Reviews – Mn Artists

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

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

1Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present, 2023. Photo by Kameron Herndon, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Literature Moving Image Visual Art

5-5-2023

Splintering the Veneer of the City

Mike Curran

1Jaime Black, the water in me, recognizes you, 2020. Videography by Nik Konowal. Courtesy the artist and The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery.

Moving Image Visual Art

2-24-2023

Dream Dream Revolution: Dive Bars, Ghosts, and One Red Ribbon

Christina Schmid

1Ayana V. Jackson, Consider the Sky and the Sea, 2019. Take Me to the Water Series. Courtesy Mariane Ibrahim.

2-14-2023

We Fly: On Black Aliveness in A Picture Gallery of the Soul

Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara

1View of the exhibition between friends, 2022. Courtesy David Petersen Gallery.

12-5-2022

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

Christina Schmid

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.

4-18-2022

Speaking Paintings into Being with Caroline Kent

Lindsey Scharold

1Seitu Ken Jones, 2022. Photo: Alexander Thomas.

3-2-2022

Real Positions: Self-Portraits by Seitu Ken Jones

Davu Seru

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

1Installation view of A Glitter of Seas, Dreamsong, Minneapolis.

7-14-2021

Messy from the Start: Birth, Breastfeeding, and Abjection

Sheila Dickinson

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.

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

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

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