Groveland Gallery is honored to present a retrospective exhibition of work by one of Minnesota’s best known artists, Mike Lynch. The exhibition will feature a wide range of work spanning his 60-year career.

Woodcut prints and drawings from the 1960s; lithographs from the ’70s and ’80s; ink drawings, watercolors, and oil paintings from 1955 to the present will be included an exhibit surrounding the career of Mike Lynch at Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis.

“A true son of Minnesota, Mike Lynch was born in 1938 in Hibbing where his father was a mine watchman,” the gallery reports. “He studied art at the Town Hall Art Colony in Grand Marais and then attended the Minneapolis School of Art (now MCAD). In 1960, Lynch launched his career with a solo exhibition at the Kilbride-Bradley Gallery. Throughout the fifty-plus years since, Mike has received numerous grants and fellowships including the Bush Fellowship, Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowships, and the prestigious McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist Award in 2003. He has exhibited at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Duluth Art Institute, Walker Art Center, and numerous galleries. Lynch has exhibited his work at Groveland Gallery since 1979. His work can be found in museum, corporate, and private collections throughout the Midwest, including the Minnesota Historical Society, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walker Art Center, University of Minnesota, General Mills, the Minnesota Department of Revenue, Cargill, Minneapolis Federal Reserve, and many more, too numerous to list.

“A quiet and unassuming manner has served Mike Lynch well. He has developed the ability to observe and synthesize the essence of a place without inserting himself into it. Lynch is well known for his contemporary realist portraits of the Midwestern landscapes. He paints the small town corner bar, abandoned grain elevators, illuminated factories, and the twilight railyards found across our state from the Iron Range, to Duluth, to Minneapolis and the towns in between that dot the prairie. His subjects are represented in the quiet times of day — dusk, dawn, midnight and twilight. Lynch paints in the tradition of the American Scene Painters of the early 1900’s; he works on location and returns to paint day after day at the same time of day. Also included in the exhibition will be several of Lynch’s still life paintings. Humble subjects painted in half-light with a limited palette, these works evoke the same simplicity as his landscape paintings.”

Lynch will be present at the opening reception Saturday, January 20 from 2-5 p.m. The show continues through March 3, 2018. To learn more, visit Groveland Gallery.

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A special Holiday Season show highlighting a collection of small works by 12 of this gallery’s top most-collected Western painters will open soon!

Trailside Galleries will be showcasing small works by 12 of its most collected Western artists during its annual Holiday Season exhibition, opening December 1 and continuing through the 15th. In fact, there are two of these exhibitions, one at Trailside’s Scottsdale, Arizona, location and one at its Jackson, Wyoming, location.

In Scottsdale, viewers will encounter brilliant works by artists William Acheff, Bill Anton, Steve Atkinson, Bruce Cheever, John DeMott, Robert Duncan, Z.S. Liang, Dan Mieduch, S.C. Mummert, Mian Situ, Jeremy Winborg, and Morgan Weistling. In Jackson, represented artists include Ken Carlson, Adam Smith, Shawn Gould, Bruce Lawes, Bonnie Marris, Jhenna Quinn Lewis, Lindsay Scott, Kyle Sims, Linda St. Clair, Tucker Smith, Ezra Tucker, and Dustin Van Wechel.

According to the gallery, “This year the theme is geared to highlighting a select group of painters who will each provide a minimum of three small works for the event. The gallery has thoughtfully curated the works to give the show a balanced and well-rounded group of miniature paintings to offer its collectors.”

To learn more, visit Trailside Galleries.

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It could be perhaps the most innovative and interesting animal-themed art exhibition you’ll ever see. This immersive 20,000-square-foot exhibition explores the eternal connection between art, nature, and science. Who’s the artist, and where is the show?

On view at the Gallery of Amazing Things in Dania Beach, Florida, “Biophilia” is an amazing display of artistic ingenuity, talent, and ambition. Over 400 original works by artist Christopher Marley compose the installation, which are also made from nature — including animals, vegetables, and minerals. “All of the organisms used in his work are either reclaimed (vertebrates), or sustainably harvested (invertebrates),” according to the press release.

“Art’s purpose is to heighten our aesthetic sensibilities, to sharpen our ability to experience beauty, to empathize with those life systems we come into contact with, to derive pleasure or stimulation from our interaction with arranged elements, in whole or in part,” Marley explains. The exhibition will open on December 6 and continue through March 31, 2018.

To learn more, visit Gallery of Amazing Things.

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Works by several talented students from Eastern Tennessee have the honor of being displayed this tall at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Perhaps these are the artists of the future?

The Knoxville Museum of Art and the Tennessee Art Education Association present the “East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition” Friday, November 24, 2017-Sunday, January 14, 2018. Now in its 12th year, the exhibition offers middle and high school students from around East Tennessee the opportunity to participate in a juried exhibition and to display their talents and be honored for their accomplishments in a professional art museum environment.

Students, family, friends, and the public are invited to a reception and awards ceremony Tuesday, December 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Knoxville Museum of Art. The event is free and open to the public.

The East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition is open to students in grades 6-12, attending public, private, or home schools in 32 counties across East Tennessee. Fewer than a third (349) of the more than 1,073 entries in this highly competitive show made it through a rigorous jury process. The best-in-show winner will receive a purchase award of $500, and the artwork will become a permanent part of the collection of Mr. James Dodson, on loan to the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Education Collection.

Since 2005, the East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition has presented the work of nearly 4,000 students who have competed for a total of $7 million in scholarships made available to eligible juniors and seniors by colleges and universities from around the nation.

To learn more, visit the Knoxville Museum of Art.

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The National Portrait Gallery in Washington is currently showcasing powerful artworks that explore the creative visions of some of America’s finest artworks while also delving into our storied social and economic history.

“The Sweat of Their Face” is a powerful and apropos title for a current exhibition on view at the National Portrait Gallery. Indeed, Americans are well-known for their work ethic, much of which has been captured over the decades by our greatest artists.

On view through September 3, 2018, the show presents viewers with representations of American laborers across genres and centuries of art. “Artists such as Winslow Homer, Dorothea Lange, Elizabeth Catlett, and Lewis Hine depict laborers through the changing landscape of America,” the NPG writes, “from child and slave laborers to miners, railway and steel workers, to the modern gradual disappearance of the worker. Approximately 75 objects in all media (including video) highlight a point of connection between the artists and their predominately anonymous subjects.”

To learn more, visit the National Portrait Gallery.

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The Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn, New York, is the proud venue of an eye-popping exhibition featuring painting by some of the most talented hyper-realist artists working today. But that’s not all. Who’s — and what’s — included, and for how long?

Last weekend, the Nassau County Museum of Art opened a tour-de-force exhibition on realism in art, focused in part on contemporary artists who are taking trompe l’oeil to new heights in the 21st century. “Fool the Eye” will continue through March 4 and features works by, among others, Salvador Dalí, Janet Fish, Audrey Flack, Jasper Johns, Judith Leiber, Roy Lichtenstein, Vik Muniz, Ben Schoenzeit, and Victor Vasarely. Contemporary artists include Lorraine Shemesh, Marc Sijan, and Daniel Sprick.

According to the museum, viewers should “get ready to be amazed by an exhibition filled with optical illusions and artistic sleight of hand! To separate what’s real from what is a clever ruse in ‘Fool The Eye’ takes an alert eye and the willingness to examine art carefully. Enjoy the visual journey. Take a few steps to the right and observe, draw your conclusions about what you think you see. Then, a few steps to the left reveals a whole new image. The guesses multiply. Is it a flat surface or a sculpture? Is it a photograph or a painting? Is it made of wood or bronze, rubber or steel? Is it real or faux? Expect the unexpected through moments of fascination, intrigue, shock, and astonishment.

“‘Fool the Eye’, on view at the Museum’s Saltzman Fine Arts Building from Saturday November 18, 2017 through March 4, 2018, challenges viewers to experience the wonder of masterful artistic techniques. This exhibition includes examples of traditional trompe l’oeil (meticulously painted, hyper-real images) and a wide range of other approaches to illusion. See larger-than-life oversized objects, hypnotic geometric abstractions, sculptures made of unexpected materials, images with mind-bending impossibilities, and fine art so seemingly realistic, they are (nearly) indistinguishable from real things. The magic will provoke debates in every gallery about reality and deception.”

To learn more, visit The Nassau County Museum of Art.

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Twenty-seven years after Agnews staged Lotte Laserstein’s last exhibition before her death, the gallery is once again mounting a vibrant display of the artist’s work. What’s the angle of the new show?

The first exhibition in London dedicated solely to Lotte Laserstein since the ground-breaking 1987 exhibition at Agnews will open at the same location on November 8. On view through December 15, “Lotte Laserstein’s Women” is a focus exhibition at Agnews that seeks to “acknowledge and reinstate Laserstein as one of the great women artists in the canon of 20th-century art from which she and many other women artists of the inter-war period have been excluded,” according to the gallery.

Agnews continued, “The exhibition is comprised both of works for sale and on loan; some of the works have rarely been seen in public and others have not previously been exhibited. Many of the loaned works are from private collections except for one, her ‘Self-portrait at the easel’ (1938), which has been loaned by the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin.”

“Lotte Laserstein is so important because the 20th century, like no other period before it, produced an extraordinary number and diversity of women artists who, despite their obvious and varied talents, were marginalized and their work underappreciated,” added Anthony Crichton-Stuart, director of Agnews. “Despite the fact that they greatly enriched our cultural history, the roles of these women artists in both the commercial and academic worlds has never been fully recognized. Thus, Laserstein’s work, like many other women painters, architects, sculptors, and photographers, particularly from the inter-war years, is only now getting the attention it so justly deserves. Thanks to incredibly generous loans from Sweden, Belgium, Britain, Germany, and the U.S.A., this exhibition reveals a powerful body of work by a woman painter whose destiny and creative output were particularly influenced but also nearly destroyed by the major political, social, and cultural crises and upheavals of the first half of the 20th century.”

To learn more, visit Agnews.

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Viewers have a chance to see a range of dynamic narrative paintings by a skillful artist who seeks to depict extreme melodrama and disrupt figure/background interplay. Sound interesting?

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art will open on December 8 a fascinating solo exhibition of paintings by Kenneth Nicholson. On view through February 4, “Dark Matter” is as much an exercise of the mind as it is the eyes. Nicholson’s engaging pictures present a fragmented reality, juxtaposing strong, planar elements with distorted figures and interiors. According to the press release, the extreme melodrama depicted and disruption between figure/background interplay “releases the character’s inner drama into the negative space.” The artist himself added, “There is a particular way that a shadow smacks against the wall behind to people eagerly avoiding eye contact. As one slips out of awareness, the weight of the room takes their place.”

To learn more, visit the Westmoreland Museum of American Art.

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