Galleries and Exhibits - RE/Vision: Interact Responds to Wing Young Huie
July 24 - September 18, 2009
Christensen Center Art Gallery
Augsburg College
Artist closing reception: Friday, September 18, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Artist panel discussion: Thursday, September 17, noon Minneapolis Room, Christensen Center
The Augsburg College Art Galleries is pleased to be spotlighting Interact Center's collaborative exhibit, RE/Vision: Interact Responds to Wing Young Huie in its Christensen Center Art Gallery, opening July 24. In this show, Interact Center artists respond to the award winning photography of Wing Young Huie. This mixed media collection of deeply personal individual pieces creates a connection to a larger community, which is at the core of Huie's work.
Wing Young Huie is a prominent local photographer who has received international attention for his many projects that document the changing cultural landscape of his home state Minnesota. His work shows ethnically diverse and economically challenged inner city neighborhoods and is profound, honest, deeply moving and often humorous and joyful.
To create RE/Vision, Huie personally presented Interact Center artists with an overview of his work and shared photographs from several of his projects, including Lake Street USA (675 photographs reflecting the people and places from a dozen disparate neighborhoods connected by a singular street) and Frogtown (a collection photographing residents of Frogtown, the largest Hmong community in Minnesota, on the street, in their homes, backyards, at barbecues, at play and during worship). For more information visit www.wingyounghuie.com.
Over 20 Interact Center artists then responded to his photos, influenced by both the work and the artist who created them. The result is a diverse and exciting collection, including paintings and drawings encompassing the same sense of kinship and compassion found in Huie's photography, which will be exhibited alongside the Interact artists' work.
Interact Center's Visual Arts Program Director/Curator, Welles Emerson designed this collaboration, knowing it would be interesting and meaningful for Interact Center artists to respond to Huie's inclusive images of communities not typically portrayed in fine art. “It was an exciting experience for our artists to interpret the work through their own artistic lens. Some chose to reinterpret entire photos, while others focused on a single element of an image.”
All events are free and open to the general public.
Christensen Center Art Gallery
Main floor, Christensen Center
22nd Ave. S. at 7 _ St.
Minneapolis, MN 55454
612-330-1524
www.augsburg.edu/galleries
Image caption: Wing Young Huie, photograph, and Janice Essick, mixed media on paper
