Encounters

This first exhibition of JXTA Contemporary Lab artists in the art center’s new galleryopens December 7th.This exhibition showcases the various found-object-driven sculptural works of 7 apprenticing youngartists ages 16-20: Cristina Lumppio, Ella Alden Pope, Harmonee Harrison, Henry Adams, Janai Ford, Myles Pohlman, and Tano Unpingco. 

Encounters features works made almost entirely from items found in and around JXTA, namely those items found up and down West Broadway in North Minneapolis. Wood slats become cages, empty bottles turn into sharded soil, rusted metal to altars, discarded bedposts to columns and detritus to live and operable instrument. 

Contemporary apprentices began this project in September, studying, critiquing, and discussing the work of contemporary artists who deal with found objects as guided by Contemporary lab lead and practicing artist Cameron Patricia Downey. Artists studied by the apprentices included but were not limited: Gabriel Orozco, Theaster Gates, Lauren Halsey, Betye Saar, Nick Cage, Rose Salane, Ai Wei Wei, Rashid Johnson, David Hammons, and more. 

Gallery Hours: 

10am-4pm M-Th 

By appointment Fri-Sat: contactus@juxtaposition.org 

About JXTA:  

Juxtaposition Arts is a teen-staffed art and design center, gallery, retail shop, and artists’ studio space in North Minneapolis. Juxtaposition Arts develops community by engaging and employing young urban artists in hands-on education initiatives that create pathways to self-sufficiency while actualizing creative power. Learn more about JXTA at www.juxtapositionarts.org