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Monday, September 28, 2015

Terri Myers Wentzka - Drawing and Watercolor

Terri Myers Wentzka


Name:  Terri Myers Wentzka
City/State:  Shoreview, MN
Email:  terri@naturalhistoryarts.com
Instagram:  terriwentzka

Bio:  Terri Myers Wentzka is a drawing, watercolor, and collage artist whose work is inspired by mysteries of the natural world and by mundane human detritus. She received her BA in Painting from the University of Minnesota, and has returned to making art after spending many years as an award-winning writer and filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited at numerous local venues, including the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, the Bloomington Center for the Arts, and the Minnetonka Center for the Arts.

Tell me about your work? What are you currently working on? How is this different from past projects?
Right now I’m finishing work for a show that opens at TuckUnder’s Leaky Sink Gallery on October 8. This will be my first site-specific installation, so it’s challenging my thinking in some different ways and I’m enjoying that process. I’m also getting ready for Art Attack (at my studio in the Northrup King Building) the first weekend in November, and for a show at the First Unitarian Society at the end of November. While all that’s going on, I’m noodling about ideas for the new series I’ve recently started, which is about protection. Some of the early, small pieces will be at TuckUnder, but I’m also planning to make a number of large drawings next year. They’ll be bigger than anything I’ve done to date, since I’ve always worked relatively small. So I’m doing tests, and research, and figuring out how to proceed.



How did you decide to become an artist?
It wasn’t really a decision. I always knew I was an artist, despite the years I spent attempting to do other things. So the decision wasn’t to become an artist, but rather to allow myself to return to art. I never feel quite right unless I’m making art, even if I’m doing something else creative, so I simply had to.

What was the best advice given to you as an artist?
Draw. Actually, this is good advice for anybody, even non-artists. It’s not possible to draw too much, no matter what medium you work in.



Many artists struggle to find ways to sell their art. How do you sell your work? How do you market yourself? (Include links to your Esty store, finartamerica.com, your website, etc.)
Selling art is hard. Most of my sales have been during studio crawls:  Art-A-Whirl and Art Attack. I’m currently stepping up my efforts online with Facebook and Instagram and learning all I can about art sales and marketing.

Instagram:  terriwentzka

Who are some of the Minnesota artists you enjoy? (Provide links)

Scott Wentzka  http://wentzka.com
Terry Genesen Becker  http://terrygenesenbecker.com
Mary Bergs  http://marybergs.com
Jantje Visscher  http://jantjevisscher.com
Brandon Kuehn  http://brandonkuehn.com
Wing Young Huie  http://www.wingyounghuie.com

For every person I’ve listed, there are probably five more wonderful artists I love, but I have to stop somewhere!



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

I don’t know if I’m a good person to follow anywhere (I might hide if I know you’re up to such a thing), but these are some of the places I like to go:
Groveland Gallery  http://grovelandgallery.com
Artistry at Bloomington  http://btacmn.org
Bockley Gallery  http://bockleygallery.com
2001: A Space  http://2001aspace.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?

Hyperallergic  http://hyperallergic.com

Those are a few. There’s so much information everywhere these days that random tidbits seem to come from everywhere. Many bread crumbs to follow.



Choose one:
Do you have any exhibits to promote in the near future? What can we expect to see from you in the future?
My solo show, Hideaway, opens October 8 and runs through November 15, in the Leaky Sink Gallery at TuckUnder Projects. It’s all recent work that reflects upon the real and illusory ways humans and other creatures protect themselves from all manner of threats, while also exploring the mysteries of bathroom cabinets and found papers. The show will include drawings and watercolors that allude to scientific studies in their composition, but upon taking a closer look it becomes obvious that each one incorporates the text of someone’s discarded grocery list or other scribbled notes. Hideaway takes advantage of the mysterious nooks and crannies of the Leaky Sink Gallery, with art and collections of objects of uncertain purpose hidden away in cabinets for visitors to find. 


If you are promoting an event, by what date do you want your interview/profile to be online?
My opening at TuckUnder is October 8 from 6 to 9 p.m. It would be wonderful if you could post this interview sometime between Sept. 30 and October 2.  Thank you very much!!


(Include dimensions and year made if applicable)
Image List: 1. Not Home, 2015, 22 x 14”
2.  Scattered, 2015, 5 x 4”
3.  Bean Guardian, 2015, 11 x 8”
4.  Protected, 2015, 10.75 x 8”
5.  Osprey Eggs with Erased List, 2014, 11 x 9.25”
6.  Curiosity Cabinet #1: Three Eggs & a Cootie Catcher, 2014, 11 x 14”
7. 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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Friday, May 15, 2015

Jamie Winter Dawson - Drawing - Installation


Untitled 2014
Jamie Winter Dawson

 Name: Jamie Winter Dawson 
City/State: Minneapolis, MN
Email: jamiewinterdawson at gmail.com 
Website: jamiewinterdawson.com

Bio
Jamie Winter Dawson’s current work draws upon contending definitions of conservation, myths and stories from archetypal life/death/life cycles, theories on biophilia, and the dystopian narratives of classic and contemporary science fiction writers.The work invites reflections on ownership, notions of power and responsibility, and the mechanisms with which humans perceive their relationship to the natural world. Jamie Winter Dawson studied biology, genetics, and fine art at the University of Minnesota. She has received various residencies, awards, and visiting artist invitations and has shown in a network of art spaces including the Soap Factory, Science Museum of Minnesota, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Prøve Gallery, Paul Whitney Larson Gallery and Soo Visual Arts Center.




Tell me about your work? What are you currently working on? How is this different from past projects?
I am currently working on some new drawings and site specific installations for the Tuck Under Gallery in south Minneapolis. The show differs from past projects in that I’ve been spending a lot more time sitting with my conceptual research and winnowing down what I want to say in the work to the strongest and most succinct pieces.




How did you decide to become an artist?
I think art decided on me. I began to get the hint as kid, preferring drawing to most other activities. I began to take the hint as a biology and genetics undergrad - I was failing biochem because I kept painting in my basement instead of studying!




What was the best advice given to you as an artist?
Never answer the question, “How long did that take you to make?”
It’s often irrelevant and the public rarely understands the answer, whatever the response.


Many artists struggle to find ways to sell their art. How do you sell your work? How do you market yourself?
Selling isn’t a goal that’s frequently on my radar. In my practice I am aiming to show the work to create connections, facilitate relationship, and generate dialogue. If people want to purchase the work, that’s great, but it’s important to my creative process to depend on consistent funding streams elsewhere. In addition to loving it, that’s why I teach.




Who are some of the Minnesota artists you enjoy? 
Harriet Bart http://www.harrietbart.com
Caroline Kent http://carolinekent.com/carolinekent.com 
Bridget Riversmith http://riversmithart.com
Kristina Estell http://www.kristinaestell.com 
Nate Young http://nateyoungart.com 
Gregory Euclid http://gregoryeuclide.com 
Steve Accola 
Julia Buffalohead http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_buffalohead 
Mary Bergs http://marybergs.com
Mara Duva 

 If I were to follow you around to see art in Minnesota, which places would we go? What would we see?
What a fabulous question - and a tricky one...
We’d take in a play at Penumbra Theatre http://www.penumbratheatre.org, also a performance at Interact Center for the Arts http://www.interactcenter.com. We’d definitely visit the Bindery Projects http://thebinderyprojects.com, Tuck Under Projects http://ww.tuckunder.org, and the new home of Soo Visual Arts http://www.soovac.org. 

 We’d visit Midway Contemporary Art https://www.midwayart.org and make sure to spend a few hours in their library, the Bell Museum  http://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/ForAdults/Exhibits/EyesontheUniverse, the Walker to see the Art at the Center exhibit http://www.walkerart.org, then off to visit some friend’s studios to see where the magic happens. I think we’d need the entire weekend!


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?
Honestly, I’m usually asking others this question - I have no consistent way of doing it.




Do you have any exhibits to promote in the near future?

Yes, my work is in the new exhibition at Tuck Under Projects opening next week. Photographer Michael McGraw http://www.local-artist-interviews.com/2013/12/michael-mcgraw-photographer.html will be showing, too, and it should be a fabulous show! Check out the details at: http://www.tuckunder.org.

 Exhibitions open May 21, 2015, 6-9 pm Shows run May 21-June 21, 2015. Unstructured hours Wednesday-Sunday, and by Appointment.
5120 York Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55410 USA
Image List:
1. untitled, 2014
2. Dust to Dust, 2014
3. Collective Depletion, 2014 
4. Collective Depletion, detail 
5. Inception Retained I, 2014 
6. Inception Retained IV, 2014 
7. Image of artist 
TuckUnder Gallery Profile
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Marlaine Cox - Metal Artst


Marlaine Cox
Scope.   
Metal, spring steel, magnifying glass, 
Look(again) residency:  Low tech/high joy collaborative, 2013


Name:  Marlaine Cox
City/State:  Minneapolis, MN
Email: marlainecox@gmail.com 
Website: marlaineblog.wordpress.com   
MNartist.org profile: http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?rid=186466 
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marlaine-Cox-Metalworks/192381700785215
https://www.facebook.com/lowtech.highjoy 
Etsy Page: Scrap Yard Siren 

Bio-
Marlaine Cox is a Miami born metal artist who transplanted to Minneapolis in 1990 because her car broke down while driving through.  After settling in to the eternal winter she began constructing found object assemblages, finding inspiration in the broken tools, farm implements and detritus around her. She never managed to fix the car but continued her life anyway.



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

My work is mostly about transforming salvaged bits and metal scrap into functional objects.  I like the challenge of turning a broken tool into a new and unexpected use while trying not to manipulate the objects too much, letting beauty of the original forms show.  My goal is to fit as few parts together as elegantly as possible.  If the objects become humorous or absurd by my subtle manipulations then even better.
Right now I’m working with artist, Karen Kasel, as part of a creative placemaking team called low tech/high joycollaborative.   We are in the middle of a six month artist residency called Look(again) at TuckUnder Projects .  We created scoping devices from salvaged metal, inviting visitors to peer into the yard, finding unexpected oddities and small surprises.

Karen and I have collaborated in the past(The Shanty of Misfit Toys) http://www.artshantyprojects.org/  so formalizing this partnership is very exciting. We explore details in the environment that are often overlooked.

I’m also working on a series of wall sculptures for an upcoming exhibit at Gallery 360, opening on August 24, 2013.  My compulsion is to inject a ‘function’ into everything I create so these purely decorative sculptures are a departure for me.  To combat this, the pieces will have some kinetic component in them, a pulley or a hook, so they still ‘function’ just a little.



How did you decide to become an artist?

When I was a kid I was preoccupied with manipulating my environment. I built hidden book shelves and cubbies in the bottom bunk & I transformed our patio into a ramshackle greenhouse, building shelves into the screen walls and filling it with plants from the yard.  I carpeted my high school locker.  Since I was a bookworm I just thought I would be a writer or teacher or work in publishing.  It wasn’t until I moved to Minnesota when I was 23, disgruntled that college sucked all the fun out of reading and writing, that I realized how much I loved working with my hands.  I loved the immediacy of it, and getting out of my head.



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

Try to create something beautiful every day, no matter how small or ephemeral.  The artistic process doesn’t need to be filled with angst and suffering, it can sometimes be simple creative activities that have nothing to do with theory or art history or big ideas.

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

I sell my line of post-industrial accessories at Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/scrapyardsiren 
and in local shops: http://www.ilikeyouonline.com/ 
http://www.gallery360mpls.com/ 
http://www.gallery360mpls.com/ 
I accept commissions: http://marlainecoxmetalworks.com/



Who are some of the Minnesota artists you enjoy?

David Sollie  http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_sollie/index.html 
Karen Kasel  http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?rid=2485
Julie Buffalohead https://www.facebook.com/pages/Julie-Buffalohead-Artist/191704760864481 
Faye Passow http://fayepassow.com/ 
Peter Haakon Thompson  http://www.peterhaakonthompson.com/ 
Jan Elftmann http://www.corktruck.com/ 

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

Franconia Sculpture Park http://www.franconia.org/ 
Chicago Ave. Fire Arts Center http://www.cafac.org/ 
Art Shanty Projects http://www.artshantyprojects.org/ 
The Ledge Gallery  http://www.theledgempls.com/ 
Walker Art Center  http://www.walkerart.org/ 

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? 

MN Artists http://www.mnartists.org/ 
L’etoile http://www.letoilemagazine.com/ 



What can we expect to see from you in the future?

August 1, 2013: Low tech/high joy collaborative continues the Look(again) residency at TuckUnder Projects
 
August 2, 2013: AlteredEsthetics-Time Honored Exhibition-I’ll be showing three pieces from my post-industrial accessory collection

August 24, 2013:  Gallery 360- Wall Sculpture Series

Tuck Under Gallery


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