Nate Courteau - "doug" sculpture.

ABOUT FACE
AN EXPLORATION OF IDENTITY
AND THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
SEPTEMBER 11 – OCTOBER 10
SSCA GALLERY

Opening Reception
Saturday, September 11, 7-10pm

Live music by DEDMONDSON

The human face is so central to how we view other people, whether meeting someone for the first time or scrutinizing an old friend’s reaction, that imagining a world without addressing the familiar set of features on the front of our head seems unthinkable. The mood, confidence, innocence, beauty, honesty, brutality and sadness of a person are so often indicated (sometimes falsely) by their face. Even as social media evolves to replace encounters with clicks, replication and broadcast of faces remains essential to the way we want to connect with others.

It is with these considerations in mind that ABOUT FACE at SSCA Gallery features artists
employing traditional and experimental means in communicating their own unique expressions of the human face, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture and mixed media.

Highlights of the exhibition include Megan Frauenhoffer’s darkly beautiful mixed media prints, which suggest transformational narratives and move with skillful, selective illustrative detail.

Weaving myth and memory, and exuding a curious emotional tension, her work invites a close look here.

Cult Status Gallery owner and painter Erin Sayers showcases work from her distinctly graphic series of pop icons; and the surreal, abstracted human archetypes of John Vasiliou round out this assembly of talented visual artists.

This is a small group exhibition with multiple pieces from each artist to form a cohesive body of work. The exact number of participants will be determined by the size, quality, and the integration within the exhibition as a whole.

The Stevens Square Center for the Arts (SSCA) is currently accepting submissions for the upcoming exhibition “About Face”. We are looking for a mixture of 2-D and 3-Dimensional works, including: paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, photography, and mixed media.

Artists working in a variety of media are encouraged to employ traditional and experimental means in communicating their unique expressions of the human face.

Please send five sample images (jpg), an inventory list (including the title, media, dimensions, and price), artist statement, and contact information to:

exhibitions@stevensarts.org

Accepted artwork for the exhibition must be dropped off at SSCA by Tuesday, August 31, 2010.

It’s this weekend! In the park. See you there!

More info.

July 28 · 8:00pm – 11:00pm

Grab a friend and run frantically over to the rescheduled showing of Alfred Hitchcock classic The Birds! F Knights will be performing a special 2 piece/DJ set!

THE NEW ANTIQUARIANS
A mixed-media exhibition featuring works by 14 artists

July 31 – August 29, 2010 at SSCA Gallery
1905 Third Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55404
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION and RED HOT ART AFTER-PARTY
Saturday, July 31 from 7 – 10:00 pm
FREE LIVE MUSIC
Greg Brosofske and Samwell Rowan

Is this the Future that Never Was?
–or an Alternate History of the Industrial Age?

A “Wonder Room” (or Cabinet of Curiosities) featuring retro-futurist paintings; alien landscapes; “steampunk” sculptures; a memory quilt and miniature catacombs made from cast-off, salvaged, and recycled materials that have been put to new uses and transformed into achingly familiar ghosts of the past.

FEATURING ARTWORK BY:
· Anne Hayden Stevens, Hybrid photos and drawings
· Avigail Manneberg, Mixed-media Prints & Drawings and Video Art
· Carey Netherton, Sculptures
· Cj Hungerman, Pen and Ink drawings
· Denise Rouleau (and) Mark D. Roberts, Ceramic Sculptures
· Eric Lee, Oil Paintings
· Genevieve Mariani, Watercolors
· Heather Le Bail, Photomontage
· Shuji Usui, Mixed-media Collage
· Talissa Mehringer photo montage
· Timothy G. Piotrowski, Photography
· Vesna Jovanovic, Mixed-media on Paper

“WHAT IS STEAMPUNK, you might be asking yourself. Is it a celebration of imperfection in an imperfect world? Is it reclaiming of lost physicality in an increasingly digital age? Or an amalgam of past and present filtered through a future that can never be…?” - Kyshah Hell, “Clockwork and Carbon,” Morbid Outlook

In conjunction with the annual RED HOT ART Festival in nearby Stevens Square Park, there will be an OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION on SATURDAY, JULY 31 from 7:00 – 10:00 pm.

This event is free, and open to the public.

Closing Reception  Saturday, July 17   7:00-10:00pm

REFRESHMENTS  /  ART FOR SALE

The Tim Burton classic Pee Wee’s Big Adventure will be the feature film for the evening, with Gay Witch Abortion (Citypages’ Best Band of 2010) kicking the night off! Also, bring all of your unwanted clothing to our community clothing swap and receive a coupon to Blacklist Vintage!

See you in the park.

Saturday
July 10, 2010
11am-5pm

The Twin Cities Zinefest

Since 2004, the Twin Cities Zinefest has welcomed creatives, rebels, musicians and frustrated intellectuals to connect, create and share ideas. As the area’s premiere DIY craft, culture and self-publishing event, Zinefest often features an art show, live music, craft demonstrations, guest speakers and panel discussions. Most importantly, Zinefest plays host to some of the Midwest’s best self-made talent.

DIRECTIONS
EXHIBITORS
PROGRAMMING

zinefest.org

Wednesday July 7 in Stevens Square Park:
“The Birds”
with VAMPIRE HANDS

Just be there.

Thanks to Cinema & Civics.

JUNE 19—JULY 18 SSCA GALLERY

Opening Night Reception
Saturday, June 19, 7-10 pm

Live performances by
UNICORN DREAM ATTACK and JOHN KESTON

“Exquisite corpse” was originally developed as a game played by prominent Surrealists such as Andre Bretón, Joan Miró and Man Ray in France. It involved folding a piece of paper into segments, each assigned a section of the body drawn by a different artist, unseen by the others until completion of the entire body. The artists of Rogue Citizen have embraced this format to explore their own 21st century paranoid visions.

These four emerging artists capture the terror and excitement of new possibilities with their shared passions for drawing, experimental imagery and abstraction, playing an old game for a new world. EXQUISITE ROBOT responds to the awesome potential of real technology, under the shadow of great science fiction and with respect to the imaginative force of the early Surrealists.