Gallery
March 7 – June 2, 2019
During its nearly 40 years in print, Craft Horizons documented the craft movement as it happened. The Good Making of Good Things features an outstanding assortment of studio craft of the period, drawn from the M’s collection of artworks in wood, metal, fiber, glass, and ceramics. Select pieces are coupled with related magazine articles, reviews, and covers. Together, they illustrate the essential roles both the museum and the magazine played in the development of mid-century craft and its burgeoning cultural community of makers.
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.
Window Gallery
December 2, 2018-May 12, 2019
Duluth-based, multimedia artist David Bowen has been commissioned to create an installation for the Window Gallery. This street-facing work will be premiered on the occasion of the M’s grand opening of the new museum in December 2018. David Bowen’s installation brings the world to St. Paul. By tapping into surfline.com’s international network of research cameras, he captures wave videos from locations all over the world. The data is then channeled into large screens lit by thousands of LEDs, which are then covered with a shower curtain scrim. The work, which faces Robert Street, will display the current conditions from two different locations somewhere in the world. The installation’s hypnotic light patterns will run continuously over 24 hours; its live video feeds will switch automatically, as the earth rotates around the sun. The effect will be like watching the distant, yet gentle undulation of water washing up on shorelines all over the globe – a view on distant shores, seen through through the M’s windows in St. Paul.