Main Exhibition
SPOTLIGHT Exhibition
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Since 1973, Groveland Gallery has specialized in exhibiting and selling contemporary, representational paintings, drawings and original prints by Midwestern artists. Our Minneapolis art gallery features new exhibitions every six weeks, and offers fine art collection services for individuals and businesses.
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Groveland Gallery is located in a restored 1890’s mansion on the edge of downtown Minneapolis, just south of the Walker Art Center.
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Exhibition Information
January 26 - March 2, 2019
Joshua Cunningham
Circling Back
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 26, 2-5 pm
For Joshua Cunningham, this new body of work encapsulates a season spent returning with fresh eyes to familiar scenes in search of the unfamiliar. Cunningham is seeking out the landscapes that have been described in stories shared by strangers, neighbors, and friends. He sees this exhibition as a season of circling back. Work for this show began after the artist’s father’s death in 2017. His father had been a fervent supporter of his work, and Cunningham leaned into painting as a way of keeping close to his father’s memory.
January 26 - March 2, 2019
Ellen Heck
Fascinators
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 26, 2-5 pm
Fascinators by Ellen Heck is a series of portraits in which the sitters are wearing Möbius strips and other mathematical or paradoxical figures as hats. Reminiscent of fascinators, these forms could only be worn and held convincingly in the two-dimensional world of the print. Using combinations of woodcut, drypoint on copper, and hand painting, the flatness of the figures is contrasted with the dimensionality of their headpieces. A narrative begins to open up between the adorned female figures and the Möbius, used by the artist as a physical manifestation of abstract or invisible concerns.
March 9 - April 20, 2019
Barbara McIlrath
Land Shapes
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 9, 2-5 pm
Barbara McIlrath’s current body of work is centered on two locations: the village of Old Frontenac which sits along the Mississippi and the rural Hicks Valley which neighbors McIlrath’s studio and home in Pepin. For McIlrath, the artistic process begins when she first becomes aware of a unique feature in the landscape. She then spends time lingering and wrestling with her observations. Ultimately, McIlrath comes full circle by creating the painting and revealing something new.