No World, Screen Prints from a Midwest Wasteland

More MAPC. 3-D and No World were both at the Center for Book Arts.


Adam Turman, Enjoy the Ride


Amy Jo Hendrickson, Untitled


Dale Flattum, Untitled


Erick Anthony Hamline, Bad Acid

Prints, Now in 3-D!

Also at MAPC (almost done. Found another pile of images to share today when cleaning up the laptop).


Eun-Kyung Suh, Between (2007) 99 prisoners of conscience in Korea. Detail:




Ina Kaur, Broken Link (2009)


Michelle Murillo, Destinations (2009)


Jonathan Stewart, Nowhere Else to Go/Panhandling for Change/Pregnancy Test/Rejection Letter (2009)

Damn. Leaving With the Kids is missing from my photos of Stewart's work.

Ayumi Yoshida's Reverberation

Ayumi Yoshida, a 3rd generation artist had an installation at MCAD during MAPC.


15 feet or so. Plywood, sumi ink, acrylic.




Detail of the above, which is a vinyl print.

The Flower Show @ MIA

Minneapolis Institute of Art is an incredible place. Hot House: Flowers for after the Frost is a good example. Nerd out people:


Two Mondrian's on either side of a Kelly-- Cyclamen V, 1964.


Flos Solis Maior, After Basil Besler-- From The Garden of Eichstätt


Pineapple Flower with Insects, After Maria Sibylla Merian, Plate cut by Joseph Mulder-- From Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium


Hurdy Gurdy Man (Chrysanthemums) a video by Jennifer Steinkamp from 2006 projected on the wall.

Seen at the Walker Art Center

Let's call this the million dollar wall and all be jealous.


Kara Walker at the Walker. Seems right.


Rirkrit Taravanija's Untitled 1992 (Red, Yellow, Green Curry) Produced in edition of 10.

MAPC, you had so much stuff.

So, just a little more than a year ago, the Boston MFA lost a great staff member to Minneapolis Institute of Art: Tom Rassieur. But during MAPC it was great to get to see the print room at MIA as Tom was running things and graciously pulling out almost anything from MIA's great collection.



He also juried the MAPC group show which included Stefanie Dykes' Placing and Replacing. An excellent art work and worthy of the first prize.

MFA's in the 2000's

(Heather O'Hara's Patterns of Violence)

One of the panels at MAPC was about recent MFAs and their struggles after getting that terminal degree. There was also an exhibition of the same subject put together by Stephanie Hunder that was pretty excellent, and may have been my favorite part of that evening's bus ride.


(Carrie Lingscheit's Momento No. 5192 (Hang)


Artists: Kjel Alkire, Tonia Bonnell, Nick Conbere, James Ehlers, Carrie Lingscheit, Deb Oden, Heather O'Hara, Travis Janssen, Johanna Mueller, Joanne Price, Kathy Puzey, Jason Scuilla, Justin Strom, Satan's Camaro, Joseph Velasquez, and Melinda Yale.


(Travis Janssen's As Different As-- Detail below)

More from Highpoint Press

Carlos Amorales had work up at Highpoint. These solid and blocks of color are made of randomly arranged metal and plastic blocks that are surface rolled.




(Yes the lights were still being put up. Did I mention all of the people who work there were really great? They were.)

One of the other things I found interesting was the Julie Mehretu flipbook that printer, director, and generally good guy Cole Rogers showed us. It's the entire print broken down into layers printed onto duralar or whatever acetate they use in the shop. With such a layered print, it was good to see the entire thing broken down into each moment.

MAPC Minneapolis

This is just a quick post to let y'all know about one awesome thing I saw already at MAPC. At Highpoint press I saw Dodgeball by Rob Fischer.


Now normally, this isn't news, no matter how cool that print is. But seeing the matrix that they printed the intaglio from is.



That white line across the matrix is the back of the larger sized silkscreen press at Highpoint.

More to come as time permits!