Free Radicals: Remixing History Through the Power of Print

Free Radicals: Remixing History Through the Power of Print

A group exhibition of artworks in the printmaking medium that reference history and politics - featuring local and national artists.

The Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota presents Free Radicals: Remixing History Through the Power of Print. This exhibition considers the power of associative thinking and historical mash-ups in the print medium. Graphic media inherently offers artists the potential to remix or reference history. The artists on this exhibition discuss revolution and employ metaphor in sampling and in the free combination of history and politics that might be more limiting in other disciplines. The pursuit of free association may not appear to be directly activist, but the use of artistic license to draw on the subconscious may be a tool for the deconstruction of assumed paradigms. The exhibitions is curated by Jenny Schmid, Professor of Art, and Howard Oransky, Director of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery.

Artists included in the exhibition: Sandow Birk, Randy Bolton, Julie Buffalohead, Enrique Chagoya, Sue Coe, Wille Cole, Jim Denomie, Fred Hagstrom, John Hitchcock and Emily Arthur, Barbara Kruger, Michael Krueger, Glenn Ligon, Hung Liu, Emmy Lingscheit, Martin Mazorra, Kristin Powers Nowlin, Andrew Raftery, Robert Rauschenberg, John Risseeuw, Roger Shimomura, Lorna Simpson, Piotr Szyhalski, Tonja Torgerson, Ericka Walker, and Valerie Wallace.
 

Opening Reception
Thursday, February 25, 2016
7:00 – 8:00 pm Public Program with Jenny Schmid and Tonja Torgerson
8:00 – 10:00 pm Public Reception

Image Credit: Julie Buffalohead, Revisionist History Lesson, 2014, Lithograph, 24.5 x 30.25 in.

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