Upcoming Exhibitions
From Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program
Unconventional Wisdom
August 29 - October 26, 2008
Mike Elko, Ruthann Godollei
- Concurrent with exhibition MILLIONS OF INNOCENT ACCIDENTS
- Opening Reception: Thursday, August 28, 7:00 p.m.
- Artist-led Tour: Thursday, September 25, 7 p.m.
- Critic's Trialogue: Thursday, October 2, 7 p.m.
Ruthann Godollei and Mike Elko are print makers with sardonic senses of humor. Godollei's work comments on inequities, injustices and disparities via a series of symbolic containers and household items. Elko transforms idealized images of American life, family and politics into sly observations on contemporary culture.
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MILLIONS OF INNOCENT ACCIDENTS
August 29 - October 26, 2008
Hardland/Heartland
- Concurrent with exhibition Unconventional Wisdom
- Opening Reception: Thursday, August 28, 7:00 p.m.
- Artist-led Tour: Thursday, September 11, 7 p.m.
- Critic's Trialogue: Thursday, October 2, 7 p.m.
Hardland/Heartland, a creative group helmed by Eric Carlson and Aaron Anderson, offer a post-apocalyptic vision of the Midwest. Their mixed-media installations incorporate artists working in a variety of media from design, music, fashion, film, sculpture and architecture. Straddling the lines between the real and the fantastic HL/HL's narrative installations bend and twist with the will of participants and viewers.
Margaret Pezalla-Granlund and Max Schollett
November 14, 2008 - January 4, 2009
Margaret Pezalla-Granlund and Max Schollett
Margaret Pezalla-Granlund's and Max Schollett's works begin with common objects. Pezalla-Granlund has explored icebergs, parking ramps and skate parks. She recreates these objects in paper, photographing them at various stages of construction and deconstruction. Observing these mathematical models and their relationship to the geometry of our real world, she documents the complexities of navigating the spaces around us.
Max Schollett explores the relationship between effort, value and aesthetics in his altered objects through an intense focus of time and labor. Objects hover on the precipice between literal and acquired meaning, so that the object exists between the everyday and the unfamiliar.
Expanded Drawing
January 25 - March 16, 2009
Nicholas Conbere, Michelle Johnson, Jack Pavlik, Sonja Peterson
Nicholas Conberre, Michelle Johnson, Jack Pavlik and Sonja Peterson extend their use of line and the concept of drawing. Conberre's invented landscapes of layered drawings and photos create complex, dreamlike panoramas. Johnson's repetitive, overlapping patterns of calligraphic letters distort the original mark and create a new aesthetic identity. Pavik's kinetic sculptures create visual and aural narratives of form and movement. Petson's cut-out drawings farmland and wildlife play with ideas of perception and reality.
Sara Belleau and Nancy Robinson (Title TBA)
April 3, 2009 - May 31, 2009
Sara Belleau and Nancy Robinson
Sara Belleau and Nancy Robinson tap myth and folklore archetypes to tell tales both personal and universal.
Belleau’s photographs capture hand painted backgrounds and constructed sets that conjure elaborate tales. Her “Holy Land” series brings ancient stories from the Bible, Torah and Koran to life in a modern Minnesota vernacular. Drawing on stories common throughout to each of these texts, she explores shared traditions and cultures juxtaposed against the complicated political/social present.
Robinson’s boldly colored self-portraits create a stage in which she stars as a variety of iconic characters that are both humorous and surrealistic. Each character she embodies a distilled memory that transforms her life story into fable.
