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Shoebox Openings are for lovers

Shoebox Gallery — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:33:00 GMT

Thor Eric Paul opening with flamenco performance by Ping Wang

Thor Eric Paul

Shoebox Gallery — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:49:06 GMT

The Shoebox Gallery presents: Thor Eric Paul Paintings April 27- May 30, 2013 Thor Eric Paul has a painterly approach somewhere between Frank Stella’s compositional dimensionality and a melting cartoon’s reductive signifiers. The viewer negotiates their organic building blocks with senses anywhere between fly-over and skyscraper. Thor will be making a collection of reasonable monsters for the gallery and displaying some of his large tableaux in the Smuda studio. Please join the gallery for a reception with the artist on Saturday April 27^th from 7-9 PM Thor Eric Paul is a former Skowhegan and Jerome fellow and has exhibited at Midway Contemporary Arts. The Shoebox Gallery Just to the left of 2948 Chicago Av S Smuda studio (for reception) *08

Michael Mott Go On In

Shoebox Gallery — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:01:47 GMT

The enigma of MM and SS in the obliquey shroud of the gallery and local color.

Micahel Mott Go On In

Shoebox Gallery — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:07:10 GMT

Only one video will be playing in the window north of Lake Street on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, and that will be "Go on in" by Michael Mott. The video will be available to be seen at all hours, at your convenience, for your enjoyment. The image is of a window view across the street, and the entire program will repeat at approximately ten minute intervals. The video was made as a portrait of the way time passes in the 3 o'clock hour of afternoon. This is the first video work presented by Michael Mott. Show dates: March 8- April 18, 2013

Talk for 100 Foreclosed Homes

Shoebox Gallery — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:03:17 GMT

Craig Stellmacher gives a talk about his show 100 Foreclosed Homes in the Smuda Studio

Mary Jane zaps it down

Shoebox Gallery — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:10:58 GMT

Photo Craig Stellmacher. Montage S. Smuda

Haley Prochnow Collage

Shoebox Gallery — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:41:05 GMT

Haley Prochnow’s work is reductivist and fragmentary, using dated, sanitized depictions from Western history books and media. She thinks of her imagery as a collection of "the discarded": images and media abandoned and left to rot. Despite the implications of using these cast-offs of the West, Prochnow's work is not arch, nor ironic, but essentialist, looking at basic human conditions. Ms. Prochnow’s work was recently juried into the SooVAC’s [i]Untitled [/i]show. COLLLAGE Dec. 6, 2012-Jan 12, 2013

Beth Barron Install

Shoebox Gallery — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:17:37 GMT

Cow in a Concert Hall

Shoebox Gallery — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:00:31 GMT

This show was a series of gallery rejection letters read and taped on top of the Eifffel Tower in one monitor and love letters read and taped in another. That one could only hear their muffled animal like grace through the vitrine added to its poignancy.

Nick Schaffer opening Summer of 2010

Shoebox Gallery — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:52:59 GMT

Follow the link to the right for the video 7.8.11 [size= 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #828282; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap]Nicholas Schaffer[/size][size= 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #828282; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap] uses his art to investigate body image, sexual orientation, and emotional dissonance within the self. Through the ideas that we have of ourselves, Schaffer’s images of shape-shifting melding bodies take on themes that are reminiscent of the changes that happen in life. Schaffer says that in his photographs: [/size][size= 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #828282; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap]“The body becomes a relic, a survivor, and subject to dissociation, a physical representation of stepping into a void, an escape from the self.” [/size] [size= 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #828282; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap]Schaffer does not digitally manipulate any of his images. They are photographed using a small theater set that he built with a mirror installation inside of it. [/size]

Amy Toscani Moon Rocks

Shoebox Gallery — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:47:26 GMT

Amy Toscani's art is a weird mix of fantasy and 4-H. Through hand-made objects she obliquely references camp, kitsch, and queer culture. She is in engaged in recoding the mainstream, although her sculpture borrows heavily from Midwestern America. They are self-deprecating and have intrinsic humanistic qualities. The sculptures are a balance of voluptuousness and absurdity. She makes the everyday an epic work, a vaguely recognizable spectacle.

Amy is also interested in visual frauds. Currently, she is investigating concepts of display, veneers and facades and as stand-ins for real objects. She's honing and specifying the previous work of object –making and exploring art more honestly. Instead of making fake things and presenting them as if they are real, now she is making real fake things.

Beth Barron: Wounds and Bandages

Shoebox Gallery — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:45:09 GMT

10.21.11 BETH BARRON, WOUNDS AND BANDAGES Twelve years ago, Beth Barron stumbled upon several bandages stuck to the pavement. Since then, she seems to have an uncanny ability to spot the discarded evidence of wounding everywhere she goes. She have been collecting these mementos and they become her work. Prodded by these raw materials, she question their symbolism. What could a discarded band-aid mean? Who did this belong to? What happened to them? The questions haven’t stopped. She contemplates how it is that we heal, or if we do: "Are we more fragile or resilient, once wounded?" "I will forever be compelled by the “stitch” and the metaphor of it as a “mark” to catalog time, events and emotion. The line of the stitch fascinates me, knowing as I follow those marks, a story will emerge.” Beth Barron is a self-taught artist. She collects things

The History of the Shoebox Gallery

Shoebox Gallery — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:51:07 GMT

Here is a link to the LAST 7 years of the [url= http://mnartists.org/work.do?rid=33997]Gallery[/url]

Erik Brandt, Plots and Boxes

Shoebox Gallery — Sat, 21 May 2011 14:45:39 GMT

This show comprises an assortment of cropped details of graphic and typographic work created by Erik Brandt, a Minneapolis-based designer and educator. The images derive from a variety of printed matter, from large-format posters to experimental prints to small gallery invitations, that Brandt has created over the past thirteen years. "Graphic Design is essentially ephemeral and transient in nature, it must always clamor, never resting," commented Brandt, "Many designers lament this at times, for it is difficult to preserve the endless attempts, sketches, failures, and discoveries they make in their work. This show is a humble attempt to gather some of those moments of process and discovery, and, perhaps, to create new paths both to and from the original pieces." A review of the show in the online journal Quadlibetica: [url=http://www.quodlibetica.com/hardly-a-foot-erik-brandt%E2%80%99s-typografika-detailien-process-and-installation/]http://www.quodlibetica.com/hardly-a-foot-erik-brandt%E2%80%99s-typografika-detailien-process-and-installation/ [/url] and also on professor Patricia Brigg's blog: [url=http://artsceneunseen.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/graphic-designer-erik-brandt-has-work-on-view-in-a-storefront-gallery-in-minneapolis/]http://artsceneunseen.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/graphic-designer-erik-brandt-has-work-on-view-in-a-storefront-gallery-in-minneapolis/[/url]

Elaine Rutherford Interview

Shoebox Gallery — Wed, 18 May 2011 15:53:40 GMT

She says it all here: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e2n0YOytX8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e2n0YOytX8[/url]