Garrett Perry has a slight obsession with cats and cat memorabilia and has wasted many days watching television throughout his youth. However as an emerging artist living in Minneapolis, television and visual culture has become a crucial aspect to his work. He received a BFA from College of Visual Arts and currently works out of his studio in St. Paul.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Samuel Hanson Willis
Samuel Hanson Willis is a MInneapolis based Family Medicine Physician and artist, finding his way to being both of these in the 21st century.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Jennifer Davis
Jennifer Davis is a Minneapolis-based artist known for her colorful, imaginative paintings of surreal and whimsical characters. She holds a BFA from the University of Minnesota.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Nate Burbeck
Nate Burbeck is a Minnesota based painter who has exhibited extensively throughout the US. He received a BFA from St. John’s University and has been awarded numerous grants and awards, most recently a 2022 Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals grant.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Syed Hosain
Syed Hosain is an artist based in the Twin Cities. Hosain received a MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts and a MA and BFA in painting at the University of Karachi, Pakistan. He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Stephanie Lindquist
Stephanie Lindquist received her BA from Columbia University and recently finished her MFA at the University of Minnesota. Lindquist’s work has been exhibited at Google, Smack Mellon, the New York Public Library, the Allen Hospital, The New Museum, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Memorial Union Gallery of North Dakota State University.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Monica Brown
Monica J. Brown (she/her) is a terrestrial soul, traversing the mediums of time and space through vision, word, color, movement and vibration. Her visual art has been exhibited widely throughout Chicago, including the DuSable Museum, and the Museum of Science and Industry.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Kehayr Brown-Ransaw
Kehayr Brown-Ransaw is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator based in Bde Óta Othúŋwe/Mnísot(Minneapolis/Minnesota). Brown-Ransaw’s practice engages in conversations of individualism v. collectivism, familial histories, concepts of gendered work, tradition, and Blackness/Black identity through quilting, weaving and printmaking.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Sophia Heymans
Sophia Heymans was born in Minneapolis on the last day of the ’80s. She grew up on a family farm in Central Minnesota with her parents, sister, uncles, aunts and cousins. She attempts to paint landscapes from a non-dominant perspective and confront the weighted history of American Landscape painting.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Tiffany Lange
Tiffany Lange’s work explores the overstimulation and anxiousness of our relationships with technology over the past two years of isolation. This past September, Lange exhibited her first solo show, “HYPERCONNECTION” at Michigan Tech University.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Rachel Breen
Rachel Breen is interested in the sewing machine as a deeply symbolic and also (im)practical object. She uses the revolving needle of her sewing machine to both draw and reimagine connections between people. Breen calls attention to the stitch as a symbol of interdependence, using it to express belief in the possibility of social change and repair.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Lindsay Rhyner
Lindsay Rhyner is a Textile Artist living and working in Minneapolis Minnesota. Through travel and exploring different mediums, Lindsay discovered an interest in manipulating and collaging textiles, combining skills such as sewing, beading, collage and painting. Lindsay Rhyner is self taught in the Textile Arts and has been working in fiber for most of her career.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Tara Costello
Tara lives and work in Minneapolis, MN. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at galleries including The Burren College of Art in Ireland, The National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, Soo Local, Minnesota, Circa Gallery, MN, Artistry, MN, Sears Peyton Gallery, NY, Rosalux Gallery, MN. Tara has had numerous commisions , commercial and residential.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Eleanor McGough
Eleanor McGough, originally from the Pacific Northwest, maintains a studio in Northeast Minneapolis.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Andy DuCett
Andy DuCett is from Winona, MN and received his M.F.A. from the University of Illinois and his B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin – Stout.
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Gregory Rose
Gregory J. Rose Born in Easton, Pennsylvania- Gregory is an East Coast native transplanted in the Midwest. Formally educated at The Pennsylvania State University…
Read MoreFeatured Artist: Tamara Brantmeier
Tamara Brantmeier’s work seeks to unearth, through the act of paint, elements of identity, inner worlds, and seeing/invention.
Read MoreWelcome Soo Visual Arts Center!
The Phoenix has a new partner to exhibit artwork throughout the building. Please welcome Soo Visual Arts Center (SooVAC). Other blog posts describe their current exhibitions on display at their center in South Minneapolis. Visit their website for more information.
Read MoreGet Lucky 2021, The Stay at Home Edition
Event Starts: Saturday January 30th from 7pm - 8pm
You are invited to the premiere of Get Lucky 2021, The Stay at Home Edition, on Saturday January 30th from 7pm to 8pm. This will be the launch of our silent auction and a short film about SooVAC, bring popcorn plus adult beverages and cuddle up on the couch with us.
We’ll be posting updates and teasers here throughout January, and though Get Lucky will be free this year we welcome and deeply appreciate a donation of any amount.
Read MoreThe Shapes We Take by Rachel Breen
Exhibition Runs: January 16 - February 14th, 2021- SooVAC will be closed Jan. 30-31 for our annual fundraiser.
For the last seven years Rachel Breen’s work has examined the labor rights of garment workers, a nexus for many challenges of capitalism- globalization, climate crisis, racism, and labor abuse. The Shapes We Take is yet another chapter in Breen’s commitment to making visible, systems that are hard to comprehend and deeply entrenched. And this is a critical time to address the way multinational brands privilege profit over human rights and inform American consumers about our complicity in the way garment workers are treated.
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