The Galleries: January 22 - February 28, 2016

The Galleries: January 22 - February 28, 2016

Presented by The Phipps Center for the Arts at Unknown

Gallery One
“Creating art is an escape for me. It is my outlet from within, from the confines of my own mind. The experiences I had in the military, and particularly in Iraq, shaped who I have become as a man and as a person. I do not always know how to interpret my thoughts and memories of these experiences in words, so my art becomes my medium.”
– Jeffrey Stenbom (Apple Valley)

Gallery Two
“My interest is in exposing things: the collective detritus our ‘domesticated’ lives accumulate. These conveniences and petty needs we acquire without consideration, and discard exponentially, are captured in oil.”
– Sherri Dahl (Brooklyn Park)

“I am a mixed media sculptor who combines diverse imagery into new hybrid sculptures to explore cultural contexts between generations of people. I use vintage toy and ‘folk art’ aesthetics combined with rough construction as a way to talk about the passing down of cultural values from one generation to the next.”
– Kyle Fokken (Minneapolis)

Gallery Three
“As a representational landscape painter, I ask, ‘Is it possible to paint a compelling picture of a Best Buy parking lot?’ Most landscape painters dwell either in bucolic nature or in the cities. But what about all the scenes in between? The freeways, drainage ponds, subdivisions, townhouse developments, franchise restaurants, strip malls, big boxes, and office parks that make up most of our day-to-day reality?”
– Scott Lloyd Anderson (Minneapolis)

Overlook Gallery
“I use photography to explore history, legacy and identity within the context of American society. In the series Heads of the Hills, I explore a landscape in which a bust of each of the forty-four U.S. presidents, weighing as much as twenty-four tons and standing as tall as twenty feet, resides among the pine trees in the Black Hills of South Dakota.”
– Amanda Handerson (Los Angeles)

The Commons
“In addition to taking inspiration from vast landscapes, I likewise study miniature landscapes, observed through the magnification of densely packed earth, fallen seeds and rusted metal scraps. I like the visual energy that exists where one edge meets another edge; this demarcation can be found at the point between two separate land-forms or a water’s edge verses its shoreline.”
– Lois Peterson (St. Peter, Minn.)

 

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