A photo captured inside of three connecting dark window panes surrounded by a large dark border. Through the window the viewer sees dark green vines on the window, with trees, fog, & an outline of a building in the background. 

Nature’s Outlook

Birch Tree with colorful, fall leaves made from craft beer cans. Some leaves are tumbling to the rocky ground.

Brewing Up Autumn

Assemblage of a drawing collage remnant with waxed linen thread knots on a base of thumbprints, castor beans and black eyed peas.

Pattern D

A former Big Mouth Billy Bass is transformed into a 3-dimensional false wooden plaque with wood grain made of actual grains (quinoa) and a mounted crappie fish, also made of crops in the distinctive black and yellow pattern of a crappie fish (corn, wild rice, canola, and other seeds and grains). Former bass fins have been replaced with crappie shaped fins. The plaque has an identifying sign just under the fish that is a pun: Croppie. This piece won a blue ribbon at the 2019 Minnesota State Fair in the Seed and Plant Craft Objects category of the Crop Art competition.

Croppie

a young woman in a gold jeweled dress holding a key in one hand and a wand in the other stands above green collaged image of a snake. Above her hang several bats. 

Queen of the Dream Cave

Swirling shapes writing above and underneath...Colors..blues, yellows, whites, reds, and soft greens. Thinking about words and writing.

A Writer's Aspirations and Successes 

A collage of a woman wearing sunglasses and yellow tears surrounded by flowers and splotches of paint in a pop brightly colored pop culture style.

Psychedelic Tears

Abstract arrangement of objects layered in an organic impasto composition.

Composition 3

An abstract painting using a limited palette of lime green, cadmium orange, warm and cool blues and white. And a touch of black for interest. There is lots of mark making, scratching in the paint, stamping and glazing over to create layers and depth. It was a blast to paint!

Liberating Results

An image of an open space held for a toppled barn, on the edge of a field of grain in late autumn, growing from land made of orange paisley, under a yellow, ominous sky with threads of lightning and grey, oily clouds.

Midwest 1

Honeycomb

A photo/oil paint collage consisting of multiple photos taken over time and re-composed into an abstract composition. 

Mill City Industrial 

Personal photograph of a farm in sepia surrounded by a yellow/red paint and markings with a variety of black/white papers and an abstract sun.

Sunset Over the Farm

A collage including magazine clippings, old photographs, and transfer pens exploring ideas of change and disruption.

Floating

Abstract painting on a matchbox with found objects (matchstick and lint) in the foreground. 

Lucky Strike

A shadowbox featuring 3 figures who are installing a museum exhibit.

Natural History

"KITTY PARTY" is a mixed media painting combining elements of hand painted motifs with collage, paint pours, resin, and glitter to depict a group of four felines seated together in a regal manner. 
Conceptually, "Kitty Party" is a play on words relating to South Asian feminine culture. The word "kitty party" itself is used to refer to women who congregate to host social get togethers in their local communities. Often times, a stereotype is associated with these parties, where housewives are known to gossip, spread drama, and create "cliques". This artwork not only takes the definition quite literally by portraying women as the cats they're made out to be, but flipping the definition from the stereotypical gossip group to something more modern: a group of empowered women who despite their differences can come together to lift each other up, fix each others crowns, be there for one another, and create room for the next generation of spirited women. 

"KITTY PARTY" is also painted in the ancient Indian art form of “miniature” painting. Historically this form of art combines influences from Indian, Persian, and Islamic painting. Since it is a style that represents “one form of art created from many” it further pushes the message of unity.
This piece is also a multi media painting bringing together acrylic, collage, glitter, and resin to transform the traditional into something modern, which is also symbolic of the changing landscape of diasporic, second-generation South Asian-American culture. 

Kitty Party

A 2.5D paper artwork of a white dahlia with pink highlights, made out of 3/8" high on-edge paper strips.

DAHLIA

A brightly colored collage of an old golden yellow and orange armchair.

Armchair in Golden Orange Plaid

 Collaged Blue hydrangeas made from bubble art on photo paper .

Bluer than Blue

This is a black-and-white photocopy of an image of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, with text written in the margins.

Explanation

Image is a social media post about a 1/12th scale diorama of Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program gallery at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Mia) showing an exhibit of photographs by Jim Pipkin.  Small wooden artist's manikins are in the scene enjoying the exhibit and taking a selfie.

Big Dreams Gallery 257

An encaustic painting of a desert background with a photo of a zebra printed on tissue paper and embedded into the encaustic wax medium. Sienna pigmented wax dots were added in vertical columns and horizontal rows to add texture to the piece and highlight the zebra. 

Serengeti Stroll

Three-dimensional painted and masked face is surrounded by three COVID-19 virus spiked structures on the upper right, a stylized George Floyd rising from a raised fist on the upper left, and flowing tents, a screaming woman, a homeless advocate holding a "Homes Not Tents" sign, and a father holding a child on the bottom half. The background color is black, and hot flames reach left and right from the face.

Powderhorn Summer, 2020

An abstract jagged diamond shape made from 1 photographs taken at the Mega Mall 3 level escalators  . Color black with gold highlights.

Mega Mall Visions V

A 1" deep black frame containing multiple colored Autumn leaves cut into small butterflies  

This is what we have done

A photo collage using memories from my grandmother’s scrapbook and a photograph I took of the fall colors on the Mississippi River.

Nostalgia 

A painting of a flower's face, green petals with a black outline melting and presenting the form with a human lips slightly open showing a sliver of the front two teeth

Time Again

Abstract cut paper collage depicting nature, with centered zipper opening, which releases Covid virus forms.

Pandora’s Dream

A colorful and whimsical multi media collage incorporating textures, natural materials such as driftwood and dried floral, fabric, wallpaper, vintage cards, and dimension, inspired by my lovely great aunt Thea.

Thea

Two light blue surgical masks stretched diagonally across a panel form an X over an abstract painting of a white form in front of a green and ochre background. 

Nature’s Outlook, 2011

Annette Vigtel