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Person with dark skin, gray beard, gray shirt and scarf gestures with open hand while looking up at beige wall covered with many small drawings.
1Seitu Ken Jones, 2022. Photo: Alexander Thomas.

Real Positions: Self-Portraits by Seitu Ken Jones

Davu Seru

The recent exhibition at Homewood Studios asks the viewer to become witness to complaint: to consider Black mortality and justice, masks and roots, history and perspective

Tags: Minneapolis uprisingNorth Minneapolispaintingpolice violenceself-portrait
The interior of Dreamsong’s gallery, which has white walls and a flat gray floor. This image, taken from the corner of the room, shows prints hanging on two adjacent walls, and a white table in the center of the room. On top of the white table is a short black box, opened, with prints stacked inside.
1Installation view of A Feather Plucked from its Bird, 2022. Photo courtesy Dreamsong.

Ache with Many

Drew Maude-Griffin

On A Feather Plucked from Its Bird—Benjamin Merritt’s exhibition at Dreamsong—printmaking as metaphor for healing, and the uncontainable vastness of illness

Tags: bodydisabilityillnesslaborlanguagePoetryPrintmaking
Four artworks in muted colors and various sizes arranged on a white gallery wall.
1View of the exhibition between friends, 2022. Courtesy David Petersen Gallery.
Visual Art
12-5-2022

between friends: On Mourning, Mirrors, and Togetherness in Extraordinary Times

Christina Schmid
Large white-walled gallery with two large paintings hung on walls, with multicolored abstract shapes on black background.
1Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the Deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, 2021. © Caroline Kent. Courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York. Photo: Jason Wyche.
Visual Art
4-18-2022

Speaking Paintings into Being with Caroline Kent

Lindsey Scharold
Person with dark skin, gray beard, gray shirt and scarf gestures with open hand while looking up at beige wall covered with many small drawings.
1Seitu Ken Jones, 2022. Photo: Alexander Thomas.
Visual Art
3-2-2022

Real Positions: Self-Portraits by Seitu Ken Jones

Davu Seru
The interior of Dreamsong’s gallery, which has white walls and a flat gray floor. This image, taken from the corner of the room, shows prints hanging on two adjacent walls, and a white table in the center of the room. On top of the white table is a short black box, opened, with prints stacked inside.
1Installation view of A Feather Plucked from its Bird, 2022. Photo courtesy Dreamsong.
Literature Visual Art
2-22-2022

Ache with Many

Drew Maude-Griffin
Large print of a light-skinned person holding a child with curly blond hair stands on a gray floor, with multicolored drawings hanging on a white wall behind it.
1Installation view of A Glitter of Seas, Dreamsong, Minneapolis.
Visual Art
7-14-2021

Messy from the Start: Birth, Breastfeeding, and Abjection

Sheila Dickinson
Installation view of jewelry-like fiber sculptures hanging in a gallery with white walls and gray floors.
1Eric-Paul Riege, (my god, YE’ii [1-2]) (jaatłoh4Ye’iitsoh [1–6]) (a loom between Me+U, dah ‘iistł’ǫ́). Image courtesy Bockley Gallery.
Visual Art
6-11-2021

Eric-Paul Riege: (my god, YE’ii [1-2]) (jaatłoh4Ye’iitsoh [1–6]) (a loom between Me+U, dah ‘iistł’ǫ́)

Sheila Regan
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
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
1Judith Holo Shuǐ Xiān, in collaboration with Dua Saleh. hazephase{one:vogvalley. Photo by Pierre Ware for Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
12-3-2019

A Leveling and an Evening

Alexis Palmer Zanghi
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1Tou SaiK Lee. Photo: Shun Jie Yong.
Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
8-23-2019

An Un/Education

Christina Schmid
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1Untitled installation by Maggie Thompson, 2019. Photo by Galen Fletcher, courtesy Walker Art Center.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
6-11-2019

The Trauma Question

Lisa Marie Brimmer
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Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
10-12-2018

A Body of Art Subverts the Ban

Nusaiba Imady

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