Ray Rolfe
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Contact Information
contact name: Agent RR
location address:
TEH Internet
the internets
Minneapolis MN 55414
open to public: yes
hours: 24/7
Pseudonym: RayOfMinneapolis
Similar Artists:
Early Minneapolis "Skid Row" bums. And youthful Minneapolis noise dimensional phase benders.
Related Organizations:
SolarCycle24.
N.E.M.A.A.
Northside Arts Collective.
NoNameE@ the Soap Factory.
City of Minneapolis
YouTube
BlogTv
Experience
Certificate of C.L.I (University St. Thomas, Community Leadership Institute)
Certificate of Certianteed Master Shingle Applicator WIZARD.
This certificate is rare and prestigious.
Awards
Recognized by the Minneapolis Public School Board for a Thanksgiving paper bag color crayon drawing of a cornucopia.
Won tickets to the Renaissance Festival in a Super America coloring contest.
(haha ok)
Winner. Blandin Foundation / Bell Museum "Minnesota Minute" video contest.
Grand Prize Winner INTEL VISUAL LIFE Video contest. 2011
2012 Google 3D geomodelers group has distingushed me as amoung the greatest 3D Modelers in the world.
Exhibitions/Performance History
My paintings have never been seen by the public before. This "web-showing" is an exclusive!
UPDATE!:Show @ Prairy Star Coffee in March2002~
UPDATE!:white wall show with a group in the California building for ART-A_WHIRL 2003!! It was great, sorry no pictures :(
UPDATE!: Curated mm mail art show. I believe it was the first show to premier exclusively in the mnartists.org forums.
UPDATE: Co-Organizer for Volunteer Show, "HOT HOUSE 04" for No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap Factory, April 2004
UPDATE: "The Art of War @ Altered Esthetic, spring04
UPDATE: St. Paul Winter Carnival Fine Arts Show
UPDATE: "The Art of Democracy" @ The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, November 2004
UPDATE: "City Seen" @ The Minneapolis Foundation, January 2005
UPDATE: Group show @ Outsiders and Others Gallery, June/July 9, 2005.
UPDATE: MINERVA Confrence @ the Weisman Art Museum, November 2005
UPDATE: Emerging Digerati 2006
SoapFactoryGallery4 2003-2006
UPDATE:Photography Show Arcadia Coffee House.
Video Project: Minnesota8
Video Project: Urban Camouflage 4 C.I.A
UPDATE: I Heart Northeast! @ Altered Esthetics (Photosynthed) April 30 - May 30, 2009
UPDATE:9-09-09 WorldWide Moment Exhibition @ Florida's Southeast Gallery of Photographic Art Dec 1st-30th 2009
UPDATE: 2012 Ongoing "You Can Almost Touch The Sky" Foshay Tower Observation Deck.
Collections
A collector from the Chicago Museum of Art bought a piece, of mine, at the outsiders show.
I own a fine art collection of Gabe Combs work.
I have a collection of 90 year old newspapers and postcards.
Galleries
Gus Lucky's, now "The Babylon".
Walker United Methodist Church.
Harmony Lofts.
Prairie Star Coffee in the Raymond ave community.
The California Building.
The "uptown pocket gallery", minor guerrilla art.
No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap Factory
The Minnesota Gallery at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Offices of the Minneapolis Foundation
Altered Esthetics
The Southeast Gallery of Photographic Art, Florida
The god damned Soap Factory
Publications
go publicate yourself..
Will Conely Wrote some stuff about me.. Micheal Fallon Alluded to my existance once..
Biographical Information
Country of Citizenship:
United States
Birth Place:
Minneapolis
Birth Date:
January 16, 1979
Gender:
Male
Active Place:
The streets and parks of Minneapolis
Minnesota County:
Hennepin
Artist Information
Roles
Photographer
Artist's Website
http://minneapolisartsynth.blogspot.com/
mnartists.org Collections Featuring Ray Rolfe
Readymade: Craftsmanship, the hand of the artist, and originality in contemporary art