Posts by Andrea Bubula
Featured IMPRESSIONS artist Justin Terlecki
Over the next four months (September – December 2017), keep your eyes open while riding the Green Line light rail and Metro Transit buses. You might just see artwork by Groveland Gallery artist Justin Terlecki. On September 1, 2017, Saint Paul Almanac unveiled the third round of broadsides. Each broadside is a unique poster of a…
Read MorePleinAir Today features Plein Air Invitational
Groveland Gallery’s Plein Air Invitational was recently featured in PleinAir Magazine’s weekly e-newsletter, PleinAir Today. The article was later shared on OutdoorPainter.com. The write up by Andrew Webster included images of work from the show as well as photographs from the opening. Read Webster’s complete write up, “Invitational Illuminates the Twin Cities”, by clicking the link…
Read MoreVillager Newspaper features Barbara McIlrath
Groveland Gallery artist Barbara McIlrath was recently featured in The Villager Newspaper in an article written by Bill Stieger. The piece was titled “A Quick Study: Mac-Groveland Artist Masters Her Preferred Medium at Midlife” and focused on McIlrath’s development as an artist. Of her work Stieger wrote, “McIlrath’s drawings and paintings… exhibition craft, strength and a mastery…
Read MoreA List: “Pickets and Peonies”
“Pickets and Peonies”, a solo show by Groveland Gallery artist Amy Rice, is currently on view at the Artistry in Bloomington, MN through April 23, 2017. A link to the exhibition page can be found here. Earlier this month art journalist, Camille LeFevre listed Rice’s show on City Pages’ “A List”. Of Rice’s show LeFevre…
Read MoreCarl Oltvedt Completes Commission for Securian in St. Paul
Earlier this month we were delighted to see the completion and installation of a commissioned diptych created by Carl Oltvedt for Securian in St. Paul. Groveland visitors can find a study for Carl’s work “Arrival of Spring” in our current exhibition “Leaning into the Light” through April 22.
Read MoreBuffalo’s NPR News Station meets with Thomas Paquette
On February 20, 2017, NPR-affiliate station WBFO in Buffalo, NY, broadcast a piece on Thomas Paquette’s landscape paintings and their relation to the history of artwork establishing an appreciation of natural environments. Morning Edition host Jay Moran and McKenna Moran drove the few hours to Paquette’s studio and spent time in wide-ranging conversation while looking…
Read MoreGroveland 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 MoreSeeworthy: “Work”
Gregory Scott writes for the Star Tribune, “Like [artist] Morandi’s famous bottles, the tools [by Joshua Huyser], in finely controlled watercolor or ghostly graphite, shimmer in atmospherics and become just a touch enigmatic. They look both totally normal and naggingly altered – real, but dampened by the waters of memory and feeling.” Read the rest…
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 MoreMichael Paul in “The Cadence of Grass”
Groveland Gallery artist Michael Paul receives a solo exhibition at Augustana University featuring a rich selection of his encaustic paintings. The Cadence of Grass will be on display in the Madsen/Nelson Galleries of the Fantle Building from October 24, 2016 – January 20, 2017. A gallery reception will be held Friday, November 4, 2016, from 5-7p.m. The exhibit is…
Read MoreGregory Graham in “Person. Place. Thing.”
Groveland artist Gregory Graham can be found in the Saint Cloud State University, Kiehle Gallery exhibition ” Person. Place. Thing.” alongside artists Lander Burton and Kelsey Olson. This exhibition of small paintings opens November 17 and runs through January 17, 2017. The opening reception, featuring an artist talk, will take place Thursday, November 17 from 4-6…
Read MoreDialogue in Place: Volume III / Shifting Perspectives – Joyce Lyon and Andrea Thoma
Date: November 15th, 2016 — December 1st, 2016 The two artists have maintained a transatlantic studio conversation about place for almost twenty years, reflecting on how one might consider location in relation to ideas of landscape, memory, representation and abstraction. In new bodies of work both artists consider place in relation to time, intimacy, pilgrimage…
Read MoreArt Hounds features Andrew Wykes’ “Hinterlands”
Local artist/graphic designer Adam Demers discusses Andrew Wykes’ current exhibition on the February 25th segment of MPR’s Art Hounds. Listen to the segment in its entirety here.
Read MoreAndrew Wykes selected for Viking’s stadium collection commission
Congratulations to Groveland artist Andrew Wykes, who is among 34 Minnesota artists commissioned to make a painting for inclusion in U.S. Bank Stadium’s “museum-like” art collection. The Vikings collection will feature 500 original artworks that celebrate the team, as well as Minnesota’s rich history and culture. In her recent Star Tribune article, “Vikings commission U.S.…
Read MoreSpotlight: “Artists Michael Paul and Dan Bruggeman chart ‘New Directions’ at Groveland Gallery”
The Star Tribune’s Mary Abbe highlights new exhibitions by Dan Bruggeman and Michael Paul, opening Friday, October 23. Abbe keenly observes Bruggeman’s paintings, noting the artist’s ability to “play optical tricks with scale and perspective by placing strange things at odd spots in highly formal picture planes.” Michael Paul “roams the Midwest producing luminous encaustic paintings.” Read the…
Read MoreQ & A with Tim Tozer by MW Capacity
Chris Lowrance and Sam King interview Groveland artist Tim Tozer for MW Capacity, a blog that features the work of Midwestern contemporary painters. Tim speaks candidly about his education, inspirations, processes, and his ability to work both figuratively and abstractly. Read the interview here.
Read MoreArt Hounds features Rod Massey’s “Unmade City”
St. Catherine University painting professor and fellow Groveland artist Carol Lee Chase discusses Rod Massey’s current exhibition on the October 1st segment of MPR’s Art Hounds. Listen to the segment in its entirety here.
Read MoreReview: “Surface beauty goes a long way in Groveland and Circa shows in Minneapolis”
Mary Abbe of the Star Tribune calls attention to the “fabulous surfaces” on view in our current shows by Rod Massey and Tim Tozer. She applauds Rod Massey’s gritty urban landscape paintings of abandoned flour mills, boarded over windows, graffiti-covered steel doors and derelict warehouses that the artist “records with unsentimental honesty and affection.” She continues,…
Read MorePainting Perceptions: An Interview with Andrew Wykes
Painting Perceptions, a blog written by San Diego artist and writer Larry Goff, “explores modernistic painting being done from life.” In this June post, Goff interviews Northfield painter and Hamline University art instructor Andrew Wykes about his education, influences, techniques and the role of observation in his work. Read the interview here.
Read MoreReview: “It’s unseasonably hot at four Minneapolis galleries”
Four Minneapolis galleries embrace summertime with bold and entertaining shows. As Mary Abbe of the Star Tribune points out, “summer sizzles this year at local art galleries. Often a slow season when galleries dust off old stock and settle in for a sales siesta, summer is seldom as dynamic as this month when experimental books, abstract paintings,…
Read MoreSeeworthy: “80 artists create ‘Love Letters’ for a summer show at Groveland Gallery”
Minneapolis Star Tribune art critic Mary Abbe highlights Groveland Gallery’s summer-long celebration of writing and receiving letters: “In these days of Facebook and text messaging, the notion of communicating by post seems a bit quaint and way too slow. For official documents and important sentiments, though, there’s nothing like an old-fashioned letter. Which is why St.…
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