Michael Banning / Kristie Bretzke

MICHAEL BANNING - HOUSE & UNIVERSE
KRISTIE BRETZKE - NEW WORK
 

These exhibitions will be viewable by appointment only. See Groveland's website to arrange an appointment. Tuesdays thru Saturdays: 12 - 5 pm


About the Artists
Michael Banning was born in Boulder, Colorado in 1966. He received his BFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his MFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Banning’s oil paintings and drawings of contemporary American urban, industrial, and domestic landscapes have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, and New York.

Banning is the recipient of grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, and the City of Chicago, where he lived for a period of time. Banning and his wife, artist Melanie Pankau, live in Minneapolis. Banning now teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.

Kristie Bretzke received her BFA degree from the University of Minnesota where she studied studio art and art history. Bretzke’s recent solo exhibitions include Kristie Bretzke: Portraits at Traffic Zone Gallery in Minneapolis and Kristie Bretzke: Eye of the Beholder at XYandZ Gallery, also in Minneapolis.

Bretzke’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including shows at Winfield Gallery in Carmel, California and the Kaiping Art Museum in Kaiping, China. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Centre D’Art (2012), in Marnaysur-Seine, France; Palazzo Rinaldi (2012), in Noepoli, Italy; and the Kunstlerhaus (2010), in Salzburg, Austria. Bretzke is an artist-member of the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, a prominent artist cooperative located in the historic Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis, where she maintains her painting studio. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art and at Public Functionary, an innovative new exhibition space in Minneapolis. She also serves on the committee for Art 4 Shelter.