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Untitled 3 @ Soo Visual Arts Center
Wednesday 16 June @ 12:48:11 |
 by Tom Schimmel
Soo Visual Arts Center is a people friendly building. There are people standing on the sidewalk and having a beer, just like they used to when the space was Fuji-Ya and the art was made of sea creatures. Now there’s a six-foot plush tiger shark hanging in the window. He’s got a mean set of choppers. Scary, except for the pink bunny ears. I’m smiling before I get inside. This is the first glance I get of SooVAC’s new Untitled 3 exhibit.
Something is going on at the rear of the gallery but it’s dense with people. Veering right, I find myself looking at wrestler chicks flexing in front of the Taj Mahal. The tag team of Fluffy and Buffy appear in a foursome of prints by former Vogue photographer Vito Guiseppe Galisto. One shows the girls making their wrestling faces at a Laotian meat market. They’re standing over the goods for sale. Most notable is that the squirrels are being sold “as is”—with their fur still intact.
 Shark by Tectonic Industries
The crowd is still packed in at the back of the gallery. Someone drops the “Stay Back” sign on a meandering floor/wall installation by Liz Miller. The mountain range of red pipe cleaners is slightly bent, but otherwise unhurt. Then the crowd parts and I see bowling pins. A man named Jay Gilligan is juggling four bowling pins while dancing. His dance looks like the bowling pins are juggling him, and he’s just trying not to hurt anyone. Gilligan comes highly recommended as a one-man postmodern circus. At the end of the clapping, I find the source of refreshments and continue through the exhibit. People are laughing and pointing at things. The jurors have considered the audience, and the gallery is hopping.
Moving faster now, I pass through the universes of Gregory Euclide, Tiffany Bolk, and stop at Jason Childs. Wisteria branches, a flying Mozart midget, and a drunk soldier gone AWOL. I head back to Bolk for two stunning prints of beautiful women against the backdrop of a decayed mansion. Euclide meanwhile, displays astounding visual talent and difficult titles. Hours and hours of viewing pleasure here, but a crowd is moving towards me, so I head towards something called “39 weeks.” It looks like a park bench that’s rolled itself into a ball for protection.
 Painting [right] by Gregory Euclide
Just like an armadillo. And speaking of armadillo, I spot the plush pow-wow and I’m off again in admiration of how someone is talented enough to make their own stuffed armadillo and funny enough to give it pink bunny ears.
Untitled 3 runs through July 18. Hours: Mon. & Wed.–Fri. 12–6 p.m.; Closed Monday; Weekends 12–4 p.m. Jay Gilligan and Robert Skoro will be performing their show of instant composition entitled “Tonight You Are In Pittsburgh” during the evenings of June 18–20. Admission is $10. Gallery admission is $2. Soo Visual Arts Center, 2640 Lyndale Ave. S., Mpls. 612-871-2263.
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