Caesura Magazine assembles its second spring group exhibition, Superflux, featuring local artists working in diverse styles and media:

Poet-Composer Bret Schneider premiers a new music composition, The Rogue Philosopher's Septimally Splayed Gloria Drone Blues. Conceived as a 'dream house' installation, an electronic composite sound waveform environment runs from Noon-6pm, where the public is encouraged to come-&-go at their leisure. The Rogue Philosopher's Septimally Splayed Gloria Drone Blues is the first ode to St Louis blues music in the form of a continous drone. Composed with just intoned sine waves arranged on a custom blues scale, the pure tonality fills the rooms with standing waves in which the listener's body can freely mix harmonies as they move through the space. Each of the three floors of the Kerr Foundation feature discreet, thematic components of a vertical triad that overlay as listeners move from floor-to-floor, creating a prismatic listening experience. The Rogue Philosopher's Septimally Splayed Gloria Drone Blues is the second instance of Schneider's Third Ear Dream Cave format in St Louis, & the continuation of a unique musical experience he calls psychoacoustic phantasmagoria.

For further reading: 

Groundwork for a Study of Maryanne Amacher 

Janet Xmas / Audrey Simes / Ishmaiah Aenas 

Audrey Simes and Grace Smith began moving together in 2021 after being distant admirers of each other’s movements and works. After more than a year of rolling around Simes’ studio and each other’s minds they have come together as collaborators under the common interest of elemental ritual and primal urges, movements, and materials. Ishmaiah and Smith have been running in the same advocacy organizations since 2021 and had mutual admiration for each other’s willing spirit. This Earth ritual is the follow up to Janet Xmas’ Water Divination piece that also took place at the Kerr Foundation with Aeneas and Simes. We present this piece to honor the earth and receive the lessons from it to incorporate into our lives for personal and communal growth.

Vincent Stemmler is an interdisciplinary artist from St. Louis, Missouri whose work is often a contemplation on the interplay between identity, place, and loss. They received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Vincent is currently an adjunct professor at Florissant Valley Community College, teaching ceramics, sculpture and drawing classes. Vincent's most notable recent exhibitions include Counterpublic 2023 and an upcoming solo exhibition with the Kranzberg Arts Foundation.

Mes Yeux is a painter and printmaker based in St. Louis, Missouri. For the past five years, they have worked to develop new approaches to image-making with experimental painting techniques and printing fabric with light sensitive dyes.

J. Spann presents Rose Gold That Grew From Concrete

A ’collage sculpture.’

(Rescued brick x Concrete x Acrylic x Rose petals x Crow feathers)

Throughout life parts of us die and what is left becomes gilded; cloaked in a false gold, so that the harsh environment we arose from no longer reflect who we are. 

A flock of crows is a ”murder.”

You grow up in a city rife with violence 

Yet despite that, it’s beautiful.

Gilded.

— Jamell Spann, 2023

Ann Johnson is a Saint Louis-based artist who finds inspiration in community art, natural rhythms, light, and the pendulum swings between order and chaos. Johnson will be exhibiting a further exploration of sign-making techniques using trim cap and frosted acrylic diffusion. The LEDs are controlled using WLED. Inspired by water and the growth of spring.