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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
Portrait of dark skinned person in elaborate victorian-like dress moving feather-trim skirt.
1Ayana V. Jackson, Consider the Sky and the Sea, 2019. Take Me to the Water Series. Courtesy Mariane Ibrahim.

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

Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara

Reflections on a landmark exhibition of Black American photography: on Black vernacular culture, its visual complexity and expansiveness, and the tie between collective consciousness and self-love

Tags: blacknesscommunityeverydayHistoryphotographyspirituality
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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1Leila Awadallah and Asma Ghanem, My Garden Is a Security Threat. Photo by Galen Fletcher for Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
10-12-2018

A Body of Art Subverts the Ban

Nusaiba Imady
1Rosy Simas, transfuse: a breathing, contemplation, clearing, a transition. Photo by Carina Lofgren, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
5-23-2018

Conjuring Homelands

Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara

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