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03/14/12

Art Crawl March 16th

"Orange Resistance" Acrylic on Panel, 12" x 12"

Come to the Historic Downtown St. Cloud, Minnesota, Art Crawl on Friday, March 16th, 5-9 PM. Visit my studio from 5-9 at 701 West St. Germain, Suite 206, in the same building as StudioJeff. The weather will be fine and warm, so stop by. I have a lot of new abstract paintings in a smaller size than my usual more realistic acrylics and watercolors.

And while you are downtown don’t forget to buy something! Think of it as patriotically stimulating the local economy.

01/17/12

Essential Art / Catch 22

Don't Steal This Artwork -- Buy my Freaking Stuff

The Essential Art Juried Art juried exhibit, sponsored by Visual Arts Minnesota, is currently showing at the Paramount Gallery in St. Cloud. Shelly Leitheiser’s watercolor painting “San Jose Street Scene” is included in the show, which includes approximately 32 artworks, both 2D and 3D from artists all around the state of Minnesota. You can see this show now through January 31, 2012.

The website for the show and reception is here.

The slideshow doesn’t show much, only about 4-5 artworks are shown (and of those, one painting appears repeatedly*) (and it’s not mine!). The reception also had a better crowd than what is portrayed in the slide show. I wish more people would come to these receptions, but at least go to the Paramount and catch the exhibit! Local artists are very fortunate and grateful to have exhibits like this in our city.  (The painting above is not my entry into the show, that is seen below in an earlier post.)

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11/30/11

Planet Earth Art Exhibit

The local arts organization sponsored several themed juried art exhibits this year, and the last on the list is the Planet Earth exhibit. My painting “Erosion” (which you can see here) was juried into this show, which you can read more about in that previous post too.

Below are more photos from the exhibit.

I hope everyone in the central Minnesota area can make it to see this show. Studio C is in the lower level of the Paramount building, which is directly downtown near the Falcon Bank. You can’t miss it. It’s an unusually strong show, in my opinion, and not because of my painting but because of the other artwork in it. There are some very unique pieces and I’m very happy to see St. Cloud art shows branching out into accepting more mixed media and collage and unusual things in general.

11/17/11

Art Crawl on Friday November 18!

Be sure you check out the last art crawl in central Minnesota before the holidays… the November 18th Art Crawl. This is the first time that Artists at 701 (Dona Koshowany and myself) are officially participating in an advertised capacity. As a result, we have a new website for Artists at 701.

You can meet us and see our art (and more) this Friday, November 18th, at the next downtown St. Cloud art crawl. Come and see us at 701 West St. Germain, from 4:00-9:00 pm. on the 2nd floor.

There will also be a guest artist for the November art crawl — watercolor artist Deb Vander Eyk. All of the artists you can meet this Friday at 701 work in water media, which means acrylic and watercolor, but our work is very different and varied.

We will also have things besides paintings at the art crawl to look at and to purchase, such as cards and other hand-made things, and a few good things to eat too. Yes, that means cookies. Stop by!

09/27/11

Navigating the Aftermath Art Show

I have two paintings in the Navigating the Aftermath art show, one of which is shown in this ad for the event, which is touring Minnesota. If you are in central Minnesota, come on down to the Paramount Theatre on Wednesday night for a very cool and meaningful art and movie event called Navigating the Aftermath. The aftermath is that of the Iraq War, and the movie, which is also free, is called The Unreturned. It’s a good movie, socially relevant and important, and most people who see it learn a sad truth about the Iraq war. It created 4.5 million displaced people who now have nowhere to live. In that respect this will be an eye-opening event for some people.

Though most of the artists in this show are from Iraq or the Minneapolis area, there are several local artists who have work in the show too. My contributing artist page for this tour is here, where you can see some of my other anti-war artwork. I have even more, which I’ll write about here some day. For now, this is it.

08/9/11

Sizzling St. Cloud Summer Art Crawl

St. Cloud Summer Art Crawl is August 19 and 20th!  Stop by my studio at 701 St. Germain, Suite 206 if you are in town. I will have some paintings on display (and for sale) at my studio  (at least, that is the plan).  More updates on this coming soon.

The art crawl website with list of artists is here.  I’m not listed but I will definitely be in my studio those days, with artwork on display.