
September 17-Entries Due for Body Language-juried by George Nickīancroft Gallery- Body Language-National Show, Juried by George Nick Opening Reception: Saturday, January 8, 4–6 pmīoston Globe, Thursday, January 6, article by Robert Knoxīancroft Gallery- Blue Ribbon Members' Showīancroft Gallery- Liminal Spaces: Michele L'Heureux, Helen Popinchalk, Lauren Scanlon, Tom Shields, Elizabeth Tomasettiĭillon Gallery- New Constructs: Virginia Green, Andrea Kemler, Jeanne McKenna, Mary Taylor, Shipyard Gallery: MCC Fellows-Vico Fabbris, Chris Faust, Joel Janowitz, Laurie Kaplowitz, Anne Neely January 5–February 20 ( Click here for a press release) Opening Reception: Friday, January 14, 6–8 pmĭillon Gallery: A Show of Hands: Jeremy Barnard, Lucretia Chase, Eleanor Elkin, Peggy Roth Major, Michele Meister, Beverly Rippel OPENING RECEPTION-Friday, November 9, 6–8 pmīancroft Gallery- Upon Further Consideration-Virginia Fitzgerald & David Langīancroft Gallery: Motion, Juried by Perry Price, Assistant Curator, Fuller Craft OPENING RECEPTION – Friday, September 14, 6–8 pmīancroft Gallery: National Show- Regarding the Third Dimension: Actual or Illusion? Randy Goldberger, Felice Mendell, Michael Seif, Kim Roderiques, Andrea Rosenthalĭillon Gallery: Inner Nature-Karen Cass, Barbara Hillier, Dianne E. 95 or Gallery: Women 360-Myrna Balk, Lora Brody, Karen Davis, Carol Daynard, Ellen Feldman, Best known as a scribbler, Sack broke into the third dimension in 2010 and can’t stop now. Carefully crafted of wood, wire, papier mâché and paint, his manic characters include crazy cats and colorful carnival characters - muscle men, mermaids and modern gargoyles posing as garden gnomes.


Steve Sack, the Star Tribune’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, blasts off as a sculptor in “Cartoonival.” The same pungent sense of humor that won him a 2013 Pulitzer takes 3-D form here. Ice, Matthew Rucker, Dick Brewer, Sharon Ulrich, Natasha D’Schommer, Barbara Keith, David Cunningham and Ellen Thomson. They are: Sarah Wieben, Mary Bergherr, Nicholas Harper, Maureen Welter, Clinton Rost, Kelli Hoppmann, Al Wadzinski, D.C. Painters, sculptors, photographer and ceramists, they’ll be showing their new stuff at the charming south Minneapolis storefront that has been staging “art in every degree” for a decade and a half. At Gallery 360 it’s a show of 15 gallery talents, many of them veterans of the Twin Cities scene. Traditionalists say the proper way to celebrate a 15th anniversary is with a gift of crystal, a watch, a ruby or a rose. OmForme calls this transformation a “rebirth of the forlorn” and dubs it the “Lazarus Effect.” Clever. Now decked out in rainbow hues and saucy prints, all that boring furniture sparkles with personality. The Minneapolis firm specializes in bringing sass to banal mid-20th century furniture, you know, those pretentiously velvet-covered Louis-the-whatnot chairs that no one dared sit on in Aunt Sylvie’s boudoir. In practice, that means upcycling dowdy castoffs into dazzling delights. As its sleek website helpfully explains, OmForme means “to transform” in Norwegian.

In a match made in design heaven, Circa is collaborating with Minneapolis store OmForme on what’s sure to be a smart pairing of Circa’s elegant modernist paintings and OmForme’s chic furniture.

This weekend four Twin Cities venues are showcasing an unusually large roster of local artists in fields ranging from poster design and furniture restoration to such stalwart formats as painting, sculpture and maybe even a bit of graffiti-on-canvas.
