STOP:See

August 30 - September 17
Opening: Friday, August 30th, 6-9pm, Gallery 148, Main Building
Artist Talk: Thursday, September 12th, 7pm, Auditorium 140, Main Building
Co-curated by Carolyn Swiszcz and Nathanael Flink

Madeleine Kaudy and Mubarak Al–Thani will present selections from their parallel but distinct bodies of work that focus on the texture and expansiveness of urban spaces. Through this shared trajectory of creating place-based compositions, the works in STOP:See examine the process of stopping and observing inside cityscapes. To understand one's own relationship to space begins with a process of clarifying what is necessary to be a witness to looming dangers, joyfulness, curiosity, and transcending visual boundaries. 

About the Artists:

Madeleine Kaudy's ('25) work explores human spaces and dwellings through observation of artificial light and urban structures, mapping form and color to states of mind. Her practice continues to expand to encompass various themes including landscape and abstract constructions. Her intuitive process continually departs from the rules of a given genre, blending materiality in a personal manner that reflects a range of experience:; longing, safety, freedom of process, and continual integration.

https://www.mkaudyarts.com
https://www.instagram.com/mkaudyarts

Mubarak Al-Thani’s ('25) paintings and sculptures explore the core essence of cities by deconstructing and infusing urban elements together. The works transcend traditional spatial boundaries by blending the indoors with the outdoors and home with travel. Designed and built by humans, cities are imperfect too – just as humans are. They suffer from chronic asymmetry, crookedness, visual irregularities, miscalculations, perspective errors, jumbling and crumbling. Mubarak’s work examines this imperfection through linearity and curvature, striking a balance between rigidity and playfulness.

http://www.mubaraknasser.com
https://www.instagram.com/mbarak_althani

About the Curators:

Carolyn Swiszcz earned a BFA in printmaking at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1994. Swiszcz is the recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships and has exhibited nationally, including a recent solo exhibition at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery in New York. She is renowned for her uncanny, yet affectionate landscapes and building exteriors, employing a wide range of painting and printmaking techniques, vibrant colors, and distinctive patterns.

https://www.carolynswiszcz.com
https://www.instagram.com/carolyn_swiszcz

Nathanael Flink earned a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1994. He has curated exhibitions in Minnesota and held solo exhibitions in South Korea, recently in Chattanooga, Tennessee and locally. He has exhibited in group exhibitions nationally. He is represented in Minnesota by Veronique Wantz gallery. Flink's aesthetic vocabulary involves a searching for emotive and pure gestures that suggest a relationship with other compositional elements.

https://www.nathanaelflink.com
https://www.instagram.com/nathanaelflink