Posts by Sally Johnson
Seeworthy: “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.…
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.
Read MoreReview: “Made-by-hand art at three Minneapolis galleries”
Minneapolis Star Tribune art critic Mary Abbe applauds current exhibitions at Burnet Gallery, Circa Gallery and Groveland, all of which “feature terrific work in such old-fashioned made-by-hand media as painting, drawing, cut-paper and sculptural ceramics, glass and metal.” Abbe alludes to Lyon’s unique, contemporary perspective of his historical subject (his paintings were inspired by inspired by Bernini’s sculptures of…
Read MoreSpotlight: “‘Rome: Traversing the Sacred’ at Groveland Gallery”
Minneapolis Star Tribune art critic Mary Abbe highlights Charles Lyon’s exhibition of paintings featuring Bernini’s dramatic statutes of angels on the Ponte Sant’Angelo. About Lyon’s paintings, Abbe writes: “The flowing forms of Roman Baroque sculpture are a natural for a painter best known for big, lush, Pop-style images of roses and other blossoms … Instead of ruffled flower petals, Lyon evokes…
Read MoreDan Bruggeman on MN Original
St. Paul artist Dan Bruggeman was recently featured on the TPT series MN Original. During his segment, he discusses the paintings he’s working on for his upcoming Groveland Gallery exhibition in October, 2015. His images of Valley Fair, Buck Hill and abandoned drive-in movie theaters – Bruggeman calls them “the places in between” – are largely…
Read MoreGaylord Schanilec in The New York Times
Congratulations to wood engraver Gaylord Schanilec, who recently finished his most recent fine press book, Lac Des Pleurs. Nearly seven years in the making, the book explores the landscape and ecology of Wisconsin’s Lake Pepin. The book’s type is hand-set by the artist, and his illustrations are editioned wood-engraved prints, several of which can be seen in person…
Read MoreJoyce Lyon’s Upcoming Exhibition at the Nash Gallery
Groveland artist Joyce Lyon and her University of Minnesota art department colleague, James Henkel, will celebrate their artistic careers and upcoming retirement with the exhibition, The Longest Way Round is the Shortest Way Home. Opening February 25 at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, the show will feature Henkel’s photographs and Lyon’s paintings and drawings. Henkel joined the university’s faculty in…
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