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Earth, Wind, & Fire
Working outside in the looniest morning hours, sculptor Kate Christopher invokes the elements
Michael Fallon
Published: October 17, 2001
Mahtomedi is an inspired location for an artist's home studio. The small city of 7,300 on the shores of White Bear Lake has a placid air to it and isn't burdened with the...
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Mama Don't Preach
Melissa Stang's installation art makes a sly statement about latter-day womanhood
Michael Fallon
Published: August 22, 2001
Should she ever tire of creating conceptual art, painter and installation artist Melissa Stang might find work in retail. Her latest show, "Homo Domesticus," at the Minnesota...
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Arts Feature
Wormley's Black Period
In the Eighties he was a rising art star on the downtown gallery scene. In the Nineties he was a stalwart of independent exhibition. Today Bill Wormley is sick, broke, and unsure why he should keep painting.
Michael Fallon
Published: August 15, 2001
The Matchbox Café in northeast Minneapolis is about as happening an artist's hangout as you will find in town these days. Smaller than most locker-room showers, dark and...
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The Canvasser
Community activist Cy Thao plans to tell the story of the Hmong people in a series of 50 paintings--and may one day speak for them in elected office
Michael Fallon
Published: July 18, 2001
The stretch of University Avenue in and around St. Paul's Frogtown neighborhood represents what's sometimes called a "transitioning" neighborhood. Here and there one finds...
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Arts Feature
Animal Husbandry
Local painter and sculptor Rob McBroom brings a feral sense of resourcefulness to Zoo
Michael Fallon
Published: June 20, 2001
Making art is rarely an instantaneous or easy task. Ask any artist you know, and he or she will confirm that it takes profound mental effort and rigorous practice to be able...
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Room With a View
New shows at Intermedia Arts and Weisman contend that everyone is an installation artist
Michael Fallon
Published: May 30, 2001
Like a giant snowball rolling downhill in a cartoon, installation artists work through accumulation. They pick up techniques from different disciplines (paint, fabric art,...
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The Road Warrior
Ken Avidor paints an ugly picture of car culture from the middle of the road
Michael Fallon
Published: May 23, 2001
It's amazing what you'll see in the Twin Cities once the snow tide has receded and all the dormant things have come back to life for the warm months. Aside from all manner of...
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Arts Feature
The Sauna School
The high-spirited ArTrujillo Studio Gallery springs up from a once-seedy cellar on Lake Street
Michael Fallon
Published: April 25, 2001
The International Bazaar, located on a busy corner on Lake Street a block east of Interstate 35W, hides a dirty little secret in its basement. Outwardly, the complex of twin...
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Cold Comfort
Two abstract Minnesota painters explore the spiritual shades of an everlasting winter
Michael Fallon
Published: March 28, 2001
The 20th-century French art critic and novelist André Malraux once proclaimed: "All art is a revolt against man's fate." An overstatement, certainly, but he had reason...
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Arts Feature
Book of Days
From a remote spread in a small river town, Gaylord Schanilec has gained an international reputation as a master of centuries-old engraving and printing techniques
Michael Fallon
Published: March 14, 2001
The light on the southern prairie of Minnesota and Wisconsin is unusual, especially just after a snowstorm. The vast sheets of snow on the ground and the downy blanket of...
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Prefablandscapelite
Two new local galleries examine the art of the artificial
Michael Fallon
Published: February 21, 2001
Just as the Nineties' economic boom seemingly turns to bust, the Twin Cities are at last seeing signs of a revival of interest and energy in the grassroots of the local art...
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Arts Feature
The Beautiful Show
Making the Weinstein Gallery a success only starts with putting pretty pictures on the wall
Michael Fallon
Published: November 29, 2000
From the sidewalk, the Weinstein Gallery resembles a struck sitcom set. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, the two rooms of the Weinstein Gallery in south Minneapolis are eerily...
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The Political Portrait
A lively election throws local artists from the palette to the ballot--revealing the true color of politics
Michael Fallon
Published: November 8, 2000
Most political contests are wildly different from the national media show that is the presidential election. This was evident on a recent Saturday afternoon when most of...
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Artful Dodgers
Two local shows reveal how a deft artistic touch often involves some sleight of hand
Michael Fallon
Published: October 18, 2000
At the root of much art is artifice--a concealing of the methods of production. Think of Claude Monet, whose outdoor landscapes were scrupulously touched up afterward in the...
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Arts Feature
The Outsiders
The woman who turned her house into a canvas, and other stories from the far fringes of the visual-art scene
Michael Fallon
Published: September 20, 2000
The artist Karen Kasel has an odd look on her face as she stands to greet me at her door of her St. Paul apartment-cum-studio. There's a nervousness to the brow, a peevishness...
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Off the Wall
"Minneapolis 55408," features pictures of a neighborhood; "Summer Salon" showcases art to decorate a parlor
Michael Fallon
Published: August 9, 2000
[Editor's note: A correction ran concerning this story; see end of article.] The middle-aged women are in something of a frenzy. There are three of them here at Intermedia...
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Follicular Follies
The Minnesota Institute of Art combs a cabinet of wonders to create "The Hair Show"
Michael Fallon
Published: July 26, 2000
Visiting the new exhibition "Hair Stories" at the Minnesota Artist's Gallery at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts is a bit like stumbling into an aristocratic parlor of the...
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Art of the State
A juried show at the Minnesota Museum of American Art showcases the variety of the outstate over the vanguard of the Cities
Michael Fallon
Published: June 28, 2000
The work is pleasant enough. The pieces by 29 artists that make up the exhibition Minnesota Biennial: 2D 2000 at the Minnesota Museum of American Art come in a variety of...
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Open Shutters
Photographing radical Faeries, elderly grandparents, and homeless kids, Keri Pickett pulls subjects from the edges of public awareness to the center of the frame
Michael Fallon
Published: June 7, 2000
The photograph is mostly dark but for the small circle of light that rests just to the right of the image's center. It takes a moment for the eye to focus on the circle amid...
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Control Group
In a new exhibition, Minnesota artists massage a mess of messages
Michael Fallon
Published: May 10, 2000
The south wall of the Minnesota Gallery at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts looks like the front of a classroom, sporting a sprawling and crude grid of overlapping dry-erase...
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