Great Bargains, Friendly Neighbors, and Plenty of Laughs During The Seward Garage Sale Days

Click here to read about the stories behind the treasures 

found at the Seward Garage Sale on TCDaily Planet

 

Anna is a officially a licensed Minnesota Chauffeur...at least from1953-54

Please visit the Vine Arts Gallery to view some of my work in the annual members exhibit.

Reinterpreting the Crucifixation

In The "Chapel of the Cross" on the campus of Luther Seminary is my latest body of work.

I invite you to come, view and if you chose leave me your thoughts.

Adam without Eve

After 20 some years I have decided to re-release the "Adam Without Eve" portfolio.

The portfolio consists of 10 silver prints 8" x 10" printed on 11" x 14" paper, and housed in a elegant portfolio case.

The portfolio is issued in an edition of 100.

Do not miss Frank Theatre's Production of Eclipsed...Wow!

The Frank Theatre presents the area premiere of Danai Gurira's award-winning play ECLIPSED Sept. 16 - Oct. 10, 2010 The Playwrights' Center 

Get my behind the scenes sneak peek on TCDailyplanet

"Eclipsed centers on the lives of five women who are thrown together by the recent civil war in Liberia. Salvaged as chattel from wartime looting, these "wives" of the commanding officer form a hardscrabble alliance and develop their own a hierarchy as they confront questions of survival within their compound. The arrival of a new girl who has learned to read, and the return of a former "wife" who has learned to kill, quickly transforms their possibilities. Surprisingly vivacious and often funnier than you would expect, Eclipsed raises thought-provoking questions about power and resistance, solidarity and complicity, as the women hold out for the hope of a brighter destiny."

Northern Clay Center kicks off 20 years with the American Pottery Festival

NCC Exhibition Director, Jamie Lang, and staff have the tremendous task of curating the work of eighty-five artists.

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2010/09/09/fall-art-seward-sneak-peak-northern-clay-center%E2%80%99s-american-pottery-festival-20th-ann

Visit "Losing Our Heads" at the Minnesota State Fair

If you happen to visit the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Building, you may notice a Third Place Ribbon dangling from Denise's sculptural piece "Losing our Heads". It is comprised of many little skulls sculpted in clay which appear to be floating in animated in conversation (Is anything really being said and is anyone listening? ) The title of the piece is inspired by the irrationality and extreme polarization that we are experiencing during these challenging times. Location #302 (near Mark's piece)

Mark's Minnesota State Fair Photograph

If you plan on visiting the Minnesota State Fair, stop by the Fine Arts Building to view Mark’s Kirilian photograph: Botanical II (location #294 –right by Denise’s piece!)

Click here to view more Kirlian images

...and read on if you want to learn more about this cool photographic process:

Botanical II (or Parsley) is from the series “Exploring the Inner Lives of Plants”. It is an example of an electro-photographic process called “Kirlian Photography.” To simply explain the Kirlian process: I place an inanimate or living subject, such a leaf, directly on a sheet of film that rests on a copper plate. The plate is then charged with high voltage electricity, creating a corona discharge, or spark, which exposes the film. The result is an ethereal imprint of the infrastructure of the plant. Through working with Kirlian photography I have discovered, (even when using two leaves picked from the same branch) that I cannot foresee what a subject will share or hide on film, as each living subject has a unique essence. I have also seen how the life of each plant unpredictably deteriorates through time by how its identity is recorded with each progressive exposure. In addition to photography, Kirlian cameras have been utilized in Eastern Europe as a medical diagnostic device. In the seventies they were embraced by new age groups in the U.S. as a way to read people’s auras. As a photographer, I am less interested in validating any of the controversial claims of interpreting energy fields or auras through Kirlian Photography. To me, it’s simply an elegant way of recording what you cannot easily see with the naked eye.

Mary Stiff: "What I've Seen -Travel Memories"

Our friend and fellow Vine Arts Member, Mary Stiff, is exhibiting her travel inspired paintings in the Vine Arts Center right now. Learn more about Mary in the TCDaily Planet and come by the gallery to see her work.

Mary Stiff: "What I've Seen -Travel Memories" (Members' Gallery) August 14 - September 25, 2010 Vine Arts Center 2637 27th Ave South Minneapolis, MN 55406

Stories From The Catacombs : It Was the Little Things....

Mark and I found this vintage microscope set in an antique shop. The grid on the case door -perfect for some thoughtful mummy heads. Our specimens were randomly chosen among an array of collected things that had some significance (at least at one point in time). What are the little things? They are those trivial things that we allow to weigh upon us. They are the simple things that now mean so much. They are what we choose to notice and what we choose to ignore. They are the objects, thoughts, actions, reactions…. In the end we are the sum of many little things.

Join Us This Saturday for the Opening of:

 

THE NEW ANTIQUARIANS

A mixed-media exhibition featuring works by 14 artists

July 31 – August 29, 2010  

OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION and RED HOT ART AFTER-PARTY
Saturday, July 31 from 7 – 10:00 pm 

Stevens Square Center for the Arts:  

1905 Third Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55404

Details:

Is this the Future that Never Was?
–or an Alternate History of the Industrial Age?

A “Wonder Room” (or Cabinet of Curiosities) featuring retro-futurist paintings; alien landscapes; “steampunk” sculptures; a memory quilt and miniature catacombs made from cast-off, salvaged, and recycled materials that have been put to new uses and transformed into achingly familiar ghosts of the past.

 “WHAT IS STEAMPUNK, you might be asking yourself. Is it a celebration of imperfection in an imperfect world? Is it reclaiming of lost physicality in an increasingly digital age? Or an amalgam of past and present filtered through a future that can never be…?” - Kyshah Hell, “Clockwork and Carbon,” Morbid Outlook

In conjunction with the annual RED HOT ART Festival in nearby Stevens Square Park, there will be an OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION on SATURDAY, JULY 31 from 7:00 – 10:00 pm.

Steampunk in Oxford : A shame to have missed this show!

Stories from the Catacombs: The Golden Mean (Four Cardinal Virtues)

This accordion shaped piece touches on the pursuit of balance and harmony. The four cardinal virtues – Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude- are often depicted as female allegorical figures in funerary sculpture. The English word cardinal comes from the Latin word cardo, which means "hinge." – All other virtues hinge upon these four virtues. The Golden Mean is considered the desired midpoint between the extremes of excess and deficiency in achieving virtue.

Stories from the Catacombs...UNLEASH THE CATS (Terra-Gatto Warriors)

Unleash the Cats (Bloomington Art Center 2009-10)

Terra Gatto Warriors (close-up)

Unleash the Cats...

(Installation for our show "The Mummy Paradox" 

at the Bloomington Art Center )

About:

Construction details: The cat heads are sculpted in clay; their bodies are stuffed with recycled plastic bags; their armor is woven and sewn burlap strips.

For this piece consider: Chinese Terra Cotta Warriors, mixed with an Egyptian legend and an Italian twist (as Gatto is Cat in Italian). Cats have their own sense of mystery and power. The reverence that ancient Egyptians had for their cats is evidenced by their depiction in tomb paintings and discoveries of ancient cat mummies buried alongside the pharaohs. We read about a myth that the Egyptians once thwarted an attack of foreign invaders by unleashing thousands of cats, which terrified the advancing regiment into a hasty retreat.  It made us consider our own resources. Will we need to call upon the cats as well? It was not until we finished creating all the cats and had placed them in formation that we decided to confront our large army with a small, harmless mouse –which adds even more implications.

Stories From The Catacombs: ONE HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR CARDINALS

Process: We wanted to create a long, framed horizontal catacomb filled with our hooded cardinals. The figures were created through a salt-firing process (thanks to Chuck Solberg) that involves adhering pieces of berries, steel wool, and wire to the bisque-fired clay before it goes through the final salt-firing. The salt fumes have a dramatic reaction on the clay under heat.  These elements are responsible for the mottled, almost bone-like appearance.

The mystery of this piece became evident when we started constructing the architectural framework of the catacomb.  First, we laid out one large printer case alongside three smaller ones to achieve a balanced arrangement.  Out of curiosity we visited the Vatican web site to find out how many cardinals there were at that time -which was one hundred ninety-four. When we counted up all the cells to see how close (or far off we were) we were shocked to discover that they came to exactly one hundred ninety-four!

Found a Mouse among the cats

I guess it's time to unleash the cats!

Review of Our Show by Mason Riddle

The Last Polaroid Show : Images of Como

Nine days till exhibition opens @ Como Park's Marjorie McNeely conservatory.

Dec. 6, 2009 - Jan 19, 2010
Reception Monday Dec. 14th 6-9 Pm

The Mummy Paradox

Please visit the Bloomington Art Center to view our exhibition of sculpture entitled "The Mummy Paradox".
December 11, 2009 - January 8, 2010

Artists Reception Friday December 11, 6 - 8 p.m.