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Opening Saturday, June 11: 2009 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers Exhibition

Franklin Art Works is proud to present the 2009-2010 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers Exhibition, organized in conjunction with the McKnight Foundation, mnartists.org, and Midway Contemporary Art. 

Currently on view are new bodies of work by 2009-2010 Photography Fellows Monica Haller, Paul Shambroom, Carrie Thompson, and Lex Thompson.

Works by 2010-2011 fellows Chuck Avery, Gina Dabrowski, Amy Eckert, and Karl Raschke are on view at Midway Contemporary Art. The show opens on Saturday, June 11 and will remain on view through Sunday, July 24 at both locations.  

For more information on the 2009-2010 fellows, see below. 

Monica Haller received a BA degree from the College of St. Benedict (St. Joseph, Minnesota) and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.  She has exhibited internationally at venues including the San Jose Biennial (California), the Rhode Island School of Design, the Tweed Museum (Duluth), Galería Nacional (San Jose, Costa Rica), and locally at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Visual Arts Center and The Soap Factory.  Haller will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Festival Les Rencontres d’Arles (Arles, France) and a solo show at the Nomas Foundation (Rome)  in 2011.

Paul Shambroom studied at Macalester College and received a BFA degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His photographs have been collected and exhibited by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Walker Art Center, among many others. His works were selected for the 1997 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art and featured in solo exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie (France), the Nederlands Fotomuseum, galleries in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, London, and Frankfurt and a nationally touring mid-career survey exhibition organized by the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum in 2008-2009.

Carrie Thompson studies at Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles) and received a BFA from the College of Visual Arts (St. Paul).  She has exhibited the Weinstein Gallery, XY&Z Gallery, AZ Gallery, the College of Visual Arts, IFP Minnesota center for Media Arts, the Midwest Biennial (Wausau, Wisconsin), Nicolet College Art Gallery (Rhinelander, Wisconsin), Bolsky Gallery and Chris Scott Studio (both Los Angeles)

Lex Thompson received a Bachelor’s degree from New College of Florida, a Masters degree from Yale University and a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.  He has exhibited nationally at venues including San Francisco Camerawork, Southern Exposure, Diego Rivera Gallery (all San Francisco), the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (Grand Rapids, Michigan), the UCLA Arts Library (Los Angeles), Exit Art, the New York Center for Art and Media Studies, Point of View Gallery (New York), Arthouse (Austin, Texas), Boxspace (Miami), Photographic Center Northweat (Seattle), the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Bethel University, The Soap Factory and Soo Visual Arts, among other venues.