Beyond Belief at the St. Louis Artists' Guild
The St. Louis Artists' Guild's new set of exhibits explores spiritual healing through the practice of art. Beyond Belief is a group show examining the human spirit and inspiration, Everything Falls Apart by Ronald Young is a mixed media exhibit contemplating the state of modern society, and Still Point by Christine Ilewski is a collection of moving vignettes along the Mississippi River.
All three exhibits continue through May 13, 2023. To learn more please visit www.stlouisartistsguild.org.Artist As Medium Roundtable
RE: Artist as Medium allows for a deeper consideration of questions raised by Gala Porras-Kim’s exhibition, "Correspondences towards the living object". What are the ways in which an artist can create or conjure the voices of objects? How do artists help us have empathy for an object and the stories or intentions they represent?
These questions and more were considered in a roundtable discussion guided by Ronald Young, a St. Louis-based artist whose work builds on the tradition of power objects made by African and African Diasporic artists—objects that may contain or transmute spirits. Young was in conversation with collaborators who are invested in the ways artists can serve as a medium to connect with an object, including:
Adrienne Davis, collector and scholar
Renée Brummell Franklin, Chief Diversity Officer at the Saint Louis Art Museum
Thomas Sleet, artist
Pat Smith Thurman, Co-Founder of 10th Street GalleryRon Young Stl Public Radio Interview
St. Louis Public Radio’s Jeremy D. Goodwin spoke with Young about how he developed his sculptural technique and what his work says about the hidden history and endurance of St. Louis’ historically Black neighborhoods.
Ronald Young HEC-TV Interview
In “The Prevalence of Ritual,” Ronald Young uses found materials with deep histories to create sculptures rich in ambiguity. He creates power objects from these materials to “embody the collective consciousness of generations of African Americans.” For more information, go to www.kranzbergartsfoundation.org.
Review of The Prevalence of Ritual at the Kranzberg
A review of The Prevalence of Ritual at the Kranzberg by Del O'Brien published in Sixty Inches From Center.
Ronald Young interview with the STL American Newspaper
Ronald Young’s art exhibition explores African diaspora and concept behind power objects.
Artist Talk LA Summer Residency Otis College of Art & Design
Excerpts from my artist talk during my Summer Residency at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California in 2019. I describe my creative process of using "lost&found" objects to create mixed-media assemblages.
The Community That I Come From
In this Q&A, Young discusses his work, life in St. Louis and the beauty of rough materials.