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Art: Into the Traffic Zone

By Mary Abbe, Star Tribune

Last update: May 1, 2008 - 2:50 PM

This weekend: As the season of art fairs and craft shows begins, 21 artists who share a studio building are welcoming visitors. The Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art is aptly named, as it overlooks a tangle of ramps to Interstate 394 from Washington Avenue. Artists include figurative, landscape and abstract painters, sculptors, photographers and conceptual types.

They'll explain their work to all who get past the building's attractive ground-floor wine bar. The portrait shown here is "Capricorn," by Vesna Kittelson. Enthusiasts can double their pleasure by also checking out "Background Noise," paintings and installations opening Saturday by Ben Garthus and Greg Priglmeier about a mile south at Rosalux Gallery. (Traffic Zone open studios: 5:30-9:30 p.m. Sat., 1 -5 p.m. Sun, free. 250 3rd Av. N., Mpls. www.trafficzoneart.com. Rosalux Gallery opening reception: 7-10 p.m. Sat., free. 1011 Washington Av. S., Mpls. Exhibit ends May 31, free. 612-747-3942 or www.rosaluxgallery.com)