Forever Young

As ice and snow recede from our Minnesota shorelines making space for Spring to reemerge, this group art show leans into these slushy happy days of promised seasonal change, everything becoming fresh and new again!

It also features beloved and missed artists works which have been largely held back from public viewing and purchase opportunities. This gorgeous collection of oil and watercolor paintings, Plein Air works, bronze sculptures from 14” to 50”, prints, and etchings have been collected in the spirit of growth and imminent Spring. Experience the exuberance captured in gouache, oil, bronze, graphite, fresh colors, emerging landscapes, and new opportunities as winter melts away.

FOREVER YOUNG – Group Exhibition celebrates our Groveland Gallery artist community including Don Biehn, Katherine Steichen Rosing, Rya Priede, Joshua Cunningham, Paula Gustafson, Max Steele, Gunda Luss, Karen Savage Blue, Farida Hughes, Andrew Wykes, Clara Ueland, Josephine Prins, and Avigail Manneberg. These artists continue to expand the Minneapolis arts community reflecting the world with great care. As we collectively warm to the ending of winter and celebrate spring, Groveland Gallery invites you to remember, reimagine, and grow among their powerful pieces.

FOREVER YOUNG – Group Exhibition will serve both an homage to as well as an introduction of Granlund, Rowan and Murray’s work to a new generation of viewers. Groveland Gallery is proud to highlight Paul Granlund, Herman “Hank” Rowan, and William “Bill” Murray works from several decades of their lives. These notable artists are beloved by so many both regionally and world-wide. They have inspired generations of artists through the many students they have taught and public places their artwork has graced.

Paul Granlund, whose sculptures are universally appreciated for their graceful movement, human forms and interactions between father and son, mother and baby, Phoenix (boy taken to almost flight), Constellation (human figures as though a globe) many featuring parents, lovers and saints excluding imagery, meaning, and interconnectedness. Through his sculptures Paul sings the stories of the universe expanding, generations evolving, and unending endings and beginnings. This Groveland Gallery collection includes numerous smaller model sized sculptures created during the process of creating the larger public sized sculptures. Paul Granlund’s largest bronze works grace Westminster Church in downtown Minneapolis, The University of Minnesota Arboretum, Como Zoo and Conservatory and Gustavus Adolphus College as well as installed within Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney and more! His wife recounts Paul’s favorite phrase – “There is something that I’ve got to get out of the barrel” (of clay!) This exhibition is fortunate to display and sell eight of Paul Granlund’s original concept framed pencil drawings.

Herman “Hank” Rowan was a Minneapolis arts icon and adored University of Minnesota Professor of Art whose students have become some of the most prominent artists and art educators in Minnesota and beyond. The Groveland Gallery’s FOREVER YOUNG – Group Exhibition showcases several of Hank Rowan’s works from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. His paintings evolved from darker colors in the 50’s to the pastoral landscape of softer colors and shapes of his 70’s work. His joy, exuberance, and love of sharing art with our community has bolstered the Groveland Gallery community for over 50 years. His family is generously providing his works, with 50-60 works soon to be available to the public at Groveland Gallery for the first time. Hank Rowan’s paintings are in the collections of the MIA, Walker Art Center and Weissman Museum.

William “Bill” Murray graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and earned his MFA from the University of Minnesota. Murray began teaching art at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater in the 1970’s, creating such a successful program that other institutions around the country began modeling his methods. William Murray joined Groveland Gallery in 1997. Groveland Gallery continues to exhibit and sell “Bill’s” elegant paintings which often depict Northern Minnesota, the Great Lakes, the BWCA region, and a favorite of his – trains. His work recounts the shape of the landscape and the weight of the weather in our great Northern region.

Gallery Hours:
Tuesdays - Saturdays 12 to 5pm