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David Sollie
America's Sweetheart: A Brief History of the Shackway Corporation
Shackway Corporation is proud to announce a long overdue exhibition focusing on its innovative and trend-setting packaging designs. The show, assembled by Shackway Historical Research Institute director David Sollie, provides an exciting look at some of the peculiar niche marketing strategies employed by the now nearly forgotten company.
From humble beginnings in the shadows of WWII the company grew into a marketing behemoth, dabbling in businesses as diverse as gourmet bomb shelter foods, TV shows for the Australian market, toys made specifically for mean kids and the once popular “Floating Cake Tray,” for those of our forbears who wished to enjoy cake in the swimming pool.
Exhibition: March 20 through April 24, 2010
Surf & Ironing Board, 2010, 26.5 x 66.25 inches, edition of 5
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Jim Denomie
Recent History
Exhibition:
September 12 through October 10, 2009
Artist Talk: Thursday, September 24, 7 pm
Jim Denomie is well known for his humor and irony, and in his new exhibition he reflects on his home state, Minnesota, commenting on our own political and social climate in his rich and painterly style.
Denomie is 2008 Bush Artist Fellowship recipient and a 2009 Eiteljorg Fellowship recipient.
Chief with Heavy Heart, 2009, 24 x 20 inches,
acrylic on canvas
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Norval Morrisseau
Late Paintings
Exhibition: May 23 through June 27, 2009
This exhibition focuses on the late work of Norval Morrisseau. There is in this, his late work, an exuberance and directness, an engagement with the physicality of the paint, use of electric colors, greens and pinks not seen in his earlier work.
To the end of his life, a life of amazing highs and lows, and despite illness Morrisseau always remained true to his calling as a "shaman/artist". This exhibition is a celebration of his indomitable spirit. see installation
Princess on Blue, 1994-99, acrylic on canvas
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George Morrison
Drawings: 80's & 90's
Exhibition: April 11 through May 16, 2009
For Morrison, unlike many abstract expressionists, drawing was not a secondary form. Indeed, the Walker Art Center acknowledged this in their 1974 exhibition George Morrison: Drawings an astonishing show of works on paper as rich and fully realized as his paintings.
The exhibition presents 14 small drawings from the 80's and 90's.
Three Surrealist Forms, 1988, graphite, color pencil, ink, on paper
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Dietirch Sieling
Giraffe-man
Exhibition: March 7 through April 4, 2009
Dietrich will be creating an installation and exhibit of drawings inspired by his relationship with African hooved animals, friends, family and the environment.
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1/2 Giraffe, 1/2 Zebra, 2008, 12 x 8.5 inches
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Damian Garner
Pocket Paintings
Exhibition: January 31 through February 28, 2009
The gallery will present approxiametly 30 small paintings, most produced by Damian while living in Bogota, Columbian and the others while living in Minneapolis.
Stu, 1997, 4 x 4 inches, oil on metal plate
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Andrea Carlson
EARTH DIVER
Exhibition: November 22, 2008 - January 3, 2009
EARTH DIVER features new works from Andrea Carlson's ongoing series that both challenges and champions issues of cultural appropriation, assimilation and consumption. Drawing heavily on contemporary museum studies, Carlson's new paintings on paper reference cannibalism as a metaphor to describe the commodification of culture and cultural tourism in museums and on film.
Cannibal Ferox, 2008, oil, acrylic, ink, color pencil,, and graphite on paper
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The Art of Star Wallowing Bull
Exhibition: October 15 - November 18, 2008
Exhibition includes 13 drawings produced during 2007 and 2008, as well as 2 recent paitings.
The Lookout, 2008, 22.25 x 15 inches, color pencil on paper
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Julie Buffalohead
Expecting
Exhibition: September 6 - October 11, 2008
Exhibition presents 12 recent work on paper.
Creator, 2008, 21 x 19 inches, mixed media on paper
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Philip Larson
Amphorae
Bockley Gallery presents the exhibition Amphorae. A series of paintings on paper by Philip Larson, opening May 31st and continuing through June 28th, 2008.
Using invented amphorae or vase profiles to suggest the human presence, this series also draws upon art and architectural history and classical myth to create work of intelligence, beauty, and wit.
Mr. Larson is presently professor of Art and Architectural History at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and was curator (1970-76) at the Walker Art Center. He has received numerous awards and public commissions, and his work is in the collection of the Walker Art Center and Solomon Guggenheim Museum, NYC, as well as numerous corporate and private collections.
Venus on the Waves , 2008, 44 x 44 inches, acrylic and gold leaf on paper
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White Earth, a Portrait
John Ratzloff
Since 1991, the majority of John’s work has been done on the White Earth Indian reservation in northwest Minnesota, and this exhibition serves as an introduction to this wonderful body of work.
Containing scenes from everyday life, social gatherings, as well as individual portraits, the exhibition offers an opportunity to share John’s journey with the Anishinabe people.
Growing out of his long involvement in peace, justice, and environmental causes, his work is not artist as voyeur or hunter out to “capture” an image. Instead, his photographs grow out of relationships, a portrait is not “taken”, it is a gift, a moment shared. As John himself has written, “My hope for what you see and feel in response to these images is more than an interesting glimpse of history, rather, a love story”.
Rebecca and Mary Rock , 1998, White Earth Indian Reservation, silver gelatin print
James Shimek, 2001, High School Graduation, White Earth Indian Reservation, silver gelatin print
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Carolyn Anderson, Frank Big Bear, Julie Buffalohead, Star Wallowing Bull, Andrea Carlson, Jim Denomie, Carl Gawboy
At the Gage Family Art Gallery
Augsburg College
First level, Oren Gateway Center
22nd Avenue South at Riverside Avenue
Reception: January 25, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Exhibition: January 11 - February 15, 2008
Star Wallowing Bull, Around the World in Three Weeks
2007, 22.5 x 15 inches, color pencil on paper
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Jim Denomie
Brown-Eyed Rabbit
Exhibition: December 1 through December 29, 2007
Selected for City Pages' Artists of the Year
Horse and Rider '07, 2007, oil on canvas
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GEORGE MORRISON
Exhibition: September 29 through November 3, 2007
The exhibit consists of paintings and drawings created between1949 and 1999.
untitled (Dayton, Ohio), 1960,16.5 x 13.75 inces,
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T. L. Solien
Drawings: 1997 - 2003
Exhibition: April 21 through May 19, 2007
On display is a selection of 9 drawings created between 1997 and 2003.
Lighthouse Keeper, 1999, 29.75 x 22 inches, mixed media on paper
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Patti Smith
American Artist
Photographs by Frank Stefanko
Exhibition: March 3 through March 31, 2007
Open Reception: Friday, March 2, 6 to 9 pm
Reception for Frank Stefanko:
Sunday, March 25, 7 to 10 pm
(after the Dylan Symposium at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum.)
Before she rose to prominence as "punk rock's poet laureate", Patti Smith spent the early 1970s in New York painting, writing, and performing spoken-word poetry. By 1975, the Patti Smith Group recorded the highly regarded debut album, Horses. It was during this time that Frank Stefanko, a college friend and fellow native of South Jersey, began photographing the young woman who would become, according to Rolling Stone, one of the 100 greatest artists of all time.
Patti Smith: American Artist features approximately thirty stunning and intimate black and white portraits of a cultural icon. Each image demonstrates Stefanko's ability to capture the inner spirit of an emerging artistic legend. This exhibition also celebrates the publication of Patti Smith: American Artist (Insight Editions), with photographs and text by Frank Stefanko. Many previously unpublished photographs, along with the author's personal recollections, document a significant figure at a time when new genre of music and art was being born.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be aired March 17th & 18th on VH-1.
Patti Smith's reflections on being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that appeared in the New York Times.
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Stephen Hartman
Painitngs
Exhibition: January 13 through February 10, 2007
Bockley Gallery announces an exhibition of new paintings by Stephen Hartman.
Growing up in California, Stephen spent his early years as a surfer, before moving to Minnesota in 1972 to complete his education at the University of Minnesota. He exhibited at the Glen Hanson Gallery and later at the Robert Thomson Gallery, before moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1991 where he exhibited at numerous galleries in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. In 2001 he returned to Minnesota where he now lives and works.
The exhibition consists of two distinct bodies of work: a group of small narrative paintings based upon his surfing experience, coupled with new paintings where he continues to refine his unique method of layering paint and rice paper to achieve a luminous, stained glass-like quality.
Locally Stephen’s work is represented in the collections of Minneapolis Art Institute, Walker Art Center, and Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art.
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Watch, 2007, 10.25 x 12.25 x 2.25 inches, mixed-media on plaster
Mishap, 2006, 10.25 x 12.25 x 2.25 inches, mixed-media on plaster |
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Star Wallowing Bull
Beyond Tradition
Exhibition: November 18 through December 23, 2006
Bockley Gallery announces an exhibition of new drawings and paintings by Star Wallowing Bull. Continuing the rich tradition of Anishinaabe visual artists, his work is influenced by, and infused with the spirit of his predecessors Norval Morrisseau, George Morrison, and his own father, Frank Big Bear.
In Beyond Tradition, images of traditional and contemporary culture are beautifully and often amusingly juxtaposed as Star attempts through his work to find and reconcile his unique place between two disparate cultures.
Wandering Spirit, 2006, 30.25 x 18.5"
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Norval Morrisseau
Medicine Paintings
Exhibition: September 23 through November 4, 2006
Bockley Gallery announces an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Norval Morrisseau. In his first major gallery exhibition in the United States, the exhibition offers a rare and rich opportunity to experience the work of this highly regarded artist and shaman.
The exhibition is titled Medicine Paintings because Morrisseau sees them not only as art objects but as curative. Many times people came up to me and said, “Norval, I thank you very much for healing me. I thank you very much for helping me. I thank you very much for doing this.” I have never seen those people. What did it? The paintings.
Bockley Gallery is the U.S. representative for the artworks of Norval Morrisseau.
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Medicine Bear, c, 1990, 64 x 51", acrylic on canvas
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Year One
Exhibition: July 28 through August 31, 2006
Celebrating the first season, this summer exhibition consists of work by artists exhibitied at the new Bockley Gallery during its inaugural year.
This celebration offers a unique opportunity to see at one time the widely diverse collection of artists that is the Bockley Gallery.
Presenting work by: Glen Hanson, Barbara Kreft, Steven Woodward, Stuart Nielsen, Philip Larson, Andrea Carlson, Jim Denomie, Julie Buffalohead, Norval Morrisseau, Star Wallowing Bull, Frank Big Bear, George Morrison, Arlonzia Pettway
Barbara Kreft, untitled, 2006, plant leaves on paper
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Gee's Bend Quilters Collective
Exhibition: June 23 through July 22, 2006
Aolar Mosely
Mary Lee Bendolph
Irene Williams
China Pettway
Annie Mae Young
Helen McCloud
Martha Jane Pettway
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Martha Jane Pettway, Broken Pinwheel, circa 1976
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Frank Big Bear
Portraits: 1997 - 2006
Extended through June 10, 2006
Big Bear's first one-person exhibiton since 2000.
Autumn's Neon Red Sun, 2006, 14" x 10"
prisma color pencil on paper
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George Morrison
Works on Paper: 1944 - 99
Exhibition: March 18 through April 22, 2006
From early figure studies, through surrealism and abstract expressionism, to his final works where he returns to landscape, evoked by only a horizon line, this half century of work reveals a thoughtful and restless artist exploring and refining through the form language of his times, his own unique vision.
For Morrison, unlike many abstract expressionists, drawing was not a secondary form. Indeed, the Walker Art Center acknowledged this in their 1974 exhibition George Morrison: Drawings an astonishing show of works on paper as rich and fully realized as his paintings.
Cap d' Antibes, 1952-53, 10.5" x 7.75",
mixed media on paper
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Work by Barbara Kreft and Steven Woodward. Exhibition: January 21 through February 18, 2006.
Barbara Kreft's work shown in cooperation with Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
gallery installation and work
Steven Woodward, Bottom , 1999, 66" x 40" x 40"
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The exhibition Warehouse Veterns Unite featuring work by Glen Hanson, Philip Larson, Stuart Nielsen closed on December 23rd, 2005
gallery installation and work
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Glen Hanson, untitled (cranberry), 2005
12" x 12" (beaded area)
glass beads on brain-tanned deer hide
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Correspondence: The Art of Barbara Kreft and Suart Nielsen brought together for the first time the paintings and sculptures of Minneapolis based artists Barbara Kreft and Stuart Nielsen at the Rochester Art Center
Catalogue available at the Rochester Art Center and the gallery.
gallery installation and work
Stuart Nielsen, untitled, 2005, 15' x 44" x 10", cottonwood |
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Exitibition |
The
Bockley Gallery opened its new exhibition space at 2123 West 21st Street, Minneapolis,
MN 55405, located across from the Kenwood
Elementary School,
on Friday,
October
14th, 2005, 5 - 9 pm with an exhibition featuring: |
Julie
Buffalohead |
George
Morrison |
Norval
Morrisseau |
Jim
Denomie |
Andrea
Carlson |
Star
Wallowing Bull |
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Morrisseau, Self Portrait, 2005, #26/220, silkscreen,
15” x 21”, Six Bear Clan Edition, published by
Morrisseau Art Publishing |
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the Tree Planting Project |
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The original
tree planting project began as a curatorial strategy
to make real the idea of social sculpture within the context
of my own community. My involvement with social sculpture empowered
me to become an active player in addressing issues that previously
I felt powerless to do anything about.
For more information about our past tree plantings
click here....
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Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
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Exhibition |
Listening with the Heart
September 9, 2000 - December 31, 2000.
This exhibition presents the work of three contemporary artists, Frank Big Bear,
George Morrison and Norval Morrisseau who share an approach to their work. Todd
Bockley, a Minneapolis independent curator, organized the exhibition and Glen
Hanson, a Minneapolis writer, expressed the exhibition concept through text.
You are invited to experience these works of art by "listening with the
heart," because that approach is what unites the artists. You are urged
to forgo words of explanation about the art and instead enter into conversation
with the work.
To learn more click here...
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