50th Art Show

50th Art Show

Join 801 Gallery for their 50th Art show featuring the art of Jim Ockuly, Ben Gessner and Meleck Davis.

Come to enjoy art, live music and complimentary wine, beverages and chocolate.

Opening night is an opportunity for the people to meet the artists and to view this expansive show. 

Music by Spectralgeist, Atmospheric Rock with Meleck Davis and guest musicians

About the Artists:

Jim Ockuly
I’m showing two sets of paintings, which I made more than 30 years apart. They have similar themes, elements, color palette, and graphic style. I’ve always been curious about what it means to be human. I’m still learning. 
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Ben Gessner
As a child I felt deeply, innocently, connected to the land around me in rural southeastern Minnesota; as an adult I learned much more about the violence that the land held and the people who were harmed so that I could later experience this joyful connection. When I draw and paint landscapes, what I see before me competes with - sometimes tears apart - my loving nostalgia and memory, in the same way new knowledge and truths displace innocent understandings. 

Meleck Davis
This collection reimagines the art and objects that filled my childhood home. I conflated my young aesthetic, science-fiction, anime and pop-music, with items from my parents' collections. These pieces also represent, for me, the meditative exercise of creation. I allowed myself to focus on the joy of the process and to trust it to be an equal partner of the end result. 

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