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All-Student Juried Show 2021

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WELCOME to the online 2021 All-Student Juried Show. This annual showcase features the artistic talents of Augsburg University students. We have work from 28 students across 14 different majors.

Thanks to our juror, Luis Fitch, for selecting the pieces in the show and award winners. Also, the Strommen family generously agreed to continue their annual award. All awards will be announced during the virtual art reception on April 20 at 4pm. Contact gallery@augsburg.edu if you are interested in joining the celebration.

COMING SOON: 3D Gallery version of the show with an optional guided tour around the space.

Click on any image below to start the slideshow feature. Then click through the entire show.

ARTWORK

 

 

 

Emily Duesing | Senior Show

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Greater Than Face-Value | Emily Duesing

Greater Than Face-Value is a series of portraits that peel back the layers of each subject’s world with bright colors and graphic elements. The show offers a challenge to encounter those within our influence, including ourselves, with greater vulnerability and empathy.

Slideshow of Artwork

Give your feedback about the show, support an emerging artist.

Artist Statement

My work focuses on human landscapes. The portrayal of the subjects is realistic in form and stylized in color. This examination of the face and head becomes an investigation of human experience and connects to ideas about identity and adversity that exist outside the boundaries of the canvas.

For me, art is an intimate consideration of concepts that I cannot grasp any other way except to visually explore. The act of making becomes a prism to reveal layers of complexity in the subjects. I recognize the only thing I can change in my life is me. When I make art, I fearlessly confront some incongruence within myself. Therefore, my work is autobiographical, and portrait focused.

Emotion, as I experience it, is continually shifting and changing; it is impossible to grasp its totality all at once. I use my art to pull apart the facade that we present to the world and explore the fullness of humanity.  With the color pallet obscuring and revealing emotions, I illustrate what this changing emotional landscape could mean for myself and the viewer.

Bio

Emily is a two-dimensional portrait artist who investigates empathy through painting the figure. She has always had a fascination with the human face and what it can reveal to a viewer. Emily currently lives in Minneapolis and has her Bachelor’s in Fine Art from Augsburg University. Emily is focused on becoming a licensed counselor where she hopes to use art to facilitate healing.  Themes in her work include vulnerability, humanity, and redemption. Emily primarily makes work and her studio apartment or in the Augsburg painting studio. Emily has received several honors and recognitions for her work including the Normandale Purchase Award and Augsburg’s Fine Arts Scholarship, numerous juried shows, as well as a solo exhibition and artist talk at Gallery 720 in Minneapolis.

Virtual Mock-up

Due to COVID-19 the show in the physical gallery space has been delayed. Here is a virtual representation of what it will look like in the Gallery720 space.

 

Wendland Artwork

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Contact gallery@augsburg.edu for sales

$125 each

Sale proceeds will be donated to the Augsburg Urban Arboretum Fund, a dynamic multi-functional green space that deepens the student, faculty, and community experience through hands-on education, research and recreational programs, serving as a sustainable anchor for our urban environment.

 

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INNOVATIEF MAATSCHAPPIJ: INNOVATIVE SOCIETY

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INNOVATIEF MAATSCHAPPIJ: INNOVATIVE SOCIETY

September 26–October 30

Reception: Sept. 26, 5:30–7p.m.

This past summer, twenty-one students and two professors traveled to the Netherlands to explore the question “What makes a society innovative?” Framed through a camera lens and historical thinking, they traced the creative Dutch approaches to agriculture, water management, transportation, and social design.

Gallery 720, Christensen Center

M-F, 10a.m.-7p.m.

 

All–Student Juried Show 2020

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All–Student Juried Show 2020 – Moving Online

ENTER ARTWORK NOW!

Augsburg students have been making art all year, and we want to SEE it! The All-Student Juried Show will be going digital this year. All currently enrolled Augsburg students may enter.

DEADLINE April 2

SUBMISSIONS
Work must have been created after April 2019
Each student may submit up to three entries
AWARD ANNOUCEMENTS
Awards announced on April 21
Five pieces will be selected for awards
One selected piece will receive a cash prize of $500, generously given by the Strommen family
JUROR
Juliane Shibata
MFA in Ceramics, Bowling Green State University
BA in Studio Art, Carleton College

Danielle Krysa

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This Exhibition is currently Postponed due to Covid-19. It will open when possible.

“as she turned tumors into treasures, she couldn’t help but wonder – do goldfish feel this naked?”– Danielle Krysa

Christensen Gallery: 720 22nd Ave S, Mpls, MN

THIS TALK HAS BEEN RESCHEDULE TILL FALL 2020

“How to Stop Being Creative: Excuses, Doubt, and Other Junk”
Talk with Danielle Krysa

Weisman Art Museum: April 8, 7 p.m.

Reception and book signing following the talk. Books on sale in the WAM Shop. Talk is FREE but reservations required.

Fiona & Leona, Farrah, Fawna & Launa – all of them are feminine, beautiful, and a hot mess.

Eight out of ten women will have to share their bodies with uterine cysts and or fibroids at some point in their lives. I am one of those women. I have spent years battling these ugly lumps that continue to grow inside of me. What to do? Exactly what I did with jealousy when I decided to start my art site, The Jealous Curator – instead of allowing these masses to cause anxiety and upset, I flipped the narrative and have embraced them instead. While I await yet another major surgery, I am choosing to envision them – through portraiture – as beautiful, crystal-covered, pink treasures that I’m currently housing. These abstract portraits are not only made up of paint and found images, but also crystals, random objects from the bottom of jewelry boxes, and piles of vintage costume jewelry. Yes, this will be the most sparkly silver lining possible!

Several of the pieces will be hung in the gallery, with spaces for three more to come. I will be using the gallery as a studio, turning tumors into treasures as people stroll past (or stop to watch) on the other side of the glass. This is the most vulnerable work I’ve done to date, so being in a totally vulnerable situation also seems right. Terrifying, but right.

Bio

Danielle Krysa is a Canadian artist with a BFA in Visual Arts and a post-grad degree in design. Her combination of found imagery and carefully manipulated strokes of paint create an entirely new story. Coupled with the sly jokes that are their titles, Danielle’s works attempt to transform the everyday into something a little more ridiculous. Danielle is also the writer behind the contemporary art site, The Jealous Curator, and the author of “Creative Block”, “Collage”, “Your Inner Critic Is A Big Jerk”, “A Big Important Art Book – Now With Women”, and “A Big Important Artist – A Womanual”.  Her work is held in private collections in Canada, The United States, Europe and Asia.

The Jealous Curator