Color lines divide 57 small raised figures of various colors, white, blue, orange and 43 of them dark against a black ground shaded with pastel chalk. 3 light circular shapes and a number of small squares fill in some of the areas.  A strong fat yellow line curves from top to bottom across several horizontal fat orange lines separating groups of figures with no apparent logic.  The lines at first appear very definite but looking closer they appear very rough and porous.  This art represents my thoughts about my ancestors, the homes they left and the journeys they took.

Across The Line

Abstract arrangement of objects layered in an organic impasto composition.

Composition 3

An abstract painting inspired by worn Italian wall that include warm and cool color Pat is and mark making.

Drezzo Wall

A world of discovery is open to us through books and imagination.  Open a book and grow your mind.

Grow Your Mind

A face drawn with color markers over a handwritten letter on lined notebook paper stares out at the viiewer. In the center of the face is a small orange envelope positioned vertically and stamped with an eye diagonally across the page. At the bottom of the envelope is a black and white cut out figure of a  white woman crouching with one hand on the ground, one hand raised near her head. She wears a striped dress.

The Eyes Have It

This is a beaded replica of Georgia O'Keefe's Oriental Poppies oil painting (1927), the property of our own Twin Cities Weisman Art Museum. The beads are quite small, size 11/0, very shiny/textural and glow like the original painting.

Beaded O'Keefe Poppies

A book of flash verse on art & nature: vintage cigar box container for a loose leaf book. The cover is a photo of an unusual white mushroom amidst the prairie meadow plants collaged with a fall colored leaf, all on handmade paper. The book's inside has 19 pages of images printed on handmade paper, with flash poems written for each image, that were created about each piece in the 1-3 minutes the piece was presented to the group at the "Clay in the Landscape" workshop. 

"WE KNOW NOT BUT WONDER"

An impressionistic mosaic made with Legos of pink legs and blue sea with a hand holding a red beer can in the foreground.

Lego Legs (with beer)

A talisman of protection, created from found rust, vintage silver medals, brown leather scapular, with hanging African gray metal curved hook artifact, metal turtle, carved cream natural stones.

Reliquary of Protection

Tiny green paper cutouts on heads of pins, to form a mass gathering of 4 leaf clovers

A Field of 4Leaf Clovers

Encaustic painting on wood panel. Layers of translucent encaustic wax infused with oil and powdered pigments with embedded Washi papers and 23.5K gold powder. Black profile edge.

MAGIC

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

Mill City Industrial 

The mixed media canvas illustrates the sheer joy.  possibilities and high hopes for a first born son whose life was cut very short as a very young man.

First Born c. 1953

A mosaic of a cocktail, filled with lemons and oranges, in a transparent glass made from opaque Italian glass (Smalti) created in the traditional mosaic style. 

Gin & Tonic

A frame made of cardboard and knick knacks painted black with an icon-like image of my late grandmother in the center mounted on velvet and haloed in gold just below the locket she gave me draped over the shrine's frame.

Healing Shrine

An abstract encaustic work with an added Terra Cotta tile that echoes the colors and shapes in the encaustic.

Desert Lake

An abstract rendering of a waterfall, cauldren and river on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minneasota.

Thermal Pool

A mixed media piece incorporating photography, paint, fabric, and mirror.

Midnite Mine

My submission to this decades’ 4 MIA Foot in the Door is a 12x12 in board of Minnehaha Falls circa 1906. Inspired by an old hand tinted postcard and done in mixed media, including tissue paper, string and the plastic screens of a flatscreen T.V. which have been clipped and painted and spaced withscrapbooking spacers. When looked at in person, the T.V. screen parts have differing effects, some Mirror, some magnify and some opaque that change with the order of the layering. This helps the viewer see movement in the waterfall and creek below. The Creek almost seems to flow at the viewer. The falls might leap out , and the people stand out on either side of he wooden bridge. 

Thank you Susan Kangas


Submission: Minnehaha Falls Multi-Media

A red painting in a black frame, a girl with yellow hair with broken legs, in a blue dress holding a red flower. 

A color collage combining two black and white human figures with purple flowers, green plants, and a variety of statues and architectural elements. Created during quarantine, the words "Somewhere Beneath" appear. Representing the artists' state of mind. 

Somewhere Beneath

Strips of cut sheetrock pieces, glued and screwed together to be mounted on the wall. Yellow repeats the yellow collages that started my series that explore communication.

Foot of Memories

There is circular black scratchboard with a white into black drawing of a thorny vine intwining the words " All I Remember were the weeds" starting from top and arching to the right. From the bottom left and arching to the top are the words "Stop Focusing on the" both phrases culminate at the word "Weeds". This is mounted on a scrapbook paper white lined garden tools on grey paper. In the center the canvas, scratchboard, and tool paper has been cut in a manner to show broken, sharp edges revealing a collage of several layers of leaves of one, lime green on dark blue, then further in white lines of leaves on pink echoing the scratchboard technique and farthest back small green fernlike leaves on white background. A Pearl is located on bottom edge of the floral collage surrounded by the jagged edges of the torn image. Along the outside of the grey paper creating a boarder  white marker on black canvas are the words "Beauty Before Us. Beauty Behind Us. Beauty Above Us.
Beauty under Our feet. Feel the Beauty All Around Us. See the Beauty Within. We are Beauty. Beauty will sustain us in the Dark Places of Life. Our Home, Our Planet is Beauty. May We care for it ALL!" A boarder of a floral pattern that relates to the center collage frames the work. 

Mind Frame

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

Armchair in Golden Orange Plaid

I approach the collage as a painting not a mere assembly of pictures.  As I collect materials, they seem to connect individually or in groups. I begin to see the materials interact as I arrange colors and shapes, and discovering the form and the space created between them. Each added element will build on the previous one by changing, adding, or even result in eliminating the other components which many times were the original motivating pieces. You must allow the work to evolve and transform until the work seems to emerge from the complex contradictions or similitude, and multiplicity of the forms, edges, textures, shapes, space and even unrelated content. 

They Grew Against the Quivering Light

Two leaves sprinkled in discolored yellowing plaster and wrapped in plastic wrap. They stack on top of one another to explore the space in-between and the tension in the plastic. The images bright white lighting makes it seem as though it could be a part of a museums archival collection. 

Life Study 23

The outline of a hulking figure seated in a landscape turns their head as if disturbed from thought. Black acrylic paint on found white rag, referencing "Giant Seated in a Landscape" an aquatint print attributed to Francisco de Goya c. 1818. Underneath the image, 5 black deflated balloons are pinned to the wall.

Giant

A mass produced trash receptacle in the afternoon sun. 

trying to help

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

Color of Water: Under the Sea has vibrant colors and shapes resembling the idea of a coral reef; stitching and beads enhance the movement of the brush strokes and shapes.

Color of Water: Under the Sea

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

Across The Line, 2017

Edward Bock