Time Warp and Other Happenings

cva gallery -
I'm Holding on for that Teenage Feeling
October 30 - November 22


I recently read a review of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist in the Mac Weekly - and though it failed to highlight the incredible waste of time that this movie was - it did ask the question, will we ever be sick of escaping to those teenage years of high school drama and adolescent confusion? Teen-centered stories saturate the movie industry, but within the all-imposing art world, it seems these stories take a back seat (or sit bitch) to "greater" conceptual ideas and aesthetic designs.

I'm Holding on for that Teenage Feeling delves into the "murkier, experimental aspects of adolescence" - which led a certain friend of mine to label the show as "emo" - but, I for one, could use a refreshing look at the fictionalized woes of my receding past. The show approaches the teenage years as a period of suspension between polar opposites - between "innocence and knowledge, inexperience and ability" - which begs the question, does this suspension end after high school graduation?

As someone on the tail-end of their college years, with similar feelings of uncertainty and suspension, I'm excited to take a look at this show, however emo it may turn out to be.

For more information on the show, click here.

Pictured above: My First through Fouth Grade Teachers by Scott Stulen, 2007, acryllic on canvas, 36" x 48".

groveland gallery -
Jerry Rudquist - In Retrospective
October 24 - November 29


Hailed as a master of color, and "known primarily for his forceful and seductive abstract paintings," this show should be an interesting look across four decades of work by a former Macalester professor and Midwest native.

For more information on the show, click here.

Pictured above: Descriptive Study/Nordic, by Jerry Rudquist, 1997, oil on gessoed ragboard, 40" x 30".