Midway Contemporary Art Gallery
January 31st, 2009 - March 21st, 2009
Opening Public Reception: Saturday, January 31st from 7-9PM
527 SECOND AVENUE SOUTHEAST, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55414 / TELEPHONE 612+605+4504 / FACSIMILE 612+605+4538
2009/01/29
2009/01/22
Changing Identity: Recent Works by Women Artists from Vietnam
January 31 – May 24, 2009
Changing Identity: Recent Works by Women Artists from Vietnam is the first major touring exhibition to feature Vietnamese women artists in the U.S. The exhibition explores the roles of women in Vietnamese society and challenges the stereotypes they face. By tracing the trajectories and life stories of ten artists working in a variety of media - painting, ink drawing, video performance, photography, and multimedia installations - Changing Identity reveals these women in their historical and social contexts as artists, as Vietnamese, and as individuals.
Changing Identity: Recent Works by Women Artists from Vietnam is the first major touring exhibition to feature Vietnamese women artists in the U.S. The exhibition explores the roles of women in Vietnamese society and challenges the stereotypes they face. By tracing the trajectories and life stories of ten artists working in a variety of media - painting, ink drawing, video performance, photography, and multimedia installations - Changing Identity reveals these women in their historical and social contexts as artists, as Vietnamese, and as individuals.
Artist and Curator Dialogue: Vietnam Re-imagined
Sun 02/1/09
2:00PM to 3:30PM
Phuong M. Do and Nora A. Taylor
When she arrived in Vietnam after living for nearly three decades as a refugee in the U.S., photographer Phuong M. Do embarked on a project that confronted her feelings of displacement and separation. In this dialogue, Nora A. Taylor, curator of Changing Identity, talks with Do about this project and women’s art in Vietnam today. Do received a master’s degree in photography at NYU in 2002. She has participated in several group exhibitions and a solo exhibit, Places of Home, at the Asian American Arts Alliance in New York in 1998. Taylor is currently professor and Alsdorf Endowed Chair of Southeast Asian Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is author of Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art (2004) and has lectured and published widely on Vietnamese art. In 2004–2005, both women were Fulbright Scholars in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Artist Talk
ADMISSION
Free
LOCATION
William G. Shepherd Room
2:00PM to 3:30PM
Phuong M. Do and Nora A. Taylor
When she arrived in Vietnam after living for nearly three decades as a refugee in the U.S., photographer Phuong M. Do embarked on a project that confronted her feelings of displacement and separation. In this dialogue, Nora A. Taylor, curator of Changing Identity, talks with Do about this project and women’s art in Vietnam today. Do received a master’s degree in photography at NYU in 2002. She has participated in several group exhibitions and a solo exhibit, Places of Home, at the Asian American Arts Alliance in New York in 1998. Taylor is currently professor and Alsdorf Endowed Chair of Southeast Asian Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is author of Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art (2004) and has lectured and published widely on Vietnamese art. In 2004–2005, both women were Fulbright Scholars in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Artist Talk
ADMISSION
Free
LOCATION
William G. Shepherd Room
Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton
Walker Art Center
February 14 - June 14, 2009
Target Gallery
A vanguard voice in the return to narrative figuration in contemporary painting and a brilliant colorist with a razor-sharp graphic sense, Elizabeth Peyton creates small, jewel-like portraits that capture an artistic zeitgeist using a visual vocabulary that could only have been produced in late 20thcentury urban America. Peyton was among a handful of artists to develop a peculiar hybrid of realism and conceptualism. Although her paintings have clear debts to 19th-century French modernist painting from Gros to Manet, these masters have been processed through an intimate understanding of David Hockney, Alex Katz, and above all, Andy Warhol. Like Warhol, Peyton's art is, at a certain level, at the service of the culture it captures. Her paintings are enormously seductive in form and content, and they frankly flaunt their celebration of the shallow aesthetics of youth, fame, and fashion. They are also testaments to a deeper passion for beauty in all its forms—from the elevated to the banal.
This first comprehensive survey of the artist’s paintings examines Peyton's mature work over the past 15 years. Beginning in 1994 with her small-scale paintings of rock idols like Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain, the exhibition is organized by series—of individual subjects like well-known contemporary artists and historical figures; motifs, including pose and props; and broad thematic categories such as music and fashion. Like a novel, Peyton's oeuvre can be read in chapters, each of which features portraits of friends, family, personal heroes, and fleeting passions. The exhibition offers a visual biography of the artist while creating a snapshot of the popular culture of the past decade.
February 14 - June 14, 2009
Target Gallery
A vanguard voice in the return to narrative figuration in contemporary painting and a brilliant colorist with a razor-sharp graphic sense, Elizabeth Peyton creates small, jewel-like portraits that capture an artistic zeitgeist using a visual vocabulary that could only have been produced in late 20thcentury urban America. Peyton was among a handful of artists to develop a peculiar hybrid of realism and conceptualism. Although her paintings have clear debts to 19th-century French modernist painting from Gros to Manet, these masters have been processed through an intimate understanding of David Hockney, Alex Katz, and above all, Andy Warhol. Like Warhol, Peyton's art is, at a certain level, at the service of the culture it captures. Her paintings are enormously seductive in form and content, and they frankly flaunt their celebration of the shallow aesthetics of youth, fame, and fashion. They are also testaments to a deeper passion for beauty in all its forms—from the elevated to the banal.
This first comprehensive survey of the artist’s paintings examines Peyton's mature work over the past 15 years. Beginning in 1994 with her small-scale paintings of rock idols like Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain, the exhibition is organized by series—of individual subjects like well-known contemporary artists and historical figures; motifs, including pose and props; and broad thematic categories such as music and fashion. Like a novel, Peyton's oeuvre can be read in chapters, each of which features portraits of friends, family, personal heroes, and fleeting passions. The exhibition offers a visual biography of the artist while creating a snapshot of the popular culture of the past decade.
Expanded Drawing: Nick Conbere, Sonja Peterson, Michelle Johnson, and Jack Pavlik
Friday, January 23, 2009—Sunday, March 15, 2009
MAEP opening reception: Thursday, January 22, 2009 7-9pm
MAEP Galleries
Free Exhibition
Nicholas Conbere, Michelle Johnson, Jack Pavlik and Sonja Peterson extend their use of line and the concept of drawing. Conbere’s invented landscapes of layered drawings and photos create complex, dreamlike panoramas. Johnson’s repetitive, overlapping patterns of calligraphic letters distort the original mark and create a new aesthetic identity. Pavlik’s kinetic sculptures create visual and audio narratives of form and movement. Peterson’s cut-out drawings of farmland and wildlife play with ideas of perception and reality.
The Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) is made possible by a generous grant from the Jerome Foundation.
MAEP opening reception: Thursday, January 22, 2009 7-9pm
MAEP Galleries
Free Exhibition
Nicholas Conbere, Michelle Johnson, Jack Pavlik and Sonja Peterson extend their use of line and the concept of drawing. Conbere’s invented landscapes of layered drawings and photos create complex, dreamlike panoramas. Johnson’s repetitive, overlapping patterns of calligraphic letters distort the original mark and create a new aesthetic identity. Pavlik’s kinetic sculptures create visual and audio narratives of form and movement. Peterson’s cut-out drawings of farmland and wildlife play with ideas of perception and reality.
The Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) is made possible by a generous grant from the Jerome Foundation.
Tom Arndt’s Minnesota
Saturday, February 21, 2009—Sunday, June 21, 2009
Harrison Photography Gallery 365
Free Exhibition
Tom Arndt (born 1944) has persistently chronicled everyday life in Minnesota since the early 1970s. His straightforward and insightful black-and-white images reflect the state geographically, emotionally, and spiritually.
He covered the vice-presidential campaign of Walter Mondale in 1984, has photographed the State Fair for years, and is most at home with ordinary Minnesotans on the street and in their homes. Arndt is Minnesota’s leading documentary photographer of the last 35 years. The exhibition includes 75 photographs from the MIA's permanent collection and from the artist.
Harrison Photography Gallery 365
Free Exhibition
Tom Arndt (born 1944) has persistently chronicled everyday life in Minnesota since the early 1970s. His straightforward and insightful black-and-white images reflect the state geographically, emotionally, and spiritually.
He covered the vice-presidential campaign of Walter Mondale in 1984, has photographed the State Fair for years, and is most at home with ordinary Minnesotans on the street and in their homes. Arndt is Minnesota’s leading documentary photographer of the last 35 years. The exhibition includes 75 photographs from the MIA's permanent collection and from the artist.
2009/01/07
The Soap Factory Presents Art Shanty Projects
Open daily with events on weekends and occasional weekdays. // Exhibition Runs: Jan 17 - Feb 14, 2009
Part art gallery, part residency, and part social experiment, the Art Shanty Projects takes its inspiration from a beloved Minnesota tradition: ice fishing.
Located on frozen Medicine Lake in Plymouth, MN, The Art Shanty Projects present a six-week exhibition of architecture, performance, science, art, video, literature, karaoke and even a little bit of ice fishing.
The acclaimed Art Shanty Projects is back on the ice for a fabulous sixth year. During the months of January and February, over 60 artists from Minnesota and around the country will head out to Medicine Lake to create a village of Art Shanties (Ice Fishing Shanty + Art Gallery/Studio).
Artist projects this year include a karaoke shanty, a performance theater, a structure full of bicycle-powered fixtures, a knitting shanty, a French-language Quebecois outpost, a post office, a submarine, an oversized game of dice, multiple museums and research laboratories with varying degrees of tongue-in-cheekiness, and much more.
Opening Day is Saturday January 17, 2008! All shanties will be open! See website for updated events schedule!
artshantyprojects.org
Location: Medicine Lake, Plymouth, MN
Visitors can park at the East Beach parking lot at Medicine Lake. The Art Car Taxi Shanty provides transportation from the shore to the middle of the lake, where visitors can meet the artists, explore the shanties and experience this unique interpretation of a true piece of Minnesota winter culture.
Presented by the Soap Factory this activity is made possible, in part, by funds provided by The McKnight Foundation and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council from an appropriation by the Minnesota Legislature.
Part art gallery, part residency, and part social experiment, the Art Shanty Projects takes its inspiration from a beloved Minnesota tradition: ice fishing.
Located on frozen Medicine Lake in Plymouth, MN, The Art Shanty Projects present a six-week exhibition of architecture, performance, science, art, video, literature, karaoke and even a little bit of ice fishing.
The acclaimed Art Shanty Projects is back on the ice for a fabulous sixth year. During the months of January and February, over 60 artists from Minnesota and around the country will head out to Medicine Lake to create a village of Art Shanties (Ice Fishing Shanty + Art Gallery/Studio).
Artist projects this year include a karaoke shanty, a performance theater, a structure full of bicycle-powered fixtures, a knitting shanty, a French-language Quebecois outpost, a post office, a submarine, an oversized game of dice, multiple museums and research laboratories with varying degrees of tongue-in-cheekiness, and much more.
Opening Day is Saturday January 17, 2008! All shanties will be open! See website for updated events schedule!
artshantyprojects.org
Location: Medicine Lake, Plymouth, MN
Visitors can park at the East Beach parking lot at Medicine Lake. The Art Car Taxi Shanty provides transportation from the shore to the middle of the lake, where visitors can meet the artists, explore the shanties and experience this unique interpretation of a true piece of Minnesota winter culture.
Presented by the Soap Factory this activity is made possible, in part, by funds provided by The McKnight Foundation and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council from an appropriation by the Minnesota Legislature.
Soo Vac Benefit event
Join us for Get Lucky 2009: Lucky Seven and the Seven Deadly Sins…
We are commemorating seven years of SooVAC!!!
A GALA EVENT TO BENEFIT SOO VISUAL ARTS CENTER Saturday, January 10th, 2009 | 7-11PM
Soo Visual Arts Center
2640 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis
Saturday, January 10, 2009
7pm-11pm, Tickets: $25
For tickets call (612) 871-2263 or Buy online
FEATURING:
Music by Martin Dosh & Jon Davis
We promise food, drink, a silent auction & much much more!
Silent Auction:
ART BY:
Isaac Arvold, Amelia Biewald, Andrea Carlson, Eric Carlson, Jaron Childs, Erin Currie, Jennifer Davis, Gregory Euclide, Rob Fischer, Samantha French, Lindsy Halleckson, Kate Iverson, Bethany Kalk, John Largaespada, Chris Larson, Judith G. Levy, Susan Marks, Rob McBroom, Erika Olson, David Petersen, Amy Rice, Joe Rizzo, Justin Schaefer, Joe Sinness, Lindsay Smith, Sean Smuda, Angela Strassheim, Scott Stulen, Sean Tubridy, Twenty-Seven, Pamela Valfer, John Vogt, Megan Vossler, Willie Willette Works & Keiko Yagishita
for more info:http://www.soovac.org/
We are commemorating seven years of SooVAC!!!
A GALA EVENT TO BENEFIT SOO VISUAL ARTS CENTER Saturday, January 10th, 2009 | 7-11PM
Soo Visual Arts Center
2640 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis
Saturday, January 10, 2009
7pm-11pm, Tickets: $25
For tickets call (612) 871-2263 or Buy online
FEATURING:
Music by Martin Dosh & Jon Davis
We promise food, drink, a silent auction & much much more!
Silent Auction:
ART BY:
Isaac Arvold, Amelia Biewald, Andrea Carlson, Eric Carlson, Jaron Childs, Erin Currie, Jennifer Davis, Gregory Euclide, Rob Fischer, Samantha French, Lindsy Halleckson, Kate Iverson, Bethany Kalk, John Largaespada, Chris Larson, Judith G. Levy, Susan Marks, Rob McBroom, Erika Olson, David Petersen, Amy Rice, Joe Rizzo, Justin Schaefer, Joe Sinness, Lindsay Smith, Sean Smuda, Angela Strassheim, Scott Stulen, Sean Tubridy, Twenty-Seven, Pamela Valfer, John Vogt, Megan Vossler, Willie Willette Works & Keiko Yagishita
for more info:http://www.soovac.org/
Le Dépanneur de la Front de Liberation Quebecois
Art of This at the Art Shanty Projects January 17 - February 14 2009
The members of Art of This Gallery present Le Dépanneur de la Front de Liberation Quebecois, aka The Quebecois Liberation Front Quickie Mart. Combining parts political allegory, absurdist mercantilism, and high cholesterol food, Le Dep is the entrepreneurial vision of three former "Felquistes" (the nickname of FLQ members). Visitors of Le Dep will recognize the relationship between the comforts of consumerism and the absurd political language that its proprietors peddle. Please join us on the ice!
for more informeation about the Art Shanty Projects:
www.artshantyprojects.org
The members of Art of This Gallery present Le Dépanneur de la Front de Liberation Quebecois, aka The Quebecois Liberation Front Quickie Mart. Combining parts political allegory, absurdist mercantilism, and high cholesterol food, Le Dep is the entrepreneurial vision of three former "Felquistes" (the nickname of FLQ members). Visitors of Le Dep will recognize the relationship between the comforts of consumerism and the absurd political language that its proprietors peddle. Please join us on the ice!
for more informeation about the Art Shanty Projects:
www.artshantyprojects.org
ARTISTS >> Cheryl Wilgren Clyne and Kimberly Tschida Petters
SHOW DATES >> January 2nd – 30th, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION >> Friday, January 9th, 2009 | 7-10PM
PRESS >> vita.mn
here is better than anywhere
And showing in the Pocket Gallery: 5x5
SHOW DATES >> January 2nd – 30th, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION >> Friday, January 9th, 2009 | 7-10PM
five by five
“Five by five is the best of 25 possible subjective responses used to describe the quality of communications. As receiving stations move away from an analog radio transmitting site, the signal strength decreases gradually while noise levels increase. The signal becomes increasingly more difficult to understand until it can no longer be heard as anything other than static. "Five by five" (occasionally written "'5 by 5", "five-by-five" or "5-by-5") by extension has come to mean "I understand you perfectly" in situations other than radio communication, the way Loud and Clear entered slang, post-World War Ii. A further shortened form is “five by".” Wikipedia
5x5
SHOW DATES >> January 2nd – 30th, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION >> Friday, January 9th, 2009 | 7-10PM
PRESS >> vita.mn
here is better than anywhere
And showing in the Pocket Gallery: 5x5
SHOW DATES >> January 2nd – 30th, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION >> Friday, January 9th, 2009 | 7-10PM
five by five
“Five by five is the best of 25 possible subjective responses used to describe the quality of communications. As receiving stations move away from an analog radio transmitting site, the signal strength decreases gradually while noise levels increase. The signal becomes increasingly more difficult to understand until it can no longer be heard as anything other than static. "Five by five" (occasionally written "'5 by 5", "five-by-five" or "5-by-5") by extension has come to mean "I understand you perfectly" in situations other than radio communication, the way Loud and Clear entered slang, post-World War Ii. A further shortened form is “five by".” Wikipedia
5x5
IFP opening
PARTY: Selection, Election and the Body Politic 2008
Featuring the work of:
Rebecca Olstad
Brett Marty
Chuck Avery
Tim White
Alec Soth
Chris Bart
Terry Gydesen
Larry La Bonte
Avye Alexandres
Aaron Bommarito
Videographers
Marya Morstad/Jeffrey Schell
Curated by Vance Gellert
The dust has settled and we have a new president. But at this writing we haven't yet elected a senator - such is the american political process. No question the rhetoric got intense, much money was spent, but despite this strange ritual hopefully the best candidate got elected - unfortunately we know in many cases that didn't happen. IFP presents a range of views of the process by 10 photographers, from the myth of power to back stage at the RNC (and riots) in St. Paul to the senatorial election recount. Two video makers have collaborated on a film "Art is patriotic" inspired by extraordinary response of the art community to the RNC presence in our midsts.
Please join us for the Friday January 16 5:30 to 8 PM opening to take a 20:20 look back before we all roll up our sleeves and work together to get US out of our present mess.
Exhibition Dates: January 16th, 2009 – March 14th, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, January 16th, 5:30–8:00pm
photo: Democratic Ballot, 2008 Nevada Caucus, January 19, 2008 by Aaron Bommarito
Featuring the work of:
Rebecca Olstad
Brett Marty
Chuck Avery
Tim White
Alec Soth
Chris Bart
Terry Gydesen
Larry La Bonte
Avye Alexandres
Aaron Bommarito
Videographers
Marya Morstad/Jeffrey Schell
Curated by Vance Gellert
The dust has settled and we have a new president. But at this writing we haven't yet elected a senator - such is the american political process. No question the rhetoric got intense, much money was spent, but despite this strange ritual hopefully the best candidate got elected - unfortunately we know in many cases that didn't happen. IFP presents a range of views of the process by 10 photographers, from the myth of power to back stage at the RNC (and riots) in St. Paul to the senatorial election recount. Two video makers have collaborated on a film "Art is patriotic" inspired by extraordinary response of the art community to the RNC presence in our midsts.
Please join us for the Friday January 16 5:30 to 8 PM opening to take a 20:20 look back before we all roll up our sleeves and work together to get US out of our present mess.
Exhibition Dates: January 16th, 2009 – March 14th, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, January 16th, 5:30–8:00pm
photo: Democratic Ballot, 2008 Nevada Caucus, January 19, 2008 by Aaron Bommarito
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