Above the 49th Parallel, by various artists Label Gallery, 510 Portage Ave. To September 1
Another international exhibit is also on right now, at the downtown Label Gallery. Featuring nine of our American neighbours from the big city of Minneapolis, it includes artists ranging in age from their 20's to their 50's, working in a variety of styles. Among the more interesting pieces are Aaran Schmitt's untitled sculpture. Made out of fish, rope, and cast iron, it's not much bigger than a loaf of bread, but weighs as much as a couch. Switchboxes, a video and electronic work by Stephen Eakin, deals with technology and our place in it. An ominously large bit of electrical circuitry powers a small video, shot on grainy, 1970's-style Super 8 film. The video shows Minneapolis's power grid, beginning with a generating station, and ending with the electrical outlet in the artist's apartment. Chris Pancoe, the former Winnipegger who organized this exhibit, shows six combinations of woodwork and ceramics art. Just like the art at the Dreams exhibit across town, all of Pancoe's works (featuring ultra-Canadian themes like a beaver, a snowmobile, and a grain silo), are exhibited from inside wooden boxes. Before he moved away, Pancoe was starting to create a buzz for himself as a young artist to watch in this town. This exhibit shows that his work has only gotten more interesting since then.
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Above the 49th Parallel, by various artists
Label Gallery, 510 Portage Ave.
To September 1
Another international exhibit is also on right now, at the downtown Label Gallery. Featuring nine of our American neighbours from the big city of Minneapolis, it includes artists ranging in age from their 20's to their 50's, working in a variety of styles.
Among the more interesting pieces are Aaran Schmitt's untitled sculpture. Made out of fish, rope, and cast iron, it's not much bigger than a loaf of bread, but weighs as much as a couch.
Switchboxes, a video and electronic work by Stephen Eakin, deals with technology and our place in it. An ominously large bit of electrical circuitry powers a small video, shot on grainy, 1970's-style Super 8 film. The video shows Minneapolis's power grid, beginning with a generating station, and ending with the electrical outlet in the artist's apartment.
Chris Pancoe, the former Winnipegger who organized this exhibit, shows six combinations of woodwork and ceramics art. Just like the art at the Dreams exhibit across town, all of Pancoe's works (featuring ultra-Canadian themes like a beaver, a snowmobile, and a grain silo), are exhibited from inside wooden boxes.
Before he moved away, Pancoe was starting to create a buzz for himself as a young artist to watch in this town. This exhibit shows that his work has only gotten more interesting since then.
--wpg free press, aug 31
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