mnartists.org: 2006-2007 MCAD/McKnight Foundation Fellowships for Visual Artists

Why don't you say you love me?

Jan Estep — Mon, 22 May 2006 18:27:43 GMT

Detail of Why don't you say you love me? From the "Bastard Syllogisms" series, hand-embroidered linen on wood frame, 14 x 14 inches, 2006

Four panels from the "Definitions" series: Definition: Skeptic, Sceptic

Jan Estep — Mon, 22 May 2006 18:29:27 GMT

Four panels from the "Definitions" series: Definition: Skeptic, Sceptic, hand-embroidered linen on wood frame, 17w x 28h, 2005; Definition: Pollyanna, hand-embroidered linen on wood frame, 17w x 22h, 2005; Definition: Optimism, hand-embroidered linen on wood frame, 17w x 28h, 2005; and Definition: Cynic, hand-embroidered linen on wood frame, 17w x 18h, 2006. A series of embroidered texts based on definitions printed in the Oxford English Dictionary, which emphasizes the insertion of various terms (e.g. skeptic, optimism, Pollyanna, cynic) into the English language. The letters are hand-stitched by counting the weave of the threads in the canvas.

A word is worth 1/1000 of a picture, single panel from Hot Air Sincerely

Jan Estep — Mon, 22 May 2006 18:30:32 GMT

A word is worth 1/1000 of a picture,² single panel from Hot Air Sincerely, hand-embroidered linen on wood frame, 11² x 11², 2006-ongoing (full piece has 156 panels). Hot Air Sincerely is a large multi-panel piece that investigates the relationships between language, seeing, desire and knowing, with particular attention paid to the concrete effects of words on the body, our experience, and our sense of reality in general.

Tussle

Chris Walla — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:48:14 GMT

Tussle illustrates three sets of interlocking word bubbles. I sought to convey the deadlock of an argument, counterproductive and foreboding in appearance, one dominates over the other. I chose to create an image as frustratingly stagnant as the lack of discourse going on in our society today. I also wanted the piece to allude to marine mines used in WWII.

image: Tussle View 2

image: Tussle View 3

"Hanky Project"

Chris Walla — Sat, 07 May 2005 18:52:12 GMT

"The Hanky Project" started out as a rather hopeful piece, initially started as a response to the gay marriages happening around the country. I had not imagined that I would see that event in my lifetime. But the resulting backlash and adoption of constitutional amendments banning gay marriage cast this piece in a more cynical light. Reintroducing the bandanna code was a way to benchmark the progress in the gay semiotics and culture. Bandanas have been used as basic signifiers of desire and fetish; I am interested in foregrounding this while issues of family and commitment are so much in the public consciousness today. It was my way of also recognizing the people whose activism and efforts at the beginning and throughout the AIDS crisis made this dialogue possible. I wanted the "making" of these pieces to refer to the hand-made needlepoint and embroidery practiced by women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for their hope chests. The metaphor of thread related to linear time was also an important aspect in determining material considerations. This project is on going and will be completed when all of the bandannas are represented.

image: "Hanky Project - red"

Untitled(manscape)

Chris Walla — Sat, 07 May 2005 19:08:30 GMT

Untitled (Manscape) is a piece that is less literal in its reading. I wanted to create an image that alluded to many different spaces, both inside and out. The piece was to have a stratification from the domestic to the wild. All of the qualities of the painting were to have a very interior design quality referring to America's favorite gay stereotype, blended with fetishized silhouettes of men creating an erotic camouflage.

Minneapolis Rush Hour

Gladys Helena Beltran Posada — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:17:37 GMT

Minneapolis Rush Hour This is the city in where I do live And always we will find an space for you and me. An space for you to meditate An space for me to meditate To meditate about the roots To meditate about your roots To meditate about my roots To meditate about our roots The roots of our soul. Gladys Helena Beltran

Saint Paul Rice Park

Gladys Helena Beltran Posada — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:29:03 GMT

A very special livingroom inside the city. A perfet place to wait for a performance...A perfect place to look for the roots the roots of my soul.

Auto-Da-Fe

David Bartley — Tue, 23 May 2006 13:58:29 GMT

Permanent marker on lithograph 40"X 30" 2006.

Satellite

David Bartley — Tue, 23 May 2006 14:01:31 GMT

Satellite, 2005 Permanent marker, white-out, acrylic paint, vinyl tape on offset litho 40 X 29"

A New York Orgasm

David Bartley — Tue, 23 May 2006 14:00:22 GMT

A New York Orgasm, 2005 Permanent marker, white-out, vinyl tape on offset litho 44 X 30"