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Twin Town High (vol. 8) |
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The Momentary Show @ Rogue Buddha
Wednesday 05 June @ 10:57:28 |
 by J. P. Johnson
Hanging student or “young art” is risky. Like in all the arts hidden in the new and fledgling, “door knocker” is a whisper of the future and a complete wild card. These young guns can bring the newest art, the most contemporary styles and a breath of fresh air to a gallery’s walls. However, they can also bring rough work, unfinished ideas and, by their very nature, inexperience.
Momentary exemplifies all of these qualities in its group show. It contains some of the wonderful, a bit of the genuine and a few that need not be mentioned.
When you enter the Rogue Buddha you very well may first notice Jeffery Paul “Meat” Gadbois’ large grommet hung canvases. Even though they are hung way back on the gallery’s far wall they dominate the show just by their size.
Meat paints an old bearded man, presumably his symbol of the visual artist, sleeping in one picture and thinking in another. The paintings, while simple and burdened by Meat’s industrial-looking canvases, are nice portraits that speak gruffly to the plight of a painter.
Juliette O’Brill’s work is by far the most colorful in the show and very well may be the most marketable. O’Brill’s subsection of paintings is taken from her renderings of the “Old St. Paul” intersection of Western and Selby. She mixes oils and pastels, superimposing the dark barbed street lamps and the brownstone buildings of that locale. Her work is the opposite from theme focused and she succeeds in her landscape painting when her images are soft overlays instead of mixed busy collages.
To see a young deconstructionist at work you can view the horse-centric well-framed creations of Jerusha Bergstrom. Her pieces all deal with the horse in one way or another and are done in dusty earthy tones. Her paintings carry a Southwest feel and Bergstrom, having grown up around horses, does an incredible job of enlightening the viewing public on the beauty of these large and gentle animals. She does a little superimposing of bones and horse skulls with a thematic intent that only gets in the way of her real talent for sketching the horse in all of its glory.
Andy Theis is an interesting young fellow who plays with shock value and basic but consistent images. Theis, armed with a vegetarian agenda, depicts backyard grill-outs with babies on the Q and slaughter houses where the cows have strung us up on hooks in retribution.
If you can, stop by and see Michelle Winowiak’s installation piece in the front corner window at night. Although incomprehensible the piece is well constructed and glows from the sidewalk with a fun and fantastic light.
Exhibit continues through July 1. Rogue Buddha Gallery, 2402 E. Hennepin Ave., Mpls. 612-331-3889.
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