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OX-OP ARTS PRESENTS:
Burlesque of North America
Todd Bratrud • Mike Davis • Aaron Horkey • Skye Rossi • George Thompson • Wes Winship

Artists Reception Saturday, March 5th, 7:00 pm – 10:00pm
Show runs March 5th – March 31st

MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- Collectively, Burlesque Design has dozens of fine art shows under their belts. Add in public displays with street art of varying degrees of legality, along with their more recent forays into the realm of the art/rock poster, and odds are you’ve seen their work. This March, it’s all getting pulled together for a massive blowout at OX-OP that will include all aspects of this guerilla unit's efforts.

Burlesque Design of North America, a Minneapolis-based design collective, has, in the past couple of years, spread its sluggers around the country. On the West Coast roster, you can find Todd Bratrud, of Consolidated Skateboards fame; Mike Davis, aka Mike the 2600 King, creator of Twelve Car Pileup; Aaron Horkey, precision illustrator for RVCA Clothing, Iota and Consolidated Skateboards, Black Osprey Designs and others; and the most recent California trade, George R. Thompson IV, another RVCA team-starter, formerly at Fobia Skateboards. Back in the Midwest, original team players Wes Winship, LifeSucksDie alum and Auxiliary Printing guru, and Skye Rossi of the Rhymesayers Entertainment camp are always on deck.

Most recently, Minneapolis has seen the creative genius of the entire outfit displayed at this summer’s Walker in the Rough miniature golf course where Burlesque created hole #8, Life Sucks, for the Walker Arts Center. Other recent exhibits have seen their collaborative posters for concerts and tours displayed at the Plaster the Town I and II shows at the Back Alley Gallery, The Minnesota Museum of American Art’s First FridaySeries, and, soon, they will appear at the Flatstock VI conference in Austin, TX.

Individually, all six artists have had a prolific few years, designing record covers, gig posters, advertising layouts, logos, television spots, and t-shirts, among other items, but each of these designs starts and ends as a singular piece of art. Burlesque Design of North America invites you to join them in a celebration of what they create in the off-hours: First Blood, Part III.


Rob McBroom
wes@ox-op.com

Tiff Larkin
tiff@ox-op.com

612-259-0085

OX-OP
1111 Washington Ave S.
(Behind Grumpy’s Bar)
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Ph. 612-259-0085
www.ox-op.com

Art Dealer

Art Attack on the Suburbs-Grumpy’s Art Unveiling Party
Aesthetic Apparatus-"2nd Annual Kindling & Litter-Box-Liner Sale"
"Rome is Burning/The New School"
Aesthetic Apparatus-"The Official Aesthetic Apparatus Kindling & Litter-Box-Liner Sale"
Gary Baseman- "MOD Manifestations Of Desire"
Mark Mothersbaugh-"Postcard Diaries"
Gary Taxali-"Chumpy's Specials"
Nathan Jurevicius-"Tunnel Vision"
Shepard Fairey "Visual Disobedience"
Jaime Hayon: "Mon Cirque"
Derek Hess: "Descent from Grace"
Shag-"Push Your Luck"
Billy Childish-Paintings, Prints, Poetry & Performance
Kii Arens-"The Yard Sale"
Burlesque of North America: First Blood, Part III
"Triangulated Fire" paintings by Naoto Hattori, Ryan Kelly & Chris Ryniak
BuffMonster-"Dulces Locos"
Dalek- "The Return of the Space Monkey"
Yumiko Kayukawa & Oksana Badrak
Glenn Barr-"New Paintings & Prints"
KRK Ryden-"The Atomic Glob Show"
Camille Rose Garcia-"Works on Paper"
"Qeedrophonic"
Frank Kozik-"All Your Base Are Belong to Us"
Bwana Spoons & Martin Ontiveros "Like Sqeezing Juice from a Stone"
"Rated XX"
Aesthetic Apparatus
George Thompson-"Bachelor of Fine Arts"
Mark Mothersbaugh-"Beautiful Mutants"
Charles S. Anderson Design-"Awful Pretty: Original Art"
Jeff Soto-"Complete Domination"
Dave Burke-"New Paintings"
Tim Biskup-"The Phantom Thread"
Shag-"Tell No One: Paintings and Prints"
Niagara-"Paintings,Prints and General Artistic Mayhem
Shepard Fairey -"Prints and the Revolution"
Gary Baseman-"Open Wounds (and other paintings about vulnerability)"
Dalek-"Two Fingers of Milk"
"Big Bang"