Image via Flickr. Don't be fooled by the vacay vibes of Memorial Day weekend. There is plenty of art stuff happening! With the good weather continuing to roll in and the giant blue rooster come home to roost in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, there's plenty to do and see this weekend before the grilling begins.
EVENT – INREVIEW Spring launch!
Forage Modern Workshop (4023 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN 55406)
Friday, May 26th from 7 - 9 p.m.
INREVIEW Magazine celebrates the launch of its Spring 2017 issue, which features reviews of exhibitions at Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) at MIA, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, All My Relations Gallery, Bockley Gallery, Hair and Nails, and Electric Machete Studios. Writers for this issue include Mara Duvra, Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson, Mary Coyne, Christina Schmid, Damon Stanek, Forest Lewis, and Sara Nichol. Oh, and there's an open bar by Hi-Lo Diner and tunes by Alex Chapin and Alex Leeds (the two Alex's, as it were). Past and current issues of the magazine will be available to all attendees for the price of FREE.
ARTIST TALK: Ryan Fontaine and Kristin Van Loon conversation led by Sheila Dickinson Hair & Nail Gallery (2222 ½ E. 35th St., Minneapolis, MN 55407)
Friday, May 26th at 7:30 p.m.
Ryan Fontaine creates sculptural investigations into painting, playing with the loosely deteriorating nature of signs. In one large-scale piece in the basement, white chunky lines are carved into a black rectangle, creating a flag-like symbol that stands rather than hangs. In another room, Kristen Von Loon places a pile of NYTimes pages of street fashion photographer Bill Cunningham's pages on a podium; on the walls, she plasters bright fliers of touring performing arts company SHEN YUN, which purports to tell the entire history of China. The repetition therein offers a meditation on both the loss of print and its oversaturation.
