Art spotlights: '365D: Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days of a Woman'

"Jersey Shore" and "The Sopranos" have perpetuated a stereotype of the Italian woman: hot-blooded, gesticulating, food-obsessed and overly emotional. With her exhibition "365D," which comes to the Twin Cities after opening in Rome and Milan, Italian-born photographer Marzia Messina hopes to change those perceptions. Messina enlisted photographer Sham Hinchey to help portray an authentic vision of modern women of her home country, and the resulting show proffers a spectrum of the diversity and unique beauty of the Italian woman -- spanning age, socioeconomic status and ethnicity. -Jahna Peloquin

Over the past decade, Minneapolis ceramist Maren Kloppman has explored the sculptural possibilities of porcelain. Although four of her signature vases are on view, this show features wall-mounted works that combine her same intellectual precision of abstract form, surface and edge with a disciplined palette of black, white and a maize-like yellow, on which Kloppman has made her reputation. Composed of multiple elements configured in horizontal and vertical arrangements with titles such as "Pillow Stack" and "Shadow Pillows Horizon," the works are refined and, somehow, ethereal and monumental. Also showing, Ellen Richman's non-objective paintings are sophisticated studies in color and layered geometric form. A confident, gestural brushstroke and unconventional color sense imbue the work with a visceral pulse. Her oil on canvas paintings would settle nicely into a mid-century modernist home. -Mason Riddle