The curators and gallery directors from Augsburg College, Bethel University, the College of Visual Arts, Concordia University, Macalester College, Northwestern College, St. Catherine University, University of Minnesota and the University of St. Thomas invite you to a free annual “neighborhood” gallery crawl including exhibition receptions, refreshments, music and free shuttle buses. The College Art Gallery Collaborative Fall Art Tour 2010 takes place on Friday, October 15th from 5pm to 9pm.
The following galleries will be featuring their fall exhibits as part of the Fall Art Tour:
Augsburg College
The Gage Family Art Gallery- "Just Passing Through" - Printmaker Jerald Krepps’ new series is a visual response to the experiential beauty of change and life’s temporal quality. Through the use of light, Krepps creates images that explore our sensory relationships with the passage of time.
The Christensen Center Art Gallery- "imPRINT" - printmaker and Augsburg College professor Lynn Bollman explores what is and isn’t a print. By experimenting with unconventional surfaces and the process of printing, he invites the viewer to reevaluate the fine line between standard classifications of what things are and what they could be.
Bethel University
Olson Gallery, CLC Building- "Restrike" - This exhibition looks at printmaking artists who draw their imagery or ideas from other communication media. Some are making direct commentary on the media and how our lives are influenced by it, while others are simply appropriating and repurposing imagery from the mass media. Artists Include: Karin Bos, Wanda Ewing, Jon Lee, Beauvais Lyons, and Alysia Kaplan.
Johnson Gallery, CC Building- "Movement/Process/Reflection" - Large-scale paintings by two local artists exploring natural forms though a common interest in dialog with painting past and present. Jil Evans artwork is informed by a diverse range of interests and experiences, ranging from an on-going study of Italian and Dutch Baroque painting, to a recent trip to the Galapagos Islands to investigate the vegetation and the geological forms of volcanic activity. In works deploying her signature visual syntax of flora and fauna in various states of growth and decomposition, Margaret Wall-Romana exercises a wide-ranging interest in the history of painting, from Mannerism and The Dutch Golden Age to Abstract Expressionism.
College of Visual Arts
CVA Gallery- "Outstanding Printmaker: Lloyd Menard, 1970 to Present" - As part of the biennial Mid America Print Council Conference, CVA is hosting an exhibition of the 2010 outstanding printmaker award, selected by the conference nomination committee. The winner of this prestigious award is Lloyd Menard, an artist who has made significant contributions to the field of printmaking.
Concordia University
Concordia Gallery- "MFAs in the 00s: New Printmaking" - As part of Old World / New World, the 2010 Mid America Print Council Conference, Concordia will present an exhibition of outstanding printmakers who received their M.F.A.s in the 2000s. With work ranging from intricate wood engraving, to electro-etching, digital prints and installation, this exhibition takes a look at current trends and ideas in printmaking, presenting some of the best new work out there.
Macalester College
Macalester Art Gallery- "TRIUMPH: A monumental woodcut & REVOLUTION: linocuts of the Mexican revolution" by Artemio Rogriguez, and "Lost & Found: Selections from the Weyerhauser Library."
Northwestern College
Denler Art Gallery- "All or Nothing" - All or Nothing explores the extremes of compositional and conceptual possibilities, while intentionally leaving out the middle. The images and objects curated into this exhibit helps us understand pictorial extremism: full or empty, ornate versus plain, horror vacui in opposition of austerity. In reflection of so many bifurcated approaches to contemporary thinking, these works present a suite of formalist explorations of the poles and their antipodes. By adopting clinical posture to these explorations, All or Nothing provides a neutral forum for the cacophony of these radical positions. Curated by Kjellgren Alkire and Luke Aleckson, the exhibit presents work from young contemporary artists along with historical heroes from the late 20th century.
St. Catherine University
Catherine G. Murphy Gallery- "New World/ Old World: 2010 Mid-America Print Council Members Juried Exhibition" - New World/ Old World is a print exhibition featuring the juried work of MAPC members and is held in conjunction with the 2010 MAPC conference in the Twin Cities October 13-17, 2010. The juror is Thomas E. Rassieur, the John E. Andrus III Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
University of Minnesota
Katherine Nash Gallery- "THENOW: Contemporary Prints, Historical Perspectives" - More than 30 contemporary North American artists are exhibited combined with works drawn from the Weisman Art Museum collection to demonstrate how past printmaking has influenced these contemporary artists. There will be 30 historical works by Hiroshige, Piranesi, Hogarth, Daumier, Goya, Picasso, Lasansky, Myers, Posada, Orozco, and others. These have been chosen with the particular contemporary works in mind and should yield interesting cross-comparisons.
University of St. Thomas
O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Lobby Gallery- "Stop The Presses: Graphic Art In A New Light" - Minnesota artists use a variety of print making techniques to translate an idea, photographs of special places, nature, landscape and slices of everyday life into block prints.
For more information about The College Art Gallery Collaborative Fall Art Tour 2010, including a shuttle map and schedule, visit www.stkate.edu/fallarttour.
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