Keeper of Memories: A Celebration of Works by Gerry Trilling is our current exhibition in collaboration with her husband, Howard Trilling, to remember and celebrate Gerry Trilling’s life throughout her career and work as an artist.

Gerry Trilling was a conceptual artist who presented a personal recounting of the history and assimilation of the American Jewish Diaspora in exquisite deadpan. Her parents escaped the Holocaust, relocating to St. Louis where she grew up in a community of immigrants viewing identity, assimilation and belonging as linked to home environments and material culture.

While Trilling used a variety of fabrics to mark the passage of time, she was not nostalgic. She embraced our contemporary material culture, itself omnivorous in the extreme. Nothing was off limits in her unsentimental investigation of the passage from greenhorn to assimilation. Materials, patterns, and certain numerical codes were her conceptual signifiers. Her work insists that you, the viewer, reach into your own personal place of memory and association. Trilling’s work is featured in the collections of the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Gerry Trilling was an Alumni of the Studios Inc. artist residency program from 2015 to 2017.

Studios Inc will be hosting First Friday September 5th from 5 – 8 pm. All are encouraged to come and celebrate Gerry Trilling, and welcome to bring photos to add to a wall of memories for her. The exhibition will be open from August 1st, to September 26th.

Gallery hours are Wednesdays through Friday 10 am to 4 pm, and Saturdays 12 pm to 4 pm.