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Up Next: Pao Houa Her solo exhibition opening at Franklin Art Works on March 15, 2013

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:01:00 -0600

Franklin Art Works is pleased to announce that we will premier a major series of photographs by the Minneapolis artist Pao Houa Her. The exhibition will open on Friday, March 15, 2013 with a reception for the artist from 6-8pm. The exhibition will remain on view through Saturday, May 4.

Her’s photographic series explores the artist’s life and family, along with wider examinations of the US Hmong community including portraits of Hmong veterans of the Vietnam War and images drawn from international dating sites.

Pao Houa Her received a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2009) and a MFA from Yale University (2012). This will be Her’s first solo exhibition.

Up Next at Franklin Art Works Panel Discussion with the McKnight Photography Fellows Saturday,...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:48:51 -0600

Up Next at Franklin Art Works

Panel Discussion with the McKnight Photography Fellows

Saturday, December 8 at 2pm

Join the 2011 - 2012 fellows Beth Dow, Peter Happel Christian, James Henkel, and Colleen Mullins as they participate in a panel discussion about their work, process, and experience as a McKnight Photography Fellow.

The discussion will be moderated by mnartists.org director and McKnight Fellowship for Photography director, Scott Stulen.

Congratulations to Uta Barth for being awarded a MacArthur Fellowship! The Los Angeles...

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:01:06 -0500

Congratulations to Uta Barth for being awarded a MacArthur Fellowship!

The Los Angeles photographer is among 24 people who have been selected to receive the prestigious “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

http://www.macfound.org/fellows/859/

In 2006, Franklin Art Works presented the national premier of Uta Barth’s 43-image series, 2006. Uta is one of many mid-career artists that Franklin has worked with in premiering major bodies of work over the past 13 years.

You can also check out Uta Barth’s most recent bodies of work in the recently published monograph

Uta Barth: The Long Now. http://www.grmandco.com/books/7/23

Jonathan Bruce Williams and Alejandro Cesarco exhibitions extended to November 17, 2012

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:44:32 -0500

Jonathan Bruce Williams

S I G H T H O U S E

The Minneapolis artist Jonathan Bruce Williams will features kinetic sculpture, stereoscopic photography and a large-scale light house structure incorporating two 16mm animations. Titled S I G H T H O U S E, the lighthouse’s walls are built on an outward sloping angle, mimicking the light of an interior projection that screens through the length of the structure. Additionally, a 16mm projector, mounted atop the 12 foot high structure, serves as a beacon sweeping around the gallery.

Williams received a BFA in photography from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and is the recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artists Initiative grant (2009), and a 2010-11 Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition.

Alejandro Cesarco

The Two Stories

The internationally acclaimed artist Alejandro Cesarco will present his single channel video projection, The Two Stories (2009). In the video, the narrator is presumed to be reading a story aloud to a small audience in a private family room, however, it is a narrative concerning moments of distraction, nervousness and boredom that emerges. The Two Stories is based on a story by Felisberto Hernández.

Cesarco has exhibited extensively, with recent solo exhibitions at the Tate Modern, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Vienna), ar/ge Kunst (Bolzano, Italy), Ignacio Liprandi (Buenos Aires) and Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City), along with group exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacíon Industrial Asturias (Spain), Martine Aboucaya (Paris), Signal (Malmo, Sweden), Regen Projects (Los Angeles), and Bielefelder Kunstverein (Germany). Cesarco represented Uruguay for the 54th Venice Bienniale (2011, with Magela Ferrero). The artist lives and works in New York.

The Two Stories was originally commissioned by ArtPace (San Antonio), and Alejandro Cesarco is represented by Murray Guy (New York).

Gallery hours are Tuesdays - Saturdays from 12 to 5pm and by appointment. Contact: Tim Peterson, Director – tim@franklinartworks.org, 612-872-7494

Mark Fox - on view through July 28

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:31:43 -0500

Mark Fox: Deep Seated

Currently on view are a new series of sculptures by the New York artist made by painting text and imagery on paper and then fabricating the paper into corrugated sheets from which the resulting sculptures are built. The honeycombed forms appear from different angles as solid or virtually transparent, revealing the openness of their structure.

Mark Fox has exhibited extensively at venues including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), Detroit Institute of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fox is represented by Larissa Goldston Gallery (New York).

The exhibition will remain on view through July 28, 2012.

Mark Fox: Deep Seated is curated by Franklin Art Works’ Director, Tim Peterson.
Gallery Hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 12 to 5pm, and by appointment.

For school group visits and special tours, please contact the gallery at 612-872-7494 x 3 or info@franklinartworks.org.

Last Chance to See Shawn Cheng; Up Next: Mark Fox

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:59:00 -0500

The current exhibition of works by Shawn Cheng, Amy Lockhart, and Matt Wiegle will be closing on Saturday, April 28th at 5pm.

Up Next: Mark Fox

Franklin Art Works will be presenting Mark Fox: Deep Seated from May 11 - July 28th. Opening reception on Friday May 11th from 6 to 8 PM. Free and open to the public. Mark Fox will be in attendance.

Dawit L. Petros at the Salina Art Center

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:45:10 -0500

Dawit L. Petros, who showed at Franklin Art Works back in February and March of 2011, is currently Artist in Residence at the Salina Art Center in Salina, Kansas.

From the Salina Art Center Website:

In conjunction with his residency at The Warehouse (located at 149 S. 4th Street), Dawit L. Petros will create a site-responsive installation that serves as an extension of the artist’s studio practice as well as an investigation of place and the demarcations we ascribe to define it. For the duration of the exhibition, the gallery will become the artist’s studio, as it is there that experimentation, observation, and the process happens; all of which are essential for the work to exist. The arrangements within the installation will deny any stable, singular viewpoint, allowing viewers to become wanderers, and mirror the artist’s travel and research.

As part of his residency, Petros will embark on a series of migratory walks, crisscrossing Salina and its surrounding environs. A modern flaneur, Petros explores each city he resides and makes photographs of colors, surfaces, buildings, objects, fields, waterways, etc. to be included in his long-term projects, Chrome and Mahber Shaw’ate (Association of 7). Similar to the ongoing investigations occurring in a laboratory, the gallery will be in constant flux, undergoing changes in response to the artist’s continual investigation of Salina. Referencing the formal language of minimalist abstraction, Petros installs each element of the exhibition with great care; attentively, as though not to overlook the unseen. For this reason, the work within the space has several layers of meaning, addressing the passage of time, the dissolution of physical boundaries, and the complexity of language and its myriad of interpretations. His images are simultaneously recognizable and ambiguous; familiar and distant; banal and fresh. Often devoid of the figure, it is through these dichotomies that Petros’s works become explorations of place and self. Does a place define you, or do you define a place? In challenging us to be self-reflective on our own lives, Petros provides a space for us to sit with the work and begin our own ongoing investigations of self and place.

Petros has exhibited his work in group exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI; Wedge Gallery, Toronto, Canada; Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto; Observatoire 4, Montréal, Canada; Maison de la Culture Frontenac, Montréal; and Prefix Gallery, Toronto. He has received Fulbright and Bombardier Internationalist Fellowships, as well as an Art Matters Foundation grant; and has participated in residencies at the Center for Photography, Woodstock and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Opening Friday, February 17: Shawn Cheng, Matt Wiegle and Amy Lockhart

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:49:00 -0600

Franklin Art Works is pleased to present three solo exhibitions by artists Shawn Cheng, Matt Wiegle, and Amy Lockhart.

The exhibitions open with a reception on Friday, February 17, 2012 from 6 to 8pm. Both exhibitions will remain on view through April 28, 2012.

Shawn Cheng and Matt Wiegle will be in attendance at the opening. Join us at 6pm this Friday for an artist talk by both artists.

In the Main Gallery
Shawn Cheng: Wonder and Woe

The Brooklyn artist Shawn Cheng will premier a series of large scale, finely detailed paintings that explore the figures and narratives of mythology and folktales. Depicting supernatural characters in the midst of intense conflict within expansive, ambiguous landscapes, these paintings evoke a sense of wonder alongside a sense of impending doom.

Wonder and Woe is the result of two year’s work during which Cheng developed a process that combines DIY self-publishing and printmaking practices to create unique, visually dense images.

Among Cheng’s previous works is Road of Knives, a “battle blog” in which Cheng, Zak Smith and Nicolas di Genova took turns drawing monsters fighting each other. Cheng’s contributions to this series will also be included in the exhibition.

Shawn Cheng received a Bachelor’s degree in art from Yale University, and has exhibited at venues including Giant Robot (New York and San Francisco), GR2 (Los Angeles), Cubitt Gallery (London), and in New York at Fredericks and Freiser Gallery, ABC No Rio and aRAMONA Gallery. Cheng has also published many graphic novels through Hougton Mifflin, Conundrum Press, Fluke, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Microcosm Publishing, and Candlewick Press, among others.

In the Project Space
Matt Wiegle: Blood Meteor

The Philadelphia-based artist will present two series of works on paper: selected drawings from Blood Meridian in which the artist engages with Cormac McCarthy’s famed novel, and series of silkscreen prints titled Pink Meteor which depicts an alien invasion. Wiegle’s prints employ transparent overlays to reveal and advance the story.

Blood Meridian was a collaborative project between Wiegle, Sean McCarthy, Zak Smith, Shawn Cheng, John Mejias, Craig Taylor.

Matt Wiegle received a Bachelor’s Degree in Art from Yale University, and has exhibited at Locust Projects (Miami), GR2 (Los Angeles), Cubitt Gallery (London), and Fredericks & Freiser (New York NY). His comics and illustrations appear in publications from Tugboat Press, Fluke, The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and Seven Stories Press. In 2010, he was the recipient of the Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent at the Small Press Expo (Bethesda, MD).

In the Screening Room
Amy Lockhart: The Collagist

The Toronto-based artist Amy Lockhart will present her single channel animation, The Collagist. This stop-motion work documents the working process of collagist Marc Bell, depicting his hands as they deftly draw, cut, paste and rearrange images on a desktop.

Amy Lockhart studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and was awarded a residencies at the Quickdraw Animation Society and the California Institute of the Arts along with a fellowship at the National Film Board. She has exhibited internationally, at venues including Richard Heller Gallery (Los Angeles), Adam Baumgold Gallery (New York), Stride Gallery (Calgary), Helen Pitt Gallery (Vancouver), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo), Cinders Gallery (Brooklyn), and Michael Gibson Gallery (London).

Two Events on January 28!

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:35:00 -0600

Last Look: Wheatpasting Demo with Burlesque of North America

2pm, free

In Eric Baudelaire’s Sugar Water (currently on view), a billposter spends 72 minutes methodically wheat-pasting three images in a fictional Paris Metro station. Want to learn how to wheatpaste faster and closer to home? In this workshop, Wes Winship and Mike Davis of acclaimed local print collective Burlesque of North America will demonstrate basic wheatpasting techniques, showing you how to use found paper objects and your own original artwork to create large scale collages and wall murals.

The workshop is free and open to the public and begins at 2pm.

Burlesque of North America is a creative studio based in Northeast Minneapolis, focusing on graphic arts and screenprinting. Their work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, Cotton Candy Machine gallery in Brooklyn NY, and the Merwin Gallery at Illinois-Wesleyan University. They have designed and screenprinted concert posters, album packaging, stage designs, and more for Arcade Fire, Minnesota Public Radio, Rhymesayers, Bonnaroo, Stones Throw Records, Doomtree, and many others.

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Two Scheduled Screenings of Eric Baudelaire’s video, Sugar Water

1pm and 3pm

Due to popular request, Franklin will offer two timed screenings of Eric Baudelaire’s 72-minute video Sugar Water, so viewers can be sure to see the work from start to finish.

Enjoy the video with coffee and donuts. Scheduled screenings will start at 1pm and 3pm.

Thanks to Tatsuya, Tuesday Music Series, VOC/Take Acre, Minneapolis’ Nakatani Gong Orchestra,...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:43:00 -0600

Thanks to Tatsuya, Tuesday Music Series, VOC/Take Acre, Minneapolis’ Nakatani Gong Orchestra, and everyone who came out last night. What a fantastic show!

Tatsuya Nakatani and the Nakatani Gong Orchestra

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:39:00 -0600

December 6, 2011 8pm

Hosted by Franklin Art Works

The Tuesday Improvised Music Series, Taiga Records and Franklin Art Works are pleased to present percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and the Nakatani Gong Orchestra.

The NGO is an ensemble comprised of a different group of five artists specific to each of the cities on Nakatani’s North American tour.

The Twin Cities’ artists performing for one night only in this rare and exciting setting include Adam Patterson, Jackie Beckey, Jonathan Kaiser, Kevin Cosgrove and Jonathan Zorn.

Local improv-rock quartet, Take Acre (Richard Barlow, Jaron Childs, Charles Gillett, Davu Seru) and tape music duo, Visions of Christ (Casey Deming, John Jerry) will perform in a first-time collaboration to round out this evening of new and improvised music.

Opening Friday, November 18: Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Eric Baudelaire

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:49:00 -0600

Franklin Art Works is pleased to premier a photographic installation by the New York artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya and present a video projection by the Paris-based artist Eric Baudelaire.

The exhibitions open with an opening reception on Friday, November 18, 2011 from 6 to 8pm. Both exhibitions will remain on view through January 28, 2012.

This is the first exhibition in Minnesota for both artists. Paul Sepuya will be in attendance at the opening.

In the Main Gallery

Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Studio Work

The New York artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya will premier a table top installation incorporating framed and unframed photographs, potted plants, stacks of books, orange rinds along with photographs traditionally mounted on the gallery walls.

Studio Work is Sepuya’s most recent body of work, developed during his 2011-2012 artist residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. The project is both a volume of photographs – formal portraits, loose snapshots, still-lifes and details of the his studio space - and an installation composed of those materials accumulated in the studio, tracing the artist’s occupation and photo-making from the beginning to the end of the residency. “My studio was private, but not a closed environment. Rather, it was a stage that I inhabited and opened to those around me.”

Paul Mpagi Sepuya received a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has exhibited internationally at venues including The Studio Museum in Harlem, White Columns, Artists Space, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, envoy enterprises, Vox Poluli (Philadelphia), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Exile Berlin, and the Office for Contemporary Art (Oslo).

In the Screening Room

Eric Baudelaire: Sugar Water

The Paris-based artist Eric Baudelaire will present his video Sugar Water. The video takes place in the Paris metro, and features a man wearing a blue work suit pasting a sequence of images within a baroque, gold framed billboard. The sequence of photographic images depict a car parked on a Parisian street that bursts into flames, becomes engulfed in smoke, and then the remains of the blackened car.

Using a laborious traditional billboard pasting system to mount each scene, one on top of the other, this cinematic event gradually unfolds over the 72-minute film, “offering a slow contemplative consideration of political violence as a counterpoint to the rapid barrage of images we typically experience in our news media. Despite its slow, nearly meditative pace, Baudelaire creates a haunting and provocative work that completely absorbs the viewer.”–Anne Ellgood, Hammer Museum

Eric Baudelaire was born in Salt Lake City, and now lives and works in Paris. He has exhibition extensively at international venues including the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Centre Pomipdou (Paris), Rencontres de la Photographie (Arles), Centrale Electrique (Brussels), FRAC (Auvergne), Centre Photographie d’lle de France (Pontault-Combault), and Musée de la Photographie (Charleroi, Belgium), among many other venues and is represented by Elizabeth Dee Gallery (New York).

Interviews: Jennifer West and John Houck

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:57:00 -0500

I’m big on interviews.

John Houck in Triple Canopy magazine discussing Aggregates (now on view at Franklin).

Jennifer West in the online magazine East of Borneo discussing a bunch of things, including her films.

You can also take a look at John’s work prior to the Agregates series at the MOMA PS1 Studio Visit site here.

Mascara and Mussels (West) and Aggregates (Houck) are on view until Saturday, October 29.

Opening Friday, September 9: Jennifer West and John Houck

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:39:00 -0500

Franklin Art Works is pleased to present a film installation by the Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer West and prints by the New York artist John Houck. The exhibitions will open with an opening reception on Friday, September 9, 2011, from 6 to 8pm. The exhibitions will remain on view through October 29. This is the first exhibition in Minnesota for both artists.

In the Main Gallery
Jennifer West: Mascara and Mussels
The Los Angeles-based artist will show two new film projections created by manipulating the film celluloid by hand to a level of performance.

Jennifer West is known for inviting others to participate in her processes of exposing film stock and/or applying unusual materials directly to it, creating the resulting imagery. In the past she has doused film emulsion with perfume, Jack Daniels or pepper spray, skateboarded on it or dragged it through tar pits. The destroyed and distressed films are then digitized and shown as looping video projections, and the result is a mesmerizing, continuous abstraction.

West’s titles reveal the entirety of each work’s production, with the exception of the final step of digitizing the film negative.

The film still at top is from the work, Just Kids Film Necklace - for Patti Smith Film (65mm film negative RAY-O-GRAM made by laying 100 foot long necklace atop the film negative, exposing it with colored flashlights - made in front of live audience in Rome, Italy - featuring 100 foot long leather necklace strung with pasta and mussel shells collected in Rome, and sea shells, eucalyptus pods and a few feathers from California - flashlights performed by students from Rome: Nicloletta Guglielmucci, Ludovica Palmieri, Alessia Notarangelo, Lorenza Bessone, Elisabetta Masala, Givlia Fontani, Damaride D’Andrea, Claudia Cavaliera, Antonio Pizzolante, Saverio Verini, Cristina Meregaglia and Mariah Csepanyi and Jwest).

Also on view will be West’s first black-and-white film, titled, Mascara Warshak Film (35mm film leader brushed with mascara, intense black, deep purple/fascinating violet, azure blue, curling - mascara brushing by Monica Kogler and Jwest ).

Jennifer West has exhibited internationally at venues including the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, the Seattle Art Museum, Kunstverein Nuremberg, ICA Philadelphia, the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), The Drawing Center (New York), the Rose Art Museum (Waltham, Massachusetts), White Columns, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, the ZKM Museum for New Media (Karlsruhe, Germany), Art Statements 39, Basel (Switzerland) and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, among many other venues. West received an MFA from Art Center College (Pasadena). She has been commissioned for special projects and exhibitions at The Aspen Art Museum (2010) and at The TATE Modern (2009), and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2011). West is represented by Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles and Vilma Gold, London.

In the Project Space

John Houck: Aggregates

The New York artist will present selections from his Aggregates series of archival pigment prints.

Using custom-written software, John Houck generates every possible combination for a given grid printed (i.e., 2 x 2 or 3 x 3) as a contact sheet on photographic paper. These contact sheets are creased and re-photographed several times. This process creates layered borders that reveal the construction of each piece and adds its own layer of information, breaking the rigid system of the grid. By physically creasing and re-photographing these repetitive contact sheets, Houck reconciles the digital ground of photography and shows us the failures and ruptures in today’s algorithmic basis of photography.

John Houck has exhibited extensively, at venues including the Hammer Museum, The Kitchen (New York), REVERSEVENT (Los Angeles), the Orange County Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, and Centre Pompidou (Paris). He has studies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Whitney Independent Study Program and received an MFA from UCLA.

One Day Only! Summer Photo Workshops for Teens Exhibition

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:10:00 -0500

The summer has flown by (and is still flying, in fact)- and Franklin’s Summer Photo Workshops Program has reached it’s end. Come check out what 2011 program participants have made armed only with cameras, eyes, and endless handfuls of peanut butter M&Ms. You’ll be amazed!

Join us for a single-day photography exhibition featuring works by participants in Franklin Art Works’ Summer Photo Workshops for Teens Program.

2011 program participants:

// Madeline Adams // Lydia Bickal // Jose Cervantes // Illiana Gerst // Alex Harristhal // Rachel Haukkala // Avery Katz // Nou Khang // Stanley Krishner-Breen // Zoe Lange // Annika Linde // Emily Maenner // Macalester Orchard // Sonia Paredes // David Smith // Amanda Spencer // Sinjun Strom // Sami Swisher // Miles Taylor // Maisie Taylor // Boua Vang // Emma Wollerman //

The Summer Photo Workshops for Teens Program is a summer-long series of weekend digital photography workshops taught by some of Minneapolis’ leading photographers, taking place in a variety of locations across the Twin Cities. Students spend an afternoon learning about a specific topic, shooting on location, and critiquing their work. The workshops are offered completely free of charge to selected students aged 15-18 demonstrating a strong interest in photography.

2011 Summer Photo Workshops instructors: Wing Young Huie, Tom Wik, Beth Dow, Peter Haakon Thompson, Peter Latner, Ellen Skoro, Terry Gydesen, Kristine Heykants, Carrie Thompson, Brad Zellar, Brett Kallusky, and Anthony Marchetti.

This activity funded, in part, by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

Lecture: ❝Recent Developments❞

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:58:00 -0500

Attention all Summer Photo Workshops students, tenderfoot photographers, avid art appreciators, at-large academics, and hungry after hours learners…

Join us for a free public lecture, presented in conjunction with the 2009 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers exhibition and Franklin’s Summer Photo Workshops for Teens Program.

Covering a variety of topics from Google streetviews to the war in Afghanistan, Leo will discuss new works, digital and otherwise, that push the envelope of what we think of as photography. Some of the artists discussed will be Tim Hetherington, Penelope Unbrico, and Sam Taylor-Woods.

The lecture will take place on Saturday, July 16 at 12pm at Franklin Art Works and is free and open to the public.

Afterwards, check out the 2009 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers Exhibition in Franklin’s Main Gallery and enjoy complimentary refreshments.

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About Vince Leo:

Vince Leo is Director of the MFA Program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His photographic work has been exhibited internationally and he has written for publications such as Artforum, frieze, and Parkett. He has made and written about photographs for a long time.

Vince Leo, Anna w/Nancy, 1984

This activity is funded, in part, by the Minnesota State Arts Board through the arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

We're on a Roll!

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:10:00 -0500

Last weekend marked the kick-off of our Summer Photo Workshops for Teens…

Photo by program participant Avery Katz

Photo by program participant Alex Harristhal

Keep up with what our twenty-five talented young photographers are up to this summer here!

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

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:14:00 -0500

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.

Franklin Art Works + Trash Film Debauchery = Northern Spark

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:09:00 -0500

What an equation! Don’t you think? Franklin Art Works is proud to collaborate with Trash Films Debauchery as part of the Northern Spark Festival, a nocturnal art trip of epic proportions taking place across Minneapolis for just one long, magical night.

Stop by Franklin Art Works between 9pm-6am on Saturday, June 4 a from-dusk-til-dawn “trash fest” curated by Trash Film Debauchery, including Adam West eating space sausages with his monkey companion, buxom FBI babes hunting a contaminated mutant snake, a hilarious Hong Kong zombie gore fest, a classic slasher film with the greatest head explosion OF ALL TIME, and before the sun rises witness the rise of a jive talking, zoot-suited, hipster Jesus.

Aaaand here’s the line-up:

Robinson Crusoe on Mars @ 9PM (101 min)

Hard Ticket to Hawaii @ 10:45PM (96 min)

Bio-Zombie @ 12:30AM (94 min)

Maniac @ 2:05AM (87 min)

Greaser’s Palace @ 3:35AM (91 min)

Greaser’s Palace

Catch a single flick or stay all night. Bring pocket change for cheap concessions! Wipe tears from your tired eyes for a photobooth pic. It’ll be a blast! Can’t wait to see you!

About Trash Film Debauchery:

Trash Film Debauchery is in its eighth year showing B-movies and cult films around the Twin Cities; currently hosting free screenings at the Turf Club and series at the TRYLON microcinema. Specializing in cinema gold from alien invaders to flesh-eating zombies and plenty of wonderful crap in between.

About Northern Spark:

Northern Spark is a new MN Festival modeled on a nuit blanche or “white night” festival—a dusk to dawn participatory art event along the Mississippi and surrounding areas. It will take place the evening of June 4 (sunset 8:55 pm) till the morning of June 5, 2011 (sunrise 5:28 am).

Northern Spark will include a diversity of art forms and projects including multi-story projections, audio environments with vistas, floating works on barges, houseboats and paddleboats, headphone concerts, and the use of everything from bioluminescent algae and sewer pipes for organs to more traditional media such as banjos and puppets. It is in this context that more than 200 artists are presenting 100 installations and performances for Northern Spark from the top of the Foshay Tower to boat rides along the Mississippi to light sculptures and projections to performances galore, including car horn and brass band fanfares, color guards, river dancing, sewer pipe organs, lullabies, and storytelling.

Summer Photo Workshops: We're Back!

Wed, 18 May 2011 17:23:00 -0500

…and better than ever!

Check out the website: http://summerphotofranklin.tumblr.com. Space is limited - don’t delay!