019 Archival Print, Dye Ink 29 x 24 inches (73.7 x 61 cm)
Untitled XIV (8 min. 20 sec. Series) 2008 C-Print mounted on aluminum panel 29 x 29 inches (73.7 x 73.7 cm)
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ROBERT PETTUS American, born 1938 Lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri and, Tuczon, Arizona
EDUCATION B.S.A.
Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 2003 2002 2001 2006 2004 2003 2002 2001
Bruno David Gallery, 8 Min / 20 Sec, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Martin Schweig Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri University of Missouri, Saint Louis, Missouri Chicago Architectural Foundation, Chicago, Illinois Forum for Contemporary Art, Ando Constructed: Photographs of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, curated by Mel Watkin, September 7 – November 14, Saint Louis, Missouri Murray State University Gallery, In & Out of Space, (with Dean Kessmann), Murray, KY. Bruno David Gallery, (dis)embody, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) Tarble Arts Center, Uneasy Opposition, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois (catalogue) Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, The Posture of Place, Great Rivers Biennial, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) Ninth Street Gallery, Body/Building: Involuntary Anatomies, St. Louis, Missouri A.R.C. Gallery, Rubber Wall, Frontspace Installation, Chicago, Illinois Beelke Gallery, Anxious Architecture, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana In-Form Gallery, MFA Thesis Exhibit, St. Louis, Missouri
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2010 2009 2008 2007
Small Worlds, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO OVERVIEW_2018, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO OVERVIEW_2017, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO OVERVIEW_2016, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO AND / OR, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO (catalogue) OVERVIEW_2015, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO OVERVIEW_2014, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO BLUE-WHITE-RED, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO OVERVIEW_2012, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO Gallery Artists, Bruno David Gallery (Project Room), St. Louis, MO Overview_09, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Overview_08, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri ArtsDesire, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Overview_07, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri 2006 Overview_06, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri Centering On The Grand: Bill Kohn, Peter Marcus, and Robert Pettus, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, June 30 – August 20. 2003 Group Exhibition, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri 2000 Group Exhibition, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bonetti, David “Images focus on Grand Center”, Saint Louis post-Dispatch, July 23, 2006. “Centering on the Grand at Contemporary Art Museum”, artdaily July 6, 2006. www.artdaily.com Krekeler, Kara “Contemporary Show turns its eye on Grand Center”, West End Word, July 5, 2006. Sieloff, Allison “Grand Grand”, Riverfront Times, June 29, 2006. Pollack, Jan “Ain’t it grand: Exhibit examines Grand Center”, Northwest County Journal, May 31, 2006. --------------- “Contemporary Museum Centering on the Grand”, Pacific Meramec Valley Current, May 17, 2006. Schroeder, Ivy “Rubber Cement”, Riverfront Times, October 31, 2001. Offer, Annemarie “Forum to focus on rebirth of St. Louis architecture”, St. Louis Business Journal, August 24, 2001. Sassona Norton, Bedminster, NJ. GRANTS & AWARDS
Ford Foundation
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Library of Congress, Washington D.C. The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona St. Louis Art Museum
OTHER Associate Professor, Washington University School of Architecture and Washington University School of Art
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ARTISTS Sara Ghazi Asadollahi Laura Beard Heather Bennett Lisa K. Blatt Michael Byron Bunny Burson Judy Child Carmon Colangelo Alex Couwenberg Terry James Conrad Jill Downen Damon Freed
Yvette Drury Dubinsky Douglass Freed Richard Hull Kelley Johnson Chris Kahler Leslie Laskey Justin Henry Miller James Austin Murray Yvonne Osei Patricia Olynyk Gary Passanise Robert Pettus
Charles P. Reay Daniel Raedeke Tom Reed Frank Schwaiger Charles Schwall Christina Shmigel Thomas Sleet Buzz Spector Mark Travers Monika Wulfers
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