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.
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