CONSTRUCTION + RECONSTRUCTION

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Emily and Coco conceived of Girl Club Studio nearly ten years ago on the brink of graduation from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and their post-graduation artistic practice. Frustrated by the machismo and male-dominated painting department while at school, they made space for their collaboration, unique from, and reacting to, their lived experiences as female artists. While frequently giving each other obstructions, or challenges, to respond to, they mirror and reclaim individual hurdles in a playful way. Girl Club Studio works in tandem, simultaneously and apart. They view their work in the lens of painting, at times adding collage, print, and sculptural elements. Our study and emphasis on color is our constant. 

Rebecca Krinke has a hybrid life as an artist and Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota. Her multidisciplinary art-design practice (began with a dream she had as an adult) works across landscape, interior and exterior installation, sculpture, and participatory projects to explore the wonder and terror of living and the times we live in. Using animal, plant, and human forms/worlds, and domestic objects and architectures made, found, or altered – she creates places where dreaming and waking life mix. For her installation at NE Sculpture, called Apport, she will engage the trees outside the gallery by hanging large bundles of artificial blue flowers from their branches to create a portal for dreaming. Apport will be especially otherworldly at night when the tree will be illuminated.  

Seattle based artist Barbara Robertson is known primarily for her work in experimental printmaking. Over the last ten years, she has expanded her practice to include digital animation, projection installations, paintings and mixed media works on paper. For this exhibition she will show a short, animated film that is partly an appreciation for a rapidly changing urban life and questions why we create the specific structures and environment that we live with. 

 B-ARCH - U of Illinois - Champaign Urbana

M-ARCH - U of Washington-Seattle

Max has recently relocated from Seattle to the Uptown area of Minneapolis after decades of designing and making magical places for retail and entertainment venues across the globe as an architect and educator. He recently has pivoted to his life-long passion for making photographs and paintings. He is now making unorthodox photo-based montage prints which have been shown nationally.

For CONSTRUCTION + RECONSTRUCTION, Steele has printed his collection, LANDSHIFT, at a scale sized to make them readily available and engaging to the viewer. Hanging from above, larger than life, they are deployed in overlapping planes inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion.