A mixed-media assemblage showing headstones in a Jewish cemetery in Europe.

Shard

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

Armchair in Golden Orange Plaid

Small bright, red shards of glass are meticulously spaced and arranged around a square-shaped area golden shards of glass, closely clumped up next to each other.

Chaotic Beauty

A female juggling hearts and balls, the face a mirror, multi-colored, and all made with chocolate wrappers.  Quotes: “feel free to be yourself;” “live your dreams.”

Chocolate-lover's Self Portrait

Stained glass mosaic portrait of a blue jay bird with a rectangular geometric lime green pattern background.

Blue Jay

Blue-aqua and green tones mimicking swirling streams with white caps peacefully at the surface while the under lying clutter of water pollution concerns arise. At the lower bottom of the canvas, are shredded plastic water bottle pieces symbolizing the importance to keeping the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes waterways unpolluted and caring for human and marine lives.

Unrecyclable Current 

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

The powerful but backwards letter "F," some text and some imagery from freshly printed fashion magazine pages washed or transfered onto the surface of the paper using solvents, this small graffiti-like piece is set off with the American flag behind it, visible as a tiny inset behind the matt. It is intended to reflect fading glory, the state of the country, a beautiful mess and a timeless snapshot that gives order to chaos.

"F" of Strength

Blinded

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 mixed media painting that includes a large, thick, organic blob of white paint, with a prehistoric shark tooth centered on a birch wood panel.

Anemone

Isle of Holy Name Lake. Intercostal view from my studio. color symbols of fall color, grasses, sky, water

Lake Series #7

A geometric, abstract mosaic made primarily from very narrow rainbow-colored strips of wood. There's is slight dimension from some stacked pieces, including a wooden banister cap.

Pandemonium

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

This is what we have done

An abstract painting - two pieces of a dismembered shank bone, wired into a wooden panel, one of which has inserted into it a feather.  The panel carries sgraffiti, of which can be read "BEASTS."  It is painted in black, a bit of bright red and blue teal, the colored pencil scribbles are white, lime green and forest green

Beasts, Bone and Feather

slightly elongated ball shaped soft sculpture, various shades of blue, textured fabric and smooth ribbons are woven together like a basket.

 . . . deep blue sea

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

A collage housed in a discarded black clock face. Collage depicts facial close up of Rembrandt’s “Portrait of a Woman” superimposed with the quote “I am someone’s daughter too.”

I am Someone’s Daughter too

A nice view of Blues and Taupe coffee cups warming your early morning coffee 

Start The Day

A broken twig lay laterally from a view in the forked road and light flickers brightly and beyond the shack.

Tar Paper Shack

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

Blue train going down the track through green fields under a blue sky.

Thomas

Different styled feathers in an assortment of colors all made using different styles of paper and paper quilling.

Paper Feather Study

It Takes Tou-Can

Abstract arrangement of objects layered in an organic impasto composition.

Composition 3

A whimsically dark collage of a Cecropia Moth, beatles, billy bobs, thistles, and carnations. Inspired by the short beautiful life of a cecropia moth. 

The night of the Cecropia Moth 

Honeycomb

A 3 dimensional abstract painting with vinyl brush stroke paint marks and thread sewn into piece. Colors are pastels and neons.

Blue Skies

Orange, yellow and red stained and layered glass form the background and represent dangers of climate change (earth on fire/flooding due to polar melting). Paper mache' figures of Peruvian masked dancers with instruments (drum and accordion) sing the warning cry.  A blue and red fused glass disc represents earth flooded while the "sky" is the color most recently viewed during the West Coast wild fires.

Climate's Clarion Call

A collage depicting an eerie cityscape where citizens are housed like cattle on a factory farm. 

2040: High Density II

A mixed media piece of a young girl lost in thought, an old television displays the earth in front of a roaring fire, a magician’s hand holding a wand is shielding the child’s eyes.

Shard, 2007

Howard Oransky