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Generation Abstraction | College of Visual Arts
173 Western Avenue North Saint Paul, MN 55102
MARCH
11, 2010 |
6:00 - 8:00pm
Selections from the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Mining the rich collection of the MMAA, this exhibition probes the question of what makes the abstract image continue to speak to our imaginations, our experiences, and our emotions. |
If Not It, Then What? | Burnet Gallery at Chambers Hotel
901 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
MARCH
12, 2010 |
6:00 - 9:00 pm
Local artist Allen Brewer has amassed more than 75 drawings that deal with and address early perceptual meaning and personal context. The images range from colored pencil drawings that resemble abstract flash-cards, to 'carbon etchings' on found, era-specific papers.
The process is time-intensive, and the body of work reflects the personal search for new descriptions, by means of skewing and re-appropriating text and context. |
Hit Like a Girl | PINK HOBO Gallery
507 E Hennepin Ave,
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55413
MARCH
12, 2010 |
7:00 - 11:00pm
The Minnesota RollerGirls along with Pink Hobo and PBR present the first Pink Hobo show of 2010. A group show featuring unedited artist's interpretation of the theme, 'Hit Like a Girl'.
Come buy a few affordable prints from your favorite artists and help support a great charity -Foundation IX - an organization that helps eliminate cost as an obstacle for girls to participate in sport and organized fitness.
All beer and wine tips will be given contributed to Foundation IX.
Come out and meet some of your favorite MN RollerGirls, artists, and get some free PBR. Buy some MNRG merch. Learn about how you cna be a RollerGirl, or help Foundation IX.
Confirmed artists include: Eyo Peters, Mitch Loidolt, Eric Judycki, Iqvinder Singh, Jeremy Sengly, Colin Strandberg, Tuesday Bassen, Sean Smuda, Mike Owens, TENEBRINI, Lon Jerome, Kimberly Tschida Petters, Matt Schubbe, Adam Hoganson, Cory Loven, Keith Herzik, Sam Anderson, Nick Heisick, Amy Jo Hendrickson
Sponsored by the Pabst Blue Ribbon. |
Readers Art | Susan Hensel Gallery
3441 Cedar Ave South, Minneapolis MN 55407
MARCH
12, 2010 |
7pm
An international survey show of artists books celebrating it's tenth year at Susan Hensel Gallery. Over 2 dozen local, national and international artists were chosen by curator, Jon Coffelt, including local emerging and established artists: Jody Williams, Mike Mason, Georgia Greeley, Nora Lee Mc Gillivray, Jodi Reeb-Meyers, Regula Russelle, Sue Bjerke, Debora Miller,Cole Hoyer-Winfield, Harriet Bart and Chip Schilling. |
Last Look: Dialogue with Tim Peterson and Megan Vossler | Franklin Art Works
1021 East Franklin Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55404
MARCH
13, 2010 |
6:30 - 9:30 pm
Franklin Art Works presents an open dialogue between Megan Vossler and Tim Peterson, Franklin Art Works' director and curator.
Vossler and Peterson will discuss the artist's past and current work, accompanied by a multimedia presentation and QandA with the audience. This is a great chance to meet the artist and see the exhibition one more time before it closes on Saturday, March 20.
A reception will follow the event. |
Art Squared Fundraiser | Tillie\'s Bean 1931 Nicollet Ave So, Mpls
MARCH
13, 2010 |
7:00 - 10:00pm
Stevens Square Community Organization presents an art sale and fundraiser to benefit the Cinema and Civics movies-in-the-park series, the two-day Red Hot Art festival, and other public arts programming in the Stevens Square-Loring Heights neighborhood of central Minneapolis.
Work by dozens of Twin Cities artists will be exhibited and made available for purchase as well as live painting by members of the Rogue Citizen art collective. |
Conjured Memories | MARCH, 6 — APRIL, 4
Stevens Square Center for the Arts | 1905 3rd Avenue South Minneapolis, MN
J. M. Culver's first solo exhibition is a series of narrative work that depicts childhood memories integrating universal themes of the human condition - a celebration of life at its darkest and brightest points. J. M. Culver narrates her experience of growing up with a schizophrenic grandfather and the impact of this relationship. |
Chainduit | MARCH, 6 — MAY, 1
VanBrabson Gallery | 3600 Cedar Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Bicycles have an anatomy of purpose - form follows function. They are also works of art. Chainduit's new fixtures are an attempt at isolating and prioritizing what is naturally beautiful in the shape and color of bicycles before their original function. Whenever possible they have been created out of whole parts. |
Work at MCAD Double Shifts | FEBRUARY, 26 — MARCH, 21
Minneapolis College of Art and Design | 2501 Stevens Avenue South Minneapolis, MN
For the first time since 2006, the MCAD Concourse Gallery is exhibiting work by College staff from all departments and areas. Work at MCAD: Double Shifts is a unique opportunity for Minneapolis College of Art and Design employees to showcase their creative work. The exhibition is split into two back-to-back 'shifts.' |
Structured Intimacy | MARCH, 5 — MARCH, 12
Minneapolis College of Art and Design | 2501 Stevens Avenue South Minneapolis, MN
Artists Derek Ernster and Austin Swearengin have worked closely together for a number of years, stylistically challenging and aiding each other’s progression as studio artists. While taking cues from similar artists and movements, each has forged a distinctive ideology that compliments and confronts the other's. This exhibition features large-scale sculpture, site-specific installation, and painting. |
VANCE GELLERT | MARCH, 5 — APRIL, 30
Shoebox Gallery | 2948 Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55407
Exploring the divergence and reconvergence of traditional and scientific methods of healing, Vance Gellerts photography examines the conditions under which we believe healing is possible. Dr. Gellert reprises some of his work with shamans and curanderos of South America and juxtaposes it with a newer body done at Abbott Northwest Hospital in Mpls of MRI machines, brain and robot surgery. |
Flat Line | MARCH, 5 — MARCH, 21
Sellout | 1500 Jackson Street NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
For its final exhibition, SELLOUT departs from the three-artist format utilized since its inception, focusing instead on a larger group of disparate artists from all types of backgrounds and media. This show will bring to the forefront flat, linear works that the gallery has in the past featured in its flat file. Among the artists featured will be artists who had worked with SELLOUT in the past and those that are new to the gallery including John Alspach, Aaron Anderson, TJ Barnes, Elizabeth Jeffries Barnes, Ute Bertog, Allen Brewer, Eric Carlson, Isa Gagarin, Ben Garthus, Chris Held, Jason Lahr, Ginny Maki, Megan McCready, Scott Nedrelow, Jennifer Nevitt, Chris Held, Kristen Mooney, David Peterson, Crystal Quinn, Tim Roby, Bruce Tapola, Tectonic Industries, Eric Ullanderson, Pamela Valfer, and others.
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Gender | MARCH, 4 — MARCH, 27
Altered Esthetics | 1224 Quincy St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
An artistic exploration on the creative aspects and manifestations of gender - male, female, transgender, gender-queer. The exhibit includes artwork from over 30 artists, with a variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography, textile, serigraphy, and linoleum relief print. |
With Our Eyes | MARCH, 5 — APRIL, 1
Augsburg College | 2211 Riverside Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55454
A series of over 30 black and white photographs that offer an intimate view of the Karen community in the Twin Cities. The photographs were created during a five-week community project that paired Karen high school students with seven Augsburg College students. Showing in the Gage Family Art Gallery. |
Paper, Glass, Metal | MARCH, 5 — APRIL, 10
Groveland Gallery | 25 Groveland Terrace Minneapolis, MN 55403
Artist Michael Kareken continues to explore the themes he so eloquently described and painted over the last few years. Inspired by his interest in the recycling plant located next to his studio building, Kareken created images of large piles of scrap material - paper, glass, metal - pondering their similarity to landscape forms. |
Abstract Resistance | FEBRUARY, 27 — MAY, 23
Walker Art Center | 1750 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55403
Now-legendary figures as well as younger artists who have revolted against the aesthetic orthodoxies of their times are featured in the Walker Art Center exhibition Abstract Resistance. Nearly 40 works ranging from the 1950s to a brand-new commission do not conform to a single theme, but are united in challenging what is expected of art, from the way it looks to the role it plays in society at large. |
New Land of Milk and Honey | FEBRUARY, 20 — APRIL, 4
Soap Factory | 520 2nd Street Southeast Minneapolis, MN
A new project by local artists Brett Smith, Erin Smith, and Annie Larson. New Land of Milk and Honey brings together performance, fashion, design, and visual art in a low-brow Gesamtkunstwerk. |
Girls with Special Guests, Boys | FEBRUARY, 13 — MARCH, 15
Umber Studios | 3109 East 42nd St., Minneapolis MN 55406
Last year Umber Studios greeted Valentines Day with fingers crossed and punchy hearts. The show was a spectacular success, and they are absolutely daring to repeat it. Umber Studios presents: GIRLS, with special guests, BOYS, opening on the eve of Valentines Day. DC Ice, Jessica Helvey, Rebecca Sullivan and Torey Bonar will return with their chosen counterparts and special guests - 4 boys. Let the push and pull of sweet hearts and wicked love begin! |
Thrift Children Phuture Psyence | FEBRUARY, 12 — MARCH, 31
Cliche | 2403 Lyndale Avenue Minneapolis MN 55405
Illustrations by Matt Rector.
Opening reception to include music by Snare and Racquet as well as 20 percent off purchases. |
Common Sense | FEBRUARY, 5 — MAY, 23
Weisman Art Museum | 333 East River Road Minneapolis, MN 55455
The problem of the everyday is central to much of the most enduring and challenging twentieth-century art. Common Sense features works from the Weisman collection that reveal how art throughout the last century celebrated and investigated ideas of the everyday and the common. Featuring work by Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, John Sloan, Thomas Hart Benton, Nina Katchadourian, and Isabel Bishop, Common Sense explores dichotomies between ordinary and extraordinary and between individualism and common, or shared, ideals. |
Seven Meals | JANUARY, 24 — MARCH, 18
Conduit Gallery | 1300 Quincy St NE, Minneapolis MN 55413
It’s been said only seven meals separate civilization from anarchy. Minneapolis artist Rachel Breen examines this concept in a new installation of drawing and sewn paper. Breen’s textured abstractions will wrap around the one-room gallery that welcomes visitors to the office of Dr. Sam Willis. The artist’s work presents contrasts of light, dark, movement and shape, coaxing emotional responses and triggers of memory in viewers. |
Sound Signals | JANUARY, 29 — MARCH, 20
Franklin Art Works | 1021 East Franklin Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55404
Megan Vossler presents a suite of drawings depicting a continuous landscape and narrative carried over multiple sheets of paper.
Also showing in the Project Space Saul Chernick - Devotionals and in the Video Gallery Kwabena Slaughter - Poetry of Facts |
Artform 1040 | JANUARY, 16 — APRIL, 15
Fox Tax Gallery | 503 1st Ave NE Minneapolis, MN 55413
The second of an annual series of art exhibits that spans the whole of tax season from January to April. For this year's exhibit, curator Emma Berg of mplsart.com pairs artists in a show full of unique, collaborative original works. Along with the original artwork, a limited edition 10 print series of each work will be sold for only $40 each.
Some of the 20 artists involved include Nicholas Harper, Ruben Nusz, John Grider, John Alspach, Megan Colleen, Bethany Kalk, John Fleischer, Josie Lewis, Michelle Westmark, Shawn McNulty, Deuce Seven, Rudy Fig, Mike Cina, Isaac Arvold, Jesse Draxler, Kevin Vereeke, Eric Carlson, John Vogt and more. |
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