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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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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Amelia Biewald - Painting, Sculpture, Installation

Amelia Biewald

Name: Amelia Biewald
City/State: Minneapolis, MN
Email: ameliabiewald@yahoo.com
Website: www.ameliabiewald.com  
Amelia Biewald was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design as an undergraduate, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design for graduate school. She has been working as a visual artist in the areas of painting, sculpture and installation and has been fortunate in receiving awards, residencies, and fellowships for her artworks. Some notable awards include a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, a Smack Mellon “Tops Picks” Award, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Space Program Award, the Schick Residency Award at Skidmore College, a Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Assistant Fellowship and a Jerome Foundation Artist Fellowship. She has worked with the public in the visual arts on many occasions, and has held positions as visiting artist/professor at Skidmore College, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and the College of Visual Art. Amelia’s work has been exhibited internationally, and is currently exhibiting at Rosalux Gallery in NE Minneapolis. 

Artist Amelia Biewald’s recent works explores the fantastic visual possibilities of Elizabethan England. A time that saw extremely elaborate but exceedingly uncomfortable stylized clothing, with heavy ornamentation and silhouettes based on geometric shapes and patterns. Influenced by imaginative histories and fashion scandals of this Golden Age, Biewald’s mixed media paintings and sculptural installations mock this duality. From her visual obsession with the neck ruff, an iconic fashion accessory of the age, to her manipulation of both traditional and invented artist materials and techniques, her sensuous surfaces draw the viewer into this alluringly theatrical and voyeuristic costume drama. Biewald’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. She has been a recipient of various artist grants and fellowships, including the Bush Artist Fellowship, a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Award, and a Jerome Artist Fellowship.



Inspired by his recent time in the rural Deep South—a landscape dotted with deteriorating infrastructures of forgotten mill villages, faded hues of old commercial signs, and the overgrown structures of a once thriving agricultural base, Jonas Criscoe visually explores the oxymoron, “Beautiful Detritus.” Through his densely layered mixed media compositions, use of distressed and worn surfaces, and graffiti-like drawings, Criscoe’s work conveys his interest in society’s disposable mind-set towards progress and nature's ability to reclaim the things that we abandon. A native of Austin, Texas, he received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, notably the Texas Biennial and the International Print Center in New York. Criscoe has also been featured in various art publications, including Art Lies and New American Painting, and most recently was a West Prize acquisition recipient.

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Together, these artist’s works engage dualities that are present in both art and culture. Through their subtle manipulation of various art media, techniques, and processes, both Biewald and Criscoe create elaborate compositions and surfaces that convey an aura of touch, and a sense of history to the viewer through the materials and subject matter that they employ.

Tell me about your work? What are you currently working on? How is this different from past projects?
I have always been fairly obsessed with art and fashion histories and my recent works explore the fantastic visual possibilities of Elizabethan England. All the pattern and construction was extremely elaborate AND exceedingly uncomfortable! My favorite item of that time is the ruff. A complex, stiffly starched accessory that framed the face and could make your head appear as being set upon a dinner plate. This is the work I have included in my show at Rosalux in September. I am showing paintings, drawings and sculptural works. I have some works on paper which I really like and I don't often include in my exhibitions- they started out as sketches for sculptural works and I just kept working on them to make them finished drawings.

How did you decide to become an artist?
I was obsessed with horses when I was a kid and still am. I could draw a pretty good life-like horse by the time I was about 3 and I just kept at it. I spent a lot of time drawing down in the basement, and the horses became other animals, unicorns and dragons. I have such an overactive creative imagination no one else would take me. I did sort of want to become a plastic surgeon, but I'm not sure my clients would be ok with my inventions.


What was the best advice given to you as an artist? 
Sometimes it is better to attack an idea than over think it.

Many artists struggle to find ways to sell their art.  How do you sell your work?  How do you market yourself?
I try to show as often as I can and also apply for a lot of grants and residencies, etc. You might not get the grant, but your work is shown to people who often want to work with you in the future and know collectors who would like your work. I also show with a gallery in New York which helps a lot.


Who are some of the Minnesota artists you enjoy?
I like a lot of work here- it's a great art city! A few names that come to mind are 
Terrence Payne http://rosaluxgallery.com/my_portfolio/terrence-payne/, 
Jennifer Davis http://www.jenniferdavisart.com/info.html, 
and Melissa Loop http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?rid=47543

If I were to follow you around to see art in Minnesota, which places would we go? What would we see?
I would go to the MIA and see what is up for the MAEP. That space is so awesome I would love to do a huge installation there sometime. I would then go and look at the interiors or period rooms they have. I love art history so I could be in there for hours. I would then go to the Walker and see if they had the Paul Thek's Hippopotamus sculpture out. Love that.



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?
Actually I get so many invites and notifiications just in my email and Facebook that I just use the links provided. I like that most galleries now have pages for all their artist so you can figure out what is new that way too.


What can we expect to see from you in the future?
I have a work in progress that is going to be pretty amazing- a huge full body mount deer that I mounted upside-down. This is going to be the basis of a huge mixed media installation.

Do you have any exhibits to promote in the near future?
“Nature’s Beast” Works by Amelia Biewald and Jonas Criscoe at Rosalux Gallery
Exhibit runs: September 6th – September 30, 2012 
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8th, 6:30 – 10:00PM


Rosalux is a cooperative art gallery that was founded in Minneapolis in 2002. The gallery is home to twenty artists whose work is well known both nationally and internationally, featured in various major collections, and who have individually received numerous prestigious awards and grant recognitions.

Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 12-4PM, admission is free. For more information on the Rosalux Art Collective, visit www.rosaluxgallery.com.  
https://www.facebook.com/rosalux.gallery/events
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Nate Burbeck - Painter


Lakeville, Minn., Oil on Canvas, 24 x 72 inches



Name: Nate Burbeck
City/State: Robbinsdale, MN
Email: nburbeck@gmail.com
Website: http://nateburbeck.com
Facebook page: http://facebook.com/pages/Nate-Burbeck/194179831152
Twitter: @nburbeck


Bio~ 
I graduated with a B.A. in Studio Art from St. John's University (Collegeville, MN) in 2009.  Since then I've had my work featured in a few local and regional exhibitions as well as a couple of art blogs.  In 2010 I participated in the Summer Artist Residency Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York and subsequently during the following summer of 2011 participated in a group exhibition called "Condition X" at SVA's Westside Gallery.  During the second half of 2011 I was part of a collaborative artist group that created a site specific installation which was featured at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in an exhibition entitled "Intersections".  Later this year in May, 2012 I will be part of a group exhibition at Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis, and will also have my work featured in the upcoming Spring edition of Studio Visit Magazine.


American Decadence (Codington Co. South Dakota), Oil on Canvas, 24 x 64 inches

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

My paintings consist of large scale panoramic landscapes derived from photographs I've taken in various places.  Within these landscapes I usually will place figures to help create a visual narrative within the composition.  Additionally (in more recent work) I will also add some sort of fantastical, unreal element or occurrence to the narrative, often with a surreal or supernatural bend.  I think this recent "surrealist" development comes from my interest in artists like Gregory Crewdson, Beth Hoeckel, Michaël Borremans and Ryan Mrozowski.  Probably also from watching lots of movies by directors like David Lynch.  Actually the panoramic orientation of my canvases does come from my interest in film so there's definitely a link there.  Whereas in college and through 2010 I was interested in attributing symbolic meaning to the various motifs I was painting, I think now it's become a more generic, psychological malaise.  I'm interested in the undercurrents of American society and how through this type of work I might be able to comment on those conditions.


"What is Art?" is certainly too big of a question to ask here, but what do you hope your audience takes away from your art? What statement do you hope to make?

I guess I'd hope that my work connects with people, either on a personal or psychological level, and maybe that it would heighten some sense they have of themselves and their surroundings.

Jerome Ave (Bronx, NY), Oil on Canvas, 24 x 48 inches

What was the best advice given to you as an artist? 

One of the more memorable bits of advice came when I did the 2010 Summer Residency Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York.  I attended a lecture/pep-talk by Jerry Saltz (New York Magazine art critic and all around swell guy).  In one part of his talk he was giving examples of the angst that can come with the constant failures in an artist's career, "fighting your inner demons" as he put it.  As he was doing this he made an arm motion as if he was mimicking a gas meter gauge, moving his arm back towards empty with each negative thought.  "You say 'I didn't go to the right school' ", he said "I'm not a good schmoozer, I'm not in enough shows, no one gets my art.." and so on.  Then he says, "And at your darkest moment of despair you tell yourself, 'But I'm a fucking genius!!' ", as he swings his arm over to the other side.  I think the point he was making is that as an artist you have to be passionate about what you do and you must be confident in yourself.  Of course too much confidence can be negative, you could become an egotistic jerk but if you don't take yourself seriously no one else will.  Come to think of it I'm pretty sure most of the great artists were/are narcissistic assholes anyway, so maybe that's actually okay.

Another similar bit of advice I've picked up is to be true to yourself.  As an artist you have to be honest with yourself, and at times self-critical.

Seeking out the advice of others and having critiques are also very valuable.  You don't want to live too much in your own head.


Culberson, Texas, Oil on Canvas, 24 x 68 inches

Tell me about your work space and your creative process.

Because my paintings are based on landscape photos much of my process begins with a "photo-hunting" or "location scouting" trip.  Sometimes I have a specific place in mind, other times just a general idea of the type of location I'm looking for.  Google's street view feature has been very helpful with this.  I've also made a map with pin drops on the spots I've photographed for paintings I've done, plus many, many other spots that could work for future paintings.  I generally look for landscapes or settings, whether urban cityscape, park, suburban neighborhood, or rural landscape, that have a generic specificity.  This is also a good excuse to travel different parts of the country, and on various road trips I will stake out specific places along the way to use for possible paintings.  Recently though I've only been able to get out to closer, regional destinations.

Once I have the location photos I compile them into groups and see which compositions interest me, or what could work with the idea I have in mind.  I'll also sketch out my ideas and different compositional arrangements.  From here I can figure out what sort of composition I can do and what models or figures I'll need.  When available I've taken photos of friends or co-workers who can pose for me, other times I've just used online sources and other reference material.

And after all of this I start the painting process, which is your normal canvas building, under-drawing, painting late at night sort of operation.  I have a small, one room studio space at home.  It's very convenient but also filling up with canvases now.


Who are some of the Minnesota artists you enjoy?

Andrea Carlson  http://mikinaak.com/


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

Funny you should ask since I don't really get out too much to see shows.  But if I did more often I'd check out:
Walker Art Center  http://walkerart.org/
Rosalux Gallery  http://rosaluxgallery.com
Midway Contemporary  http://midwayart.org/
Franklin Art Works  http://franklinartworks.org/
The Soap Factory  http://soapfactory.org/

We'd most likely try to find some really heady and conceptual stuff that we would be fascinated about and try to understand.  Later we'd realize we only had a vague notion of what we saw, explaining what we thought it meant in generic terms, and in all honesty would be totally lost and confused.  But at least we'd look smart and sophisticated to the general public.


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'm always looking online for new artists and have a ton of files on my harddrive of artists and projects I'm inspired by.

http://newamericanpaintings.wordpress.com/

Sighting Near Scipio, Utah, Oil on Canvas, 28 x 64 inches


Do you have any exhibits to promote in the near future?
Yes, actually.  I have a group show coming up in May at Rosalux Gallery (1400 Van Buren St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413).  The opening reception is scheduled for May 4, from 7-10 pm.  Several of my paintings will be featured along with work by Chloe Briggs, Brent Erickson and Jennica Kruse.

Also, if this counts as an exhibition, my paintings will be featured in one of the upcoming Spring volumes of Studio Visit Magazine.  That should be coming out sometime in early May.
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Jack Dale - Painter


Beginnings
Jack Dale

Name: Jack Dale
City/State: Cannon Falls, MN
Email: jack@fat-mouse.com

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

I'm painting for an upcoming show at the Bloomington Theater and Art Center. The paintings are abstracts but I am creating them with the idea of a natural origin. Landscape, water, earth, sky etc. You can see some of the work here.

"What is Art?" is certainly too big of a question to ask here, but what do you hope your audience takes away from your art? What statement do you hope to make?

I don't try to make a statement. I attempt to create a painting that will be aesthetically pleasing.
I want the viewers to determine what the painting means to them. I believe that we all bring our
own experience, bias, and predispositions when looking at art work. I hope each viewer will
remember my paintings ( not for what they might represent ) but for the feelings that they evoke.   


Rapid's Magic

What was the best advice given to you as an artist? 

I read an article years ago that stated: never be afraid to ruin a painting. I've tried to follow that
advice ever since.

Tell me about your work space and your creative process.

I have a studio in the Northrup King Building in N. E. Mpls. It is 650 square feet that allows me to create and show my paintings. My actual work area is approximately 12' x 18' and this is just right.

My process is very spontaneous, intuitive and reactive. Most of the time I am starting with little
or no preconceived idea. By placing marks, lines, scribbles etc. on my surface I am able to build from there. Every time I address the canvas it seems like I am reacting to some earlier response. I can get lost within this working style and it feels good.




Spring

Who are some of the Minnesota artists you enjoy?

That's a tough question because there are so many talented artists that I like and respect.
I'll list a few here but by no means are these the only people that I should be giving  props to.

Megan Bell Honigman http://www.meganbell.net
Duane Ditty http://duaneditty.com
James Wrayge jameswrayge@yahoo.com
Shannyn Joy Potter http://www.shannynjoypotter.com
Sandra Dowd http://sandradowd.com
Mike Welton  http://mikeweltonart.com
 
Fall



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


I like to go to fellow artists' exhibitions. Visit the MIA, Walker. Visit with the many talented artists in the Northrup King Bldg. and to Rosalux Gallery where I just became a member. http://www.rosaluxgallery.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? (Provide links)

Typically I'll check the mnartists.org site for interesting artists. The NEMAA site is also good.




Winter


What can we expect to see from you in the future?
I have an exhibition starting April 13, 2012 (with an artist reception on April 13 from 6 - 8 p.m.) at the Bloomington Theatre & Art Center to May 18. 2012. I am showing along with Danny Saathoff.   http://www.bloomingtonartcenter.com/


I will also be partaking in Art-A-Whirl at my studio 393 at the Northrup King Building (NE MPls) on May 18,19 and 20, 2012. See more at http://www.northrupkingbuilding.com/


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