ART ATTACK 2012

The Northrup King Building celebrates

15th annual Art Attack

Over 200 artists working in nearly every art medium

open their private studios for this weekend long event.

This year the artists are joined by

REwork Participatory Art Projects.

Featuring a truly unique art experience.

~ Explore hibernation positions 

~ See your dreams performed

~ Draw a real/fake figure model

~ Eat dessert with art loving strangers in another city

~ And more!  

FREE EVENT, FREE PARKING

for more info go to

www.northrupkingbuilding.com

LOOKING BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Meditation IV: collage on paper

scrim |skrim|
• a piece of gauze cloth that appears opaque until lit from behind, used as a screen or backdrop.

• a thing that conceals or obscures something: a thin scrim of fog covered the island.

It was when I first started teaching junior high that I became gut-wrenchingly aware of the scrims that kids create to make it through their days. That was more than 30 years ago. Since then I’ve realized that it’s not only adolescents who protect themselves behind a self-manufactured curtain; we all do this, some more than others.

Are you aware of the scrims the people in your life create?
How do you get behind them? What are the scrims that you erect -- and more importantly, why?

My new series of multi-layered collages deals with this question. The work will be ready in time for the Northrup King Building’s 15th Art Attack on November 2, 3 and 4. Over 200 artists working in nearly every art medium open their studios for this weekend long event. The event is free, and so is the parking. For more info go to www.northrupkingbuilding.com.

ART-A-WHIRL 2012

'What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing: you wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.'
David Hockney
What I’d love to share with you is my new work with color and light...in nature and in people. I’ve also been trying some “canvas on canvas” paintings. (Hard to explain, even harder to photograph.)
 

I’ve been revisiting the abstracted yoga poses I did in pastel several years ago. This time they’re in oil.




You’ll find lots of new miniatures on my shelves and...best of all...the building has a new “people friendly” elevator. Access it through the Door F at the loading dock. You'll find this and more at Art-A-Whirl: N.E. Minneapolis Arts Association's annual open studio tour.

Click here for directions to Minneapolis' Northrup King Building.

Click here for info about NEMAA and Art-A-Whirl.