Doug Aitken - Migration

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is showing the movie ‘Migration’ as part of an interesting themed show called, UNTIL NOW. Migration gives us these unsettling juxtapositions of animals in the human environment. The image of this buffalo in a hotel room falls into the category of things you thought you’d never see…The show runs through [...]

Augsburg College Spring 2010 Show

Current Works: Finkler - Holmgren - Laker
The Gage Family Art Gallery
First level, Oren Gateway Center
Augsburg College

April 12 - May 2, 2010
Artist reception: Friday, April 16, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
“Current Works” features artists John Finkler, Kristoffer Holmgren and James Laker, professors at Augsburg College. Showcasing their most recent artwork, the joint exhibit will be comprised of [...]

Anne Greenwood at Pendleton Center for the Arts

A friend and former classmate at Moorhead State University, Anne Greenwood, opens a show at the Pendleton Center for the Arts on July 17, 2009. Her recent work titled, ‘Winter Count’, features embroidered pictographs of stunning originality. In her artists’ statement, Anne says that the work is deeply autobiographical and connected to her background as [...]

First Impressions: What does the world’s oldest art say about us?

A recent New Yorker article gives a great overview of the current state of our understanding of cave art, remarkable stuff:
After a visit to Lascaux, in the Dordogne, which was discovered in 1940, Picasso reportedly said to his guide, “They’ve invented everything.” What those first artists invented was a language of signs for which there [...]

Emerson String Quartet

I saw the Emerson String Quartet perform this Shostakovich piece in St. Paul, MN. The music is about war and conflict, and we were in throes of the bad period of the Iraqi war, so it was a powerful and moving experience. And, it made me want to go out and buy everything Shostakovich had [...]

Lascaux Cow

Recent drawing based on a Lascaux cave cow.

Leonard Baskin Work

Stumbled upon this print by Leonard Baskin, always looking for parallels to what I am working on, I guess.