At This Point… Three Spaces for Contemplation

NewStudio Gallery welcomes visitors to experience, online and in the gallery (by appointment, with safety and cleaning measures in place), three new installations by three Twin Cities women artists addressing the crises of our time. Curated by gallery director Camille LeFevre, “At this Point… Three Spaces for Contemplation” features immersive work by Jovan Speller, Tia Keobounpheng (Tia Keo), and Rebecca Krinke. 

The exhibition will have a virtual opening Saturday, October 10th, from 5 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.  Watch our Facebook and Instagram pages for details and access to: a curator and artists’ tour of the installations at 5:15, and a live artists’ talk at 6:00 p.m. We will also host a live, by-invitation-only opening, with three visitors allowed access each half hour from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Beginning October 14, the gallery will be open to four visitors every half hour between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m., who have pre-registered (information coming soon). The exhibition closes Saturday, November 21, 2020.

“When a caterpillar enters its chrysalis, it dissolves itself, quite literally into liquid. In this state, what was a caterpillar and will be a butterfly is neither one nor the other, it’s a sort of living soup. Within this living soup are the imaginal cells that will catalyse its transformation into winged maturity. May the best among us, the most visionary, the most inclusive, be the imaginal cells—for now we are in the soup. The outcome of disasters is not foreordained.”  – Rebecca Solnit

The artists were selected for the singular ways in which they address, through their personal aesthetic lenses and artistic sensibilities, the crises with which we’re now contending, including racism, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ecological and economic collapse. Their work wasn’t chosen to fit seamlessly together, but rather to resonate with, complement, and add meaning to each other. Exemplars of the “imaginal cells” author Rebecca Solnit references, Speller, Keobounpheng, and Krinke provide ways in which to understand the times in which we’re living and pathways leading to personal and social change.

For more information or images, to arrange a studio visit, or to schedule an interview with the artists, please contact Camille LeFevre