Gallery
June 20 – August 25, 2019
Minnesota Museum of American Art is proud to present A Nation of One, a survey exhibition of work by New York-based multimedia artist Brad Kahlhamer. His large-scale paintings, drawings, and works on paper map the sprawling complexities and contradictions of American culture and identity, with influences ranging from Abstract Expressionism to the artist’s personal Native American, but “tribally ambiguous” heritage. A Nation of One charts Kahlhamer’s evolution of styles across American and Native identities, raising questions about cultural appropriation, confluence, and representation.
Henrietta Schmoll Rauenhorst Court
May 16 – September 22, 2019
Inspired by countless rides and visual journeys, Dietrich Sieling’s site-responsive installation at the M reflects his longtime love for the interior rectangular world of the city bus: the green exit door lights, the seated and standing passengers, the windows, the brilliant sun, the weather, the rolling spectacle of day-to-night, the avenues and streets. Turning an ordinary experience like taking public transportation into a fantastical burst of dynamic shapes and colors, Sieling’s art reminds us to find wonder in the everyday. The artist’s passionate and joyful engagement with this subject matter inspires his labor-intensive practice of creating elaborate colored-pencil drawings on yards and yards of paper and plexiglass. Sieling lives and works in Minneapolis. His art has been featured in solo exhibitions at Bockley Gallery and Forage Modern Workshop in Minneapolis, Kabinett & Kammer and Governors Island, both in New York City. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, ND, and Honeycomb Salon and Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis.