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The Thousandfold Principle/Jeremy Szopinski

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:48:22 GMT

[b]TuckUnder Projects is pleased to announce the solo exhibition [i]The Thousandfold Principle[/i], featuring the oil paintings of Minneapolis painter/printmaker Jeremy Szopinski, the exterior [i]Look (again)[/i] residency by low tech/high joy collaborative, and the inaugural Leaky Sink Gallery exhibit [i]Noah Harmon/Have Fun!.[/i][/b] [i]The Thousandfold Principle/Jeremy Szopinski[/i] opens at TuckUnder Projects, Thursday, May 23, 6-9 pm. The exhibition runs May 23-June 23, 2013, with unstructured hours Wednesday through Sunday, and by appointment. Please email [url=mailto:info@tuckunder.org]info@tuckunder.org[/url] to confirm open hours. TuckUnder Projects is located at 5120 York Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, USA 55410. For further information visit [url=http://www.TuckUnder.org/]www.TuckUnder.org[/url]. American artist Jeremy Szopinski (Born Ironwood, MI, 1975) is a Minneapolis-based painter, printmaker and visual artist whose artwork navigates the space, structure and materiality of abstraction. Szopinski has exhibited at numerous venues both regionally and nationally including Woodward Gallery (NY), Soo Visual Arts Center, Phipps Center for the Arts, Speedboat Gallery, and the Duluth Art Institute. He has worked as an Adjunct Faculty member at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, MN, as a Senior Letterpress Printer at Studio On Fire in Minneapolis, and has painted murals. He received his BFA in 1998 from the College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, and completed his MFA in Painting at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, in 2010. Further works can be found on his website at [url=http://www.jeremyszopinski.com]www.jeremyszopinski.com[/url]. For the works in[b] [/b][i]The Thousandfold Principle[/i], Szopinski reflects upon a quote by televangelist Benny Hinn as an underlying thematic narrative:[i] [/i][b] [/b]“When I saw the amazing harvest, I confess I still wondered if the results I was experiencing might just be a coincidence; maybe this was happening by chance, I thought.” The abstract works subtly hide a human form and character that occupies a liminal space between the surface of the paper, canvas, or board and the top transparent layers of abstract marks. Szopinski explains that the abstract paintings in his exhibit constantly move toward building unresolved tensions between opposing forces both formally and thematically. The underlying figures, some of which are discernable, suggest violence and religious ecstasy, belief and doubt. Abstraction, in the form of large swoops and geometric shapes, frequently overtake the figures. Conversely, through high key color and overlapped composition, the work maintains a connection to old master religious painting. Szopinski often visually references the pictorial imagery of El Greco’s mystical space and Caravaggio’s violent dramas. Szopinski’s printmaking employment plays a visible role in his current paintings. The act of mixing CMYK inks is often mimicked on the surface of the works. Created on Terraskin paper mounted on board and found/recycled wood materials, utilizing both traditional oil paints and conventional printmaking inks, and applied with squeegees, knives and rollers, the abstractions vary in scale from tiny wooden blocks to larger paper works. The changes in scale and material often evoke a mood shift that alters the dialectic. [b]Also on view will be the start of a five-month exterior project [i]Look (again) Residency: Sunflower Revolution[/i] by low tech/high joy artists Marlaine Cox and Karen Kasel.[/b] For the start of their residency, low tech/high joy will present a singular metal lens scoping/viewing device that peers onto a particular sunflower seedling spot within the TuckUnder yard. Included will be the presenting of hand sewn/packaged sunflower seeds to opening viewers to “spread the revolution.” Further fabricated metal lens scoping devices and participatory activity will be added as the residency proceeds. Collaborating for over six years, low tech/high joy has created simple placemaking activity and organic participatory project work, which includes the [i]Shanty of Misfit Toys[/i] at the Art Shanties on Medicine Lake. Further info on Look (again) can be found at [url=http://www.facebook.com/lowtech.highjoy]www.facebook.com/lowtech.highjoy[/url]. [b]TuckUnder Projects is also pleased to announce the first Leaky Sink Gallery exhibition [i]Noah Harmon/Have Fun![/i]. [/b]Noah Harmon (American, born 1982 Beresford, SD) is a visual artist living and working in Minneapolis, MN whose paintings and illustration engage an awkward range of campy subject matter. Harmon explores conceptual themes that often include: relaxation and enjoyment, creeps and hotties, and champions and Rock & Roll. His illustration and painting is visually informed by Pop Culture, travel, television, and the supernatural. When he was growing up Harmon worked as under aged janitor at an interstate truckstop and a BK burger flipper off the I-90 corridor. Harmon received his BFA from St. Cloud State University. He has exhibited his work and projects regionally with Soo Visual Arts, One Bicycle Studio, Midway Contemporary Art Drawing Rally and the Walker Art Center Open Field. Mr. Harmon currently works as a security guard at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Harmon is the first artist to install at TuckUnder Projects Leaky Sink Gallery. His work can be found at [url=http://www.relaxadult.com]www.relaxadult.com[/url]. [b] [/b][b][/b] [b]Leaky Sink Gallery[/b] is a new alternative, experimental backroom gallery housed in the half bath on the basement floor of TuckUnder Projects. The “loo” gallery has preexisting old-fashioned black/white advertising wallpaper, a tiled shower with soap scum and adhesive residue, two medicine cabinets, a shuttered window, three towel racks, and a drippy faucet/sink cabinet with a door that opens the wrong way. Despite the water shut off at its local pipe valve, the water still gently flows approximately one gallon per day. Leaky Sink Gallery is an installationary spatial site of creative reflection and imaginary thought, personal discovery and sensory stimuli, and private contemplation of bodily fluid wonder. TuckUnder Projects is a temporary, independent artist exhibition space and sculpture site located within the Fulton neighborhood of Southwest Minneapolis. As an alternative, hybridic home-based contemporary gallery, TuckUnder Projects specializes in unrecognized emerging artists and curatorial collaborators, tactical institutional critique, participatory initiatives and conceptual curatorial projects. Artistic quality at TuckUnder is based upon artist’s tactical aesthetics, participatory exchange, home economics, and conceptual fortitude rather than traditionally conservative art fair and gallery criteria. For its second season of interior and exterior art exhibit programming, TuckUnder plans six platform exhibits that engage the local community with under recognized local and regional emerging artists and curators working in visual arts, video, site-specific sculpture and installation from May thru November 2013. Artists will collaborate with the unique 1950’s architectural environs, TuckUnder garage, fake butterflies and woodpecker, raspberry patch, and scenic overlook. Forthcoming exhibition and curatorial projects include the artists Jeremy Szopinski, Holly Streekstra, Mary Bergs, Christina Chang, Nathaniel Smith, and exterior resident collaborators low tech/high joy (Marlaine Cox & Karen Kasel). Currently on view at TuckUnder is [i]Vague[/i], a solo installation by visual artist Pete Driessen, now thru May 19, 2013. TuckUnder Projects was created with the generous help of MRAC, Springboard for the Arts Incubator program, Arvesen Co., Driessen Water, Northern Sun, Printz, and many individuals. TuckUnder Projects activity was funded, in part, by a 2012 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Community Arts Grant, and by appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State's general fund, and its arts and cultural heritage fund that was created by a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008. [b]Image:[/b] [i]Triple Fire-Detail[/i]/ Jeremy Szopinski © 2013/Oil on board/43x44 Inches. For further information please contact Pete Driessen at [url=mailto:info@tuckunder.org]info@tuckunder.org[/url], or visit Jeremy Szopinski’s website: [url=Karen_Kasel]www.jeremyszopinski.com[/url], low tech/high joy’s website: [url=http://www.facebook.com/lowtech.highjoy]www.facebook.com/lowtech.highjoy[/url], or Noah Harmon’s website: [url=http://www.relaxadult.com]www.relaxadult.com[/url].

Emanations

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:30:51 GMT

[b]TuckUnder Projects is pleased to announce the solo exhibition [i]Emanations[/i] featuring the installation of Minneapolis visual artist Holly Streekstra, the exterior [i]look (again)[/i] residency by low tech/high joy collaborative, and the Leaky Sink Gallery exhibit [i]Jenny Jenkins/Driftwool. [/i][/b] The exhibitions open at TuckUnder Projects, Thursday, June 27, 6-9 pm, and run June 27-July 28, 2013, with unstructured hours Wednesday through Sunday, and by appointment. Please email [url=mailto:info@tuckunder.org]info@tuckunder.org[/url] to confirm open hours. TuckUnder Projects is located at 5120 York Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, USA 55410. For further information visit [url=http://www.TuckUnder.org/]www.TuckUnder.org[/url]. American artist Holly Streekstra (Born Waupun, WI, 1975) employs video, sound, installation, and object making to investigate our inner subjective states and psychic vulnerability in the contemporary world. Streekstra’s artwork examines the relationship between human nature and the nature of the physical universe. In her TuckUnder Projects installation, [i]Emanations[/i], Streekstra creates an ontological microcosm by presenting objects and situations that serve as intermediaries for exploring trans-communication and states of Presence. Studio experiments featuring materializations with a grounded tangible presence (wax, fibers, and found objects) suggest eerie vacillations between the mortal and the ethereal. The installation establishes an inquiry into reflexivity, highlighting the effects of imagination on perception through peculiar arrangements and manipulations referencing illusionist apparatus, apported gifts, and funerary forms. Streekstra’s artwork has been exhibited at numerous regional and international institutions, including the Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago; Invisible Dog, Brooklyn; White Canvas Independent Film Festival, Székesfehérvár, Hungary; and the 4th International Video-Art Festival in Camaguey, Cuba. In 2008, she was a Jerome Foundation Fellow at Franconia Sculpture Park. In 2012 she won the Sun-der Preis in the international art competition Betwegter Wind in North Hessen, Germany. Streekstra received a Master of Fine Arts from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Since receiving an MFA in 2006, she has taught at various institutions in including Louisiana State University, Boise State University, Heron School of Art and Design, and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. This fall she will be a Fulbright teaching scholar in mixed media at Káposvar University, Káposvar, Hungary. Further works can be found on her website at [url=http://www.hollystreekstra.net]www.hollystreekstra.net[/url]. [b]Also on view will be the second phase of a six-month exterior project [i]look (again) residency: [/i]by low tech/high joy artists Marlaine Cox and Karen Kasel.[/b] The spotlight of low tech/high joy collaborative's residency opens with seven blazing orange "scopes" - primitive constructed metal tubes - installed in TuckUnder's yard. The artists take a closer look at the outdoor space of TuckUnder Projects and focus the scopes on objects in the yard that deserve closer inspection and curiosity. Visitors are encouraged to slow down and look through the scopes to view small surprises and unexpected oddities in the environment that can be easily overlooked, such as a tiny reflecting pool in a boat stored in the yard or an ant hill. The objects may be found or staged, leaving the viewer joyfully engaged in wondering if it’s real or a trick from the artists. For the recent start of their residency, low tech/high joy launched the [i]Sunflower Revolution[/i] which was created from an impulse to generate a sense of connectedness between the citizens of communities, neighborhoods and cities through the simple act of planting sunflower seeds. Hand printed seed packets are available for visitors to take throughout the residency. A singular scope peers onto a particular sunflower seedling planted in the TuckUnder yard and visitors can watch it grow as the seasons change. low tech/high joy collaborative is an art/place-making partnership of the Miami born metal artist, Marlaine Cox and Minnesota painter, Karen Kasel. This team has worked together for over six years on projects as wacky as a family-run childcare co-op and an ice fishing shanty with stuffed animal walls. Further info on [i]look (again), [/i]and other low tech/high joy participatory activities can be found at [url=http://www.facebook.com/lowtech.highjoy]facebook.com/lowtech.highjoy[/url] and lowtechhighjoy@wordpress.com. [b]TuckUnder Projects is also pleased to announce the Leaky Sink Gallery exhibition [i]Jenny Jenkins/ Driftwool[/i]. [/b]Jenny Jenkins (American, born Baltimore, MD, 1963) is a visual artist living and working in Minneapolis, MN whose artwork often reflects conceptual words and embroidered images from hidden idiosyncratic sites of urban life. [i]Driftwool[/i] at the Leaky Sink Gallery consists of embroideries and screenprints of graffiti from Jenkins' [i]South Minneapolis Tags [/i]series, as well as new work based upon graffiti tags discovered on a recent trip to southern Spain, where Jenny spent a year of college in the 1980’s. The decision to begin embroidering images from a place other than the neighborhoods surrounding her home inspired the title, a serendipitous word found by wandering through several languages and aided by her poor typing skills. This perfectly suits her outlook on life and art as a series of happy accidents and Jenny thinks she may finally have hit upon her own moniker should she ever decide to become a tagger herself. The tags, thrice removed from their original context, are colorfully stitched on lush fabrics and represented within gently embellished found frames, offering a recontextualization of symbolism and signifier. Jenny Jenkins was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and lived in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans before heading north to Minneapolis. Jenny has a B.S. in Spanish from Georgetown University and a M.F.A. from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She was recently awarded a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant to travel to Andalucía to begin an exploration into the ways that both English and Spanish "tags" are used in Spain and by Latino taggers in the Twin Cities. She has also been the recipient of two Minnesota State Arts Board fellowships and a McKnight Fellowship for Photography. Jenny currently works as a photo stylist and art educator in Minneapolis. Jenkins is the second artist to install at TuckUnder Projects Leaky Sink Gallery. Her work can be found at [url=http://www.jennyjenkins.net/]www.jennyjenkins.net[/url]. Leaky Sink Gallery is a new alternative, experimental backroom gallery housed in the half bath on the basement floor of TuckUnder Projects. The “loo” gallery has preexisting old-fashioned black/white advertising wallpaper, a tiled shower with soap scum and adhesive residue, two medicine cabinets, a shuttered window, three towel racks, and a drippy faucet/sink cabinet with a door that opens the wrong way. Despite the water shut off at its local pipe valve, the water still gently flows approximately one gallon per day. Leaky Sink Gallery is an installationary spatial site of creative reflection and imaginary thought, personal discovery and sensory stimuli, and private contemplation of bodily fluid wonder. TuckUnder Projects is a temporary, independent artist exhibition space and sculpture site located within the Fulton neighborhood of Southwest Minneapolis. As an alternative, hybridic home-based contemporary gallery, TuckUnder Projects specializes in unrecognized emerging artists and curatorial collaborators, tactical institutional critique, participatory initiatives and conceptual curatorial projects. Artistic quality at TuckUnder is based upon artist’s tactical aesthetics, participatory exchange, home economics, and conceptual fortitude rather than traditionally conservative art fair and gallery criteria. For its second season of interior and exterior art exhibit programming, TuckUnder plans six platform exhibits that engage the local community with under recognized local and regional emerging artists and curators working in visual arts, video, site-specific sculpture and installation from May thru November 2013. Artists will collaborate with the unique 1950’s architectural environs, TuckUnder garage, fake butterflies and woodpecker, raspberry patch, and scenic overlook. Forthcoming exhibition and curatorial projects include the artists Jeremy Szopinski, Holly Streekstra, Mary Bergs, Christina Chang, Nathaniel Smith, Noah Harmon, Jenny Jenkins, Nick Howard, and exterior resident collaborators low tech/high joy (Marlaine Cox & Karen Kasel). Currently on view at TuckUnder is the solo installation [url=https://www.facebook.com/events/483790341692458/][i]The Thousandfold Principle/Jeremy Szopinski[/i][/url], low tech/high joy collaborative’s [i]look (again): Sunflower Revolution[/i], and [i]Noah Harmon[/i]/[i]Have Fun! [/i]in the Leaky Sink Gallery now thru June 23, 2013. TuckUnder Projects was created with the generous help of MRAC, Springboard for the Arts Incubator program, Arvesen Co., Driessen Water, and many individuals. TuckUnder Projects activity was funded, in part, by a 2012 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Community Arts Grant, and by appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State's general fund, and its arts and cultural heritage fund that was created by a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008. [b]Image:[/b] [i]Emanations-Detail[/i], Holly Streekstra © 2013/Mixed Media/Size Varies. [b]For further information[/b]: please contact Pete Driessen at [url=mailto:info@tuckunder.org]info@tuckunder.org[/url], or visit Holly Streekstra’s website: [url=http://www.hollystreekstra.net]www.hollystreekstra.net[/url], low tech/high joy’s website: [url=http://www.facebook.com/lowtech.highjoy]www.facebook.com/lowtech.highjoy[/url], or Jenny Jenkin’s website: [url=http://www.jennyjenkins.net]www.jennyjenkins.net[/url]. #next_pages_container { width: 5px; hight: 5px; position: absolute; top: -100px; left: -100px; z-index: 2147483647 !important; }