Showing posts with label Rebecca Krinke. Show all posts
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Friday, July 31, 2015

Shana Kaplow - Painter and Video Artist

Particulates, 2015, ink on paper in 300 parts, 16’ x 20’
Shana Kaplow



Name: Shana Kaplow
City/State: St. Paul, MN
Email: skaplow@iphouse.com
Website: www.shanakaplow.com
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/shana.kaplow

Bio: 
Shana Kaplow is a painter and video artist living and working in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her work deals with issues of connection and separation linking personal narratives to larger social forces. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at museums and galleries including The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The TEDA Museum of Contemporary Art (Tianjin, China), The Asheville Museum of Art (NC), The Plains Art Museum (ND), 55 Mercer Gallery (NY), Franklin Art Works (MN), Detroit Artists Market (MI), The Art Space (Tel Aviv), The Soap Factory (MN), The Third Place Gallery (MN), The Weinstein Gallery (MN), Macalester College Gallery (MN), and Thom Barry Fine Arts (MN). Her video work has been screened at The Walker Art Center, and the Austro-Sino Arts Program in Beijing, China. She has received several grants and fellowships for her work including the MN State Arts Board Artists Initiative Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Artists Grant for Painters and Sculptors, the Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, the McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship, and the Arts Midwest/NEA fellowship. She was an artist in residence at the Red Gate International Art Residency in Beijing, China, and the Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency in Vermont. She has an upcoming exhibition at Rosalux Gallery (Minneapolis) in August, 2015, and will be included in the Midwest Biennial at The Soap Factory in September, 2015. Shana is Professor in the Art Department at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota.



Tell me about your work? What are you currently working on? How is this different from past projects?
I am continuing to work with ink painting on paper, video, and sometimes three-dimensional structures. I am currently working with the idea of connection and separation through the depiction of everyday objects like chairs and tables. These are utilitarian objects but they are also intimate ones. We use them with our bodies – they reflect the architecture of the body and the home. I am thinking about various ways of working with the materials as a way to straddle what seem like opposite attitudes. Sometimes I work in super tight realism and other times I work really loose and improvisationally. Mostly I am interested in infusing the ‘body’ of each approach with something of the other’s qualities. I am spending time with this idea of residues and the unseen qualities that come to mind. For me, the work stems from questions about how these ineffable qualities also create challenging implications that link personal lives to larger global and industrial conditions. I want to take that on as a both a poetic and a real world concern.

How did you decide to become an artist?
I grew up around art and artists (and scientists). My mother is a painter - making and looking at art was always part of the culture of our home. The idea of asking questions as a creative or scientific endeavor was encouraged. But it was during college that I realized that my heart and mind were the most engaged in the art department and decided to listen to that. I was attracted to the freedom of thought that art made room for.



What was the best advice given to you as an artist? 
That this endeavor has a long arc – you don’t have to have it all figured out. Just keep working and asking questions of yourself and your work.

Many artists struggle to find ways to sell their art.  How do you sell your work?  How do you market yourself?
I do not have commercial gallery representation, but over the years have sold work through a variety of different gallery contacts. (http://www.thomasbarry.com, http://www.weinstein-gallery.com and http://www.elizabethleach.com). I have occasionally sold independently. More recently, I became a member of Rosalux Gallery www.rosaluxgallery.org, an artists’ collective gallery in Minneapolis. I don’t always think of it as “marketing myself”, but I do think that building real relationships is one of the most meaningful channels that helps to connect my work to someone that might want to own it. I also have a web presence as a way to inform people about my work. www.shanakaplow.com, http://www.mnartists.org/skaplow

Who are some of the Minnesota artists you enjoy?
There are so many!
Alexa Horochowski http://alexahorochowski.com
Andrea Carlson http://mikinaak.com
Anne Sugnet
Christine Baeumler https://vimeo.com/48815490
JoAnne Verburg http://joannverburg.com
Margaret Pezalla-Granlund http://www.mpezalla.com
Anne George…. http://annegeorge.net
Val Jenkins
I could go on …



If I were to follow you around to see art in Minnesota, which places would we go? What would we see?
The Bindery Projects http://thebinderyprojects.com/thebindery_projects/home.html
MAEP/MIA http://new.artsmia.org/exhibitions/maep/
The Soap Factory http://www.soapfactory.org
The Third Place Gallery http://www.wingyounghuie.com/events
The Waiting Room http://www.waitingroomart.org
David Peterson Gallery http://davidpetersengallery.com
Walker Art Center http://www.walkerart.org
Burnet Gallery http://burnetgallery.com/home.html



In addition to www.Local-Artist-Interviews.com, where do you go online for good art resources, whether to find a new artist, or to see what is going on in the art world locally and otherwise? 
Two Coats of Paint http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com
Painters Table http://painters-table.com
Bomb Magazine http://bombmagazine.org
Walker Art Center Blog http://blogs.walkerart.org
Contemporary Art Daily http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com
Gorky’s Granddaughter http://www.gorkysgranddaughter.com
Minneapolis City Pages http://www.citypages.com

What can we expect to see from you in the future?
I have an exhibition with Rebecca Krinke coming up in August 2015 at Rosalux Gallery called Low Lying Area. The show runs August 2 – 30th. The opening reception is Saturday, August 8th from 7-10 (it’s free and open to the public). In September, my work will be included in the Midwest biennial entitled, Superusted, curated by Cheryl Wilgren Clyne at The Soap Factory (September 12 – November 1, Opening September 12, 7-11pm). In October, I will have work in the Drawing Project’s inaugural show at Homewood Studios.


Shana Kaplow


Image List:
1. Particulates, 2015, ink on paper in 300 parts, 16’ x 20’
2. Particulates (detail), 2015, ink on paper in 300 parts, 16’ x 20’
3. The Table’s Body and Persistent Fugitive 1 + 2, 2015, ink on paper, 48” x 70” and 40” x 50”
4. Studio view, new work in progress, 2015, ink on paper, 44” x 30”
5. New work in progress, 2015, ink on paper, 44” x 30”
6. Image of artist


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Friday, July 24, 2015

Rebecca Krinke - Scuplture-Installation

Rebecca Krinke

Name: Rebecca Krinke
City/State: Minneapolis, MN
Email: rjkrinke at gmail.com
Website: http://dreamwindowrk.tumblr.com (my current work, in process) http://rosaluxgallery.com/my_portfolio/rebecca-krinke/ - .VaLtkxNViko (portfolio on Rosalux Gallery site) http://www.mnartists.org/rjkrinke (portfolio on mnartists.org site)


Bio: Rebecca Krinke's practice works across sculpture, interior installations, public art, site works, and social practice. She has exhibited her work indoors in gallery settings (including BV Gallery, Bristol, England, Black Box Theatre Gallery, Galway, Ireland, Experiential Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA) and outdoors (including Franconia Sculpture Park and Silverwood Park). Krinke often creates temporary, participatory projects, such as her Black Box Camera Obscura, Northrop Plaza, U of MN, What Needs to Be Said? installed in a vacant storefront in St. Paul and the Nash Gallery in Minneapolis,Flood Stories, commissioned by the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, ND, and Unseen/Seen: The Mapping of Joy and Pain in Minneapolis-St. Paul. She recently completed a commission for the public art program in Sacramento, CA, called Unknown/Known, an augmented reality project that explored a key street in that city.


Tell me about your work? What are you currently working on? How is this different from past projects?

My art from graduate school culminated in a group of sculptures made primarily of pine needles that I installed as a temporary event in a pine forest. I called this work The Place to Share Beauty and Fear. This continues as an apt way to talk about my work, although I now often say, “I work in wonder and terror.” These seem to be the fundamental and paradoxical aspects of being alive. 

I am currently working on the installation that I will put up in Rosalux Gallery for an exhibition with Shana Kaplow opening August 2. The installation is called Dream Window/What is the City dreaming? and it is a direct outgrowth of my Northern Spark project Dream Window - which had two components - a surreal bed sculpture suspended high in the Mill City Museum’s Ruin Courtyard, and on the ground below, my team and I asked festival goers if they wanted to write or draw about a dream or nightmare they have had. We collected almost 500 dreams on beautiful Mylar pages. For the Rosalux show, I am reconfiguring the bed sculpture and planning to showcase the collected dreams as part of the installation. This project extends my temporary participatory work by bringing back the artifacts of the experience (the bed, the dreams) to a gallery show.

How did you decide to become an artist?

My art began with a powerful dream I had - as an adult - about a bear. It inspired me to make a sculpture of a bearskin rug out of aluminum foil as a gift to a friend. This started my first body of sculpture (all of aluminum foil) where I explored themes of animal, wildness, dreams, and domesticity. This work was shown and awarded. I eventually went to art school to have access to facilities, expand my material range, enjoy a community of artists, and deepen my work.

What was the best advice given to you as an artist?
Be present, and make art from being present.


Many artists struggle to find ways to sell their art. How do you sell your work? How do you market yourself?

As a maker of large sculptures, installations and participatory projects, my work is not readily collectible - and I have not focused on selling it. I have received commissions and grants – I have and do put energy into this. I am currently taking stock of my “marketing plan”, meaning how I position my work. I have a strong private streak, yet I am also working with the public and ideas of the public realm, so it's an interesting paradox. I am thinking of my “marketing plan” as another art project and am looking forward to what will develop, such as a new website, and hopefully some more innovative and underground efforts too.
Who are some of the Minnesota artists you enjoy?

My colleagues in Rosalux Gallery are all very strong artists, http://rosaluxgallery.com/ I have so many other friends and colleagues who are terrific artists - it is very difficult to choose or say.

If I were to follow you around to see art in Minnesota, which places would we go? What would we see?

As a sculptor, I feel affinity with Franconia Sculpture Park and Franconia in the City, http://www.franconia.org/ and also the Soap Factory http://www.soapfactory.org/ for the adventure of some work they show - such as sculptor Chris Larson’s recent “Wise Blood” opera/collaboration. SooVac http://www.soovac.org/,Wing Young Huie’s Third Place Gallery, http://www.wingyounghuie.com/test , TuckUnder Projects http://www.tuckunder.org/, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, http://www.mnbookarts.org/ and All My Relations Gallery are inspiring venues. http://www.allmyrelationsarts.com/.


In addition to www.Local-Artist-Interviews.com, where do you go online for good art resources, whether to find a new artist, or to see what is going on in the art world locally and otherwise? 

I sign up for the emails to come to my inbox - 
from the City Pages http://www.citypages.com/ 
Mnartists.org 
http://www.mnartists.org/ 
The Line http://www.thelinemedia.com/ and several others.
Nationally and internationally I look at the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/design/index.htmland Guardian UK http://www.theguardian.com/uk


Do you have any exhibits to promote in the near future? 
Shana Kaplow and I have a two-person exhibition called Low Lying Area, at Rosalux Gallery running 8/2/15-8/30/15, with the reception Saturday, August 8th from 7-10 PM.


What can we expect to see from you in the future?
I have been making a series of bed sculptures, and I hope to make an even more comprehensive interior room – with a bed, cabinets, and a reading table, holding sculptural books I make to be handled/read by gallery goers as they contemplate the room. I see this project as extending my work more deeply into the psychological, the haptic, and the participatory.




Image List:
1. Dream Window (bed sculpture), at Mill City Museum Courtyard, Northern Spark commission, June 13, 2015
2. Dream Window (bed sculpture), at Mill City Museum Courtyard, Northern Spark commission, June 13, 2015
3. Dream Window (bed sculpture), at Mill City Museum Courtyard, Northern Spark commission, June 13, 2015
4. Dream Window (bed sculpture), at Mill City Museum Courtyard, Northern Spark commission, June 13, 2015
5. Dream Window (festival goers writing their dreams  on Mylar using special “glow boxes” created by Krinke and her team), at Mill City Museum Courtyard, Northern Spark commission, June 13, 2015
6. Incident, (bed sculpture), at Rosalux Gallery, Mpls, MN, July 2014
7. Incident (detail), at Rosalux Gallery, Mpls, MN, July 2014






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