EVENTS FOR THIS WEEK IN
FEBRUARY, 2012
New Work, Cause Sprit and Sound Bar 3001 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408
TODAY, FEBRUARY 4, 7pm
New mixed media paintings by William Sattler and others.
2638 Lyndale Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55408 [Map]
FEBRUARY 11, 2012 6:00 - 9:00pm
Jehra Patrick investigates the impact of institutional structure on art history and artistic production.
On February 22nd at 7PM please join Soo Visual Arts Center for a conversation with Jehra Patrick and Jill Vuchetich, archivist at the Walker Art Center, in a candid discussion about the role of archives within a contemporary art museum and how diachronic documentation of museums and art have influenced Patrick's work.
ONGOING EVENTS
New Work, FEBRUARY, 4 — MARCH, 31
Cause Sprit and Sound Bar 3001 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408
New mixed media paintings by William Sattler and others.
Working Title 3, FEBRUARY, 3 — FEBRUARY, 17
CO Exhibitions, 1101 Stinson Blvd NE Minneapolis MN 55413
[MAP]A celebration of creative collaboration and an experiment in evolution. Each week, artwork that's left unsold is repurposed by the artists and presented again. Only two weeks left.
Crossing Borders, FEBRUARY, 3 — FEBRUARY, 23
Altered Esthetics, 1224 Quincy St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
[MAP]Artists explore how past and present immigration shapes our cultures, communities, and families.
Image features María Korol - Father and daughter (from the Colombian Paintings series)
Black and White, FEBRUARY, 2 — FEBRUARY, 4
Northrup King Building, 1500 Jackson Street Northeast Minneapolis, MN 55413
[MAP]A Studiopolis Group show based on the theme BLACK and WHITE. More info at http://studiopolisarts.weebly.com
Not About Bombs, JANUARY, 31 — MARCH, 3
Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55408
[MAP]A collection of contemporary works by eminent female Iraqi artists explores an identity in flux.
Curated by Tricia Khutoretsky.
Presented by The Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project and Intermedia Arts.
Illo Minn 3, FEBRUARY, 2 — MARCH, 3
College of Visual Arts, 173 Western Avenue North Saint Paul, MN 55102
[MAP]A biennial Illustration exhibition celebrating the unique and inventive work of select Minnesota illustrators. Each participating illustrator will exhibit a printed illustration accompanied by its original artwork, an additional original artwork of their choice, and a Moleskine with a cover individually decorated by the illustrator.
African M Pulse, JANUARY, 28 — MARCH, 31
Obsidian Arts, 3501 Chicago Avenue Suite 220 Minneapolis, MN 55407
[MAP]A survey of the creative use of bi-cultural circumstance by four contemporary artists .Featured artists include Daniel Kerkhoff, Abraham Quaidoo, Jr., Adama Sow, Amma Aning Odum, and Asokipala.
Working Title , JANUARY, 27 — FEBRUARY, 17
CO Exhibitions, 1101 Stinson Blvd NE Minneapolis MN 55413
[MAP]The opening night at Working Title was a smash! Don't miss out on night 2. If a piece of artwork has not yet been sold from the show, the artists may grab it from the wall and add something to it or alter it as they see fit. Throughout the course of four weekly openings, you can come see how the artwork evolves.
No Dancing 1990-97, JANUARY, 27 — MARCH, 1
Shoebox Gallery, 2948 Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55407
[MAP]A collaborative installation by Minneapolis based artists Sarah Ann and Chris Hontos. The installation is a sited interface with the gallery's commercial surroundings in the form of a misguided protest.
Biblical Narratives, JANUARY, 17 — MARCH, 9
Nina Bliese Gallery, 222 South 6th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402
[MAP]Colorful religious paintings and prints by Chinese artist He Qi.
Poison And Candy, JANUARY, 26 — MAY, 6
Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55403
[MAP]A survey of some 40 works by Frank Gaard featuring portraits of friends, family, and fellow artists from the mid-'80s to the present; a suite of new paintings with a recurring pony motif; and illustrations from Art Police, the cult zine Gaard published from 1974 to 1994.
Juicy Steak Moustache, JANUARY, 14 — MARCH, 10
Anita Sue Kolman Gallery, Northrup King Building
1500 Jackson Street NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
[MAP]Playful and fanciful yet serious art by Betsy Ruth Byers, Kate Casanova, Kyle Fokken, Josephine A. Geiger, Joan Malkerson, Dan Mather, Kelly Jean Ohl, Atom Pechman, Patrick Kemal Pryor, and Karl Unnasch
Landscape, JANUARY, 20 — FEBRUARY, 18
Two Tigers Gallery, Northwind Lofts Building 2400 N 2nd Street Minneapolis, MN 55411
[MAP]An exhibit exploring the landscape from Kendall Bohn, Nguyen Quang Duc, Susan Wagner Ginter, Nguyen Quoc Huy, Cindy Jagodzinski, Cynthia Kath, Dao Anh Khanh, and Patrick Kelley
Ahmoo Angeconeb, JANUARY, 11 — FEBRUARY, 11
Bockley Gallery, 2123 West 21st Street Minneapolis, MN 55405
[MAP]Works on paper by Canadian artist Ahmoo Angeconeb.
Intersections, JANUARY, 17 — FEBRUARY, 26
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2501 Stevens Avenue South Minneapolis, MN
[MAP]An exhibition that brings together the collaborative projects of fourteen teams of artists composed of women art department chairs from the greater Twin Cities area and their students and alumni.
Standards and 90 Degrees South, JANUARY, 20 — APRIL, 1
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55404
[MAP]Working with the documentary photographs from early expeditions, Chris Willcox creates painterly pastiches that capture the beautifully bleak Arctic landscape. She also makes psychological group portraits of these Heroic Age explorers.
Painter Mark Ostapchuk combines a frenetic color palette with controlled compositions, thin glazes with textured and burnished layers of paint. Ostapchuk calls this new suite of paintings "standards," in order to link his project as a painter to his knowledge of music, especially jazz.
Art Shanty Projects, JANUARY, 14 — FEBRUARY, 5
Art Shanty Projects, 1920 E Medicine Lake Blvd Minneapolis, MN 55441
[MAP]An artist driven temporary community exploring the ways in which relatively unregulated public spaces can be used as new and challenging artistic environments to expand notions of what art can be.
Connections, JANUARY, 5 — FEBRUARY, 4
Form+Content Gallery, 210 North 2nd Street, Minneapolis MN 55401
[MAP]18 images with a common thread. An exhibition of a new artists book designed by Jody Williams and Jim Dryden.
A Moment Stays, JANUARY, 13 — FEBRUARY, 26
Burnet Gallery at Chambers Hotel, 901 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
[MAP]An exhibition of more than 20 silkscreen prints, off-set lithographs and small mixed-media paper sculptures by Minnesota native, Drew Peterson.
You Are Not A Dinosaur, JANUARY, 9 — FEBRUARY, 10
Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, 250 3rd Avenue North, Minneapolis, Mn 55401
[MAP]You Are Not a Dinosaur is a group exhibition of work by Minneapolis photographers. The installation shows each artist's interpretation of a narrative written by Bruce Holland Rogers titled 'Dinosaur' wherein a man's entire life passes in two brief paragraphs. Artists in the exhibition include Chuck Avery, Andrea Cole, Mike Dvorak, Osama Esid, Victor Keller, Dan Marshall, Steve Ozone, Paula Warn, Tim White.
Preoccupied, JANUARY, 13 — MARCH, 3
Gallery 122 , 122 8th Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55414
[MAP]A collection of woodblock prints and handmade, 3-D wallpaper collages from printmakers Edie Overturf and Lauren Schuppe, co-founders of LEG UP Studios.
This is not a Place, JANUARY, 12 — FEBRUARY, 11
XYandZ, 3258 Minnehaha Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55406
[MAP]A multi-media installation debuting film, sculpture, and photo work from Isaac Gale and David Jensen's ongoing film project for notable Eau Claire-based band, Bon Iver.
Entanglement, DECEMBER, 17 — APRIL, 17
Fox Tax Gallery, 503 1st Ave NE Minneapolis, MN 55413
[MAP]A group exhibition of collage curated by Hannah Frick.
For this opening party, artists will not only have original works displaying many varying uses of collage, but many will also be donating small pieces that will be wrapped as gifts and sold sight unseen for $100 each! Proceeds from these gift sales will be given to the Children's Cancer Research Fund.
Regarding Place, DECEMBER, 15 — FEBRUARY, 4
Katherine E. Nash Gallery, 405 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455
[MAP]Two exhibitions that explore the relationship of photography and the experience of place. Also showing, Paul Shambroom - Power and Place
Twenty, DECEMBER, 9 — FEBRUARY, 4
Highpoint Center for Printmaking, 912 Lake Street West Minneapolis, MN 55408
[MAP]The 20th Cooperative Exhibition, celebrating 10 years of semi-annual exhibitions with more than 50 prints by current Co-op Members.
Image by Miriam Rudolph
Stick Stones, DECEMBER, 9 — FEBRUARY, 9
Thomas Barry Fine Arts, 900 6th Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
[MAP]New work by Ruben Nusz exploring the non-verbal language of painting as well as the metaphysics associated with painting's potential for illusions.
Flying Solo, NOVEMBER, 19 — FEBRUARY, 18
HAUS Salon, 4240 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55409
[MAP]Installations and wall pieces by street artist HOTTEA. Curated by Emma Berg of mplsart.
Camera as Passport, NOVEMBER, 4 — MARCH, 13
Ice Box, 1500 Jackson St. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
[MAP]Latvian born photographer Ulvis Alberts wil be exhibiting thirty of his most iconic images for the very first time in the Midwest. On the basis of his short and documentary films, Ulvis Alberts was invited to audit the filmmaker's program at the American Film Institute in Beverly Hills. With Albert's still camera becoming his 'visit card', he was able to photograph some of the most celebrated movie personalities of the 1970's and early 1980's including Groucho Marx, Christopher Reeve, John Wayne, Nick Nolte, Paul Newman and others.
Photo: Paul McCartney, Linda and Friends, Hollywood 2/10 1975 Courtesy of the Icebox Gallery and Ulvis Alberts
