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…

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Andrew 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.…

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Spotlight: “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…

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Review: “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,…

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Review: “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,…

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Seeworthy: “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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Review: “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…

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Review: “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…

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Spotlight: “‘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…

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Spotlight: “A Double Shot of Michael Kareken”

Minneapolis Star Tribune art critic Mary Abbe praises Michael Kareken’s show, PARTS, a joint exhibition of new work at Groveland Gallery and Burnet Gallery. She writes: “the stripped and rusting cars are incongruous subjects for Kareken’s huge paintings and delicate drawings, but they work thanks to his mesmerizing talent for reproducing mechanical details — belts, pulleys,…

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Review of Kit Wilson’s Show

Minneapolis Star Tribune art critic Mary Abbe writes, “Kit Wilson’s exhibition is a silent, stylized view of nature rendered with perfect polish and emotional restraint.” Read the rest of Abbe’s review here.

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