Valerie Jenkins and Laura Stack

VALERIE JENKINS and LAURA STACK debut new DRAWINGS and PAINTINGS in their third exhibition together at Rosalux Gallery. Both artists delve into abstraction as a means of understanding the mysteries of life and the dynamics of culture. View their artwork: http://www.laurastackart.com/
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LAURA STACK'S HYPER-COLOR PAINTINGS allude to a cellular, bodily or chemical world with its own rules and physics. Her work suggests paradoxes and simultaneities; the paradox that living things can now embody synthetic elements, the simultaneity of flatness and depth, and the illusions and sensations of movement that can be suggested within still images. The paintings are an imaginative mirroring of the constantly shifting, mysterious questions that define our relationship with the physical world. Funded by the Minnesota State Arts Board http://www.arts.state.mn.us/images/logos/msab_logo_bw_small.gif

VALERIE JENKINS EXPLORES HOW PERCEPTION is shaped by cultural experience, how interpretation is conditioned by perception, and the way meaning filters through the significance of being and the banality of everyday life. In her new series titled ‘Figure/Ground” drawings and objects interrelate through an economy of means. Form results through a distillation of events, people and places. When viewed together, Valerie’s work functions as a lexicon of experience that is particular to the urban environment and cultural moment.

About the artists:
LAURA STACK is a 2015 recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Artists Initiative Grant in addition to grants including Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant and Minnesota State Arts Board Artists Initiative Grant in 2002. She has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally at A.I.R. (NYC), National Galleries of Scotland, The Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh, Scotland), Sam Francis Gallery (CA), Minneapolis Institute of Art (MN), Minnesota Museum of American Art (MN) and Soo Visual Arts Center (MN). Laura’s work has been published and reviewed in Art in America, New American Paintings, International Drawing Annual, Art Papers and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She has a BFA and MFA in painting and is a University of Minnesota art faculty where she teaches Drawing and Painting.

VALERIE JENKINS lives and works in NE Minneapolis. She has exhibited her work nationally and Internationally including the Elmhurst Museum of Art, (IL), Weisman Art Museum (MN), Tucker Cooke Gallery, Ashville (NC), Minnesota Museum of American Art, Missouri State University Art and Design Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, The Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh, Scotland), Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery. She has received several grants and fellowships for her work including the Minnesota State Arts Board Artists Initiative grant, McKnight Artists Fellowship and National Endowment of the Arts Midwest Fellowship. Valerie’s work has been published by Manifest Creative Research Gallery in INDA 5: International Drawing Annual and New American Painting. She has a BFA and MFA and teaches at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota.

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