Best Art Exhibits Coming To Minnesota In 2016
Many new and exciting exhibits are coming to Minnesota in 2016. This article is another in a series in which CBS periodically broadcasts significant new art exhibits and artists coming to Minnesota. See previously highlighted exhibits in Best Upcoming Art Exhibits In Minnesota.
Less Than One
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
(612) 375-7600
www.walkerart.org
Dates: April 7, 2016 - Dec. 31, 2016
Price: $14 Adults, $12 Seniors, $9 Students, Children under 18 free
The Walker is sharing three major acquisitions for the first time, along with sixteen artists from the 1960s to present comprising the core of Walker's recent acquisitions. Viewers will get to experience Ericka Beckman's film and sculpture installation "You the Better." Also featured is Adrian Piper's "The Mythic Being: Sol's Drawings." Renée Green's 1991 sculpture, Bequest, makes its debut as well. Curators Fionn Meade and Victoria Sung create absorbing combinations of painting, drawing, sculpting, photography, moving image, performance and installation of Walker's multidisciplinary collection of evocative and often provocative works.
State Of The Art: Discovering American Art Now
Minneapolis Institute of Art
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404
(612) 870-3000
www.new.artsmia.org
Dates: Feb. 18, 2016 - May 22, 2016. Guided tour Thur. and Fri. at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. daily through May 22.
Price: $20; $16 for Mia members
Catch a glimpse of the latest innovations and materials in contemporary art. More than 130 confident and crisp creations are shown in every media from canvas, paper and photography to video and installation art. Thanks to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art curatorial team that visited every corner of America in 2013, we can appreciate what is happening in American art today. The exhibit features two local artists, Andy DuCett and Chris Larson.
Masterpieces Of The 20th Century: Russian Realist Tradition
The Museum of Russian Art
5500 Stevens Ave S.
Minneapolis, MN 55419
(612) 821-9045
www.tmora.org
Dates: Saturday, March 19, 2016 - Sunday, September 25, 2016
Price: $9 Adults, $7 Seniors, $5 Students with ID, Children under 14 are free
The post-WWII Soviet era fostered a magnitude of realistic paintings depicting landscapes, people and still life. Certainly, the Soviet state sponsored painters who would appeal to the masses. The state also chose to uplift, educate and indoctrinate, sometimes embellishing reality. Soviet artists responded with splendid paintings rich in realism and masterfully executed with dynamic brushwork. The Minnesota State Arts Board, along with a grant from Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota, made it possible that we can see these sixty splendid oils.
Lee Kit
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
(612) 375-7600
www.walkerart.org
Dates: May 12 through Oct. 9, 2016
Price: $14 Adults, $12 Seniors, $9 Students, Children under 18 free
Born in Hong Kong, based in Taipei and curated across the globe, Lee Kit brings his first solo exhibit to the U.S. He will be featuring the past five years of paintings, drawings, objects, video and subtle object-based installations molded from his fascination with everyday items like soap, towels, cardboard boxes, and other domestic wares. Lee tells Walker blog readers, "When I was younger, I did tend to talk to objects, especially while taking a shower. Who is in the bathroom with me? It is products from Johnson & Johnson or Nivea." Kit spices up his mundane product depictions with a political commentary zest, derived from the juxtaposition of market capitalism and Hong Kong's sociopolitical history. You will not want to miss the Walker-owned 13-channel video installation created by Kim in 2012, "I can't help falling in love."
Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks From The Paul G. Allen Family Collection
Minneapolis Institute of Art
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404
(612) 870-3000
www.new.artsmia.org
Dates: July 10 through September 18, 2016
Price: $20; $16 for Mia members
Five remarkable landscapes by Claude Monet are coming to town, along with those of impressionist painters Paul Cézanne and Gustav Klimt. Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen is generously sharing selections of his European and American collection spanning 400 years of distinct and dissimilar approaches to landscape art. One can see precise representations of Venetian landscape by Canaletto, dramatic skies of J.M.W. Turner and the beauty of The Grand Canyon by Thomas Moran. The exhibit includes recent artists like David Hockney, who attempted to capture the awe of The Grand Canyon with bold colors on a multi-canvas composition. Another recent-artist treat is Georgia O'Keeffe, whose Black Iris IV creates dramatic landscape with a single flower across the canvas.
Robin Johnson was born in Annandale, Minn. and graduated from Richfield High School and then the University of Minnesota where he studied Political Science, Business and Industrial Relations. A writer for Examiner.com, he also consults with a variety of organizations and individuals helping them develop and grow. His work can be found at Examiner.com.
