Posts Tagged ‘Tom Maakestad’
Groveland Gallery, Minnesota State Art Board Grantees
Earlier this week the Minnesota State Arts Board announced its 2017 grantees. Groveland Gallery is pleased to share that among those who received this year’s Artist Initiative grants, three Groveland Gallery artists were included: Michael Kareken, Tom Maakestad, and Meg Ojala. Michael Kareken will complete a series of drawings inspired by visits to auto salvage…
Read MoreExhibit: “River Perspectives” by Tom Maakestad and Don Schmidlapp at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum
There are three more weeks to catch Tom Maakestad’s paintings at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. The show runs through December 23rd, 2016. River Perspectives is the third exhibition in the Minnesota Marine Art Museum’s Mississippi River Series, and highlights the work of two prominent Minnesota plein air (“in the open air”) painters – Tom Maakestad…
Read MoreReview: “Minneapolis galleries showcase aerial paintings, abstractions and apocalyptic instructions”
Minneapolis Star Tribune’s art critic Mary Abbe praises exhibitions by Tom Maakestad and Wendell Arneson, simultaneously on view through June 6. Abbe congratulates Maakestad on his new perspective of the landscape, calling his aerial views of southern Minnesota a “breathtaking breakthrough.” Of his paintings, she writes: “though familiar, there is a quiet grandeur to these…
Read MorePleinAir Collector: “From the Ground to the Plane”
PleinAir Magazine interviews Tom Maakestad about his Groveland Gallery show, The Long View, a series of aerial landscape paintings. View the article here.
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