Featured Artist
Ron Young
Mistake House Magazine: We’d like to begin with a question about materials and memory. In an interview with St. Louis Public Radio, you talk about riding through historically Black neighborhoods in North St. Louis, collecting bricks, burnt wood, and rusted metal from streets and neglected buildings, and reassembling these materials into sculptural forms in your studio. You point to …
Ron Young
Lost and Found The Art of Ronald Young I scrounge the alleys, boarded-up buildings and vacant lots of the city like an archeologist searching for buried treasure. The ghosts of a once thriving community have a story to tell, before all memory of their existence is erased. A treasure-trove of materials left behind for me to collect that help tell …
Ron Young
Ron Young
Ronald (Ron) Young, an artist and educator based in St. Louis, Missouri, channels stark realities of social, political, and cultural decay into his studio practice. His mixed-media sculptures are born from the remnants of a crumbling urban environment—weathered doors, rusted tools, decaying wood molding, and abandoned bricks, among other discarded objects. These materials, once symbols …