Standing at the foot of a dock, fishing boats tied on either side, look out onto a northern Minnesota Lake through the early morning mist as the dawn breaks on the horizon

Northern Minnesota Break of Day

The deception of an earthly body in a state of existentialism. 

Lite Existentialism

A drawing of emblematic Minnesota flora and fauna, brightly colored and arranged by habitat.

Ecosystems of Minnesota

A photograph of a fortune teller inviting you to learn your future, from an automated fortune teller machine at the Minnesota State Fair. 

The Fortune Teller

A fall, crisp morning at the shore in Moose Lake, MN. The world here is filled with vibrant hues of fall reflected in the still waters. 

Moose Lake, MN

Trumpeter Swans flying low over the Mississippi River with trees covered in a foggy frost. 

A Frosty Morning at Swan Park Monticello, MN

Ceramic piece made from slabs of clay, with lots of negative space. Glazed with yellows, orange, green, and black.

Flopsis

a young auburn-haired woman, mid laugh, standing in the middle of a snowy forest in northern Minnesota.

Snowangel

Abstracted vision of Grand Marais, Minnesota harbor in mid-January.  Lines and colors (peach, black, white, grey) depict the essence of the icy North Shore.

Harbor

A detailed botanical painting of a yellow slipper-orchid flower.

Greater Yellow Lady's-Slipper

A wool tapestry of a little bird in various colors of blue, standing at the edge of the seashore.  Special tapestry technique includes color gradations created by splitting the 4-ply wool strands and re-twisting them into new color combinations to then be woven into the tapestry. 

Chirpy Little Chap

A watercolor image of Jay Cooke State Park with a reddish-orange cliffside with pine trees and a blue sky.

Jay Cooke State Park

A silhouette of a pacing cougar in black on palest pink and blue, with forest trees, shrubs and logs in black standing, surrounding the cougar above and below. 

The Cougar at Nightfall

A photography of a recliner, covered in rain, sitting along a roadside near a bus stop.  Signs behind the chair read "No Outlet" and "Private Road".  A few red survey flags split the distance between them.

Roadside Assistance

Person is overlooking Mississippi River. She is deep in thought as she reflects on the beauty of the moment.

Lost In Thought

A fully rendered male Cecropia Moth flies upward toward a full moon.  Symmetrically placed willow branches sway down, while a delicate array of ash, birch, box elder, alder, elm, maple, lilac and wild cherry leaves are styled below.  The leaves would have fed the Cecropia caterpillar, but the moth has no mouth.

Minnesota Cecropia Nighttime 

Four pieces of corn husk printed in black on white paper to highlight each textured line of the husks.

Together

A representational portrait of the artist's grandmother. Features soft pastels and and smooth blended textures. Painted on wood block.

Großmama II

A wood engraving of Lake Superior with 3 dimensional depth and color.

Lake Superior

Prince done with Minnesota crop seeds painted in vivid shades of purple. Originally submitted to the MN State Fair Crop Art Competition. Based on a cartoon image of Prince by Japanese artist, Kazuo Takeda. Seeds used include Alsike clover • Barley • Buckwheat • Canola • Flax and Golden Flax • Millet • Oat • Onion • Rye • Safflower • Trefoil • Sunflower • Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover • Wheat • Wild Rice

Prince, based on Kazuo Takeda’s Prince.

Three sailboats are silhouetted into a deep blue behind a tangerine orange sunset. The bright hues of the sky and its crimson, lemon, and bubblegum pink clouds are absorbed in to the pale blue lake beneath it. That reflection of the sky creates a sea of tangerine surrounding the boats; it is only framed by the original pale blue of the water. 

Sailing in Tangerine

A painting of trees by a pond with a fence and a path made by footsteps that leads around the fence to the water.

The Way Around

An illustration of 13 species of big cats and wild cats against a black background and palm leaves.

Felidae Reginarum

Iconic Split Rock Lighthouse shining forth, with starlight for companionship. 

Split Rock by Starlight

Abstract in deep blues, touches of light blue & black with texture.

Evening Reflection

My nephew kayaking on the lake on a beautiful day.

Exhilaration

A square multicolored impasto painting of spiral receding towards the center of the frame. 

The Distant Past

A rounded box rimmed with white porcupine quills and decorated with colored porcupine quills that are in the shapes of flowers with leaves, stems and vines.

Waabigwanii-gitigaan (A Flower Garden)

A man standing at the edge of a silhouetted lake star gazing on a north night. 

A Conversation with the Cosmos

Landscape photograph in shades of blue showing the shore of Brighton Beach and Lake Superior. The image is created by layering many images of the same place taken at different times throughout a year, giving it an ethereal feeling.

Brighton Beach, Kitchi Gammi, May 2018-2019

 wrote this description, thinking of how I would describe what we see in this drawing to a person who can not see the image but can hear my voice: 
This is a scan of two pages from the sketchbook of the artist. When fully open, the size of the two pages is 10 x 15 inches. The paper to the right is the one with the drawing. At the bottom of this page, taking half of the page space horizontally, you see a quick sketch of a 4 X 4 grid of rectangles drawn fast and freely by hand with a thin black marker. Inside eight of these rectangles are quick line drawings of portraits of different people, sketched with the same thin black marker as the grid. The drawings focus on each individual's expression and body language, rather than attempt to achieve a realistic accuracy of their facial features. 

In the upper part of the page, slightly to the left and taking about 2/3 of the space, there is another portrait. The drawing is done in pencil and filled in with various shades of gray markers. The person in the portrait has a short beard, short black curly hair, a T-shirt with vertical stripes and one eye is half shut with both eyebrows slightly raised expressing a deep intellectual urgency. Next to this portrait, there are a few words written in pencil (from the top down): 

Wolfgang Stark
Now community is very important 
project
New bank for communit
ideas
and 
Solutions 

Now community is very important

Two women in a train car with suitcases.  One woman has a feathered boa and pearls. A man is watching them from the shadows.

The Lady from Shanghai

Portrait of Brown Bear staring straight ahead. Blue background.  

Brown Bear Portrait

Photograph of six people wearing COVID masks standing socially distanced on the green grass in front of the stone Fort Snelling Round Tower with a white construction trailer for the new visitor center in background downtown Minneapolis on the skyline under thick dark clouds. Three people are wearing WWII attire consisting of dark green wool men's Army uniform, khaki Women's Air Corps (WAC) uniform, dark blue men's suit. The other three are in modern clothing of bright yellow sweater, blue plaid shirt, and green sweater. All are wearing COVID masks in red, yellow, black, tan, and blue.

Fort Snelling Round Tower - Commemorating 200 Years from Cornerstone to COVID

A zoomed in painting of an orange mushroom growing in shadow. 

Through the Magnifying Glass

An abstract painting of a calm evening sailing Lake Superior. The sky and water merge with no clear line for the horizon. Soft ripples ne the lake reflect the sail of the boat.

A Scene from Lake Superior

This canvas was first painted gold and after letting it dry, I squeezed out red acrylic in a gestural manor. I think I achieved a cool composition with little re-work. I love the raised texture of red lines and blobs on gold.

Splash

Colorful landscape of trees with bright yellow morning sunlight shining through the negative spaces.

Morning Light

An oil painting of the floating wooden bridge that crosses Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield, MN. The greens and golds reflected in the water capture the peace and beauty of late Summer in Minnesota. 

Peace In Wood Lake 

Scratchboard drawing of a golden retriever sun bathing laying down. Viewing the left side of the dog looking at something in front of him.

Dusty

Irregularly shaped stoneware vase with two spiral handles.  Textured, brightly colored surface evoking undersea, sea, sky and sun.

WavyVase

A macro (closeup) color photograph of a black ant atop a rich-red flower bud covered in water droplets on an out-of-focus green leafy background.

King of the Bud

Star art created with three heartwarmingly themed holly & berry designed materials.

Valstar

A young boy plays Peak-a-boo on outdoor playground equipment.

Peak a Boo with Jack

This image is part of a series, collected from a series of potluck dinners hosted throughout the state of Minnesota; each participant brings a family or ancestral dish to share as community issues, social traditions, and regional dynamics are discussed, exploring the authentic, diverse, and evolving Minnesota culture.

Homemade Sauerkraut & Bologna, Richard Wehseler (From The Dish Project, New London)

A black and white image, shot at dusk, picturing a rural street corner with a lamp pole shimmering down on a empty corner. The light illuminates a rural house and a tall pine tree. Power lines can be seen zip-zagging across the murky gray sky. The clouds hang low in the photo, as the sky takes up much of the image.

Many Silent Nights

Framed painting of a water fall with red, pink, and shades of blue rocks and brush, beneath a moody dark sky.

Tettegouche Falls

This an oil painting, depicting a rural Minnesota landscape. The upper three-quarters of the painting showcase deepen colors of the sunset before they've given way to the scattered ambiance of the twilight. A lone railroad Hopper car sits next to some scrubby volunteer shrubbery between soybean fields. Its metal body reflecting a bit of the pink and orangy tones of the sunset while the backside of the rail car reflects the cooler notes of the sky behind us.

Summer Evening

Nine squares, each representing a landscape somewhere between Minneapolis and Seattle, and then back again.  Each captures elements of sky, mountains and colors, capturing the weather and the time of day as well as the unique landscape of the moment.

Roadtrip

A watercolor composition of a black sphynx cat looking towards the left. The painting splatters out towards the feline's shoulders where speckles of grey watercolor fill the bottom half of the piece. 

Splatter Cat

A painting of a tree line silhouetted against a glowing coral and violet evening sky. The foreground is a softly lit grassy hillside. The use of palette knives and brushes create marks that add a rich textural dimension.   

Going Home

A portrait of a woman amongst a field of vibrant florals and pastel shapes. 

Something Blue 

An impressionistic painting of a tangle of bare trees along a snow covered hill alongside Pleasant Ave in St Paul, Minnesota.

Winter Trees

Black and White Photomontage of a determined woman rowing a boat across Lake Superior with ominous clouds ahead. 

Lake Superior Strong

Portrait of a young woman who is from modern times, but carries a Renaissance look to her. The background painted with a rich Napthol Red, enhanced with horizontal lines of gold leaf that serve as a stark contrast to set off the three-quarter view portrait. The thin layers of paint over a grisaille underpainting create realism to the features of the face and the captivating blue eyes draw the viewer in for a closer look; wondering what the woman is seeing, feeling, and thinking.

The Therapist

This is a collage was from a series on that began with carefully dried daisy petals, which were tricky to work with and glue down onto the Color-aid paper. The background is a an Epson archival inkjet printed digital pattern drawn in Adobe Illustrator. A postage stamp and other papers were chosen to complement the color palette and content, and the text (species name) was typewritten on Rives BFK paper.  

Ox-eye Daisy

Graphite and wash drawing of a hand isolated against a plain background with graphite wash splatters.

Hands #3

This was inspired by a self portrait taken at the Franconia Sculpture Park inside a tall, secluded structure. In this moment everything seem to go silent and the higher I looked the brighter it got. While looking up in that small space the sun shined through and illuminated everything inside. So confined but feeling freer than I have in a long time. 

Confined Freedom

A graphite pencil sketch of the Minneapolis urban skyline architecture as viewed from the South. 

The Neighborhood 

The design for this bag was inspired by the subway system in Stockholm, Sweden and pulls the color palette of pastel salmon, lavender, mint and white found in the Morby Centrum underground station. This piece is a handcrafted reversible leather backpack, with diagonal pastel stripes on one side, connecting to the opposite side where the stripes are horizontal. Above the horizontal stripes showcases the architectural insignia logo for the Minneapolis based minimal leather goods brand, Montgomery Collection. This drawstring backpack cinches at the top and includes details of the stripes on one side of the pull strings. The interior is lined in grey suede, soft to the touch and will protect all of your belongings held inside. Worn on either the diagonal or horizontal side, this backpack is a functional piece of art.

Montgomery Collection No.070.3 Backpack

A lithograph of a modern-day queen drawn in black in white. She is dramatically lit with striking emphasis on her bold facial features and unruly hair. She is framed by the quote "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

Fear

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 body of water that has several large outcrops of rocks breaking the surface, the viewer is looking through bursts of bright yellow leaves and evergreen boughs out to a treelined jut of land out in the distance. The day is bright yet the sky has some energy in it, which suggests a brisk breeze on a fall day.

We Belong Here

A photograph of four vivid autumn pink, yellow, green, and red leaves lying among desolate grey leaves.

Leaves of Change

A painting of a blue forest bluff with light blue sky and sunlight shining through dark storm clouds.

Clouds Over Wooly's Bluff

A wild horse is running across the natural flecked paper. The horse is composed of quick dabs of black ink with some detailing. The two red artist's chops, calligraphy and her english signature add to the composition.

Sprinting

A black and white still life photograph of two pears sitting on top of glass candlesticks and covered by a clear plastic bag. 

Untitled (Two Pears)

A shiny, smooth, palm sized celadon blue-green ceramic clam object, with a spot of black carbon captured in its glaze, rests upon a small draped mound of seaweed knitted using narrow black linen paper yarn, all poised upon an inverted wood bento box.

Hamaguri

Evening light is shining on a small yellow building and casting a warm glow. It is surrounded with various tall trees and evergreens. Purple and pink hues of the evening light, blues and greens of the trees, contrast with the warm yellows of the building.  This backyard scene gives the impression of a cabin in the woods; peaceful, serene and warm

evening light

A motorcycle and two people are in focus partaking in a protest in Minneapolis Minnesota, other protester's signs read "WHEN INJUSTICE BECOMES LAW, REBELLION BECOMES DUTY", and "I CAN'T BREATHE #BLM". Image is in black and white with protester's face blocked out to protect identity

May 28th 2020

A grandmother wearing old jeans and a plain gray shirt rides on a dark brown horse inside a horse arena. They are moving past the open barn doors, the light from outside making the arena look dark. The grandmother is looking out the doors at a field with a silo, red tractor, white building, trees, and white fence in the background. The sky is a gray blue with dark clouds rolling in right before a storm. The horse's hooves kick up dirt from walking creating a light cloud of dust on the ground. The grandmother and the horse are slightly blurred from movement while everything around them is clear. 

The Last Ride

a metallic gold thumb disembodied just above the lower knuckle, standing upright on a blank surface

online [left thumb]

Classic Cadillac parked outside of Ted’s Liquors in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The red neon “Ted’s Liquors sign and building can be seen next to the car

Classic Car, Classic Bar

This painted image is based on a very old Ojibway beadwork design from the late 1800's to 1030's. I have taken this image into the 2020's buy use of paint to capture a new expression of the image of a blooming flower.

"In full bloom"

A porcelain square cast collage of the US flag.  The porcelain is cracked, the crack is filled with white resin.  Sits on a background of silicone and birch plywood.

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Northern Minnesota Break of Day

Hugh William Kirsch

Lite Existentialism

Justin York

Ecosystems of Minnesota

Emily Strahan

The Fortune Teller

Marleen Stubee

Moose Lake, MN

Amy Clark

A Frosty Morning at Swan Park Monticello, MN

Vicky N Townsend

Flopsis

Pocket Toscani

Snowangel

Christopher Bales

Harbor

KIm Dayton

Greater Yellow Lady's-Slipper

Linda M Powers

Chirpy Little Chap

Karen A. Holmes

Jay Cooke State Park

Julie Dirksen

The Cougar at Nightfall

Tanya Beyer Hovi

Roadside Assistance

Brian Sago

Lost In Thought

Vera Kovacovic

Minnesota Cecropia Nighttime

Diane Michele May

Together

Olivia Allen-Wickler

Großmama II

Anna Peter

Lake Superior

Nathan Hein

Prince, based on Kazuo Takeda’s Prince.

Suzanne Mears

Sailing in Tangerine

Morgan Leigh Fuhrer

The Way Around

Kate MacEachern

Felidae Reginarum

Nicole Ouradnik

Split Rock by Starlight

Blaine

Evening Reflection

Marjorie Moody

Exhilaration

CAROLINE AMPUERO

The Distant Past

Nana Yaw Aforo

Waabigwanii-gitigaan (A Flower Garden)

Cari Tabor

A Conversation with the Cosmos

Bryan

Brighton Beach, Kitchi Gammi, May 2018-2019

Jes Lee (full name: Jessica Shimek)

Now community is very important

Rotem Tamir

The Lady from Shanghai

Michelle Englund

Brown Bear Portrait

aija jantz

Fort Snelling Round Tower - Commemorating 200 Years from Cornerstone to COVID

Susanne Adler

Through the Magnifying Glass

Taylor Robers

A Scene from Lake Superior

Eleanor Running

Splash

Ann Elizabeth Sisel

Morning Light

Joyclyn Goldade

Peace In Wood Lake

Marilyn Gronner

Dusty