ART-A-WHIRL 2008

See Rae Ann's work featured during Fifteen Minutes of Fashion / Photo Shoot Live and Music in the Freight Elevator at 4pm Saturday May 17th, as she takes us for walk down fashion history lane.

Denise will be showing sculpture with a focus on the first display of her series, "The 365 Day Project", during which she is creating a small sculpture each day for 365 consecutive days.  By the start of Art-A-Whirl she will be on day 54.

Kate Van Cleve
Suite 226 in the Thorp
Collages & Paintings
 

Angela Kallsen's paintings are primarily oil and mixed media. Her current body of work is the "Grapevine Series" which focuses on old vines from around the world and our influences on their life cycles. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues around the area including the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, the Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, The Edina Art Center, the Hopkins Center for the Arts, and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Jason Kallsen is a photographer and wine professional. These primary interests are reflected in his current works, focusing on winemakers, modern and traditional winemaking practices, and the terrain of particularly great vineyards that develop "taste personalities" or what the French would call "Terrior."

The ancient art of mosaics is thriving in Minnesota with plenty of surprising new twists in wall art, mirrors, sculpture, furniture, windows, picture frames and much more. Come to the Thorp and CBC during Art-A-Whirl to see the amazing kaleidoscope of colors and patterns displayed in a 4,000 sq ft warehouse. Over 25 mosaic artists will have their works featured, with a selection available for purchase

The Minnesota Mosaic Guild (MMG) is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of the mosaic arts.  Several of the group members are nationally and internationally recognized mosaicists.  Guild members have created large public installations as well as privately commissioned work, with local attractions including Sheryl Tuorila's benches for the Ridgedale Library; Barb Keith’s work decorating libraries in St Paul and  St. Cloud;  and Lori Greene and Maria Ricke's mosaic sculptures in the Midtown Global Market.  The new magazine "Mosaic Art Now" features MMG’s Cathy Weeks, Sharra Frank, Mike Sweere, Lisa Arnold, and Barb Keith, who selected among submissions from all over the world.

A sculptor, potter and public artist, Julaporn Mok Buakaow studied at Chiang Mai University and completed her MFA at the Bauhaus University's public art program. Now living in Minneapolis, she creates functional ceramics, prints, and clay sculptures in her Thorp Building studio. A frequent traveler to Thailand, she also represents Thai contemporary artists and sells textiles and fashions from her home country.

Placement Gallery presents: Pure Pleasure: 10 Years of Curating from Yuri Arajs
Suite 125 in the CBC
A group exhibition of 20 artists that have shown with Yuri Arajs in the last 10 years, a kind of curatorial retrospective.

JAO

Reception with the artists Friday, May 16th from 6 to 10pm
Featuring live speed painting performance by JAO & music by DJ Espada.

Pure Pleasure: 10 Years of Curating from Yuri Arajs, brings together twenty artists that Yuri Arajs has shown over the last 10 years.

The reason for doing an exhibition of this type, at this time, is because it will be the last major exhibition Placement Gallery will be producing in Minneapolis for a while. Yuri Arajs is moving to Canada this summer and he wanted to do an exhibition that celebrates the many artists he has had the pleasure of working with.

“It’s impossible for me to do an exhibition that features all the artists I’ve worked with. This show will be a small sample of some of the amazing talent this city has to offer “, says Yuri. 

This exhibition will also be the largest exhibition Placement Gallery has done. It will be held in a 12,000 sq ft warehouse space next to the Thorp Building in NE Minneapolis, the original home to Art-A-Whirl.

Shawn McNulty's non-objective, vibrant, contemporary paintings are found in collections all over the world mostly from sales from his website (shawnmcnulty.com).  He is a founding member of Rosalux Gallery artist collective in downtown Minneapolis.  Art-A-Whirl is a rare opportunity to view and purchase many of his works displayed in his studio.