Arthur Ou Work from To Preserve, To Elevate, To Cancel. “To Preserve, To Elevate, To Cancel.” These three concepts define the German word “aufheben,” a term used by Walter Benjamin in his essay “Thesis on the Philosophy of History.” It seems fitting that the tri-fold meaning of this term would resonate in Arthur Ou’s work, […]

Glenn Ligon Work from his oeuvre. Ligon has an opening at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery tonight. “It’s late on the morning of the US presidential election, and Glenn Ligon is talking about Jasper Johns. “His notion that you take an object – or in my case a text – and do something to it and […]

Lance Wakeling Work from Sic, Notes from a keylogger and Parking at the Pentagon. “As we type and edit our attention jumps from paragraph to paragraph and from program to program, leaving a trail of disconnected phrases and commands. Much of what we type is deleted before the final product is saved, but the data […]

Gert Jan Kocken Work from Judenporzellan. “Street photographers have only a vague notion of what they’re looking for. But the moment the right situation does reveal itself, they recognise it immediately and leap into action. In the case of Dutch visual artist-photographer Gert Jan Kocken, the process is exactly the opposite. He knows what he’s […]

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Lee Walton Work from Wappenings and Momentary Performances and Things That Last Longer. Schedule of upcoming performances: Outside of Barbette Restaurant , 1600 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN 55408. Wednesday, September 30 at 10:00am; Person with wiffle ball bat walks curb before finding a penny. Across from the Black Dog Café at the corner or […]

Jenny Holzer Work from her oeuvre. “For nearly three decades Jenny Holzer has used combinations of language and material to expose the plight of the individual in an unforgiving, often irrational world. She is best known for her installations of L.E.D. panels that dispense her dark cryptic writings in scrolling ribbons of light. Now, in […]

Larson + Shindelman Work from Witness. “Marni Shindelman and Nate Larson took this one step further with one of the best presentations of the conference, “Witness: A Psychic Collaboration.” Citing an investigation of extra-sensory perception that was sponsored by the United States government in the 1980s, they examined the “Stargate Project” and create images and […]

Jon Feinstein Work form Pure Aesthetics and From Russia with Love. “Pure Aesthetics rejects the tendency to find meaning and substance from superficial visual experience. Building on Clement Greenberg’s ideas about abstract expressionism and the need for a tactile and purely visual perception of artwork, the images have little concept beyond their physical properties. Shiny, […]

Michael Vahrenwald Work from Winter Landscapes. “All of the images are of doctor prescribed depression therapy light boxes, shot on an 18% “photo gray” backdrop. The prints are traditional gelatin silver prints shot with a 5×7 camera. Each image is titled after the object itself: New Horizons Ultralight, Sunbox jr and Nu-You are just some […]