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Category: Visual Art

23 paintings of plants on different surfaces in industrial space.
1Fidencio Fifield-Perez, dacament, 2016-present. Courtesy Night Club.

Places, Portals, and How to Look Wrong

Christina Schmid

An episodic journey through this summer’s art offerings in the Twin Cities, including exhibitions at Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Form + Content, HAIR + NAILS, David Petersen Gallery, Night Club, and Dreamsong

Tags: autobiographyceramicslandscapemythologypaintingPlacePrintmakingspectatorship
Two black and white portraits side by side, of people with medium dark skin and faces turned to camera with slight smiles.
1Leslie Barlow (left) and Sayge Carroll (right), 2022. Photo: Ajamu.

Portraits, Practice, Pleasure, and Process

Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Ajamu , Sayge Carroll, Leslie Barlow

A transatlantic conversation with Ajamu, Leslie Barlow, and Sayge Carroll: on the sensuousness of material and its potential to transform the experience of identity

Tags: bodyceramicsidentitymaterialpaintingpleasureprocesstransatlantic
Many zines in neon colors spread out on a surface, with a prominent drawing of a face.
1Zines at the Tretter Collection, September 2018. Image courtesy of the Tretter Collection.
Design Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
5-19-2021

Let the Record Show: Lessons for Artists in Movements

Aegor Ray
Black and white drawing of an artist with paintbrush standing in front of people at long tables wearing blindfolds, with an elephant in a cage floating above them.
1Peng Wu and Yu Youyang, Irwin in the corporate meeting room, 2021.
Design Visual Art
5-3-2021

Unlearning the Elephant: Against Multidisciplinarity

Boris Oicherman
Clouds of smoke in front of a row of protesters' umbrellas, and a sign reading BLACK LIVES MATTER.
Literature Visual Art
4-19-2021

Daunte Wright: A Billion Clusters of Rebellion and Starlight

Tikkun Bambara
Open doorway in white-walled gallery, with abstract and figurative paintings.
1Installation view of Dyani White Hawk: Speaking to Relatives. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Photo: E. G. Schempf.
Visual Art
4-12-2021

Dyani White Hawk: Speaking to Relatives

Sheila Regan
Visual Art
4-5-2021

Queer Filth: A Roundtable

Aegor Ray, Valerie Oliveiro, Nailah Taman, Aggy K
Group of gray felt figurative sculptures
1Nicole Havekost, Chthonic (2021). Courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Visual Art
2-5-2021

Gravity Happens to Us

Sheila Regan
Aerial view of a convex mound of dirt lit with stadium lights at night, with apartment buildings in the background
1Jasper Marsalis, Stadium, 2020. Soil, concrete, LED parking lot lights, light poles, skid steers. 146 x 117 x 12 feet. Image courtesy the artist and Midway Contemporary Art; photo by Aaron Van Dyke.
Performing Arts Visual Art
1-23-2021

The Convex (No Place Is or Ever Was Empty)

Alexandra Nicome
Dolly Parton stands on a stage in front of a microphone with a guitar, wearing a pink jumpsuit. Men in decorative brown suits are behind her on the stage by instruments, an audience is sitting in chairs behind them, and a body of water and green mountains are in the background.
1"Dolly Parton performs at 1973 dedication of Cordell Hull Dam" by NashvilleCorps is licensed with CC BY-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
Performing Arts Visual Art
1-22-2021

The Audience’s Work Is to Listen: On Communication and Chaos

Anna Marie Shogren
the New Liberator heading appears in the bottom right corner of the collage. The rest of the image contains simple black and white illustrations of landscapes, armies, cities, scenes from the Bible, nude women, shepherds, and ships among others.
1Excerpt from Legends and Myths of Ancient Minnesota, 2020. Artwork by the author composed of every symbol from The New Liberator. A complete archive of The New Liberator is available via the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals: http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/new_liberator/
Design Visual Art
1-21-2021

American Fascism as Aesthetic Experience

Brooks Turner
An intersection with a memorial for George Floyd at the center that has a large sculpture of a fist in the air. Signs and flowers are arranged in a circle around the memorial, and people can seen standing on the outside looking in
1"Memorial for George Floyd - 38th and Chicago Avenue - South Minneapolis" by Tony Webster is licensed with CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Literature Visual Art
1-15-2021

Poly-fugitivity: Utopian Relations in Dystopian Structures

Tikkun Bambara
A square, blond wooden box holds brown clay, compost, and shredded paper. The lid of the box is printed with the words, “We Shall Never Stop Planting”.
1Seitu Jones, We Shall Never Stop Planting (2017). Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Literature Visual Art
1-6-2021

A Room with an Ocean View: A Meditation on Art as an Empath’s Path

David Grant
1Image by Tricia Heuring (2020).
Design Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
12-30-2020

Everything you do you must love: On curatorial practice driven by devotion

Tricia Heuring

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